Ecstatic to say I will be playing Nikki in ‘Standing At The Sky’s Edge’ in it’s sexy af west end transfer.
It’s gonna be privilege to say & sing those words every night & represent my community 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✌🏼
Now.
Open up your bloody door.
Lez go
📸 - Steve Gullick
Last night I reopened the
@rxtheatre
with a lesbian love story/musical… that I wrote…🤯
This int a brag- it’s just once in a lifetime shit & I can’t quite believe it. If you have something in you- Get it out. You might just surprise yourself. ✨
Oh shite.
We are fucked.
Im moving to Canada.
Or the moon.
Or something.
RIP NHS.
Fucked if you're poor, sick or any minority. Im done, stop the train UK, im getting off...🙄💔
Can finally announce.. Im absolutely HONOURED to be part of this years incredible
@bbcstudios
Writers’ Academy..!!
Probably one of the most exciting & unbelievable things to happen in my years on this planet tbh.. I’m at the BBC mam…! 🫣🤙🏼🧡 Now chuck us a pen babe..
Attempting to use my current situation for positive gain.. Im going to write a one woman show.
Based around being gay, northern & working class.
All with original live music.
(Writing it on here, so i do it.)
Would you wanna hear it..?🏳️🌈❤
#lgbtq
#theatre
#musical
#onewomanshow
I happy cried. And that’s a 2020 first.
@bloodyelle_
has been financially supported by
@ace_national
and I’m over the actual MOON MATE.. ✅ Watch this space.. ✊🏻😁🏳️🌈💪🏼
CHUFFED as OWT to announce...We’ve been successful in my first ever application for ARTS COUNCIL FUNDING💪🏼🎉
#BloodyElle
is officially HAPPENING🧡Thanks to everyone for their love and support so far & to
@ace_national
for their support. WATCH THIS SPACE.. 🏳️🌈
@RebelProds
Absolutely gassed to have won ‘Lead Performance in a Musical’ for
@bloodyelle_
at
@OffWestEndCom
It is my proudest achievement & wouldn’t have been possible without my Bloody Elle family. It take a village. & what a village.😍
Big up female identifying queer wc narratives 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I used to work at
@royalcourt
as an usher… Spent TIME looking thru the plays- Eyeing up new writing for summat that sparked summat.
And now MY FRICKING PLAY is sat there chillin.. 🧡🤯🤙🏼
@bloodyelle_
Bloody hell indeed!
Doing bits…❤️🔥
Properly buzzed & blessed to be heading into my next adventure with
@rxtheatre
with the help of this amazing bursary..
Better sharpen my pencils ✨✏️
Congratulations to
@laurynredding
for being one of the six winners of 2023 Playwrights’ Scheme Bursary with The Peggy Ramsay Foundation ,
@Film4
And The Maria Bjornson Memorial Fund!🎉
Read about how she's "beyond excited" here 👉
Final day of
#BloodyElle
at
@rxtheatre
… I can’t even really put into words how much this whole shebang has meant.
I’d wanted to write it for so long- but only started coz of a huge trauma- an injury that led to surgery, diagnosed PTSD and being unable to walk for 4+ months..
“One of those moment moments”🧡
.
I’ll never forget yesterday… We reopened
@rxtheatre
with our 1st preview,a standing O🥲& got my hands on my PUBLISHED M’THR TRUCKIN play.
.
Ta for all the love- soz if I haven’t got back to you yet. This human is just a wee bit overwhelmed 🥲🧡
“A moment moment…”🥹❤️🔥
We have won the
@holdenstreettheatres
Edinburgh Fringe award ‘22!💥
We are over the 🌙 & slightly speechless…
THANK YOU to the HST team for choosing our show & to
@traversetheatre
who made
@edfringe
possible! We are going to Australia baby 🇦🇺🦘🐨🍻🪃🦈☀️
I did my showcase at
@sohotheatre
moons ago. I got 3 mins to showcase myself(!) & now my massive face n name is ont window… & a whole LOAD of my words are on the same stage 🧡
Life’s mad..
Its hard & ace & magic & brilliant.
Soak up the good shit.
Let the bad shit bounce.😘
Having your show closed hurts like shit.Regardless of its geographical placement.Seeing divisive tweets about London going into Tier 3- it’s not big, clever or kind.The whole industry is trying,tired & heartbroken. We are in this together. Or should be.🤷🏻♀️
Todays a wee bit special✨That bloody play I wrote & made & did has been nominated for a
@WhatsOnStage
award… Im up against the likes of Sondheim and Disney. Casual. Well- Here goes nowt then…🧡🕺🏻
🖋️
@LaurynRedding
is a writer, composer, and actor whose debut play Bloody Elle, which she also composed and performed, won the Holden Street Theatres Edinburgh Fringe Award.
#WritersAcademy
‼️The big news is out‼️
BLOODY ELLE- A GIG MUSICAL has its world premiere at
@rxtheatre
this June!
So... It’s bloody happening then!
MASSIF love to
@Bryony_Shan
&
@RAWeiseArtist
🔥
Let’s av it🧡🏳️🌈
🔥WEST END BABY🔥
Yep. You heard it here first..
BLOODY ELLE is heading into London Town.. for one week only.. as part of a QUEER SEASON at The Lyric Theatre.
Alongside the invincible & incredible
@thisainttherapy
‘Boy Out The City’
27th - 30th September🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
📣 The smash hit
#BloodyElle
by
@laurynredding
, seen in last year's TravFest 22 with a sold-out run, will take London by storm this Summer at
@sohotheatre
from Tue 11 - Sat 29 Jul 23.
🎟️ Tickets on sale now:
Edinburgh Fringe 2022 - Completed it mate..❤️🔥 Loved EVERY second. Thank you to everyone who came to see the show, who supported it… and me.
I will never forget this chapter. Pure solid gold. I love you all. 🏴🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Just finished
#ItsASin
.... I’m completely broken. All them beautiful boys 🏳️🌈💔 All those beautiful souls.. How many died alone? Shamed? Refused respect & love from the their families? Beautifully,truthfully & blissfully told
@russelldavies63
thank you👏🏻
#BeMoreJill
ffs.. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💖
World Theatre Day✅
Finished a 2 show day in a westend show about a block of flats in Yorkshire, part of a lesbian storyline, in a cast of absolute beauts - all with a live band of STUN playing Richard Hawley.
Jeeze. If I could whizz back & tell lil Redding-she’d be buzzed🥲🧡
Chuffed as PUNCH to have made the finalists for
@OffWestEndCom
for Best Female in a Musical!
#TheHiredMan
was a really special job, and to have made the shortlist is the icing on the cake 🙌🏼💛 THANK YOU
Bloody Elle has been nommed for a couple of OFFIES.. including NEW MUSICAL, LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL and DIRECTION.
Proper chuffed…!
Thank you
@OffWestEndCom
🧡
Final day of ‘school’ today🧡
Day 1️⃣ I had to hide in a toilet & breathe for a bit. Today, I leave feeling like an actual writer.
Proud of myself🫠
For now- Over and out. Got stuff to say ✍🏽
BBC WRITERS ACADEMY ‘22 🧡
The Super 8
🦸🏻♀️🦸🏻♂️🦸🏻♀️🦸🏽♂️🦸🏾♀️🦸🏻♂️🦸🏼♀️🦸🏻♂️
“GOAT” - John Yorke quote, ok?!
So this arrived!
Super proud to have won ‘Best Performance in a Musical’ for
@bloodyelle_
🧡🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Thank you
@OffWestEndCom
and everyone who supported the show.
I love you don’t I… 😘
💯th show last night of this babe of a show.
Can’t tell you how special it is to play Nikki every night…
Representation matters.
🧡🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@SkysEdgeMusical
Absolutely BUZZED to announce I’m now signed with the brilliant
@SamWLDay
at
@InterTalent
💙
Big changes over this way.
Feels like rebirthing stuff.
Happy..
A thing happened. It was this.
@bloodyelle_
has been nominated for ‘Best Regional Production’ at the
@WhatsOnStage
awards.
Thanks to everyone who nominated!
OVER. WHELMED. ❤️🔥🥺
Bit of David & Goliath vibes.. Let’s do this?! Vote for us here-
Writing is hard & mint & annoying as shit & then its fcking magic & then it’s beautiful for a second & then it’s up its own arse & then I forget how to spell Febuary & then I remember this is my job right now & I do a mini high 5 to myself … and then I keep writing. 🙃
This week has been a RIDE🧡
We reopened the bloody
@rxtheatre
🙌🏼✨
Thanks to everyone who has made it along to see
@bloodyelle_
…
The response & love has been overwhelming, and I don’t really have the words….. for once! Thank you.
Waking up today in a facist state makes my current opportunities feel even more like a moment. Art changes and makes you grow and makes you see & understand things you didn’t know…
I don’t know.
If we don’t wanna make stuff to change stuff, why we bothering..?
Let’s go…📚 🖊
Had such an mint night at
@TheStage
Debut Awards… Not a ‘winner’ but just to be nominated- I felt like I’d won. Sitting in a room of TALENT & DETERMINATION made me excited for this industry- in a way I haven’t felt for A WHILE. Buckle up - Us ‘debuts’ are coming for you!❤️🔥🔥
Guess who’s back? Back again?
Elle is back? Tell your friends..🤙🏼
❤️🔥🏳️🌈❤️🔥🏳️🌈❤️🔥🏳️🌈❤️🔥🏳️🌈❤️🔥🏳️🌈❤️🔥🏳️🌈
Yep you heard it right-
BLOODY ELLE IS BACK at the
@rxtheatre
❤️🔥
Almost a year to the day it first went into rehearsal- I’m buzzed to announce-
Im BLOODY back 🤙🏼
If I see one more comment on Sarah Everard making a "poor decision" to walk home alone at night, I might scream. I was attacked in broad daylight on a bright sunny morning, yards from my front door. Stop focusing on women's choices and start focusing on the men that attack us.
I’ve had a beer.
So bare with.
But.
@OldhamColiseum
closed two weeks ago.. after over 130years of making art in one of the most creatively thirsty and thriving parts of this country.
Makes this shit make sense.
Ugh.
On a brighter note…
Draft one of my new play ‘Three White Roses’ is DONE.
PHEW.
There’s Lesbians (obvs..)
It’s set in a caravan in Yorkshire.
Revenge. Redemption.
Vendettas & Vienettas.
(You heard..🍦)
🧡
Landed a nice tele job this week.
And got my first big VO commercial. And I’m currently drunk in Ibiza after one vodka.
All in all.
This weeks been slayed ⚡️
(Next week I’ll go back to fray bentos in my pants don’t be worrying…)
The amount of times this has been RT’d by actors/writers/creatives- Coulda sorted ‘the problem’ ten fold. AMIRIGHT?! There’s enough of us been knocking pal…
National Theatre director Rufus Norris has warned that a surge in opportunities with streaming platforms including Netflix and Amazon is taking talent away from theatre
Ive written shopping lists.
Ive written songs.
.
But for the first time im writing the first draft of my own One Woman Musical and its falling out my head like its been waiting to get out for years. It feels really REALLY bloody good....
I find it hard to be proud of this country tbh… for many reasons.
But I AM proud of our lads. Taking the knee, rainbow laces, playing beautifully🧡 Let’s hope- whatever the outcome tonight- ‘fans’ celebrate/commiserate without hate. It’s what ‘Southgate the god’ would want..
Tonight is the
#TheStageDebutAwards
and yours truly is up for an award.. ‘Best Composer, lyricist or book writer’ for
@bloodyelle_
… Me and
@afbsound
are heading there as
#TeamBE
💪🏼 It’s overwhelming and lush and whatever happens - It’s a moment.. 🧡 So - Thank you
@TheStage
Bloody Elle by new NHB author
@laurynredding
(welcome!) is a heart-warming and belly-achingly funny story about falling in love for the very first time.
This one-person gig musical, set to an original score, premieres
@rxtheatre
, co-pro'd by
@RebelProds
.
Honoured to be part of this tonight at
@OldhamColiseum
… This place has nurtured a whole drove of northern talent for decades, gave me memories, moments and pals for life.
Tonight we reunite - this one’s for you Coli 🧡❤️
📣FULL LINE UP ANNOUNCED FOR THIS FRIDAY'S ENCORE
Tickets for our closing event sold out in just half an hour last week. Created by the Coliseum's team of expert theatre professionals, Encore features 24 actors performing scenes and songs from 11 Coliseum productions
🧵...
Yesterday I had my first in person audition since Covid and surgery. It also had a huge movement call. One huge mental and physical hurdle nailed- AND IM BACK IN THE MUVVA TRUCKING HORSE LADS. No stopping me now ta! Bu byeee💪🏼😏💗
Few rejections recently. They are still the pits. Just giving myself some love. And focusing on the lushness. This V Day I got a new hat😍, ate everything. put up a shelf & dyed my eyebrows..
Winner-dinner-ding-dong🧡
#bekind
Still pinch myself every time I rock up here for WORK.
Yes.
WORK.
Almost 1 month in & I fckin work HERE.🙃WHAAAA..??
If scratty little Redding could see herself now..
Working where Pudsey Bear used to bounce about…
she’d be stoked.
✍🏽🧡
(Also - look at her 😍)
#bbcbaby
💙🍁
I am fcking speechless.
I can’t believe what j just heard.
This is hateful, spineless and repulsive. It’s like going back in time.
Like the beginning of a horror movie.
I STAND BY MY TRANS HUMANS..
Fck the tories. Get them OUT.
"We shouldn't get bullied" into believing that "people can be any sex they want to be"
"A man is a man, and a woman is a woman, that's just common sense," PM Rishi Sunak says
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Final week of
@bloodyelle_
at
@rxtheatre
🧡 I’m so proud of this show, the team, and the pure brute determination to get it up and on! 👊🏼
Out of the darkness- Came some MF’ing LIGHT💡
7 shows left… ❤️🔥
Just at train station. Two young teenage lads saying goodbye to each other. One on the train. The other waving him off. They obviously love the bones of each other and my tired gay heart can’t cope and now I’ve got tears in my train tinny…🏳️🌈🧡
HAPPY MANCHESTER PRIDE!🌈🐝🌈🐝🌈🐝🌈🐝🌈 Pride isnt just a party, its a protest that is still VERY MUCH needed. Wave those flags high, be you, Get wonky for me! I'll be with you soon....
Final night of my solo jolly…
Going on holiday on your own is kinda nuts.
I’ve felt smug AF at times.
Other times - I’ve had a wobble..
Growth isn’t linear.
But swimming in the sea is healing. So is Estrella.
Forward.
Thank you Espanola. 😘
With a potential December election...Us actor types are more than likely dressed as hedgehogs/elves/pirates/ghosts from christmas past's in a corner of Britain far from our own front doors...
✅REGISTER FOR POSTAL VOTE✅
Our voices matter, our votes count, dont waste yours...🙌🏼
Cheeky lil sneak peak of what’s to come next year.
To say I’m buzzing is an understatement..
(This shoot was so fun and also so cold you can see my breath...😮💨🤪)
Merry Christmas one n all 😘
2024 is the one…🧡
"I just want to make you smile Maybe stay with you awhile."
Your FIRST LISTEN to
@laurynredding
's 'Open Up Your Door.' 🎶
The Olivier Award-winning Best Musical premieres in the West End this February.
Listen 👉