Bryony Lavery is a British dramatist, known for her Broadway success, Frozen, winner of the Eileen Anderson Central Television/TMA Best New Play Awards (Circle in the Square Theatre). She has written more than twenty plays, the majority of which carry feminist undertones with almost entirely female casts. Lavery has also written for television and radio.

Other plays include Dirt (Studio Theatre); Beautiful Burnout (National Theatre of Scotland); Kursk and Bag (Young Vic); It Snows and Treasure Island (Olivier Theatre); Red Sky (Provincetown Playhouse); Stockholm and The Believers (Drum Theatre); Last Easter (Lucille Lortel Theatre); Illyria (A.C.T.); A Wedding Story (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); The Magic Toyshop (Ipswich Wolsey Theatre); More Light (Salisbury Playhouse); Goliath (Northern Stage); Peter Pan (RADA Studios); Her Aching Heart, Pink Paper's Play of the Year (Woolly Mammoth Theatre); and The Two Marias (Theatre Centre).

Her books include the biography, Tallulah Bankhead, and The Woman Writer's Handbook.