“It was beautifully executed and tackled heavy themes with sensitivity and lightness.”

Chronicle Live, Remarkable Robin’s Christmas Adventure, 2021
”Elijah Young certainly knows how to bring Northern drama to the stage.”

Theatre & Tonic, The Cold Buffet, 2023
"Young has a great ear for dialogue, and although the story touches on big issues, it does so with an admirably light touch, keeping the laughs coming without ever minimising the seriousness of its themes."

Exeunt Magazine, Isolation, 2019
"The thing that impressed me most about this moving, funny and emotional play is in the impressive way, playwright, Elijah Young, voices three generations of a disparate and dysfunctional family."

InNewcastle, The Cold Buffet, 2023
"Being a writer of your own words is hard but holding the stories, thoughts and feelings of communities and treating them with the sensitivity, respect and space they deserve is a huge skill that Elijah clearly demonstrated in this piece of work and his practice more broadly."

Jess Hunt, Programme Director of No More Nowt, A Seat at The Table, 2024
"The real find of the year was elijah young whose 'ISOLATION' for the customs house really impressed me for it's imaginative sensitivity and balance of humour and pathos, so elijah young it is."

- British Theatre Guide, Most Promising Newcomer of the Year, The Best of North East Theatre, 2019

“It was beautifully executed and tackled heavy themes with sensitivity and lightness.”

”Elijah Young certainly knows how to bring Northern drama to the stage.”