Richard Hawley

Richard Hawley has written about Sheffield for his whole solo career, naming albums after local places such as Coles Corner and Lady's Bridge. His songs became the musical Standing at the Sky's Edge, set across three generations on the city's Park Hill estate, which premiered at the Crucible in 2019 and won the Olivier award for best new musical. It took a Sheffield story from a local theatre to the National Theatre and the West End.