Bryony Kimmings is a playwright, performer, documentary maker and screen writer from the UK. She is inspired by female stories, social taboos and dismantling power structures. Kimmings’ work is brutally honest, very funny and often a bit geeky and dangerous.
Bryony is working class and loud mouthed; a deep thinker, world fixer, activist and trouble maker all wrapped into one. She likes adapting and reimagining books, creating 3D female characters. She enjoys writing about class, gender and disability. Having toured all over the world with her shows (created about real events in her life) from the National Theatre to the Sydney Opera House, Bryony is now focusing on writing for film and TV.
Kimmings is inspired by female stories, social taboos, and dismantling power structures. Her TV and film work includes the documentaries The Sex Clinic (C4) and Opera Mums (BBC) and the feature film Last Christmas, which Bryony cowrote with Emma Thompson. In 2021 she made a public vow to only work on things that would help the planet at this time of climate crisis and eco-system collapse.
Her latest screen-writing project The Rapture debuted on BBC One in July; a psychological thriller series Starring Ruth Madeley, India Amarteifio, Sam Hazeldine, Jack Farthing, Iwan Rheon, Siena Kelly and Ruth Jones, and based on the bestselling novel of the same name. She is also writing a feature with Climate Spring, Little Red Hen, a comedy eco-horror with folkloric elements.
On-stage, Kimmings has toured internationally with her acclaimed shows – all drawn from real events in her life -performing everywhere from the National Theatre to the Sydney Opera House. Her work as a writer and performer includes Sex Idiot, a tour through Bryony’s true-life sexual misadventures and self-realisations; 7 Day Drunk, a 7 day alcohol experiment, inspired by the historical links between artists and mind enhancing drugs; Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model, made with her nine-year-old niece to challenge the sexualisation of girls in pop culture; Fake It ‘Til You Make It, about clinical depression and men, made in collaboration with her former partner; A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer, a whistle-stop tour through five unconventional stories about cancer; and I’m a Phoenix, Bitch, a powerful, dark and joyful work about motherhood, heartbreak and finding inner strength.
Following a critically acclaimed London run and a 2026 OffWestEnd Award nomination for Innovation, this summer Bryony returns to Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the first time in seven years with the Scottish premiere of Bog Witch, the show follows part of Kimmings’ real-life story, the journey of uprooting her and her son’s lives to live in a tumbledown cottage in the wilderness, to plug back into nature as a last-ditch attempt to be happy and sane
