Hannah Sowerby

I’m a Cumbrian playwright, performer, facilitator (CRB checked) and comedian. I've been writing plays for eleven years since I was sixteen. I'm particularly interested in writing comedy, and writing about my home county of Cumbria.

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You can read about the Arts Council funded three week run of my one woman show '10 Things to do in a Small Cumbrian Town' at Alphabetti Theatre (2021) by clicking the link. 

My play 'Bridges Apart', set in Cumbria during storm Desmond, was performed at Kendal Yarn’s festival of new plays in 2016. It was chosen to be part of Best of the Fest (the top six plays) in the village of Staveley in 2017. 'Bridges Apart' was also chosen by London theatre producer William Ribo, as one (from over one thousand entries) of seven short plays, which ran at the Union Theatre in London for a week in April 2019, and also for Playing Up at Northern Stage in October 2019.

I’ve had four plays at London's Southwark Playhouse, with Full Disclosure Theatre Company, Director’s Cut Theatre Company and Slackline Stories and a play picked to be part of The Twilight Hour at the Canal Café Theatre in London.

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I've had audio play commissions from Alphabetti Theatre (The Mystery Tour- an audio play) and Theatre by the Lake. My 45 minute long radio play 'The Village Weirdo' was produced by 1Five Events & Film. 

I wrote, directed and performed in a sixteen-night run of 'Just A Quick One' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2016.

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I wrote and performed comedy sketches for BBC Newcastle's comedy radio show 'It's Grin Up North' for nearly two years. I'm one half of comedy double act Sowersprouts ,and we have played venues such as The Stand and Alphabetti Theatre. In a bizarre turn of events, I also performed a solo stand-up routine in the shop Poundland.

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During Lockdown, I produced a series of six comedy monologues, entitled 'Sex, Gardening and Contact Lenses' which are available to watch on my YouTube.