Cordelia Lynn

Cordelia is a playwright, librettist and dramaturg. Her work has premiered at some of the most prestigious theatres in the UK, including the Royal Court, the Donmar, the Almeida and the Hampstead, and is performed across the United States and Europe. Cordelia collaborates regularly with composers on opera and vocal work, and their work has been performed at prestigious venues and festivals in the UK and Europe, including the Opera Comique, Opera National de Lille, the Southbank Centre and the Venice Musica Biennale. Cordelia received the Berwin Lee Award, 2020, the Harold Pinter Commission, 2017 and the Jerwood New Playwright, 2015. Her opera with composer Sivan Eldar, Like Flesh, won the Fedora Opera Prize, 2021. Houses Slide, her piece with composer Laura Bowler, was nominated for an Ivor Award 2022. Cordelia is a MacDowell Fellow.

Plays include Sea Creatures (2023), Love and Other Acts of Violence (2021), fragments (short, 2019), Hedda Tesman, adapt. Henrik Ibsen (2019), Three Sisters, adapt. Anton Chekhov (2019), One for Sorrow (2018), Confessions (short, 2018), Best Served Cold (2016) and Lela & Co. (2015). Opera and Vocal Work include Like Flesh (2022), After Arethusa (2021), Houses Slide (2021), A Photograph (2020), Heave (2018), you’ll drown, dear (2017) and Miranda (2017). Dramaturgy includes Henry V (2022) and Lucia di Lammermoor (2017).