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2021 NEWS

Welcome to my website!

My name is Dominic Berry. I write poems for the stage for adults and for children.

I won the 2020 Saboteur award for Best Spoken Word Artist. My poetry stage show for adults, ‘I Can Make You Fail Slightly Less’, was longlisted for ‘Best Spoken Word Show’ of 2019, and a show I dramaturged (Rose Condo’s ‘Empathy Experiment’) was shortlisted!

I was also 2017 winner of Saboteur’s Best Spoken Word Artist award and the 2017 Glastonbury Festival Poet in Residence (rebooked for 2019 Glasto, and 2020… had it happened!)

In 2021, I have been able to perform a lot online. Here is a selection of some of my poetry for children performed in February 2021!

Before the first lockdown, here were some of my 2020 tour dates

I am currently working on a writing commission secured from Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts for creating a new show for performer Elaine Collins. This new show is being directed by Action Transport Theatre’s Nina Hajiyianni with support from Half Moon’s Chris Elwell. I am thrilled and honoured to be crafting some new, poetic words for a group of such talented and passionate artists.

This follows an amazing time I had performing two of my own shows at 2019 Edinburgh Fringe – ‘When Trolls Try to Eat Your Goldfish‘ and ‘I Can Make You Fail Slightly Less‘.

See ‘Trolls’ audience reviews here!

See ‘I Can Make You Fail Slightly Less’ audience reviews here!

Watch my new trailer here!

Here is a fuller review of ‘When Trolls Try to Eat Your Goldfish‘ from 2019 Ed Fringe!

and here is another review of the same show; 4 STARS from One4Review!

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I have been writing poems professionally for many-a-year now…

Check out my Glastonbury Festival verse I created for my residency with them, including my appearance performing live on BBC2

Dominic Berry at Glastonbury

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Here are some of the places I toured in 2018, with my previous adult show No Tigers (Known in its earlier versions as Playing Mortal Kombat Guarantees You Inner Calm)

Also in this year, my poetry was featured in an amazing collection from Bad Betty, ‘The Dizziness of Freedom’, alongside such awesome poets as Dean Atta, Dizraeli, Lemn Sissay MBE, Jackie Hagan, Maria Ferguson, Salena Godden, Rob Auton and an absolute load of other exquisite talent with whom I’m honoured to be sharing pages.

Bad Betty

UK tour of ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’

A collaboration between Arts Council England, Z Arts, Big Imaginations and Action Transport Theatre, this is my fifth poetry theatre show for children aged 5+ and their families.

FEB

Whitby Hall, Ellesmere Port (2 shows, 10am and 1pm) – details here

St Helens Citadel (2pm) – details here

Burnley Youth Theatre (11am) – details here

Heysham Library, Lancashire – THIS DATE NOW SOLD OUT

Harris Library, Preston (2pm) – details here

The Brindley, Runcorn (1.30pm and 4.30pm) – details here

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MARCH

Eastwood Theatre, Glasgow (11am) – details here

Turnpike, Leigh, Wigan (1pm) – details here

Z Arts, Manchester (2.30pm) – details here