Tatty Hennessy.
About me.
I am a dramatist based in London, writing for stage and screen.
I trained at LAMDA and am a graduate of the Royal Court Writers' Group and Channel 4 Screenwriters' Programme. I'm currently a recipient of the Writers' Guild New Play Commissioning Scheme.
I tell dark stories with warm hearts that find the epic in the everyday, look at big ideas through small lenses, and are preferably a little bit strange.
Featured Work.
The Sleeping Sword
The Watermill, 2023
“audaciously creative" - The Guardian
"as poignant as it is boisterous... A tonic for all children looking for an imaginative walk on the wild side." - The Times
Available from Concord Theatricals
a great big woolly mammoth thawing from the ice
Burning Coal Theatre, North Carolina USA
★★★★ C Life and Style
★★★★ Indy Week
Animal Farm
NYT and Royal and Derngate 2021
★★★★★ "Extraordinary" The Stage
Something Awful
Vault Festival 2020
Winner - OFFCOM Commendation for Short Run
Nominated for a Vault Origins Award for Outstanding New Work
Available from Nick Hern
F Off
NYT, Udderbelly EdFringe 2019
★★★★ The Times
★★★★★ The Scots Reviewer
A Hundred Words For Snow
First performed at Vault Festival 2018, then Trafalgar Studios on the West End, from March 5th-30th 2019.
Winner of the Heretic Voices Award for Monologue Drama
3 Offie nominations, for Best Director, Most Promising Playwright, and Best Play, and a win for Gemma Barnett as Best Actress.
★★★★ 'wonderful' The Stage
The play has subsequently seen many productions around the world, from New Zealand to North Carolina, and been translated into Greek and Korean.
Available from Nick Hern
Get in touch.
For work enquiries you can contact me via my agent, Alex Cory at Berlin Associates alexandrac@berlinassociates.com
If you'd like to talk to me about my work, or are an emerging writer looking for advice or mentoring, please contact me using the form below and I'll do my best to get back to you quickly.
I am always delighted to hear from people using A Hundred Words For Snow as a drama school audition or exam piece, please feel free to get in touch!
If you see me on Twitter @TattyHennessy please tell me to get off Twitter