Meet the MDEE speaker: Alecky Blythe

Performer, director and writer Alecky Blythe founded verbatim theatre company Recorded Delivery in 2003, and has gone on to make award-winning work for theatre, TV and film: most notably 2011-12 National Theatre production London Road, with music composed by Adam Cork, and most recently Our Generation – a National Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre production in 2022.

Blythe is now recommended as a practitioner for study as part of A Level Drama and Theatre specifications. Her work and process are enormously accessible to students of theatre, as her techniques are so quick to replicate, and involve technology with which young people are entirely comfortable. She also has the great advantage (over the likes of Stanislavski and Brecht) of being a living, breathing, still-working practitioner, making new work which students can experience, but also running workshops in schools whereby they can try out her methods first-hand.