Michael Sharp's work has been seen on
the London Fringe, the Edinburgh Festival and in Paris. He has a
number of radio plays to his credit, both for the BBC and overseas. A
VOID IN TIME is the author's second play to receive a rehearsed reading in the
Play Festival, the first being STAR PASSING in 2013.
John Hill was shortlisted for a Channel 4 comedy-drama award and his 2014 Edinburgh Fringe debut got a 5-star review. His plays have been performed at numerous festivals and theatres, and he wrote two episodes of a broadcast TV sitcom called Marshal’s Law. His latest project is a film commission. www.johnihill.co.uk
Tom Jensen mostly writes absurdist comedies but occasionally lapses into naturalistic drama. In 2014 he took part in the Royal Court writers’ programme, during which he wrote Outback while working on Headhog, a 60-minute play about a man with a hedgehog in his brain. Other recent productions include Merger Talks in the Pint-Sized Plays competition; Fling Story in the Waterford Festival of New Plays; Clean Break in the Short & Sweet festival, Sydney; Baggage in the Complete One-Act Festival, New York; and A Life-Changing Experience in the Short Cuts festival, London. You can find out more about Tom’s work at www.tomjensen.co.uk and on Twitter @absurdistworld.
Robb Stow is a local (Southend based) writer and actor, and has performed throughout the UK professionally, in amateur productions and in independent films. Whilst this is the first time his original work has been performed on stage, he has written numerous comedies and dramas. He is contactable via email [email protected]
Vivienne Allen is a full member of the Writers' Guild and writes for radio, stage and screen. She's currently working on a film script of D H Lawrence's The Fox and her latest commission for Radio 4 is a five-part dramatisation for Woman's Hour of Elizabeth von Arnim's The Enchanted April. ([email protected])
David Weir's plays have been produced at Greenwich Theatre, London, the Arundel and Windsor Festivals, and on the Isle of Wight. He has been shortlisted for the Kenneth Branagh award for new writing and the King's Cross Prize, and longlisted for the Bruntwood. He can be contacted at [email protected].
Belona Greenwood has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia where she won the Theatre Prize. She is a director of Chalk Circle Theatre Company and her play The Shadow of Names was part of 2013’s European Contemporary Drama Review at the UEA. Alice's Adventure featured as part of Tribunal 12, Europe in the Dock at 2012's Norfolk and Norwich Festival. She is founder and co-organiser of Words and Women which supports and celebrates women writers in the East of England.
John Doble’s plays include A Serious Person (Best Play and Belper Prize, UK); Coffee House, Greenwich Village (Neil LaBute New Play Festival, St. Louis); Tatyana and the Cable Man (Best Play, Midtown Short Play Festival, NYC); Reunion Run; and To Protect the Poets. They’ve been performed in the NYC International Fringe Festival, as well as in Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and in the UK. A collection of his short fiction, Lefty and Other Stories (Clemson University, 2004), was nominated for the Southern Book Award. He lives in New York City.
Jonathan Skinner is a playwright and screenwriter whose work has appeared regularly on the London fringe, throughout the UK, and internationally as far and wide as Ireland, Dubai and Sydney. In 2014 he won the Paul Darby Prize for Dramatists, the Sterts One Act Play Competition, and was a winner of the Sandalle international Playwriting Competition. He was also shortlisted for the 2014 International Rubery Book Award.
Clare Girvan lives in a pretty Devon estuary town with her husband and three cats. She has won prizes and commendations in many short story competitions, but is now concentrating chiefly on writing plays, many of which have been performed in various locations around the country. Website - www.claregirvan.co.uk
John Hill was shortlisted for a Channel 4 comedy-drama award and his 2014 Edinburgh Fringe debut got a 5-star review. His plays have been performed at numerous festivals and theatres, and he wrote two episodes of a broadcast TV sitcom called Marshal’s Law. His latest project is a film commission. www.johnihill.co.uk
Tom Jensen mostly writes absurdist comedies but occasionally lapses into naturalistic drama. In 2014 he took part in the Royal Court writers’ programme, during which he wrote Outback while working on Headhog, a 60-minute play about a man with a hedgehog in his brain. Other recent productions include Merger Talks in the Pint-Sized Plays competition; Fling Story in the Waterford Festival of New Plays; Clean Break in the Short & Sweet festival, Sydney; Baggage in the Complete One-Act Festival, New York; and A Life-Changing Experience in the Short Cuts festival, London. You can find out more about Tom’s work at www.tomjensen.co.uk and on Twitter @absurdistworld.
Robb Stow is a local (Southend based) writer and actor, and has performed throughout the UK professionally, in amateur productions and in independent films. Whilst this is the first time his original work has been performed on stage, he has written numerous comedies and dramas. He is contactable via email [email protected]
Vivienne Allen is a full member of the Writers' Guild and writes for radio, stage and screen. She's currently working on a film script of D H Lawrence's The Fox and her latest commission for Radio 4 is a five-part dramatisation for Woman's Hour of Elizabeth von Arnim's The Enchanted April. ([email protected])
David Weir's plays have been produced at Greenwich Theatre, London, the Arundel and Windsor Festivals, and on the Isle of Wight. He has been shortlisted for the Kenneth Branagh award for new writing and the King's Cross Prize, and longlisted for the Bruntwood. He can be contacted at [email protected].
Belona Greenwood has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia where she won the Theatre Prize. She is a director of Chalk Circle Theatre Company and her play The Shadow of Names was part of 2013’s European Contemporary Drama Review at the UEA. Alice's Adventure featured as part of Tribunal 12, Europe in the Dock at 2012's Norfolk and Norwich Festival. She is founder and co-organiser of Words and Women which supports and celebrates women writers in the East of England.
John Doble’s plays include A Serious Person (Best Play and Belper Prize, UK); Coffee House, Greenwich Village (Neil LaBute New Play Festival, St. Louis); Tatyana and the Cable Man (Best Play, Midtown Short Play Festival, NYC); Reunion Run; and To Protect the Poets. They’ve been performed in the NYC International Fringe Festival, as well as in Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and in the UK. A collection of his short fiction, Lefty and Other Stories (Clemson University, 2004), was nominated for the Southern Book Award. He lives in New York City.
Jonathan Skinner is a playwright and screenwriter whose work has appeared regularly on the London fringe, throughout the UK, and internationally as far and wide as Ireland, Dubai and Sydney. In 2014 he won the Paul Darby Prize for Dramatists, the Sterts One Act Play Competition, and was a winner of the Sandalle international Playwriting Competition. He was also shortlisted for the 2014 International Rubery Book Award.
Clare Girvan lives in a pretty Devon estuary town with her husband and three cats. She has won prizes and commendations in many short story competitions, but is now concentrating chiefly on writing plays, many of which have been performed in various locations around the country. Website - www.claregirvan.co.uk