Linda Brogan Archive
Date range: 1970’s – 2020’s
Medium: Archive
Number of items: c. 200
Linda Brogan is a multi-award-winning playwright. She has been writer-in-residence at the National Theatre, Contact Theatre, Askham Grange Prison, and the Whitworth Art Gallery.
Much of her work in recent years has focussed on The Reno club, a basement music venue in Moss Side, Manchester of which Linda was a regular. The Reno closed in 1986 and the building was demolished.
As a recipient of three consecutive Arts Council England grants, in 2016 Linda collected ‘Reno Memoirs’; in 2017 she excavated the Reno; and in 2018 ‘Excavating the Reno’ was a finalist in eight national awards. In 2019/2020, as The Reno @The Whitworth, Linda exhibited the ‘Reno Memoirs’, artefacts, and teen photo montages in the Whitworth Art Gallery, and received Manchester City Council’s Outstanding Contribution to Manchester Culture Award.
In 2023 Bluemoose Books published ‘12 Word’s, a project instigated and produced by Linda featuring powerful female stories by four writers from Manchester without any formal writing experience.
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