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Informationen zum Autor Isley Lynn is an American-born, London-based playwright and poet. They won the ‘Charles Wintour Most Promising Playwright Award’ at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2023 for their play The Swell , which opened to great acclaim as part of Tom Littler’s first season at the Orange Tree Theatre and was also nominated for Best New Play, Best Director and Best Production at the 2023 Offie Awards. Their play Skin a Cat was awarded Pick of the Year at the Vault Festival 2016 and its production at The Bunker later that year led to four nominations for Off West End Awards including Most Promising New Playwright and Best New Play; it then toured nationally in 2018. Other credits include: The War of the Worlds (New Diorama Theatre 2019, international tour 2021); ‘Canace’ in 15 Heroines (Jermyn Street Theatre 2020); Albatross (Paines Plough and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama at Bute Theatre and Gate Theatre 2018); The Swell (HighTide First Commissions play reading 2018); Sie und Wir (Us and Them) for Werk X in Vienna (2016); Tether (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015); and What’s So Special (as part of The Get Out at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs 2014). Her play Bright Nights was a Script6 winner at The Space in 2014. Raúl Quirós Molina has an MA in Creative Writing from City, University of London. His plays include The Dinner , produced at the Vault Festival (London 2015), and El pan y la sal (Bread and Salt) at the Teatro Español (Madrid 2018), in addition to Where Do I Start? He was a finalist for the Nadal Novel Prize in 2018 and was awarded the Felipe Trigo Novel Prize in 2019 for Los caballos inocentes (The Innocent Horses). He currently lives and works in Barcelona. Bahar Brunton grew up in London. In addition to Dancing Feet , she has had two plays produced: The Highwayman , at the Battersea Barge and the Edinburgh Festival in 2008; and Sofka , at the Calder Bookshop & Theatre in 2012 and 2013. Her stories have been published by Fairlight Books, Firewords magazine, The Frogmore Papers and Ether Books. Karis E. Halsall has been writing for theatre for the last decade, working with acclaimed companies such as the Hampstead Theatre, Theatre503, HighTide Festival,Headlong, the Bush, DryWrite and nabokov. Following her recent transition into writing for the screen, her inaugural short film Period Piece was selected to screen internationally at prestigious female-centric festivals including the Underwire Film Festival (2018) and Vancouver International Women in Film Festival (2019). Her television credits include BBC Three. Dacia Maraini is one of the most widely read Italian writers in the world. While the subject matter of her novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, essays and interviews covers a broad range, her focus is always on women’s condition. She is also a theatre and cinema director, who has founded or collaborated with various experimental companies. Among her numerous literary awards are the Premio Strega in 1999 for the short story collection Buio (Darkness; 2002 in English), the Premio Campiello in 1990 for the novel La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (The Silent Duchess; 1992 in English) and the Premio Campiello again in 2012 for her career. She was a finalist for the 2011 Man Booker International Prize and nominated for the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. Further testimony to the impact of her work around the world are eight honorary degrees – from the universities of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Macerata, L’Aquila, Foggia and Bucharest, Middlebury ollege (Vermont), John Cabot University (Rome) and Chapman University (California) – the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, conferred in 2017, and the highest Italian honour, the Knight Grand Cross, awarded in 1996. Renato Ch...
