GLYN MAXWELL
Glyn Maxwell is from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.  His poetry has won numerous awards.  Many of his plays have been staged, including Broken Journey (Hen & Chickens, Time Out Critics Choice, 1999), Anyroad (Bridewell, 2000), The Last Valentine (Almedia, 2000), The Lifeblood (British Theatre Guide’s Play of the Fringe 2004), and The Forever Waltz (New York, 2005).  He has written libretti (including The Birds, staged in 2005 with I Fagiolini) travelogue and fiction.  He lives in New York, where he teaches at NYU and serves as Poetry Editor of The New Republic.

GUY RETALLACK
Recent productions include; National Hero (Pleasance and No.1 Tour), Faster for Filter Theatre (Brits Of Broadway Festival, New York), Tommy (No.1 Tour for Bill Kenwright Limited) and Proving Mr Jennings (James Walker, Kings X Playwriting Award Winner).  Other productions include: The Secret Rapture (Lyric Theatre) and The Marquise (No.1 Tour), both for BK Productions, Double Cross (Windsor), Faster (Hammersmith and tour), This Story of Yours and More Lies About Jerzy (New End), Hard Times (Watermill), Things We Do For Love (Chester), Emma, (Tricycle and Gilded Balloon), Richard III (Wild Thyme: Pleasance & tour), The Master and Margarita (BAC).

DORA SCHWEITZER
Trained by Motley.  Designs include:  Emma (Gilded Balloon, Watford Palace, Tricycle), Rhinoceros (Riverside Studios), Hamlet, Midsummer Nights Dream, The Comedy of Errors (Wild Thyme at the Globe, Neuss, Germany), Marc Salem – Mind Games (New Ambassadors), Wild Hops (Mermaid), The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband (Not the National Theatre), and numerous other productions for touring company Eastern Angles, in various drama schools, and in the Fringe.