Lyn Gardner is a British theatre critic, children's writer, and journalist who contributes reviews and articles to The Stage and Stagedoor and has written for The Guardian.
A graduate in drama and English from the University of Kent, Gardner was a founding member of the City Limits magazine, a cooperative for which she edited the theatre section.
Latterly she was writing 130 reviews and 28,000 words of features annually, as well as 150 posts a year for an online blog for the paper, begun in 2008.
[3][4] Since June 2017 Gardner had been an Associate Editor of The Stage newspaper, where she continues to write her theatre blog.
[5] Gardner was also taken on to teach an MA in Dramatic Writing at Drama Centre London at Central Saint Martins.