Hannah Greenstreet is Lecturer in Creative Writing: Stage and Screen. She is a playwright, and theatre critic and her academic research and creative practice centres around the relationship between theatrical form and politics. Her DPhil thesis on ‘Experiments with Realism in Contemporary Feminist Theatre in Britain’ won the Swapna Dev Memorial Prize at the University of Oxford in 2021.
Hannah’s queer reimagining of Euripides’ fragmentary tragedy Andromeda, co-created with director Charlotte Vickers, was staged at Camden People’s Theatre in July 2021 with funding from Arts Council England. In 2019-20, Hannah was a SPARK Supported Artist with Pegasus Theatre, Oxford, and was commissioned to write a show for their young company. She has developed her playwriting with Spread the Word, Soho Writers’ Lab, the North Wall Arts Centre and Menagerie Theatre Company. Hannah also regularly reviews theatre for The Stage and Exeunt Magazine, where she has been Reviews Co-Editor since 2018.