Dr Hannah Davies

Profile

Biography

Hannah Davies is a playwright, theatre-maker and performance poet. She trained as an actor at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and went on to work in theatre, radio and television before studying playwriting on the Royal Court Young Writers Programme. Her first play was performed as part of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme 2007. Since then she has worked as a playwright with companies including: York Theatre Royal, Pilot Theatre, Dry Write, Ice&Fire Theatre, Trestle Theatre, Hannah Bruce & Co, Company of Angels, Tara Finney Productions, York Mediale, Flanagan Collective, Guild of Misrule.

Hannah is a multi-slam winning poet and Associate Artist at York’s leading spoken word night, Say Owt. She is the winner of Great Northern Poetry Slam (Newcastle Stage 2016), Bristol Poetry Festival Slam, Axis Slam (2016), BBC EdFringe Slam (Finalist 2017), Word War Four Champion (2017), Hammer and Tongue National Slam (Finalist Albert Hall 2018). She has performed at leading spoken word nights across the UK including Tongue Fu, Evidently, Women of Words, Sonnet Youth, Other Voices, Punk in Drublic, Verse Matters, Inua Ellams Rap Party.

Hannah is a graduate of the School of Arts and Creative Technologies and has an MA in Theatre: Writing Directing and Performance and a PhD by Creative Practice in Playwriting.

Departmental roles

Hannah teaches playwriting across both BA and MA theatre programmes and is programme leader of the MA in Playwriting, a role she shares with Bridget Foreman.