Penny Layden

For the National:

Training

Penny Layden trained at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: London Tide, Paradise, Jellyfish (also Bush), Macbeth, My Country; a work in progress (also on tour), Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State, An Oak Tree, Everyman, Edward II, Table and Timon of Athens

In London’s West End: The Ocean at the End of the Lane and Lidless

Other theatre includes: The Tempest, Measure for Measure and Roberto Zucco for the RSC; Pygmalion, The Lorax and Cinderella at the Old Vic; Medea at @sohoplace; A Christmas Carol at the Rose, Kingston; Seeds for tiata fahodzi at Soho Theatre; Draw Me Close and Vernon God Little at the Young Vic; Bright Phoenix at Liverpool Everyman; Nora at Coventry Belgrade; 66 Books – Something, Someone, Somewhere at the Bush; Incoming for HighTide; The Bacchae, Mary Barton, Electra and Mayhem at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; Dancing at Lughnasa at Birmingham Rep; The Spanish Tragedy at the Arcola; Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Helen at Shakespeare’s Globe

Supacell, EastEnders, Father Brown, Casualty and Belgravia

Film

Broken and The Libertine

Radio

Second Chance, Uganda and Crime and Punishment

(Published April 2024.)