Recorded Delivery was founded
by Alecky Blythe in 2003. Alecky had previously trained as an actor at Mountview but had struggled to find work. She was inspired to create her own, after having taken part in a course at the Actors Centre. The course was Mark Wing-Davey’s ‘Drama Without Paper’ which taught Anna Deveare Smith’s verbatim technique.

Her debut Recorded Delivery show,
Come Out Eli, about the Hackney, siege was developed with the support of the Actors Centre. Following a successful rough cut at the Tristan Bates Theatre, it premiered at the Arcola winning the Time Out Award for Best Production on the Fringe and later transferring to the BAC for the Critics Choice Season. The play was also optioned by Joe Wright to be made into a film.

Recorded Delivery became a resident company at the Actors Centre, where they continued to develop new work.
All The Right People Come Here, a behind the scenes tour of the hierarchy surrounding Wimbledon, played at the New Wimbledon Studio in 2005.

As part of the Flight 5065 Festival, Cafe Direct invited Alecky to Tanzania to make a piece about Fair Trade coffee farming. The play, The Day of All Days was performed inside a pod on the London Eye. Cruising followed, about pensioners in search of passion which was a sell out success at The Bush Theatre in June 2006.

Alecky has since been lucky enough to have been commissioned by producing theatres, therefore it is no longer necessary to produce the plays herself. The term Recorded Delivery however has become eponymous for the technique that she employs.

Her first commission was 'Strawberry Fields' for Shropshire based Pentabus. It explored issues surrounding the use of migrant labour on industrial scale strawberry farms. With Matthew Dunster at the National theatre Studio she developed A Man In a Box, a black comedy about an autograph hunter. It went on to become her first film shown on Channel 4, as part of the Coming Up young writer’s scheme.

In Brussels, she created I Only Came Here for 6 Months for the British Council. This site specific piece explored the tensions between Belgians and Eurocrats and played to packed houses at two of Brussels’s leading theatres, K.V.S and Les Halles.

Most recently The Girlfriend Experience which offers an extraordinary insight into the world of prostitution, has been a smash hit at the Royal Court and tranfers to the Young Vic July 09.

Alecky is currently working on a variety of television and theatre projects, including a commission for the National Theatre.