Connor Allen is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and the former Children’s Laureate Wales (2021-2023). He has written for BBC Wales, BBC Radio 4, Wales Millennium Centre, Sherman Theatre, Dirty Protest, and others, and is a former 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 from 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). He was the 2023 winner of the Imison Award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards for his debut audio drama The Making of a Monster. In 2021, he won the Rising Star Wales Award, and was a Jerwood Live Work Fund recipient. His debut poetry collections Dominoes (For general audiences) and Miracles (For children) were published in 2023 by Lucent Dreaming.

He is Associate Artist of his hometown theatre The Riverfront in Newport.

His latest poetry collection, Dominoes, is selected to our 2023 Bookshelf.