WORDS DANIELLE MUSTARDE
Performance artist, poet and playwright – to name just a few of the hats she wears – Louise Wallwein was this year made an advocate for youth theatre organisation, Contact. A Mancunian raised in 13 different children’s homes, Louise wrote her irst play at the age of 17 – having just left care. We caught up with the northern powerhouse to ind out how her year has been, and what the appointment means for her, and the young people of Manchester.