Bio

Bren is a writer and novelist whose monologues and plays have been performed at New Wimbledon Theatre, RADA Studios, Bloomsbury Theatre, The Pleasance, The Arcola, OSO Barnes, Rose & Crown E17, Bloomsbury Festival and Brighton Fringe. A member of The Society of Authors, Club for Acts and Actors, he’s also an award-winning short story writer (Exeter, London, Brighton Short Story Prizes) published in numerous anthologies, and his novel The Street Sweeper (from which his play PROUD is inspired) won the 2021 Novel London Literary Prize. In Summer/Autumn 2019, Bren wrote with Royal Court Theatre’s Waltham Forest Listen Local. His play Invisible Me about how three Londoners turning 60 overcome loneliness and sexual isolation livestreamed at Bloomsbury Festival 2020 and had a one week run with stellar press reviews at ATG’s New Wimbledon Theatre Studio in September 2021. He received his first paid commission in 2020/21 to write a new play for the George Lansbury Memorial Trust to mark the centenary of the Poplar Councillors’ Revolt – I, Minnie Lansbury, which premiered at the 2021 Bloomsbury Festival. Bren’s play PROUD won a call out by ATG in 2020, was long listed for the 2020 Radius Playwriting Prize and had a sell-out run with 4 and 5-star reviews at the Kings Head Theatre in Islington early this year.