Birch, Brad: - Brad Birch's theatre work includes Black Mountain for Paines Plough, Theatr Clwyd and the Orange Tree; This Must be the Place for Poleroid at the VAULT Festival; The Brink at the Orange Tree; The Endless Ocean at the RWCMD; Tender Bolus at the Royal Exchange and Schauspielhaus, Hamburg; Gardening for the Unfulfilled and Alienated for Undeb at the Edinburgh Festival; Soap Opera, Where the Shot Rabbits Lay and Permafrost at the Royal Court; Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against a Brick Wall at Soho Theatre; Light Arrested Between the Curtain and the Glass at Sherman Cymru. He won the Pick of the Year Award at the VAULT festival in 2017, the Harold Pinter Commission in 2016 and the Fringe First Award in 2013. He is currently under commission at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal Court. Black Mountain is on tour in 2017/18.

Birch, Alice: - Alice Birch is a British playwright and screenwriter. Her previous work includes Peckham: The Soap Opera and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (RSC). Other credits include: We Want You To Watch (National), The Lone Pine Club (Pentabus), Little Light (Orange Tree), Little on the Inside (Almeida / Clean Break), Salt (Comedie de Valence), Many Moons (Theatre 503), Flying the Nest (BBC Radio 4) and Lady Macbeth (BBC Films / BFI / Creative England). Alice was the co-winner of the 2014 George Devine Award for Revolt. She said. Revolt Again and winner of the Arts Foundation Award for Playwriting 2014.

Bush, Chris: - Chris Bush is a playwright, lyricist and theatre-maker, and was the 2013 Pearson Playwright-in-Residence for Sheffield Theatres. Past work includes A DECLARATION FROM THE PEOPLE (National Theatre); A DREAM, THE SHEFFIELD MYSTERIES, DICKENSIAN, GOODWILL TO ALL MEN, WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER and 20 TINY PLAYS ABOUT SHEFFIELD (all Sheffield Theatres); LARKSONG (New Vic, Stoke-on-Trent); CARDS ON THE TABLE (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); TONY! THE BLAIR MUSICAL (York Theatre Royal/Tour); SLEIGHT & HAND (Summerhall, Edinburgh. Also live-screened into Odeon cinemas and by BBC Arts); POKING THE BEAR (Theatre503); THE BUREAU OF LOST THINGS (Theatre503/Rose Bruford); ODD (Perfect Pitch/Royal & Derngate Northampton: concert performance) and WOLF (National Theatre Studio: reading). Chris has won the National Young Playwrights' Festival, a Brit Writers' Award, the Perfect Pitch Award and the Sunday Times Edinburgh Competition.

Odimba, Chinonyerem: -

Chinonyerem Odimba's 30 minute play AMONGST THE REEDS, commissioned by Clean Break, opened at The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh Festival 2016, followed by a run at The Yard Theatre, London in September 2016.
Her play WILD IS DE WIND was shortlisted for the 2015 Bruntwood Prize, and she was a member of NW6, an invited group of writers working on a seed commission with the Tricycle Theatre over the course of a year. Chino is also currently Writer on Attachment at Clean Break Theatre, London where she wrote a 10 minute monologue as part of a series of monologues with Laura Lomas, Deborah Bruce, Theresa Ikoko and Ursula Rani Sarma. JOANNE was produced for the Latitude Festival and Soho Theatre, performed by Tanya Moodie.
She was invited by the Royal Court to take part in a writers group culminating in a Live Lunch performance, for which she wrote THROUGH WATER AND STARS, directed by Lucy Morrison.
Chino's previous work includes THE BIRD WOMAN OF LEWISHAM, a short play produced as part of the Story Project 2015 and performed at the Arcola Theatre, and HIS NAME IS ISHMAEL, a play commissioned when she was a writer on attachment at the Bristol Old Vic.

Chappell, In-Sook: - In-Sook is a Korean-born, London-based playwright and filmmaker. She studied dance in New York at Alvin Ailey before moving into acting. Her first play won the Verity Bargate Award. In-Sook's most recent production P'YONGYANG was shortlisted for the Bruntwood Prize and enjoyed a sell-out run and critical acclaim at the Finborough Theatre, Winter 2016.

Doyle, Fiona: - Fiona Doyle completed the John Burgess Playwriting Course in London, 2012. That same year, she won a scholarship to study dramatic writing as part of the International Summer School at the Universität der Künste, Berlin. In 2014, COOLATULLY won the Papatango New Writing Prize and was produced at the Finborough Theatre and published by Nick Hern Books. DELUGE won the 2014 Eamon Keane Full-Length Play Award, was subsequently produced at Hampstead Downstairs in 2015 and also published by Nick Hern Books. In 2015 Fiona received a 7 week attachment at the National Theatre Studio and was the recipient of the inaugural 2015/16 Phelim Donlon Playwright's Bursary and Residency Award from the Irish Theatre Institute in association with the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. In February 2016, she wrote the short play MS Y which was part of the Young Vic's '5 Plays' project. COOLATULLY received its American premiere in March 2017; it was produced by Solas Nua at Flashpoint, Mead Theatre Lab in Washington D.C. and the production received a Helen Hayes Awards recommendation. Fiona is also the recipient of a Peggy Ramsay Foundation grant, a Cill Rialaig Artist residency and is currently under commission to Hampstead Theatre and National Theatre Connections 2018.

Powell, Phoebe Éclair: - Phoebe Eclair-Powell is a writer from South East London. In 2015 Phoebe's debut play WINK at Theatre 503 received rave reviews and four Off West End Nominations including 'Most Promising New Playwright'. Her latest play, Fury, was runner up for the Verity Bargate Award 2015, and subsequently won the Soho Young Writer's Award and had its run extended at Soho theatre due to popular demand, it also received an Offie nomination for 'Best New Play'.

Mitchell, Natalie: -

Natalie Mitchell writes for television, theatre and radio. She is currently developing original TV projects with Red Planet Pictures and The Forge and has written a new play for next year's Connections season at the National Theatre. She is a regular writer on EASTENDERS.
In 2007, her first play CAN'T STAND ME NOW was presented as part of the Royal Court Young Writer's Festival, which led to her representing England at the World Interplay Young Writer's Festival. In 2010 Natalie was one of nine writers' on the Royal Court's 'Supergroup', and in 2012 she was on the final BBC Writer Academy, leading to her writing across Continuing Drama in 2013. She continues to write regularly for EASTENDERS and contributes to storylines.
Natalie's radio plays include PROUD for Radio 3's the Wire and afternoon play THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD for radio 4. She is currently under commission to radio 4. Her play for young audiences CRAWLING IN THE DARK was performed at the Almeida Theatre in 2011, and more recently her play for teenagers, GERM FREE ADOLESCENT toured community venues in Kent. Her theatre work has also been presented at the Royal Court, Soho, Hampstead and Finborough Theatres.

Norris, Barney: -

Critics Circle Award 2014 for Most Promising Playwright. Shortlisted for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Writers Guild of Great Britain 2014 award for Best Play and the Best New Play Award at the Off West End Theatre Awards 2014.

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