Chris Bush is an award-winning playwright, lyricist, theatremaker and an Associate Director at Sheffield Theatres. Past work includes Rock / Paper / Scissors (Sheffield Theatres), Jane Eyre (Stephen Joseph Theatre/New Vic Theatre), Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World (Kenny Wax, UK tour), Hungry (Paines Plough), Kein Weltuntergang / (Not) The End of the World (Schaubühne, Berlin), Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Sheffield Theatres – Best Theatre: South Bank Sky Arts Awards; Best Musical: UK Theatre Awards), Nine Lessons and Carols: Stories for a Long Winter (Almeida Theatre), Faustus: That Damned Woman (Headlong/Lyric Hammersmith/Birmingham Rep), The Last Noël (Attic Theatre/UK tour), The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (Theatr Clwyd – Best Musical: UK Theatre Awards), Pericles (National Theatre: Olivier), The Changing Room (NT Connections), The Band Plays On, Steel, What We Wished For, A Dream, The Sheffield Mysteries (all Sheffield Theatres), Scenes from the End of the World (Yard/Central School), A Declaration from the People (National Theatre: Dorfman) and Larksong (New Vic, Stoke-on-Trent).

Awards include a South Bank Sky Arts Award, two UK Theatre Awards, the Perfect Pitch Award, a Brit Writers’ Award and the Theatre Royal Haymarket Writers’ Award.