Chris Bush

Chris Bush

Chris Bush is a playwright, lyricist and theatre-maker.

Her plays include: Rock/Paper/Scissors (Sheffield Theatres, 2022); an adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, and New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 2022); (Not) the End of the World (Schaubühne, Berlin, 2021); Hungry (Paines Plough, 2021); Nine Lessons and Carols (Almeida Theatre, London, 2020); Faustus: That Damned Woman (Headlong, Lyric Hammersmith & Birmingham Rep, 2020); The Last Noël (Old Fire Station, Oxford, 2019); Standing at the Sky's Edge, a musical with music and lyrics by Richard Hawley (Sheffield Theatres, 2019, revived 2022 and at the National Theatre in 2023, West End 2024); The Changing Room (National Theatre Connections, 2018); Steel (Sheffield Theatres, 2018); an adaptation of Pericles (National Theatre, London, 2018); The Assassination of Katie Hopkins, written with Matt Winkworth (Theatr Clwyd, 2018); What We Wished For and A Dream.

A smart, witty new musical by Chris Bush and Matt Winkworth about truth, celebrity and public outrage.
A play exploring the last three decades of women in politics, asking what's changed and what still must.
A play about being a teenager, written specifically for young people, part of the 2018 National Theatre Connections F...
A funny, moving, uplifting play about Christmas, with original songs.
A radical reimagining of the classic cautionary tale, transforming the iconic character of Faustus into a woman who m...
A play about food, love, class and grief in a world where there's little left to savour.
A witty and fleet-footed adaptation that lays bare the beating heart of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, whilst stay...
Three intricately interwoven plays about family, heritage and legacy, centring around a Sheffield manufacturing famil...
A play about family, heritage and legacy, part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing fami...
A play about family, heritage and legacy, part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing fami...
A play about family, heritage and legacy, part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing fami...
A riotous musical play transporting Shakespeare's most beloved characters to the chaos of a busy modern-day hospital....
A play about connection and isolation, forged during the Covid pandemic, exploring what we hold on to in troubled tim...
A daringly theatrical investigation of the climate crisis through the perspectives of class, patriarchy and coloniali...