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PRESS RELEASE – Monday 9 July

IMAGES CAN BE DOWLOADED HERE @NYTofGB / Facebook / Instagram NATIONAL YOUTH ANNOUNCES FULL 2018 SEASON

The 2018 NYT REP Company. Credit Helen Maybanks

• NYT TODAY ANNOUNCES ITS SUMMER/AUTUMN 2018 SEASON WHICH INCLUDES WORK IN , ACROSS THE UK AND INTERNATIONALLY

• A NEW AUDITION ACCESS FUND, SUPPORTED BY NYT ALUMNUS AND PATRON HUGH BONNEVILLE, WILL PROVIDE FREE SUPPORT FOR SCHOOLS AND YOUTH GROUPS WHICH HAVE LOST DRAMA PROVISION

• THE NYT REP COMPANY RETURNS FOR A SIXTH YEAR THIS AUTUMN WITH THE WORLD PREMIERE OF VICTORIA’S KNICKERS DIRECTED BY NED BENNETT AND PRODUCTIONS OF EVAN PLACEY’S CONSENSUAL AND A GENDER FLUID MACBETH AT THE AND RESPECTIVELY

• SUMMER PROGRAMME AT THE SEES FACEBOOK SCANDAL EXPLORED IN NEW PLAY F-OFF, DIRECTED BY PAUL ROSEBY, AND PREMIERE OF SOPHIE ELLERBY’S FUNCTION

• CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ADAPTATION OF MOHSIN HAMID’S MAN BOOKER SHORTLISTED NOVEL THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST DIRECTED BY PRASANNA PUWANARAJAH WILL RUN AT EDINBURGH FESTIVAL IN AUGUST AFTER BRADFORD LITERATURE FESTIVAL RUN

• SOCIAL INCLUSION COURSE ‘PLAYING UP’ TO STAGE TORTOISE BY MARK WEINMAN AT THE BUNKER THEATRE, DIRECTED BY MATT HARRISON FROM 11-14 JULY

• NEW COMMISSIONS BY PLAYWRIGHTS ASIF KHAN, RACHEL DE- LAHAY, LUKE BARNES AND NESSAH MUTHY TO BE DEVELOPED AND PREMIERED AROUND THE UK INCLUDING IN AND SKELMERSDALE

• KAREN TURNER ANNOUNCED AS NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

• NYT CONTINUES TO EXPAND ITS OUTREACH INTERNATIONALLY IN WORLD PREMIERE OF FLOOD CO-PRODUCED WITH THE YOUTH ARTS FOUNDATION

• LAUNCH OF FIRST DIGITAL STORYTELLING COURSE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS AND NEW ALTERNATE REALITY SHOW IN DEVELOPMENT AT MEGAVERSE XR THEATRE LAB IN SHEFFIELD

• TICKETS GO ON-SALE AT WWW.NYT.ORG.UK FROM 11 JULY

Paul Roseby OBE, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (NYT) has today announced the summer and autumn season of work for 2018.

Founded in 1956, the NYT is the UK’s leading youth arts organisation and is recognised as the leading provider of free alternatives to formal theatre training, with alumni including Dame , , CBE, and Sir Daniel Day Lewis. Paul Roseby has been at the helm of the organisation for the past 15 years and last month received the OBE in recognition of services to drama and young people in the Queen’s 2018 Birthday Honours. Throughout his tenure he has facilitated over 150,000 creative educational opportunities for young people, established financial sustainability for the charity, championed diversity and launched numerous new programmes to successfully support and showcase the best young talent in the arts. As part of the NYT’s ongoing commitment to outreach and access, today also marks the launch of NYT’s new Auditions Access Fund, supported by NYT Alumnus and Patron Hugh Bonneville, which will grant £37,500 over three years to fund free preparation workshops, auditions and bursaries at 30 schools and youth groups around Great Britain which have cut drama provision.

Paul Roseby OBE said:

“As opportunities for young people to engage in drama in schools have sadly decreased, the demand for National Youth Theatre opportunities are up and we’re responding to that by working in more venues around the country than ever before this year. Whilst this puts increased pressure on fundraising, we’re grateful to all those enabling this expansion, not least our generous Patron and alumnus Hugh Bonneville who is supporting a new free auditions initiative around Great Britain. At far reaching venues from King’s Lynn to Edinburgh, we’ll also be developing and staging wide-reaching new content, responding directly to the #MeToo movement, disenfranchised working-class northern voices and the impact of social media on mental health, all wrapped up with a dob of wit, grit and brave storytelling.”

NYT Patron and alumnus Hugh Bonneville said:

"The chance for young people to explore their creative talents is essential for their development. For some, taking part in drama can inspire a career in the creative industries; for all, it provides invaluable skills, building confidence in communication and self-expression. The decline of drama in schools and cuts to local youth theatre groups is a reality, which is why I am establishing the NYT Audition Access Fund. This initiative will give young talent in specially selected areas of the country where access to drama is under threat the chance to audition for and experience the National Youth Theatre for free. Becoming a member of the NYT changed my life and I’m delighted to be playing my part in giving the next generation a similar opportunity."

Auditions Access Fund video with Hugh Bonneville available here

NYT REP SEASON 2018

The 2018 summer and autumn programme includes the sixth annual REP season, featuring the world premiere of Victoria’s Knickers by NYT alumnus Josh Azouz (Buggy Baby) directed by Ned Bennett (An Octoroon, Pomona, Buggy Baby, Yen). The play was developed as part of NYT’s 2017 summer Epic Stages course. Following its 2015 premiere, the REP also stages Writer’s Guild Award winner Evan Placey’s Consensual directed by Pia Furtado exploring teenage testosterone, teacher-pupil relationships and the age of consent in the UK. Victoria’s Knickers and Consensual will this year take place at Soho Theatre (22 October – 10 November) following five successful seasons at the Ambassadors Theatre. The REP Company will then perform a gender fluid version of Macbeth, at the Garrick Theatre abridged by Moira Buffini and directed by Natasha Nixon, running from 20 November to 7 December. In January the REP will present a fourth production, directed by the newly appointed 2018 Bryan Forbes Bursary Director Meghan Doyle (co-Director of The Letter Room and recently Assistant Director for East is East - Northern Stage/Nottingham Playhouse and James and the Giant Peach - Northern Stage).

The NYT REP is inspired by the traditional repertory theatre model and was set up by Paul Roseby in 2012 to provide a much-needed free alternative to expensive formal training whilst embracing the best and diverse young talent to work with leading institutions culminating in three productions in London . This year, 56% of the REP Company are actors of colour and over half come from low-income backgrounds. 25% of actors in this year’s REP Company are Asian, two of whom are from East Asian backgrounds.

REP alumni include Sope Dirisu, recently seen in the ’s The Brothers Size and in the title role of the RSC’s Coriolanus for which he was nominated for the 2018 Ian Charleston Award alongside fellow REP alumna Hannah Morrish, nominated for her portrayal of Lavinia in the RSC’s Titus Andronicus.

Meghan Doyle, 2018 Bryan Forbes Bursary Director, said: “As a working-class female director living in the North East you can imagine that opportunities to work in theatre are scarce, and so it is without exaggeration that this Bursary is life-changing for me.”

SUMMER PROGRAMME

The NYT’s summer and autumn programme follows a successful spring season attracting large young audiences for James Fritz’s The Fall and Dennis Kelly’s DNA at , and The Host by Nessah Muthy at St James’s Church Piccadilly. In London, the 2018 summer programme at the Criterion Theatre sees the Facebook generation put the social network on trial in F-Off a new part-devised/ part-scripted play created by NYT’s Artistic Director Paul Roseby, writer Tatty Hennessy and the NYT Company. A cast of 30 will interrogate the highs and lows of Facebook, acting as judge and jury as they delve into the darkest depths of social media (20-21 August). This will be followed by Function (17 September) a new play about female liberation by up-and-coming writer Sophie Ellerby whose debut play Three was commissioned by NYT at the last year and who has since had new work staged at the 2017 HighTide Festival in Walthamstow. It will be directed by Lynette Linton, who was nominated for Best Director at the Stage Debut Awards in 2017.

This year NYT have launched a new partnership with Diverse City, focussing on its programme to become more accessible to young disabled actors. The programme includes new initiatives, with every pupil at Highshore School, a special educational needs school in Southwark, taking part in a free NYT workshop. NYT Associate Artists will also receive free training from Diverse City on best inclusive practices.

On 10 and 11 August NYT members will take to the National Theatre’s River Stage with the UK's leading professional circus company, Extraordinary Bodies, (a partnership between Diverse City and Cirque Bijou). Thirty NYT members and Associate Artists will perform with 15 young disabled actors from Highshore School as part of the Community Choir of Extraordinary Bodies' ground breaking new show, What Am I Worth?.

In 2019 the programme will see the NYT deliver relaxed accessible auditions with partners including Highshore School in Southwark and Diverse City in Dorset.

PLAYING UP – SOCIAL INCLUSION COURSE

NYT’s social inclusion course ‘Playing Up’ returns in 2018 with the brand new play Tortoise by Mark Weinman, which delves into virtual reality and escapism and the pressures to succeed, at the Bunker Theatre from 11-14 July and directed by 2014 Bryan Forbes Assistant Directors Bursary recipient Matt Harrison (The Fall, Southwark Playhouse). Now in its tenth year, the course, for 19 - 24 year olds not in full time education, employment or training, creates productions and commissions new work. It has an 85% success rate of moving young people into higher education, further training or employment.

Recent alumni of Playing Up include Ria Zmitrowicz, one of the leads in the BBC’s Three Girls which won best mini-series at the 2018 BAFTAs, as well as Seraphina Beh who won Best Emerging Actress Award at the IARA Awards 2017.

NATIONAL PROGRAMME

This year, NYT expands nationwide with a series of new play commissions, free workshops and festival appearances. Having received its world premiere in 2016, followed by a critically acclaimed run at The Yard in 2017, Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist will be performed at Edinburgh Festival (14 – 26 August) following its recent appearance at the Bradford Literature Festival. Adapted by Stephanie Street (Sisters) and directed by Prasanna Puwanarajah (recently seen in Doctor Foster and Patrick Melrose) the production looks at the ironies of prejudice and representation in a post 9/11 New York.

NYT has also commissioned four acclaimed playwrights to develop work which reflects the issues facing different areas of the country. In Bradford, Asif Khan’s new comedy Imaan Imran will follow the story of an actor-turned-Imaan; in Birmingham Rachel De-Lahay will develop The Hole, a new play about taboo; in Skelmersdale, Luke Barnes will write Lost Boys New Town a play about masculinity in post-industrial towns directed by Zoe Lafferty (The Host) and Nessah Muthy has written new play The Cure which explores issues around disability.

It is also announced today that Karen Turner will be NYT’s new Executive Director. Karen was previously Managing Director of ICA, and is Vice Chair at Peckham Platform and a Senior Associate for Counterculture Partnership.

NYT’s community work will also extend around the UK with free regular workshops and auditions in Kings Lyn in Norfolk, supported by the Big Lottery Fund.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME

As one of the pioneering organisations for youth arts globally, NYT will continue to expand its international outreach working with Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation (HKYAF) on the world premiere of Flood by Rory Malarkey, directed by NYT Associate Artist Joel Scott. NYT makes its Hong Kong debut with the dystopian work Flood, a NYT commission staged in a collaborative production with HKYAF and ArtisTree. A bold and visceral telling of what happens when land turns to water, the performance featuring young talent from HKYAF combines elements of contemporary physical theatre, music and voice, Cantonese song, and video imagery.

Performances will run from 20 to 22 September 2018.

PILOT DIGITAL STORYTELLING SCHEME AND MEGAVERSE XR THEATRE LAB IN SHEFFIELD

NYT will also be launching a brand new Digital Storytelling course this summer, in collaboration with Central Saint Martins. The course, led by NYT Digital Associate Ben Carlin, will explore the ways in which virtual reality and digital technologies can be utilised for theatrical storytelling. The one-week London-based programme aims to discover and develop a new generation of digital theatrical talent.

The course is open to 15 to 25 year olds and runs from 27 August – 1 September.

A new production exploring the relationship between artificial and emotional intelligence will be developed with Digital Associate Ben Carlin and director Sean Hollands (DNA) at the MEGAVERSE XR Theatre Lab in Sheffield, as part of a R&D project exploring how to extend the corporeal immediacy and humanity of live performance through burgeoning immersive technology.

FUNDING

As well as the NYT Audition Access Fund supported by Hugh Bonneville, the last 12 months has seen supporters the David Pearlman Charitable Foundation and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation increase their support. New major supporters from the last year include the Pureland Foundation who are supporting NYT’s new writing for three years and the L&Q Foundation, a major new supporter of the Playing Up programme and its tour of Snakes and Ladders by Rebecca Manley to London schools. NYT’s annual fundraising gala dinner Putting On the Blitz Kids in association with EON Productions will take place on Monday 26 November at Café De Paris. NYT’s President Barbara Broccoli will chair the event committee.

ENDS

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LISTINGS

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SOCIAL INCLUSION AT THE BUNKER THEATRE

Tortoise Bunker Theatre 11 – 14 July By Mark Weinman Directed Matt Harrison

LONDON PROGRAMME

F-Off The Criterion Theatre 20 - 21 August Directed by Paul Roseby Written by Tatty Hennessey Part devised with the NYT Company

Function The Criterion Theatre 17 September Written by Sophie Ellerby Directed by Lynette Linton

What Am I Worth In partnership with Diverse City and Extraordinary Bodies National Theatre’s River Stage 10 and 11 August By Hattie Naylor Directed by Billy Alwen and Claire Hodgson

NYT 2018 REP SEASON

Consensual Soho Theatre 22 October – 9 November Press Night: Thursday 25 October By Evan Placey Directed by Pia Furtado Associate Director Anna Niland

Victoria’s Knickers Soho Theatre 26 October – 10 November Press night: Thursday 1 November By Josh Azouz Directed by Ned Bennett Macbeth Garrick Theatre 20 November – 7 November Press performance: 28 November, 2pm By Abridged by Moira Buffini Directed by Natasha Nixon

NATIONAL PROGRAMME

The Reluctant Fundamentalist Edinburgh Festival, Summerhall 14 – 26 August By Mohsin Hamid Adapted by Stephanie Street Directed by Prasanna Puwanarajah

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME

Flood In collaboration with Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation and ArtisTree ArtisTree, Hong Kong 20 - 22 September 2018 By Rory Malarkey Directed by Joel Scott

NOTES TO EDITORS

Biographies

Tortoise

Mark Weinman is an actor and writer. His debut play Dyl premiered at the Old Red Lion in June 2017. On stage he has appeared in So Here We Are (Royal Exchange), Amazing (Soho Theatre), The Emperor Jones (National Theatre), Fastburn (KneeHigh Theatre), The Hairy Ape (Southwark Playhouse) and Sandy 123 (The Roundhouse). His television appearances include Chernobyl, The Gamechangers, Humans, The Children Next Door and Episodes.

Matt Harrison is a director, devisor and theatre maker and was the recipient of the NYT REP Bryan Forbes Directors Bursary in 2014. Direction includes NYT’s The Fall (Southwark Playhouse), Snowbird (Tristan Bates Theatre), Tales from the Bad Years (), Futures (Lost Theatre), Please Wait Patiently (National Theatre Temporary Theatre) and The Pirates of Penzance (Tabard Theatre - Nominated for 'Best Musical Production' & 'Best Ensemble' in the 2013 Awards). Assistant Director credits include Kneehigh award-winning The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk and the upcoming West End production of Lady Windermere's Fan directed by Kathy Burke.

F-Off

Paul Roseby is a broadcaster and CEO and Artistic Director of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. He was recently awarded a OBE for services to young people and drama. In over 5 years as CEO and 15 as Artistic Director he has commissioned over 200 plays. Pioneering innovations at NYT under Paul’s leadership include the NYT REP Company, a free alternative to expensive formal training, a ground-breaking international cultural exchange programme in Saudi Arabia and and performances at the 2008 Olympics Handover Ceremony, the London 2012 Olympics and the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Paul’s directing credits include Story of our Youth - a Diamond Anniversary Gala at the in London’s West End, Generation X for Sky Arts, the London 2012 Welcome Ceremonies, Relish by James Graham, When Romeo Met Juliet for BBC2, Silence by Moira Buffini and Tom Stoppard’s abridgement of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice at the and the National Centre for Performing Arts in Beijing. Paul has also written and presented a number of shows on Radio 4 and presented TVs shows on Channel 5, UKTV and the BBC. He is a member of the Global Futures Advisory Board.

Tatty Hennessy is a director, writer and dramturg. She has been an assistant director at Shakespeare's Globe, including on the Globe to Globe World Tour of Hamlet, and an associate director at the Lyric, Hammersmith. She is an associate director with Merely Theatre, a gender-blind touring Shakespeare rep company. Tatty was dramaturg for Portia, by Lindsay Dukes at Theatre 503, and has also developed In Soft Wings by Hugh Salmon and Trusting Atoms by Rowena Fletcher- Wood. She is currently developing a new one woman play A Hundred Words for Snow.

Function

Sophie Ellerby was a member of the NYT rep company in 2013 starring in Tory Boyz, Prince of and Romeo and Juliet. She has also starred in Channel 4’s This Is England and Saxon Court at Southwark Playhouse. NYT commissioned Sophie’s debut play Three at the Arcola Theatre in 2017. In 2017 she was also chosen for the HighTide First Commissions scheme with her play Birds.

Consensual

Evan Placey won a Writers’ Guild Award for Best Play for Young Audiences for Girls Like That (). His other plays include: Mother of Him (Courtyard Theatre; King’s Cross Award for New Writing, UK; RBC National Playwriting Competition, Canada; and the Samuel French Canadian Play Contest, USA); Pronoun (National Theatre Connections); Banana Boys (); How Was It For You? (Unicorn Theatre); Little Criminals (Polka/ York Theatre Royal/ Plymouth Theatre Royal) and Holloway Jones (Synergy Theatre Project, schools tour & Unicorn Theatre) which won the Brian Way Award 2012 for Best Play for Young People and was nominated for a Writers’ Guild Award. Evan was commissioned to write Consensual for NYT’s 2015 West End rep season, and Jekyll and Hyde for the 2017 West End rep season.

Pia Furtado is a multidisciplinary director whose credits include the Dirty Great Love Story (), winner of the Fringe First Award, Much Ado About Nothing (Mercury Theatre), Say it with Flowers (Sherman Cymru) and Encounters (Hampton Court Palace). Furtado also directs for opera with credits including L’elisir d’amore (Opera Holland Park), Werther (Scottish Opera), Susanna (Iford Arts) and Cautionary Tales (Opera North).

Anna Niland is the Associate Director of National Youth Theatre and oversees their courses, NYT REP Company and flagship social inclusion course Playing Up. She trained with the National Youth Theatre and at Rose Bruford College and worked extensively as an actor on stage, screen and radio. Recent directing credits include: William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice abridged by Tom Stoppard (Ambassadors Theatre); You Can by Luke Barnes (Ambassadors Theatre); Red Riding Hood (Latitude Festival); NYT's 2013 Season Highlights (Buckingham Palace) and Three (Arcola Theatre); SLICK (Sheffield Park Hill Estate), Tits Teeth by Michael Wynne (Soho Theatre).

Victoria’s Knickers

Josh Azouz’s plays Buggy Baby and The Mikvah Project played for extended sold out runs at The Yard Theatre in 2018. Josh has been invited onto writers groups at the Royal Court and The Bush, and is an associate artist for The Yard and MUJU (Muslim-Jewish Theatre Company). Josh has recently been on attachment to the National Theatre.

Ned Bennett is a theatre director. He trained at the Royal Court, National Theatre and LAMDA. His most recent directing credits include An Octoroon (National Theatre and ) and Buggy Baby (Yard Theatre). Ned won the 2015 UK Theatre Award for Best Director for Pomona (Orange Tree Theatre and National Theatre) and Yen (Royal Exchange Manchester and Royal Court). Pomona won four Off-West End awards including Best Director, Best Production, Best New Play and Best Lighting Design.

Macbeth

Moira Buffini has written for theatre, television and film. Her plays include Wonder.Land and Welcome to Thebes for the National Theatre, Handbagged seen in the West End, Dying For It and Marianne Dreams at the , and Loveplay at The Pitt/Barbican. Film credits includes Viceroy’s House and adaptations of Jane Eyre (2011) and Tamara Drewe (2010) and for television she co-wrote the ITV series Harlots.

Natasha Nixon has directed work at the National Theatre, the Young Vic, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and The Tricycle. She was recently the recipient of the Jerwood Assistant Director Award where she assisted on A Streetcar Named Desire at the Young Vic. Other directing credits include A ColOURful World (), The Driver’s Seat (National Theatre), The Aim of the Game (Old Vic), Feel Sad About (Southwark Playhouse) and the award-winning The Scottsboro Boys (Young Vic). Her previous directing for NYT includes staged readings, Age of Consent and Assemblywomen.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Prasanna Puwanarajah trained as a medical doctor at Oxford University and worked in the NHS for 3 and a half years. He is now an actor, director and writer. His acting credits include Critical (Sky1), You, Me and the Apocalypse (Sky1/NBC), Silk (BBC), the award- winning Doctor Foster (BBC) and Patrick Melrose (Sky Atlantic/Showtime) starring Benedict Cumberbatch. In addition, he has worked on various productions for the National Theatre, RSC, and the Young Vic. He recently starred in The National Theatre’s adaptation of Absolute Hell. He will soon be filming for BBC Two's newly commissioned comedy Defending The Guilty. His writing credits include Boy starring which screened at the London 2012 Opening Ceremony and the award-winning The Half Light in 2011. His first stage play Nightwatchman was produced by the National Theatre in 2011 and he is currently developing a TV drama with acclaimed showrunner Jed Mercurio (Line of Duty). He recently directed Come to Me - a musical short for the British Council and will soon be directing Ballywalter – a feature film in development with Northern Ireland Screen, Empire Street Productions and Riverstone Pictures. Most recently he directed the world-premiere stage adaptation of the The Reluctant Fundamentalist for the National Youth Theatre.

Stephanie Street is an actor, writer, Literary Associate of HighTide festival and founder member of The Act for Change Project. Street’s theatre credits include Behind the Beautiful Forevers (National Theatre), Nightwatchman (National Theatre); Rough Cuts, Shades (both ), Sweet Cider (Arcola), Not the End of the World (Bristol Old Vic) Too Close to Home (Lyric Theatre) and The Vagina Monologues (UK Tour). Her TV credits include: Silk, Lewis, Apparitions and Primeval. Her writing credits include an adaptation of Wuthering Heights (NYT REP season 2015) and Sisters, a verbatim piece which re-opened the Sheffield Crucible Studio in March 2010.

New National Commission Writers

Luke Barnes is a writer and director for stage and screen. His plays include No One Will Tell Me When To Start A Revolution (Hampstead Theatre); All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Paines Plough Roundabout/Latitude/ Site Specific, Hull), The Jumper Factory (Young Vic/Birmingham Rep/HMP Wandsworth), The Men in Blue Project (Young Vic/Latitude), Ten Storey Love Song (Hull Truck), Weekend Rockstars (/Hull Truck/UK tour) and Bottleneck (Soho Theatre/UK Tour). His screen highlights include Channel 4’s Minted in Manchester.

Rachel De-Lahay’s most recent play, Circles, which won the Pearson Award to write, and the Catherine Johnson Award from Channel 4, transferred to the Tricycle Theatre in London after a sell out run at Birmingham Rep. Her play Routes opened Vicky Featherstone's first season at the Royal Court in September 2013. For this Rachel won the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2013. It followed her debut, The Westbridge, which was also produced at the Royal Court Theatre and went on to win the 2012 Writers Guild Award for best play as well as coming joint first for the 2011 Alfred Fagon Award. Her afternoon play, Carnival, aired on BBC Radio Four August 2013 and was repeated September 2015. In television, Rachel wrote an episode of Kiri for Channel 4 / The Forge. She is currently writing two episodes of The Feed for Amazon Studios, adapting Mr Loverman for Fable Pictures and reteaming with Jack Thorne on The Eddy for Netflix. Rachel is also developing feature films with Film4 and BFI.

Asif Khan is an award-winning writer, he was recognised in the 'BBC New Talent Hotlist 2017 ' for new writers, won the Channel 4 Playwright’s Scheme which celebrates emerging British playwriting talent and is a member of the Tamasha Playwrights Group. His play Combustion was selected for the Arcola Theatre’s PlayWROUGHT Festival in 2014, other works include The Lady, The Plot and Willkommen. Khan has also appeared on stage, his acting credits include A Passage To India (Royal & Derngate and ), Love, Bombs & Apples (Arcola), The Hypocrite (RSC/HullTruck), Handbagged (Tricycle Theatre and UK Tour), Punjabi Boy (RichMix), Multitudes (Tricycle Theatre) and Twelfth Night (National Theatre) and TV series Spooks.

Nessah Muthy is a writer for TV and theatre. She has worked with a number of theatres and companies including the Royal Court, HighTide, Pursued By A Bear Productions, Cardboard Citizens and Theatre Centre. In 2017, the NYT commissioned her play The Host which premiered as part of their East End Season and returned in 2018 at St James’s Church Piccadilly. It was nominated for the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Play for Young Audiences. For screen, Nessah has written for Holby City, following successful completion of the show’s shadow scheme and has previously written for EastEnders: E20. She was also part of the BBC Drama Writers Scheme for 2016.