Connor Allen is a multidisciplinary artist and the Children’s Laureate of Wales (2021-2023). He has written for BBC Wales, BBC Radio 4, Sherman Theatre, Literature Wales, Dirty Protest and others, and is a member of the BBC Wales Welsh Voices and The Welsh Royal Court writing groups. His work is heavily inspired by elements of his own life including grief, love, masculinity, identity and ethnicity. An actor graduate of Trinity Saint David, he wrote and performed in his acclaimed debut show The Making of a Monster at the Wales Millennium Centre in 2022 (playtext published by Aurora Metro Books). In 2021, he won the Rising Star Wales Award, and was a Jerwood Live Work Fund recipient. He is Associate Artist of his hometown theatre The Riverfront in Newport.