[1] Novels and theatre plays deal with themes such as the European migrant crisis, LGBT rights, mental illness, genetic engineering, and the sex-positive movement.
Berry-Hart has also written fiction and verbatim theatre pieces for stage to support human rights campaigns [2] and to raise funds for the refugee crisis.
[citation needed] Berry-Hart was born in Warwickshire, brought up in Oswestry on the Welsh Marches, and from age 11 to 18, won a music scholarship to study at Howell's School, Denbigh in North Wales.
Berry-Hart's theatre work has been subsequently produced in London, New York, Los Angeles, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Ankara, and translated into German and Turkish.
[8] In 2018, the Welsh theatre The Other Room (in Cardiff) commissioned Berry-Hart to write a play for its 2019 Violence Series[9] inspired by their experiences as a volunteer during the Syrian refugee crisis.
[13] In 2012, Berry-Hart was commissioned to create a verbatim theatre piece, "Someone To Blame"[14][15] based on the real-life case of Sam Hallam,[16] a teenager wrongfully convicted of murder and imprisoned for 7 years.
[19][20] In 2014, Berry-Hart was further commissioned by the King's Head Theatre in London to write a play about the lives of LGBT Russians following the passing of the anti-gay laws in Russia ahead of the Winter Olympics.
[25] The play was performed live by Helena Bonham Carter, Meera Syal, Nicola Thorp, Naana Agyei-Ampadu, and Nina Sosanya, directed by Berry-Hart.