Annette Brook is a playwright and a communications professional working within the arts sector.
She has worked in arts admin for nearly 20 years at organisations including Laban, Arts Council England, Spread the Word, the Royal Society of Literature and Theatre Peckham.
Annette has recently joined writing and education charity First Story as their Communications and Marketing Manager. She has BA English and MA Arts Administration and Cultural Policy, both from Goldsmiths.
Annette started writing plays in 2005 after making it through to the final 30 for Channel 4’s competition ‘The Play’s the Thing’.
Her work includes: The Argos Delivery (Theatre503, 2022) about Rosemarie who now has her very own toaster and the chance of a new start; the critically-acclaimed how we love (Theatre Peckham, 2021; Arcola 2021; VAULT Festival, 2020) about queer Nigerian friends planning to wed each other to fool the authorities back home; Gala Mae (Matchstick Piehouse, 2019) longlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award, about mixed race sisters recounting their lively time in 1950s Soho; Cold Blow Lane (Matchstick Piehouse, 2018) a new musical about the Millwall Lionesses; The Marriage of Lady Mede (Ledbury Poetry Festival/Shoreditch Town Hall, 2017) a Penned in the Margins commission, part of the five-hour retelling of the epic Medieval poem Piers Plowman. Annette is a member of Matchstick Theatre Company and co-produces short play nights.
She is an alumnus of the Royal Court Young Writers’ Programme and the Royal Court Invitation Group, and in 2015-16 was a Jerwood/Arvon mentee.
2023 – Present Communications and Marketing Manager, First Story
2021 – 2023 Head of Communications, Theatre Peckham
2013 – 2021 Communications Manager, Royal Society of Literature
2008 – 2013 Administrator/Programme Coordinator/Audience Development Officer, Spread the Word
2007 – 2008 Administrator (Dance), Arts Council England
2006 – 2007 Admin Assistant, Arts Admin
2005 – 2006 Alumni Assistant, Goldsmiths
2004 – 2005 Communications Assistant (Graduate Traineeship in Communications), Laban
2000 – 2004 Theatre Steward (started as volunteer and then later paid), The Broadway Theatre (formerly Lewisham Theatre)
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