Barney Norris


Barney Norris is an English writer.
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Early life

Norris was born in Chichester in West Sussex, later moving to Wiltshire where he attended Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury. He studied English at Keble College, Oxford, and creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Career

After leaving university, he founded the touring Up in [Arms Theatre Company] with the director Alice Hamilton, and worked in the theatre as assistant to Thelma Holt, Michael Frayn, Peter Gill, and Max Stafford-Clark, before becoming a full-time writer. He is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Oxford, and reviews fiction regularly for The Guardian.

Writing

Norris's early plays were produced by his company Up in Arms, usually on tour and often in partnership with other theatres. Following the success of his first full-length play Visitors, he began to write for other companies, and has since worked with Salisbury Playhouse, and the Bush Theatre.

Politics

In February 2024, Norris was announced as the Green Party of England and Wales candidate for the Salisbury constituency at the 2024 general election.

Selected works

Fiction

Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain Turning for Home The Vanishing Hours
  • ''Undercurrent''

Theatre

Visitors Every You Every Me Eventide Echo's End While We're Here Nightfall We Started to Sing The Band Back Together
  • ''Going Out Out''

Adaptations

The Remains of the Day Blood Wedding
  • ''Second Best''

Collaborations

The Wellspring with David Owen Norris A Stranger Comes To Town with Ailie Robertson The Last Ship with Sting

Radio

While We're Here Song and Dance

Non-fiction

To Bodies Gone: The Theatre of Peter Gill
  • ''The Wellspring: Conversations with David Owen Norris''