Grace Joy
Author, Composer & Playwright.
Books
She is Taken Lightly
War Blooms
'Where Do the Cows Go?'
Essays and Short Stories
Human Kind
This essay won 2nd place in the BeAnimal Autumn Writing Competition.
Quiet at the Constellation Club
This short story was a Finalist in the Jerry Jazz Musician's 52nd Short Fiction Contest
Radio Play
Until We Can't See the Sky
Until We Can't See the Sky is a radio play about sisterhood, ownership and gentrification. It was produced on Resonance FM on February 14th 2020.
Hosted by Johny Brown and Inga Tillere of Band Of Holy Joy. With a live soundscape from Inga Tillere. Featuring Grace Howarth, Tallulah Howarth, James Stephen Finn and Miranda Shamiso.
Bio
Grace Joy Howarth is a twenty-two year-old author and musician from London. She has a First Class Bachelors of Arts degree in Songwriting from the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance. She has had five pieces of work published, through the H.G. Wells Anthology, The National Archives, Squaw Pies Publishing, Be Animal and Jerry Jazz Musician.
She had the chance to work alongside esteemed author Melvin Burgess in the National Archives’ programme ‘Writing War, Writing Peace.’
Currently she is a studying lyricist at the Musical Theatre course BML (Book, Music & Lyric.) Through this course she has collaborated with eight composers on separate projects, including a complete, ten minute musical.
She had the chance to workshop her musical, 'Radioboy,' co-written with Daniella Livingstone, at the Pleasance Theatre. This piece was shortlisted in the New York New Plays for Young Audiences showcase, and they are currently recording a concept album of the piece.
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Grace is working on her third, full-length play. An extract of her first play ‘She is Taken Lightly’ has been performed at Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester as part of Julie Hesmondhalgh's 'Take Back Our Girls' political scratch night. It has also had scratch performances at The Southwark Playhouse and Katzspace Theatre - alongside having an informal reading at The Young Vic.
Her first short play was performed at The Southwark Playhouse, through the Director's Cut Theatre Company. Grace is now a member of the Director's Cut Theatre Company Writers Group, and has had many scratch nights, performances and short films made in collaboration with the actors and directors involved.
Grace has completed two full-length plays, a TV show pilot, a musical, a novel, and countless other short plays, short stories and songs. She finds joy in writing for compelling feminist narratives, and in work that has a social, environmental focus, with an important story to tell.
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