An Evening with Harriet Walter

In association with Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival. British actress, Dame Harriet Walter DBE is a British actress and winner of a Laurence Olivier Award as well as numerous nominations, including a Tony Award, three Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2011, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to drama

Renowned for her star-studded portrayals in Succession, Killing Eve and Ted Lasso, Dame Harriet Walter is also one of Britain’s most esteemed Shakespearean actors. Dame Harriet will read from her book, She Speaks! What Shakespeare’s Women Might Have Said, intertwined with tales of her stage and screen work.

This event will be chaired by Kate Sawyer.  Kate is an actor and producer, and has written several short films before turning her hand to fiction. She is the author of three novels: the forthcoming Getting Away, Waterstones Fiction Book of The Month, This Family, and her debut novel, The Stranding, which was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, won the East Anglian fiction prize, was adapted for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and is being developed for the screen by Fremantle and Afua Hirsch’s production company Born In Me.

There will be a sale of Dame Harriet’s book and a signing after the show.

This is a fundraising event for Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds (Charity Number 242977).