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Zusatztext Whether you are looking to stage a full production, explore different styles of text and performance in a lesson or find some starting points for textual analysis and discussion, this folio has a resource that could prove useful. Informationen zum Autor Simon Longman is a playwright from the West Midlands. His plays include Patient Light (Eastern Angles); Island Town (Paines Plough); Gundog (Royal Court); Rails (TBTL); White Sky (RWCMD/Royal Court); Sparks (Old Red Lion); Milked (Pentabus Theatre Company). He is the recipient of the 49th George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright and has previously won the Channel 4 Playwrights’ Scheme. His work has been translated and produced internationally. He is represented by Judy Daish Associates. Lisa McGee , an award-winning screenwriter and playwright from Derry, is the creator, writer and executive producer of the acclaimed Derry Girls . She co-created, co-wrote and was executive producer on The Deceived with her husband Tobias Beer and was creative director, executive producer and wrote an episode of the BBC monologues on poverty Skint . Her other TV credits include London Irish, Raw, Being Human, The White Queen , and Indian Summers . Leo Butler is an award-winning playwright. His plays have been produced by many of the UK's most important theatres, including National Theatre, Royal Court, Almeida, Birmingham Rep, and Royal Shakespeare Company. He has written many celebrated plays about young people, including Made of Stone (Royal Court), Redundant (Royal Court), Boy (Almeida), and Decades (Brit School/Bridge Theatre Co.) He has written historical plays such as I'll Be The Devil 0 (RSC), and contemporary dramas such as Lucky Dog (Royal Court), Faces in the Crowd (Royal Court) and The Early Bird (Queen's Theatre, Belfast). He has also adapted classics like Woyzeck (Birmingham Rep), pantomimes and comedies such as Cinderella (Theatre Royal Stratford East) and All You Need is LSD (Birmingham Rep), and musicals such as Alison! The Rock Opera (Royal Court/King's Head). For ten years, Leo was Writers Tutor at the Royal Court Theatre and helped nurture a new generation of playwriting talent. Jordan Tannahill is a novelist, playwright, and director of film and theatre. He has been described as being ‘widely celebrated as one of Canada’s most accomplished young playwrights, filmmakers and all-round multidisciplinary artists’ (Toronto Star); ‘one of Canada's most extraordinary artists’ (CBC Arts); and ‘the enfant terrible of Canadian theatre’ (Libération). His debut novel, Liminal , won France’s 2021 Prix des Jeunes Libraires. His second novel, The Listeners , was a Canadian national bestseller, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Giller Prize. Avaes Mohammad 's scripts have chronicled post 9/11 multicultural Britain and represented the challenges of young people in the UK. He currently seeks to engage with the heritage of Islamic and Sufi literatures, reinterpreting them for contemporary western audiences. As a performance poet his influences range from the Sufi Saints of South Asia to the Dub Poets of Jamaica. His essays and opinion pieces engage with topics that include integration, identity and the arts. Avaes is enjoying writing long form fiction. Jon Brittain is a playwright, comedy writer and director. His play Rotterdam won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre and was nominated for the Evening Standard’s Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright. His other plays include the Fringe First Award-winning A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) and the critically acclaimed musical adaptation of David Walliams’ children’s book Billionaire Boy . He co-wrote and d...
