The Goodale Brothers
Like many siblings growing up together, writers Robert and David Goodale enjoyed their own, very particular brand of humour. As children they created a range of ridiculous characters that seamlessly evolved into members of their extended family. It was only later that they discovered that P.G. Wodehouse had beaten them to it, in creating an entirely credible world full of even more deliciously bonkers characters.
As adults entering the real world, Robert became an actor, while David pursued a career as a documentary film-maker, but both remained committed to making people laugh. In 2010 they were encouraged to combine their comic talents to adapt P.G. Wodehouse’s The Code of the Woosters for the stage. They finally put pen to paper, and several drafts later, with the blessing of the Wodehouse Estate, Perfect Nonsense was born.
Rupert Goold
Rupert Goold is a leading theatre director. He is the artistic director of the Almeida Theatre, London, and was the artistic director of Headlong Theatre Company, 2005–2013.
Natasha Gordon
Natasha Gordon is an award-winning writer and actor born in London, of Jamaican descent. Her debut play, Nine Night, was premiered at the National Theatre in April 2018 before transferring to Trafalgar Studios in the West End, making her the first black British female playwright to be produced in the West End.
Nine Night won her the Most Promising Playwright Awards at the 2018 Evening Standard Theatre Awards and the 2018 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards.
She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2020 for services to drama.
Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868–1936), primarily known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gorky's works include: The Lower Depths (1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl (1899), The Song of the Stormy Petrel (1901), My Childhood (1913–1914), Mother (1906), Summerfolk (1904) and Children of the Sun (1905).
Kath Gotts
Kath Gotts studied Philosophy and Psychology at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and then went on to study music at Goldsmiths College, London. She has written incidental music and songs for television and theatre, including Bad Girls, The Fugitives, Family Affairs and Waterloo Road on television and Dust, The Bodies and Any Which Way for theatre. She wrote the music and lyrics for Bad Girls: The Musical, with book by Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus, which was produced at West Yorkshire Playhouse and at the Garrick Theatre in the West End. Her urban musical The Realness, with book by Maureen Chadwick and David Watson, premiered at Hackney Downs Studios in 2014, in a co-production with The Big House.
Lucy Gough
Lucy Gough has written extensively for radio, television and stage, and has been shortlisted for the BBC Wales Writer of the Year Award and the John Whiting Award.
Philip Goulding
Philip Goulding is a playwright and screenwriter. His work includes a stage adaptation of Compton Mackenzie's Whisky Galore (Oldham Coliseum / Hull Truck / New Vic Stoke, 2018).
Scott Graham
Scott Graham is Artistic Director of Frantic Assembly, co-founding the company in 1994.
He has provided movement direction for shows at the Royal National Theatre, National Theatre Wales and Singapore Rep. With Steven Hoggett, he has written The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre (published by Routledge) and is Visiting Professor in Theatre Practice at Coventry University.
Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) is best known as the author of The Wind in the Willows, a novel based on stories he told his son Alastair at bedtime. It was first published in 1908, the year he retired from a career at the Bank of England, and won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.