Bryony Lavery (born 1947) is a British dramatist, known for her successful and award-winning 1998 play Frozen.
She has written books including the biography Tallulah Bankhead and The Woman Writer's Handbook.
[citation needed] Early in her career she founded a theatre company called Les Oeufs Malades (The Bad Eggs) with actors Gerard Bell and Jessica Higgs.
It was the subject of a piece by Malcolm Gladwell published in The New Yorker and collected in his book What the Dog Saw.
She adapted Treasure Island, the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, as a play which was first performed on the Olivier Stage of the National Theatre, London, on 3 December 2014.