Billie Aken-Tyers
Playwright
"Your Alice is an absolute masterpiece of modern theatre."
-Broadway Baby
first full length play Your Alice first premiered in 2017 in a small black box theatre in Astoria, Queens. Shortly after the play made its Off Broadway debut at BAM Brooklyn followed by a smash hit run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018 were it received rave reviews and was named "Top 20 Shows to see at the Fringe" by The List.
Your Alice travelled across the pond once more with a major industry reading at Arcola Theatre London in November 2018 Starring Louise Dearman, Noel Sullivan, and a glittering cast of both US and UK actors.
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Billie's second full length play Next Round had its world premiere reading at Theaterlab NYC in March 2019 and premiered at the Scranton Fringe Festival that same year. This year-it opened the Gala Theatre's Onstage Online Festival. Silk Street Productions will be producing Next Round at the acclaimed Underbelly Cowgate in 2022! Stay tuned for more info!
Billie worked with Barrington Stage Company as a Playwright Mentor as part of their PMP Mentorship program in 2018.
Next Round is Heading to Edinburgh and is being adapted for a series! Stay tuned for more info!
We Carry On: A series of Radio Plays is currently available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts!
Billie is currently adapting Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte for the stage.
Billie and her writing partner Kristolyn Lloyd are currently working on the Pilot of the period drama 'Black-Stone".
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On the Golden Afternoon, Charles Dodgson (pen name Lewis Carroll) tells his child muse, Alice, her favorite story for the last time. Your Alice is a theatrical Victorian psychedelia that explores the complex and dynamic friendship between Mr. Dodgson and his ‘dreamchild’ muse Miss Alice Liddell, the inspiration behind Alice in Wonderland. As they sail down the Oxford river, his beloved characters weave us in and out of Wonderland and through his tortured relationship with 10-year-old Miss Liddell.
Your Alice
"This is a truly mesmerizing piece of drama, in which not a moment of stage time is wasted. Every instant and every line glitters." - EdFringe Review
In a small town in the North East of England, Steph’s Dad has just died, and it’s up to her best friends Ant and Harry to pull her through the worst year of her life. In a year of transition, three friends discover who they are, how to grieve and that growing up is realizing that no one knows how to be a grown up… all through the medium of a good old-fashioned Pub Quiz.
“Aken-Tyers captures, with painful and compelling accuracy, the weird and wonderful feeling of returning home, even if that home is a Geordie pub like none you’ve ever seen.”
A series of short Radio plays by Billie Aken-Tyers. We Carry on is an Anthology series exploring love, sex and loss during a time of great turmoil. In its many forms, love manifests in us all in the face of danger. Beginnings, endings or somewhere in between, We Carry on explores its many faces through the lens of the Second World War.
Episode 1-A First
A young American GI and a woman of the night cross paths in London, leading them to question what it means to be alive.
Starring
Jim Lawrenson as Johnny
Eliza Shea as Lily
Narration by Kayla Ryan Walsh
Directed by Simone Daniel
Edited by Grant Chamberlin
Opening theme by Stephen Murphy featuring Jesse Morvan on the Trumpet
Artwork by Luke Antony Neville
Episode 2-A Practical Arrangement
Glittering star of the London theatre scene Cynthia Marling and her husband Bertie have a rather unusual relationship, and young chorus boy Peter is about to find out all about it!
Starring
Tamara Sevunts as Cynthis
Nick Rehberger as Bertie
Daniel Holme as Peter
Narration by Kayla Ryan Walsh
Directed by Billie Aken-Tyers
Edited by Grant Chamberlin
Opening theme by Stephen Murphy featuring Jesse Morvan on the Trumpet
Artwork by Luke Antony Neville
Episode 3-The Shed
In a shed in West Yorkshire, a young girl and a german POW discover love doesn't always have a fairytale ending.
Starring
Billie Aken-Tyers as Mildred
Sean Barry-Parsons as Heinrich
Narration by Kayla Ryan Walsh
Directed by Michael Bradshaw Flynn
Edited by Grant Chamberlin
Opening theme by Stephen Murphy featuring Jesse Morvan on the Trumpet
Artwork by Luke Antony Neville
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