Garry Lyons

Playwright, television writer, producer. National Theatre, BBC, ITV, Channel 4, HBO. Latest project - BLOW DOWN @LeedsPlayhouse. Agent:

[Garry Lyons @GarryLyons2]

After a month of packed houses and people coming back to see it for a 2nd time, #BlowDown tour ends today with another sellout @ChapelFM. Proud to finish on a high as part of @LeedsLit and @LEEDS_2023

[Garry Lyons @GarryLyons2]

This is me and my sister Karen in Shantaman nr. Cavan last Friday with John Joe Lyons, who still runs the family farm 200 years after our great-great-great-grandfather Thomas left Ireland for Birmingham and then London, apparently never to return. Mind-blowing!

[Garry Lyons @GarryLyons2]

Great trip to Stratford to catch the RSC's Arturo Ui with Mark Gatiss. A dark carnival of a production, painting Chicago/Berlin as a Tim Burtonesque Batman-style nightmare. An exuberant spectacle, scary and timely.

[Garry Lyons @GarryLyons2]

@JosephineCumbo 111

[Garry Lyons @GarryLyons2]

I've just been on with Gayle Lofthouse @BBCLeeds this morning, talking about my play #BlowDown, forgotten Yorkshire towns and other current projects. You can hear it on BBC Sounds - https://t.co/Mnm0RuFzEU

[Garry Lyons @GarryLyons2]

@TheBillaton Brilliant episode. I remember watching it as a new writer on The Bill and being blown away by the intensity

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

This is a genuinely interesting story. Huge amount of automated work, potentially saving hundreds of thousands of human hours. BUT: with an error rate of 10%, and with the precise reading of *every* word mattering in such an exercise, it is meaningless, and for manuscripts of authority worse than useless, without a human checking every single word.
BUT: there simply aren't people, in 2026, with the expertise, the time, and the funding to check these 32,000 manuscripts at this level.

Welcome to Digital Humanities Slop.

[Garry Lyons @GarryLyons2]

@RoseUnwin I remember meeting him at a British Council reception in 1982 while on a student theatre tour of Richard III in Germany - Cologne maybe? Very guardedly he opened up on Thatcher and Arts Council cutbacks. Over 40 years ago - he obviously made an impression

[UK Theatre @uk_theatre]

With five fiscal measures, Government can use the Autumn Budget to stabilise British theatre, unlock regional economic growth, and ensure that communities everywhere can access world-class live performance

Read more 👇

https://t.co/1L1o5bdDCv

[Garry Lyons @GarryLyons2]

Great night @thesjt on Tuesday catching up with my talented former student @KE_Wright1 and her punchy play KAILEY, getting a deserved professional production 6 years after she began writing it on her MA

[Garry Lyons @GarryLyons2]

Much enjoyed Pits, People and Players by @ensemble84 on Saturday - a fast-moving theatrical journey through the history of Horden, Co. Durham against a backdrop of soundscapes and song, performed by tightknit cast

[Garry Lyons @GarryLyons2]

Great evening last night watching the exuberant and accomplished Guys and Dolls, the latest summer youth musical from @trwakefield. Great to see so many talented young people on stage - a fantastic spectacle!

[David Edgar @DavidBEdgar]

@TheWritersGuild General Secretary Ellie Peers writes to the Arts Council with concrete proposals to help writers and other freelancers whose plans have been threatened through no fault of their own by the crash of the Grantium application system.

https://t.co/yVaYZ90Wbw

[Garry Lyons @GarryLyons2]

@olivercrocker Yes Oliver. Very well. Keep up the good work!

[Garry Lyons @GarryLyons2]

With contributions from my good self...

[Oliver Crocker 📚🎙️ @olivercrocker]

The eBook of #WitnessStatements Making #TheBill 1988 is out now on #Kindle 📖
Discover how The Bill made the move to a bi-weekly half-hour continuous drama with 60 cast & crew interviews, locations, shooting dates, ratings, unmade storylines and more 📺🚔
https://t.co/ZPruBJKeVN

[CFC News ⭐️⭐️ @CFCnews]

Palmer and Estevao nominated for Ballon d’Or awards - Cole Palmer, Estevao, Enzo Maresca and Chelsea itself are all in the running for various honours after the nominees for this year’s Ballon d’Or awards were announced. https://t.co/8SQRg06nNv

[Forresterbird @forresterbird]

The Band of the Coldstream Guards perform "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath at Changing of the Guard today. RIP Ozzy Osbourne, the "Prince of Darkness" #guard #kingsguard #ozzyosbourne #blacksabbath #paranoid #heavymetal #rockband #london #buckinghampalace 💂🤘🏽

[Haleemah Alaydi, PhD @HaleemahAlaydi]

Last week marked an incredibly proud milestone as I officially (wore a silly hat) and graduated with a PhD in English with Creative Writing from @UoYEnglish. I’m grateful for my family, supervisors, examiners and to @UniOfYork which has been my academic home for the past 4 years.

[Garry Lyons @GarryLyons2]

@HaleemahAlaydi @UoYEnglish @UniOfYork @UoYResearch @UoYAlumni Many congratulations, Haleemah! So glad York worked out well for you and I love the silly hat! Youre right to be proud and I'm very proud of you too

[Jeremy Dyson @dysonjeremy]

Very excited to announce this. We had such fun recording it...

https://t.co/ViJlnKkTTo

[Garry Lyons @GarryLyons2]

Great to see Zodwa Nyoni's engrossing play Liberation yesterday @rxtheatre - a fascinating account of the 5th Pan-African Congress in Manchester in 1945, which kickstarted the post-colonial independence movements. Also fab to catch up with Zodwa and ex-colleague Adam Strickson