Dr Hannah Greenstreet is a playwright, theatre critic and academic. She is Lecturer in Creative Writing: Stage and Screen in the Department of English at the University of Liverpool. Her research focuses on the politics of theatrical form in contemporary British theatre, which she explores through critical work and original playwriting.  

Her first book, Radical Realisms in Contemporary British Theatre: Rethinking Feminist Form in Plays by Women, was published by Bloomsbury in August 2025. She has also published on ‘feminist failure’ in plays by RashDash and Alice Birch, ‘virtual realism’ in seven methods of killing kylie jenner, and the politics of theatrical form in Ella Hickson’s The Writer. She is currently developing a new research project on ‘Digital Intimacies in Contemporary Theatre’. 

In May 2021, she was awarded her DPhil on ‘Experiments with Realism in Contemporary Feminist Theatre in Britain’ by the University of Oxford. She was joint winner of the Swapna Dev Memorial Book Prize for best thesis in the Faculty of English in 2021. Previously, she studied at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University.

Hannah regularly reviews theatre for Exeunt Magazine and The Stage. She was Co-Reviews Editor (with Alice Saville and Ben Kulvichit) of Exeunt Magazine from 2018-2022. She was critic-in-residence at Alchymy Festival 2019 at the North Wall, and in 2019 was shortlisted for theartsdesk/ h Club Young Influencer of the Year award. She also writes for English Review, a magazine for English A-Level students and teachers. You can read more examples of her work on her sporadically-updated blog. Hannah is available for freelance writing commissions.

As a playwright, she has developed her writing with Spread the Word, Ovalhouse Adult Company, Soho Writers’ Lab, the North Wall’s Theatre Craft residency and Menagerie Theatre Company. She was a SPARK supported artist at Pegasus Theatre 2019-20 and was shortlisted for Jerwood-Arvon mentoring scheme 2019 in the Playwriting category. Her queer reimagining of Euripides’ fragmentary tragedy Andromeda, co-created with director Charlotte Vickers, was staged at Camden People’s Theatre in July 2021. Most recently, her play Four Letter Words was shortlisted for the Homotopia Award (2023) and was selected for Liverpool Playhouse’s Supported Studio programme 2026. She is part of Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Playwrights’ Programme 2025. You can find out more about her playwriting here.

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