Lyn Gardner | |
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| Alma mater | University of Kent |
| Occupation(s) | Theatre critic and children's writer |
Lyn Gardner is a Britishtheatre critic, children's writer, andjournalist who contributes reviews and articles toThe Stage andStagedoor and has written forThe Guardian.
A graduate in drama and English from theUniversity of Kent, Gardner was a founding member of theCity Limits magazine, a cooperative for which she edited the theatre section.[1] Later, she was a contributor toThe Independent.
Gardner joinedThe Guardian as theatre critic in 1995, and remained on the paper for twenty-three years, taking a particular interest infringe and more alternative theatre, whileMichael Billington covered the most mainstream productions. Latterly, she was writing 130 reviews and 28,000 words of features annually, as well as 150 posts a year for an online blog for the paper, begun in 2008. The paper discontinued her blog in 2017, citing cost pressures,[2] and the following year let her go.[3][4]
Since June 2017 Gardner had been an Associate Editor ofThe Stage newspaper, where she continues to write her theatre blog.[5] Gardner was also taken on to teach an MA in Dramatic Writing atDrama Centre London atCentral Saint Martins.[6]
Gardner is a writer ofchildren's novels, the earliest beingInto the Woods (2006) andOut of the Woods (2010), both illustrated byMini Grey and published byDavid Fickling Books.ISFDB catalogues it as the "Storm Eden" series.
She has written six further children's novels forNosy Crow, known as the "Stage School Series", based on a young girl named Olivia attending Stage School. They have been well received,[7][8] and a final seventh book was published in July 2013. The first in the series wasOlivia's First Term.
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