Chris Bush

Chris is a playwright and lyricist, and an Associate Director of Sheffield Theatres.

Past work includes: Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World (Kenny Wax, UK tour); Hungry (Paines Plough); Kein Weltuntergang/(Not) The End Of The World (Schaubühne, Berlin); Standing At The Sky’s Edge (Sheffield Theatres – Best Theatre: South Bank Sky Arts Awards, Best Musical: UK Theatre Awards); Nine Lessons And Carols: Stories For A Long Winter (Almeida Theatre); Faustus: That Damned Woman (Headlong/Lyric Hammersmith/Birmingham Rep); The Last Noël (Attic Theatre/UK tour); The Assassination Of Katie Hopkins (Theatr Clwyd – Best Musical: UK Theatre Awards); Pericles (National Theatre: Olivier); The Changing Room (NT Connections); The Band Plays On, Steel, What We Wished For, A Dream, The Sheffield Mysteries (all Sheffield Theatres); Scenes From The End Of The World (Yard/Central School); A Declaration From The People (National Theatre: Dorfman) and Larksong (New Vic, Stoke-on-Trent).

Awards include a South Bank Sky Arts Award, two UK Theatre Awards, the Perfect Pitch Award, a Brit Writers’ Award and the Theatre Royal Haymarket Writers’ Award.