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Caryl Churchill was born on 3 September 1938 in London and grew up in the Lake District and in Montreal. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Downstairs, her first play written while she was still at university, was first staged in 1958 and won an award at the Sunday Times National Union of Students Drama Festival.

Caryl Churchill’s plays include: Owners, Traps, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Cloud 9, Top Girls, Fen, Serious Money, Ice Cream, Mad Forest, The Skriker, Blue Heart, This is a Chair, Far Away, A Number, Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?, Seven Jewish Children, Love & Information, Here We Go and Escaped Alone. Music theatre includes Lives of the Great Poisoners and Hotel, both with Orlando Gough. Caryl has also written for radio and television.

For the theatre, Jaz has directed Gulliver's Travels (Unicorn Theatre), Learning Piece (The Place), Civilisation (Underbelly), Lands (Bush Theatre, UK tour), The Bacchae (East 15 Acting School), Days Like This (BAC, BeFestival), You're So Relevant (Five Plays, Young Vic), If I Were Me (Soho Theatre), Where The White Stops (as co-creator; Underbelly, Bush Theatre, UK tour). Film includes: Emmeline (short) winner of BFI Future Film Award for Best Fiction.

Jaz was a finalist for the RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award 2018, JMK Award in 2016 and Genesis Future Director's Award in 2017 and 2019. She is co-artistic director of Antler, an associate company at Bush Theatre 2017-2018. Last year she was nominated by The National Theatre as part of MITOS21, the European Network of National Theatres, to make a piece at Performance Laboratory Salzburg.