The writers
Alison Down
Monologue: ‘I clean for England’
Alison is a screenwriting lecturer at a northern university and writes when she can.
Aleks Merilo
Monologue: ‘Little Moscow’
Aleks Merilo is an award-winning playwright from Palo Alto, CA. His script, THE SNOWMAKER, was winner of the Playwrights First Award, The Chameleon Theatre Circle New Play Contest, Playhouse on The Square’s New Works @ The Works Festival, and was a finalist for the Oregon Play Prize. His play THE WIDOW OF TOM’S HILL played off-broadway at 59E59, where BroadwayWorld called it “A truly distinctive piece of theater.” His play EXIT 27 was called “The best original play to be produced this season” by The Houston Chronicle, was voted best new play by BroadwayWorld, Houston, and played most recently at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. He has an MFA in playwriting from UCLA, lives in the Pacific Northwest, and is represented by the Robert A. Freedman Dramatic Agency.
Paul Stone
Monologue: ‘The Lost Boy’
Paul Stone has been writing professionally since 2018. He is a credited writer on BBC Radio’s NEWSJACK and the Canal Café Theatre’s NEWSREVUE. IN 2020 Paul has written MOTHER’S DAY for Troubadour Theatre’s Dark Work Monologues, CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS for Full Disclosure Theatre at Southwark Playhouse and comedy material for various stand up and cabaret artists. Paul’s first full-length play, FOR QUEEN AND COUNTRY, is being produced at The Kings Head Theatre in London later this year.
Instagram: @paulstonewriter
Rita Anderson
Monologue: ‘Crying Room’
Rita Anderson, a published and an award-winning writer, earned an MFA Creative Writing and an MA Playwriting. Rita is Dramatists Guild Regional Representative (AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO), and she went on scholarship to The O’Neill. Her play, Frantic is the Carousel, was the National Partners American Theatre (NAPAT) nominee, and Rita won the Ken Ludwig Playwriting Award, the top national prize from The Kennedy Center for ‘Best Body of Work.’ She has had over 100 productions and as many literary publications to include BEST NEW 10-MINUTE PLAYS (APPLAUSE! 2019 and again in 2020). She also has work in THE BEST NEW WOMEN’S MONOLOGUES (APPLAUSE! And with SMITH & KRAUS also in years 2019 & 2020). Early Liberty, Final Conversations, and The 27 Club, internationally published at www.offthewallplays.com, are on their “Best Selling Plays” list, and Rita had a playwriting residency with HBMG Foundation at Creede Repertory Theatre (CRT), and in Barcelona, Spain last summer. Rita was selected as an inaugural playwright for Hyde Park Theatre’s Writers’ Group 2020, but the highlight of Rita’s emerging career so far was sitting on a playwriting panel with Christopher Durang. Rita also has two poetry books: The Entropy of Rocketman (Finishing Line Press) and Watched Pots (A Lovesong to Motherhood), both of which have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Nilgin Yusuf
Monologue: ‘George’
Nilgin Yusuf is a journalist by training (ex-Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, British ELLE) where she was employed as a fashion editor and writer. After, a second career in Higher Education where she worked as a Subject Tutor, Course Leader, Programme Director and Creative Director at the London College of Fashion, UAL, she has returned to full-time writing. Currently, a third-year, part-time student on Birkbeck’s BA (Hons) in Creative Writing (University of London), she was shortlisted for the Cambridge Short Story Prize 2020 for NINE MOONS. GEORGE for LOST SOULS, is her first piece of published fiction. Although, GEORGE was conceived and written before COVID-19, the global pandemic and social distancing, the themes of urban alienation and the disconnected individual in a swarming metropolis, retain their resonance. Nilgin Yusuf lives in London with her husband, son and numerous feline companions.
Instagram: @nilgin_yusuf
Twitter: @Nilgin
Michael Wells-Oakes
Monologue: ‘You Labor’
Plays include: TIDINGS; SEA VINE, NEW JERSEY;
LEAVE PHILADELPHIA, NEVER; A COLD DECEMBER; GRACE; FREEDOM; CHRISTMAS; and the COLLEGE HOOP SCANDAL OF1962. Productions at Luna Stage (NJ), The Puzzle Theater, The Triangle (SC), Bernie Wohl Theater,The Ko Festival (MA), The 29th Street Collective New Work Series. For 15 years, he and his wife, Jennifer, ran the NYC Drama Workshop, a theater program for teenagers sponsored by Greenwich Village Youth Council. They wrote and produced 14 plays for teens, two of these, REMEMBER ME ALWAYS and GREENFIELD BLOOMS, are published by Samuel French and performed throughout the US and Canada. Member of Dramatist Guild of America, Resident Playwright with 29th Street Playwright’s Collective, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, he has been a National Playwrights Conference Finalist, received the NYFA Grant for Screenwriting (MIRACULOUS TURNAROUND) and the DeWitt Wallace Reader’s Digest Writer of Distinction Award. His new play, WINTER WHEAT was recently nominated into the semifinalist round of the Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Competition. Undergraduate – Penn State University. Graduate work – University of Connecticut. He is very grateful to live a life in the theater.
Matthew Wixey
Monologue: ‘Penguins, Coco-pops and the end of the world’
Matt has been writing plays and short stories for just under two years. He has had short plays produced at various fringe theatres in London, and has won or been shortlisted in multiple competitions, most recently the 2019 Hammond House International Literary Competition, in which he won first place in both the short story and screenwriting categories. His debut full-length play will (hopefully!) be produced in 2021. He is also a member of the 2020/2021 London Library Emerging Writers Programme, and the Director’s Cut Theatre Writers Club. Matt enjoys writing horror, science-fiction, and historical drama, as well as work exploring institutions and how they operate. Outside of writing, Matt works in cyber security.
Twitter: @darkartlab
Andrea Aptecker
Monologue: ‘Beauty Parlor’
A playwright from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Andrea Aptecker serves on the Board of Directors of Playwrights’ Platform, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. Recent plays by Andrea include YOU CAN BAKE! (Dragonfly Multicultural Arts Center Zoom Readings 2020, Taphouse Theatre: Shelter In Place, A Quarantined New Play Reading 2020), VENDETTA (Playwrights’ Platform Festival 2020), and UNAPOLOGETIC (Boston Theatre Marathon 2020). Her new short film is a documentary about her father, photographer George Aptecker: IN THE DARKROOM. Andrea is a teacher, actor, and baker of cakes. You can find her plays on the New Play Exchange.
https://newplayexchange.org/users/42328/andrea-aptecker
https://www.facebook.com/andrea.aptecker
Twitter: @AndreaAptecker
Reshma Ruia
Monologue: ‘Soul Sisters’
Reshma Ruia is an award winning writer and poet based in Manchester. Born in India and brought up in Italy her writing explores the preoccupations of those who possess a multiple sense of belonging. Her first novel, Something Black in the Lentil Soup, was described in the Sunday Times as ‘a gem of straight-faced comedy.’ Her second novel manuscript, A Mouthful of Silence was shortlisted for the SI Leeds Literary Award. Her writing has appeared in The Mechanics’ Institute Review, The Nottingham Review, Asia Literary Review, Confluence, Cabinet of Heed, Funny Pearls, Fictive Dream, The Good Journal, Sguardi Diversi and various anthologies such as Too Asian Not Asian Enough, No Good Deed, Love across a Broken Map, May We Borrow your Country, Garden among Fires and MANCUNIAN WAYS among others. Her stories have also been commissioned by and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her poetry collection A Dinner Party in the Home Counties, won the 2019Word Masala Award. A poem from the collection will feature in the GCSE and A Level curriculum.
Twitter: @reshmaruia
Emma Moohan
Monologue: ‘First Love’
Emma is from Ballinasloe in County Galway and is a graduate of The Gaiety School of Acting. She has spent the last 20 years writing and working as an actor in Dublin and London. She is currently based in Dublin. Her most recent endeavours include a couple of screenplays, a feature and a short. She is currently developing two separate projects for television and working on her own one-woman show for theatre.
Twitter: @EmmaMoohan
Christopher Adams
Monologue: ‘Vous’
Christopher Adams is a British-American writer living in Reading, UK. His plays include TUMULUS (Soho Theatre), ANTIGONE (Actors of Dionysus), FINDING MR HART (Being Human Festival), and COOKED (Bread & Roses Theatre). His short plays have been performed in Birmingham, Dublin, London, and Shanghai. He is currently a PhD student at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. He is represented by Independent Talent Group.
Instagram: @queer_books
Twitter: @beijingcoma
Ann Hawker
Monologue: ‘Lost and Found’
Ann combines her writing with her career as a television documentary producer and director. She is currently developing a factual drama based on a miscarriage of justice with Hillbilly Film and TV. Her writing has been recognised in many competitions. Her screenplay BELIEVE ME is a finalist in the 2020 Red Planet Awards and was a selected finalist in this year’s Edinburgh Festival New Voices Competition. Her feature script AN AUSTRIAN HOLIDAY was one of the winners in the 2018 Screenwriting Goldmine award, was a finalist in the 2018 Red Planet Award, and has been selected for a US mentoring lab sponsored by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. Her radio play, JUDGEMENT DAYS was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She is a past winner of the Euroscript competition, was long listed for the C4 “Coming Up” scheme and she has been commended in the Bafta Rocliffe Film Forum. Her short stage plays THE BENCH and LEAVING have been performed at Theatre 503 and The Tabard THEATRE. THE DONOR, a feature screenplay, was a finalist in the New York Screenplay competition. FAT CHANCE a radio play was commissioned by and broadcast on Resonance FM.
Judy Upton
Monologue: ‘Just Like Giving Blood’
Judy has had plays produced by the Royal Court, National Theatre and BBC Radio 4 among others. Her first novel ‘Maisie And Mrs Webster’ was published by Orion Books in 2018.
Sylvia Reed
Monologue: ‘Monologue’
Sylvia Reed, of Palmetto, Florida, started her writing career in journalism, working for newspapers and magazines until she shifted her focus to writing short stories and plays. MONOLOGUE initially was a short story published in The Seattle Review. Another play written for the stage but forthcoming as an audio podcast due to covid-19, SOLASTALGIA, will be produced as part of Theatre Odyssey’s (Sarasota, Florida) 2020 Ten-Minute Play Festival. Her full-length play, THE ONES THAT FLUTTER, was produced in London at Theatre503 in the fall of 2009. Earlier that year, she was awarded a three-week residency with the Donmar Warehouse culminating in a reading of FLUTTER. Other full-lengths – ALLIGATORS and FULL MOON RABBIT DANCE, have been professionally workshopped in Florida.
Tom Harvey
Monologue: ‘The unusual conversation’
Tom’s first play POOL won WriteNow 5 and was produced at the Jack Theatre. He wrote the verbatim play ABOUT LAST NIGHT on the 2017 general election, which was performed at the Arcola with Monica Dolan and Helen Belbin. Tom has had 15 short plays performed around London at The Park, The Jack, 503, Arts, White Bear, RADA studios and The Cockpit. HER was selected for the ONE Festival at The Space and the FREE festival at Southwark Playhouse.
Judy Klass
Monologue: ‘Sex with your ex’
Eight of Judy’s full-length plays have been produced. One, CELL, was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award and is published by Samuel French/Concord. Her full-length play STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE won the Dorothy Silver Award, and was produced at Chaffin’s Barn Theatre in Nashville, Tennessee in 2019. COUNTRY FRIED MURDER won the S.O.P.S. competition at the Shawnee Playhouse in Pennsylvania and was produced there in 2019. KIMBERLY IN OVERDRIVE was produced in 2020 by OPPA! in Layton, Utah, with masks and distancing. Thirty-five of Judy’s one-act plays have been produced, many with multiple productions all over the US, and a few have been staged in the UK and Ireland. One was produced by KDC Theatre in London in 2020, over Zoom. Three of Judy’s short plays are published by Brooklyn Publishers as stand-alone scripts. Others have appeared in magazines and in anthologies like The Art of the One-Act. Her short play BOOK OF LIFE is in press, to appear in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021 to be published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books. Judy is from NYC. She writes songs, and she lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She teaches at Vanderbilt University.
https://newplayexchange.org/users/5340/judy-klass
Lee Knight
Lee is an actor and writer. His comedy pilot The Gym reached the semi finals for BBC Comedy Writer’s Room 2019. This year his short play No More Doughnuts was selected as part of the Make it Beautiful New Writing Festival which is being performed in January 2021. He will also direct the piece. His audio series The Divorce is currently in development. He is also working on his own comedy sketch series.
As an Actor Lee will be appearing in feature film The Last Letter From Your Lover for Netflix and has recently finished filming on BBC’s The North Water. Both will air in 2021 Other Film & TV credits Include; Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, The Spiritualist, Away With Me, Misrule, The Doorman, Nutritiously Nicola, The Trial of Christine Keeler, Sherlock, Grange Hill. Commercials Include: Amazon, House of Fraser, ITV’s Love Island, Fidelity Bank. Lee is currently in the new BT Broadband commercial. His Theatre Credit’s include; A Very Very Very Dark Matter, The Bridge Theatre, Coming Clean, Trafalgar Studios West End (2019 & 2020), Adam & Eve, Hope Theatre, Archimedes Principle, Park Theatre, Savage, Arts Theatre West End (Offie nominated Best Actor), Much Ado About Nothing, Wyndhams Theatre West End.
Twitter: @theleeknight
Irene L Pynn
Monologue: ‘How long have I known?’
Irene L. Pynn’s plays include I, Cockroach, The Church of Saint Bearer, We’re Having a Baby!, The Train, How to Field Dress an Android, and several ten-minute shorts. Her work has been produced and/or developed around the United States and abroad by First Person Theatre, What If? Productions, The Alley Theatre, Torrent Theatre, Starlite Players, Fury Theatre, Otherworld Theatre, M.T. Pockets Theatre, Playwrights’ Roundtable, and more. Irene is a member of the Dramatists Guild and earned an MFA in writing from Seton Hill University. Her other publications include short stories, short plays, interactive plays, alternate reality games, and a novel.
C.A. Steed
Monologue: ‘Confinement’
C.A. Steed is a writer, teacher and aspiring dog owner. She lives in Glasgow with her husband and son. She has also resided in Aberdeen and Dublin, and hopes one day to live somewhere with less rain. Her work has been published by New Writing Scotland, Boudicca Press and Barren Magazine. Her mother would like her to write something more cheerful.
Twitter: @CazASteed
Adam Szudrich
Monologue: ‘Slow Dating’
Adam Szudrich is a ‘Bartie’ award-winning writer whose work has been performed Off-Broadway, Off-West End & off in the middle of nowhere. His plays have been selected for 99 international festivals and received 43 awards. His new play, Rosa & Leo, recently won Best International Play @ The International Festival of Ten-Minute Plays and the critics’ choice award at the Atlanta Fringe Festival 2020. This year a night of his plays was staged over two weeks in Manila and reviewed as a “delectable morsel of theatre”.
Julia Donnelly
Monologue: ‘Flight’
Julia is a lawyer at a law centre for children and young people in Scotland. She began writing in 2015 when she began attending a lifelong learning script writing class at the University of Edinburgh. In 2016 five women from the class formed their own writing and performance group – called the Ginger Wolves https://www.facebook.com/gingerwolves – to work together on writing and performing poetry, sketches, and drama.
https://www.facebook.com/gingerwolves
Samuel L Robertson
Monologue: ‘Black Swan Sunrise’
Samuel L Robertson is a writer and journalist. His work has taken him across the globe. He’s made documentaries, contributed to best-selling books, and written screenplays and television programmes. He lives in St Leonards-on-Sea, England, where he tries to write every day.
Twitter: @SamRob1
Lucy Flannery
Monologue: ‘Today’
Lucy has written for radio and TV.
Paul Stimpson
Monologue: ‘The Right to a View’
For the last 40 years, Paul has have worked as a town planner which involves writing a lot of boring technical reports. In order to escape from this day job, Paul spends time writing plays and has had around a dozen of them performed by local groups.
Jodi Gray
Monologue: ‘Torched’
Jodi Gray is a multi-award-winning playwright and screenwriter. She has worked extensively in drama schools, including the Royal Central School of Drama and Oxford School of Drama, and with theatre companies Outbox Theatre, Vanner Collective and Living Record. She is published by Nick Hern Books. She was shortlisted for the 2019 Stewart Parker Trust Award for PEEP. Plays include THROWN (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018, Winner of the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence; VAULT Festival 2019; Brighton Fringe 2019; published by Nick Hern Books); BIG BAD (VAULT Festival 2018, Winner of the Origins Award for Outstanding New Work, and London Horror Festival 2018); PEEP (Bewley’s Theatre Café, Dublin, February 2018; shortlisted for the Stewart Parker Trust Award and published by Nick Hern Books); and AFFECTION, HOOKUP, YOU COULD MOVE, REACH OUT AND TOUCH ME, THE FRONT ROOM and SSA (all Outbox Theatre Company, in London and on tour). She has also written the short films BROKEN MEATS (dir. Sam Phillips); and SIDETRACKED (dir. Freddie Hall; nominated for Best Writer at Underwire Festival 2015).
Twitter: @jodigrayesq
Instagram: @jodigrayesq
Matt Fox
Monologue: ‘Listen’
Matt has written several plays which have been performed in various parts of the UK, the US and Australia. He is a single father of two children and works in HR to pay the bills. Matt hopes one day to be able to write full time.
Christine Foster
Monologue: ‘Vespers’
Christine’s theatre work has been seen in the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Mexico, Korea and the US. She co-founded the award winning Cliffhanger Productions in Toronto while writing many scripts for CBS, CTV, CBC, History and Family Channel including acting as Story Editor on several series. In San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, she was the first artistic director of the Diez Minutos Festival where she also directed mainstage productions. She has had several plays produced in Brighton, UK and her full length FOUR THIEVES VINEGAR (about the Black Death) ran three weeks in London in 2017 to four star reviews, and sold out at the Brighton Fringe in 2019. She is the winner of the Marion Thauer Brown New Audio Script Competition for 2018, her novella LEMON GOLF (MUST TRY HARDER) was first runner up in The Heritage Future Great Story Contest in California in 2019 and her monologue COUSINS won the Soundworks Short Story Contest 2020. Her work is currently being performed on radio and online platforms in both North America and the UK. Published plays can be found on Smith Scripts and Stage Scripts UK.
https://newplayexchange.org/users/5884/christine-foster
Trevor John Smith
Monologue: ‘Down by dry dock: Sunday’
Trevor won 2nd prize at Radio Times Drama Awards 1990 (“Simon” Radio Play which was broadcast BBC Radio 4 and World Service). After being diverted down another career path, Trevor has been writing again. His short, VALLEY VIEW, had a rehearsed reading with Philip Ayckbourn (producer/director) at Lewes Little Theatre July 2017. Trevor was a finalist (one of six) in the competition with “Not to Dream” 20 min short by Quantum Frolic Theatre Co – venue for rehearsed reading in 2019.
Tom Coash
Monologue: ‘Thin Air’
Tom Coash is an American playwright, director, and teacher. He has also spent three years in Bermuda and four years teaching playwriting at The American University in Cairo, Egypt. Coash has won numerous playwriting awards including the American Theatre Critics Association’s “M. Elizabeth Osborn Award”, the Clauder Competition for New England Playwrights, an Edgerton Foundation National New Play Award, the Hammerstein Award, The Kennedy Center’s Lorraine Hansberry Award, and a Jerome Playwriting Fellowship. His plays have been produced around the world including such theatres as: the Park Theatre (London), Portland Stage, Barrington Stage, New Jersey Rep, the InterAct Theatre, Abingdon Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, West Coast Ensemble, and many more. His short play, THIN AIR, has recently been adapted as a short musical. Coash currently teaches scriptwriting for the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Creative Writing MFA Low-Residency Program.
https://newplayexchange.org/users/156/tom-coash
The actors
Anne Rutter
Performs: ‘The right to a view’
Spotlight: www.spotlight.com/0690-8975-6980
https://www.actorsandwriters.london/anne.rutter/index.php
Avita Jay
Performs: ‘Soul Sisters’
Spotlight: www.spotlight.com/6577-9083-9007
Twitter: @AvitaJay
Instagram: @avitajay
Avril Gaynor
Performs: ‘Slow Dating’
Spotlight: www.spotlight.com/3012-8973-8397
https://www.actorsandwriters.london/avril.gaynor/index.php
Caitlin Ince
Performs: ‘Today’
Twitter: @caitlinince
Clive Moore
Performs: ‘George’, ‘The unusual conversation’
www.spotlight.com/1892-4503-5900
Edward Kaye
Performs: ‘Vous’
www.spotlight.com/4136-7838-8773
Twitter: @edkaye_23
Hannah Genesius
Performs: ‘Penguins, Coco-pops and the end of the world’, ‘Vespers’, ‘Confinement’, ‘Sex with your ex’
Twitter: @hgenesius
Jamie McKie
Performs: ‘The Lost Boy’, ‘How long have I known?’
Jessica Hayles
Performs: ‘Torched’
Facebook: @jess.hayles.1
Twitter: @jesshayles
Josephine Rattigan
Performs: ‘The Art of Suffering’
Twitter: @jlrattigan
Maggie Saunders
Performs: ‘I clean for England’
Instagram: @maggiesaunders89
Twitter: @saundersmaggie
www.spotlight.com/2050-9081-8959
Maggie Wheeler
Performs: ‘Beauty Parlor’
Margaret Ashley
Performs: ‘Lost and Found’
www.spotlight.com/1890-1203-9936
Twitter: @1margaretashley
Instagram: @margaretashleyvox
Matt Gibbs
Performs: ‘Black Swan Sunrise’, ‘Listen’
www.spotlight.com/0297-1278-1233
Twitter: @gattmibbs
Rupert Degas
Performs: ‘Little Moscow’, ‘First Love’
Instagram: @rupert_degas
Sioned Jones
Performs: ‘Crying Room’, ‘Down by Dry Dock: Sunday’
Siri Steinmo
Performs: ‘Monologue’, ‘Thin Air’
Instagram: @siristeinmo
Twitter: @siri_steinmo
Stephen Greif
Performs: ‘You Labor’
www.yaketyyak.co.uk/artists/stephen-greif
Tamar Karabetyan
Performs: ‘Just like giving blood’
Tamla Kari
Performs: ‘Flight’
www.spotlight.com/0616-6750-1754
Twitter: @TamlaKari
Instagram: @tamla88
The directors
Caitlin Ince
Caitlin Ince is an experienced theatre professional based in London, who trained at The Oxford School of Drama and The University of Warwick, and specialises in devising, directing and new writing. She has previously worked with companies including Curious Directive, FellSwoop Theatre, The Molino Group, and Creation Theatre, collaborating on original productions with organisations such as Watford Palace Theatre, The Bike Shed Theatre Exeter, The Tobacco Factory, The Norwich Playhouse and The Hope Theatre. In 2015, Caitlin’s full-length verbatim play ‘Broken Windows’ debuted to critical acclaim at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, leading to a sold out run at Camden Peoples Theatre, and a nomination for the Musical Theatre Network Development Award.
Twitter: @caitlinince
Hannah Genesius
Hannah trained as an actor at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, she won the Carleton Hobbs BBC bursary award upon graduating and has worked in audio drama fairly consistently since. She can currently be heard in U.S.A. on BBC Radio 4 (and BBC Sounds) playing Eveline Hutchins. Her other voice credits as an actor include; A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE ARCHERS, HOMEFRONT and multiple other radio dramas all for BBC Radio 4. GALLIFREY: ENEMY LINES, DOCTOR WHO: THE GENESIS CHAMBER and SURVIVORS: THE TRAPPING PIT all for Big Finish Productions. She has also worked on stage in London and touring and is a keen musician. She is thrilled to have been asked to direct for LOST SOULS MONOLOGUES, and is looking forward to hearing it all come together. Maybe one day she’ll even meet the actors in person!
Twitter: @hgenesius
Liam Shea
Liam is a director, writer and designer.
Scott Le Crass
Scott comes from Birmingham, trained as an actor at Arts Ed and was a director on the Birmingham Rep’s first Foundry Programme. He is an Associate Director for Pleasure Dome Theatre Company and has previously directed for them Lear, Lorna Doone, The Importance of Being Earnest, Macbeth. Other credits include: Director- Rose starring Maureen Lipman (Hope Mill Theatre), Country Music (Omnibus Theatre), Elmer (UK/International Tour/Sell A Door), Sid (Arts Theatre/UK Tour), The Witches (Watford Palace), Alice in Wonderland (Old, Rep, Birmingham), Kicked in the Sh**ter (Theatre in The Mill, Bradford), The Killing of Sister George (London Theatre Workshop), Open House (Birmingham Rep/tour). Associate Director – Godspell, 50th Anniversary concert (Hope Mill Theatre), The Seven Ages of Patience (Kiln Theatre). Assistant Director: Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice (Silvano Toti Globe), The King’s Speech (Chichester/Birmingham Rep/UK Tour), A Christmas Carol (Birmingham Rep), Von Ribbentrop's Watch (Oxford Playhouse/Watford Palace), Kurt and Sid (Trafalgar
Studios). Scott received a Best Director Offie and Broadway World Nomination for his productions of Sid and a Best Director Offie Nomination for Kicked in the Sh**ter.
Twitter: @le_crass
Jonathan Cripps
Jonathan is a writer, composer and erstwhile director whose work typically sounds far, far more exciting than it really is. After training as an actor at Drama Centre London, Jon went on to act and direct in London, on national tours and overseas, before becoming a researcher in theatre and performance at the University of Plymouth. He has also done writing commercial theatre for an international production company, taking shows to Beirut and Kuwait. Jonathan is also an editor and musician.