CJ Lloyd Webley

Playwright · Theatre-maker

I write from and for the communities that raised me. My work draws on Black British working-class life in Birmingham — its humour, resilience and contradictions — to ask what we inherit, what we lose, and what we owe one another. Recent work spans stage, film and immersive storytelling.

Selected Work

A curated portfolio

Lyndhurst Memories in performance

Lyndhurst Memories

Writer / Performer · Commissioned by Midlands Arts Centre · MAC 2025 · Birmingham Rep 2026
An immersive ensemble piece exploring memory, community and the changing social landscape of the former Lyndhurst Estate in Erdington, built from lived experience, oral history and VR storytelling.
"This geographical specificity lends to the production a sense of authenticity."Michael Davis, Breaking the Fourth Wall
Constructed at Birmingham Repertory Theatre — photo by Kris Askey

Constructed

Writer / Co-Director · Birmingham Repertory Theatre · Lightpost Theatre Company · 2021
On a failing construction site, a brotherhood of workers is tested to its limits when tools are stolen and paranoia sets in. A play about masculinity, mental health and what hides behind the banter.
Forgotten Key Workers production image

Forgotten Key Workers

Editor / Producer · Birmingham Repertory Theatre · Lightpost · BEDLAM Festival · 2021
The story of those who kept the world turning through the pandemic but didn't get a clap — verbatim accounts from shop assistants, delivery drivers, taxi drivers and vets navigating the Covid crisis.
The Coasters production photo

The Coasters

Writer · Brockley Jack Studio Theatre · Soho Theatre (Tamasha scratch) · 2018–19
A deeply human play set in the heart of Birmingham — an authentic insight into Black British working-class culture, with the coasters as a metaphor for what is handed down to us, good and bad.
Nanny's Home production image

Nanny's Home

Writer · New work
A new piece currently in development. Full details to be announced.
The Depths of Healing — behind the scenes on set

The Depths of Healing

Co-creator / Writer · Film · Birmingham Rep (Lightpost) · with Idriss Assoumanou · Supported by BSMHFT & Mind
A co-created film exploring the human psyche — a patient trapped in their own mind discovers an experimental therapy that opens alternate worlds within. Made with participants from Erdington.
Selected Commissions & Collaborations

Organisations I have worked with

Royal Shakespeare Company
Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Midlands Arts Centre
Tamasha
Soho Theatre
Criterion Theatre
West Midlands Combined Authority
Birmingham Open Media
Awards & Recognition

How the work has been recognised

Alfred Fagon Award — Champion of TheatreNational Theatre, 2021
MAC Theatre Commission AwardMidlands Arts Centre, 2024
BBC WritersroomBBC
ETEP Finborough AwardShortlisted
Adopt a PlaywrightShortlisted
British Citizen AwardBCAe
BBC Radio 1Xtra — Future FigureBBC Radio 1Xtra
Queen's Baton Relay — BatonbearerBirmingham 2022
Current Projects & News

Now & next

16 July 2026

Lyndhurst Memories at Birmingham Rep

Lyndhurst Memories comes to The Rep's Studio as part of the Rep Rising 26 festival — an immersive and explosive piece of ensemble theatre, originally commissioned by Midlands Arts Centre.

Tickets & details
2024–25

MAC Theatre Commission

Recipient of Midlands Arts Centre's inaugural Theatre Commission Award, developing Lyndhurst Memories through immersive storytelling, VR and creative exploration of the former Lyndhurst Estate.

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