Lynn Nottage is a playwright and a screenwriter. Television includes: McDonald and Dodds Kiri EastEnders Casualty Doctors. Theatre includes: The Magician’s Elephant (RSC) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Tartuffe (Tobacco Factory Theatres) A Woman of No Importance (UK tour) Orpheus Descending (Menier Chocolate Factory) Flowers for Mrs Harris (Sheffield Theatres/ Chichester Festival Theatre) Quiz (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End) 5/11 King Lear Six Pictures of Lee Miller (Chichester Festival Theatre) King John (Shakespeare’s Globe) Richard III (Trafalgar Studios) Urinetown (St James’s Theatre/ West End) Betty Blue Eyes Mary Poppins (West End) Macbeth A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) The Tempest (Theatre Royal Bath) Look Back in Anger A Streetcar Named Desire Up the Feeder, Down the ‘Mouth Aeroplane Bones (Bristol Old Vic) High Society (Sheffield Theatres) A Man of No Importance The Spire The Herbal Bed The Magna Carta Plays Epsom Downs (Salisbury Playhouse) Goodbye Barcelona (Arcola Theatre) The Three Musketeers (Rose Theatre Kingston) The Giant (Hampstead Theatre) Longitude (Greenwich Theatre) The Thrill of Love (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough) Wonderful Town (Grange Park Opera).įilm includes: Nicholas Nickleby High Heels & Lowlifes Letters from Baghdad. The Secret Life of Bees is presented in association with Sonia Friedman Productions, Lauren Shuler Donner, Marianne Mills, Bob Cohen, Hugo Six and Atlantic Theater Company. Directed by Whitney White and based on the best-selling novel by Sue Monk Kidd, this production “deserves to generate a real buzz” ( The Telegraph).

Written by playwright Lynn Nottage, composer Duncan Sheik and lyricist Susan Birkenhead, The Secret Life of Bees is “buzzing with delights” ( The Times) and features “performances of real star quality” ( WhatsOnStage). When this unlikely pair flee their small town, they seek salvation at a remote honey bee farm run by the remarkable Boatwright sisters. Rosaleen is fighting for her right to vote, and Lily is escaping her violent father.

The Telegraph, Independent, The Times, The i, Financial Times, Daily Mirror, WhatsOnStageįrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Sweat, the Tony Award-winning composer of Spring Awakening, and Tony Award-nominated lyricist of Jelly’s Last Jam comes a “vibrant new musical” ( The i) full of “astonishingly powerful music” ( The Guardian) about a group of women ignited by rebellion and longing for acceptance.ġ964, South Carolina.

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