Alecky Blythe founded Recorded Delivery in 2003. The company's first production, Come Out Eli, premiered at the Arcola Theatre, London, and later transferred to the BAC (winner of the Time Out Award for Best Performance on the Fringe). Recorded Delivery went on to make All the Right People Come Here (New Wimbledon Theatre). Alecky has since created Strawberry Fields (The Courtyard, Hereford); Cruising (Bush Theatre, London); The Girlfriend Experience (Royal Court Theatre and Young Vic, London); I Only Came Here for Six Months (KVS and Les Halles, Brussels); and Do We Look Like Refugees?!, a joint project for the National Theatre Studio and the Rustaveli Theatre, Georgia (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2010; winner of Fringe First Award). Alecky was one of the writers on Decade (Headlong) and co-wrote Friday Night Sex with Michael Wynne (Royal Court). London Road, with music composed by Adam Cork, premiered at the Cottesloe auditorium of the National Theatre in 2011 (winner of Best Musical, Critics’ Circle Awards) and transferred to the Olivier auditorium in 2012. Little Revolution premiered at the Almeida Theatre in 2014.

For television she has written A Man in a Box (IWC and Channel 4); The Riots: In Their Own Words (BBC2).

For film she has adapted London Road into a feature (BBC Film, BFI, National Theatre).

Anne Bogart founded the SITI Company with Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. Her shows are seven-times Obie winners (Off-Broadway Tonies).

Eric Bogosian is an American actor and playwright, known for his plays Talk Radio and subUrbia as well as numerous one-man shows.

Liam Borrett trained at the Drama Centre, London. His work as a writer/director includes Dancing (Etcetera Theatre); Hannah (Miniaturist Festival, Arcola Theatre); and This is Living (Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014). As a director his work includes Boileroom (Miniaturist Festival, Arcola Theatre).

Laurence Boswell is one of the UK’s leading theatre directors. As Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he directed the Spanish Golden Age Season. He is currently Artistic Director of the Ustinov Studio at Bath Theatre Royal. His adaptation of Beauty and the Beast won The Barclay Theatre Award Best Play for Children and Young People in 1997.

Andrew Bovell is a critically acclaimed Australian playwright and screenwriter.

His theatre credits include Things I Know To Be True (Frantic Assembly and the State Theatre Company of South Australia, 2016); The Secret River (Sydney Theatre Company, 2013 Sydney Festival and 2016 national tour, winner of six Helpmann Awards including Best Play, as well as Best New Work Sydney Theatre Awards); When the Rain Stops Falling (Brink Production/State Theatre Company, 2008 Adelaide Festival, Almeida Theatre, Lincoln Centre NYC, winner of five Lucille Lortell Awards). Earlier works include Speaking in Tongues and Holy Day.

Film credits include Strictly Ballroom, A Most Wanted Man, Edge of Darkness, Blessed, Lantana, and Head On.

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