Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936) is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist and college professor. He is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation.
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm is a playwright and screenwriter.
Her plays include: Mum (Theatre Royal, Plymouth and Soho Theatre, London, 2021); Emilia (Shakespeare's Globe, London, 2018; West End, 2019); The Wasp (Hampstead Theatre & Trafalgar Studios, 2015); and Belongings (Hampstead Theatre & Trafalgar Studios, 2011; shortlisted for the Charles Wintour Most Promising Playwright Award).
In 2013 she was chosen as a member of the Soho Six (Soho Theatre). She has co-written several acclaimed immersive site-specific plays with Katie Lyons, produced by Look Left Look Right, including You Once Said Yes, Above and Beyond and Once Upon a Christmas. She was part of the writing team for four of the Lyric Hammersmith's pantomimes from 2009-2012 and wrote (solo) the Bolton Octagon's Christmas plays for 2013 and 2014. She has written two large community plays for the Old Vic New Voices: Platform and Epidemic.
Jill Lloyd-Jones
Jill Lloyd-Jones is a UK-based freelance consultant who was a drama teacher and instructional leader for many years at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). She has worked collaboratively with all levels of educators to support innovation in the teaching of drama, theatre and movement.
Martha Loader
Martha Loader is a writer, producer and actor. Her play Bindweed (Mercury Originals/HighTide/New Wolsey/Royal Exchange Theatre, 2024) won the Judges' Award at the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2022.
Other plays include: Splinter (Play Nicely Theatre, Eastern Angles); Cuckoo (INK Festival, schools tour); and Phenomenon (Hotbed Festival, Cambridge Junction).
She won the Award for Promising Young Playwright at INK Festival 2019. She is an alumnus of the Mercury Playwrights, Soho Writers' Lab and HighTide Writers programmes.
Liz Lochhead
Liz Lochhead is a poet, playwright, performer and broadcaster.
Her original stage plays include Thon Man Molière, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Blood and Ice, Good Things and Perfect Days. Her many stage adaptations include Dracula, Molière’s Tartuffe, Miseryguts (based on Le Misanthrope) and Educating Agnes (based on L’École des Femmes); as well as versions of Medea by Euripides (for which she won the Scottish Book of the Year Award in 2001), and Thebans (adapted mainly from Sophocles' Oedipus and Antigone).
Kate Lock
Kate Lock is an actress and writer. She is the author of Russian Dolls (King's Head, London, 2016; winner of the Adrian Pagan Award). Her other plays include Job for Life (Writers’ Guild Award), Sleeping Dogs and Tuesday’s Child (co-written with Terry Johnson, originally a BBC TV drama, later adapted for the stage and premiered at Theatre Royal Stratford East). She has also performed stand-up comedy and written various sketches and monologues.