Lindsay Rodden

{{Short description|British playwright and dramaturg}}

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Lindsay Rodden is a British playwright and dramaturg.

Rodden was born in Edinburgh and grew up in Liverpool and in Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland.{{cite web |title=Who we are |url=https://almanacarts.com/about/ |website=Almanac Arts |access-date=29 March 2024 |language=en |date=15 September 2017}}

She was writer-in-residence at Northumbria University and Live Theatre in 2017.{{cite web |title=Introducing Writer in Residence – Lindsay Rodden |url=https://livetheatrenewcastle.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/introducing-writer-in-residence-lindsay-rodden/ |website=Live Theatre's blog |access-date=29 March 2024 |language=en |date=21 February 2017}}{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Northumbria University |url=https://www.live.org.uk/about/partnerships/northumbria-university |website= |publisher=Live Theatre |access-date=29 March 2024 |language=en |date=}}

She has written two plays for Mikron Theatre Company: Red Sky at Night, about weather forecasting, toured in 2022{{cite web |title=Red Sky at Night |url=https://mikron.org.uk/shows/red-sky-at-night |publisher=Mikron |access-date=28 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705163143/https://mikron.org.uk/shows/red-sky-at-night |archive-date=5 July 2022}}{{cite news |last1=Pattison |first1=Julia |title=Mikron's Red Sky at Night at the Wetherby Whaler, Guiseley |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/play-review-by-julia-pattison-mikrons-red-sky-at-night-at-the-wetherby-whaler-guiseley-3704485 |access-date=28 March 2024 |work=Yorkshire Post |date=23 May 2022}} and Jennie Lee, about the politician Jennie Lee, in 2024.{{cite web |title=Jennie Lee |url=https://mikron.org.uk/shows/jennie-lee/ |website= |publisher=Mikron |access-date=28 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240328211701/https://mikron.org.uk/shows/jennie-lee/ |archive-date=28 March 2024 |date=}}{{cite news |last1=Thorpe |first1=Vanessa |last2= |first2= |title='I could have written three plays about her': Jennie Lee, MP and wife of Nye Bevan, is celebrated on stage |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/mar/10/i-could-have-written-three-plays-about-her-jennie-lee-mp-and-wife-of-nye-bevan-is-celebrated-on-stage |access-date=28 March 2024 |work=The Observer |date=10 March 2024}} Her play HERE, about refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers, was written for Curious Monkey and was informed by Rodden working with 80 immigrants to Derby and North East England.{{cite news |title=A Curious Monkey, Northern Stage and Newcastle University co-production:HERE by Lindsay Rodden |url=https://northernartsreview.co.uk/north-east/northern-stage/a-curious-monkey-northern-stage-and-newcastle-university-co-productionhere-by-lindsay-rodden/ |access-date=28 March 2024 |work=Northern Arts Review |date=9 February 2022}}{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Mikron Announce New Play - Jennie Lee |url=https://theatreweekly.com/mikron-announce-new-play-jennie-lee/ |website=Theatre Weekly |access-date=29 March 2024 |date=6 March 2024}}

She wrote The Island of the Sun, part 4 of the National Theatre{{'s}} The Odyssey, performed in Sunderland in April 2023 as part of a multi-venue project.{{cite web |title=The Odyssey: Episode 4 - The Island of the Sun |url=https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/whats-on/the-odyssey-episode-4-the-island-of-the-sun/ |website=www.nationaltheatre.org.uk |publisher=National Theatre |access-date=29 March 2024}}{{cite web |title=Epic adventures: Staging The Odyssey for National Theatre Public Acts, Sunderland Culture & Sunderland Empire |url=https://www.unfoldingtheatre.co.uk/articles/2023/4/28/epic-adventures-staging-the-odyssey-for-national-theatre-public-acts-sunderland-culture-amp-sunderland-empire |website=Unfolding Theatre |access-date=29 March 2024 |date=28 April 2023}}{{cite web |title=Theatre review: The Odyssey – The Island of The Sun at The Fire Station, Sunderland |url=https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/the-odyssey-t-the-fire-statio-21936 |website=British Theatre Guide |access-date=29 March 2024 |date=28 April 2023}}