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Informationen zum Autor Anthony Banks is from Manchester and studied English at Kings College London before training as a director at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He was formerly Associate Director for the National Theatre Discover Programme, where he commissioned scripts for the Connections seasons, the Primary Theatre programme and Shakespeare Schools Festival, and curated a variety of projects and events for lifelong learning. He works as a freelance director and leads workshops on directing new plays. He also contributes to books and journals about theatre. Howard Brenton is one of the UK’s most respected dramatists. His acclaimed plays include The Romans In Britain , Bloody Poetry , Weapons of Happiness , Pravda with David Hare and, more recently, In Extremis , Anne Boleyn and Doctor Scroggy’s War for Shakespeare’s Globe, Paul and Never So Good for the National Theatre, and 55 Days , The Arrest of Ai Weiwei , Drawing the Line and Lawrence After Arabia for Hampstead Theatre. He also wrote fourteen episodes of BBC spy drama Spooks . Jim Cartwright is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed playwright and screenwriter. His plays are consistently in production, have been translated into over 35 languages, and have been performed in most major theatres of the world, including the West End of London, Royal Court, National Theatre and Broadway. His theatre works include, amongst many others, Road , Bed , Two , The Rise and Fall of Little Voice , and Mobile Phone Show . His extensive television and film work includes Road , Johnny Shakespeare , Vroom , Wedded , and King of the Teds . Lucinda Coxon was born in Derby. Her plays and films include Mornings After (1985), And One Another (1988); Bird Bones (1989); Improbabilities (a group of short plays for Loose Exchange Company, 1989); Eddie's Proposal (BBC studio screenplay, 1990); Waiting at the Water's Edge (1992); Spaghetti Slow (1993); Lily and the Secret Planting (screenplay, 1994); and Wishbones (1995). Her adaptation of Tarjei Vesaas's Norwegian novel Is-Slottet was published by Methuen Drama in 1995 in Making Scenes 3: four short plays for young actors . Ryan Craig is a British playwright, screen, television and radio writer whose plays usually involve both ethical and social matters. He is best known for his plays What We Did To Weinstein (Menier Chocolate Factory, London, 2005) which earned him a Most Promising Playwright Nomination at the Evening Standard Awards; The Glass Room (Hampstead Theatre, 2006), which deals with Holocaust denial; the English version of Tadeusz Slobodzianek's Our Class (2009), The Holy Rosenbergs (2011), both at the National Theatre and the semi-autobiographical Filthy Business (2017, Hampstead Theatre, London). Stacey Gregg’s credits include: Lights Out (The Site Programme); Nod If You Can Hear Me (The Big Idea) for the Royal Court, Scorch (Prime Cut); Choices (Royal Exchange, Manchester/WoW Festival, Southbank/ Dublin Fringe/Outburst); Override (Watford Palace/Dublin Fringe); Shibboleth, Perve (Abbey, Dublin). Television includes: The Innocents, Riviera, The Frankenstein Chronicles, Your Ma’s a Hard Brexit. As Performer: Everything Between Us (Project Arts Centre); Moth (Hightide, the Bush). Jonathan Harvey is an award-winning playwright, whose plays include The Cherry Blossom Tree (Liverpool Playhouse Studio), which won him the 1987 National Girobank Young Writer of the Year Award; Wildfire (Royal Court Theatre); Beautiful Thing (Bush Theatre, London and Donmar Warehouse/Duke of York's Theatre), winner of the John Whiting Award 1994; Babies (Royal National Theatre Studio/Royal...
