Barney Norris

Barney Norris was born in Sussex in 1987. Upon leaving university he founded the touring theatre company Up In Arms with Alice Hamilton. His plays include While We’re Here (Up In Arms, Bush Theatre and tour), Echo’s End (Salisbury Playhouse), Eventide (Arcola Theatre, London and tour), the acclaimed Visitors (Up In Arms, Arcola Theatre and tour) and the short plays Every You Every Me (Salisbury Playhouse 2015 and tour 2017), Fear Of Music (Up In Arms/ Out of Joint) and At First Sight (Up In Arms, Latitude Festival and tour). His book, To Bodies Gone: The Theatre of Peter Gill, is published by Seren and his first novel, Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain, was published by Transworld in 2016. Barney was nominated for an Evening Standard Award in 2014 and won the Critics’ Circle Most Promising New Playwright Award in the same year.