Hannah Sowerby

About Me: Hannah is an award-winning Cumbrian writer, performer and comedian who is based in Newcastle. She has been writing plays since she was sixteen. She is particularly interested in writing bittersweet comedy drama and about her home county of Cumbria. Her arts council funded one woman play ’10 Things to do in a Small Cumbrian Town’ ran at Alphabetti Theatre in 2021 for three weeks. This gained lots of positive reviews, including a review from the Guardian describing the show as ‘Delightfully deadpan’. In 2025, the Penrith Players put on a production of the show with an extended cast and a live band. The show sold really well, completely selling out on the final night. Hannah, alongside co-writers Jamie McLeish and Lynne Patrick, was shortlisted for the Richard Jenkinson Commission (reaching the top 8 entries out of 750). This led to Laurels Theatre programming their dark comedy anthology ‘Doomgate’ for a week in 2024. The show was reviewed by NARC magazine as "a real treat for any dark comedy lovers". She was also the assistant director and a co producer on the project. Hannah has had many short plays staged all over the UK, including at venues such as The Southwark Playhouse, Union Theatre, Northern Stage (as a part of ‘Playing Up’), Canal Café Theatre, Alphabetti Theatre, The Staveley Roundhouse and more. She has also received audio play commissions from Alphabetti Theatre and Theatre by the Lake. Hannah wrote and performed sketches for BBC Newcastle's comedy radio show Grin Up North for two years. She is part of a comedy collective with Grin Up North alumni, ‘Sun of a Gun’, who are in the early stages of producing their own live comedy sketch shows.   Her website is hannahsowerbywriter.co.uk