Lizzie Nunnery

Lizzie Nunnery (born 1982, Liverpool) is an English playwright and singer-songwriter. She has participated in the Future Perfect scheme for new playwrights run by Paines Plough.[1]

Her first play, Intemperance (2007), was set among Liverpool’s Irish-Scandinavian underclass and was written in the style of Henrik Ibsen - it premiered at the Liverpool Everyman theatre, around the time of the release of her first album, Company of Ghosts (Fellside Records, 2010).[2] Her work also includes Narvik (2015), a play with songs dealing with the Narvik campaign and the Arctic convoys of World War II.[3] She is married to the Norwegian musician Vidar Norheim.

References

  1. "Lizzie Nunnery and Vidar Norheim alternative folk duo". Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  2. Campbell, 24th January 2017 in Theatre Brogen (24 January 2017). "Interview: Lizzie Nunnery". Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  3. Hickling, Alfred (16 January 2017). "Horror on the arctic seas: Lizzie Nunnery on her play about the liberation of Narvik". Retrieved 24 April 2017 via The Guardian.
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