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Audrey Sheffield Audrey is an award-winning UK and international freelance director, specialising in new writing, and committed to making work that is rigorous, imaginatively ambitious, and emotionally truthful. She is a recipient of an MGCfutures bursary 2020, was selected as an Old Vic 12 Director 2019, nominated for the Arts Foundation Award 2018 and Finalist Best Director for the Off-West End Awards 2017/2018 (The Dark Room, Theatre503).

As director, theatre includes: Stranger Things: The First Shadow - Associate Director (West End); Jews. In Their Own Words (Royal Court); Neighbourhood Voices, Tapestry (Young Vic); Perspective (National Theatre); The Dybbuk (Almeida); We Too Are Giants (Kiln); Sleepwalking (Hampstead); The Effect, Apologia (English Theatre Frankfurt); Skin and Blister (Old Vic 12); The Dark Room (Theatre503); The Scar Test (Arcola); Almost Near (Finborough); Little Flower of East Orange (National Theatre Studio).

As associate / assistant director, theatre includes: Pinter at the Pinter, Don Quixote, Don Juan in Soho, Dead Funny, Hand to God, One Man, Two Guvnors (West End); Electra (Old Vic); Rapture, Blister, Burn (Hampstead); Troilus and Cressida (with The Wooster Group), Antony and Cleopatra (RSC); The Effect (National Theatre); Blurred Lines (National Theatre Studio).

Audrey has extensive experience working with communities and young people, with actors in training at drama schools, and has also recently enjoyed diversifying to work as a Voice and Performance Director on numerous acclaimed Video Games. For more information and images of work, please see www.audreysheffield.co.uk

Simon Longman is a playwright from the West Midlands. He is the recipient of the 49th George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright and has previously won the Channel 4 Playwrights’ Scheme.

His work has been translated and produced internationally.He is an Associate Artist at Kestrel Theatre Company, working in prisons around the UK.He also teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University.

The text contains mild references to animal death, diet culture, parental death, suicide and blood. Multiple uses of explicit language. This performance contains the use of haze.

First commissioned and performed by Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.