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CREATIVE TEAM
ALAN WARNER
Writer (The Sopranos)

VICKY FEATHERSTONE
Director

Alan has written eight novels: Morvern Callar
(which was made into a film with Samantha
Morton), These Demented Lands, The Sopranos,
The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me
To Heaven, The Stars in the Bright Sky (which
was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize),
and The Deadman’s Pedal, which won the 2013
James Tait Black Prize. His most recent novel,
Their Lips Talk of Mischief is published by Faber
& Faber.

Vicky is currently the Artistic Director of the
Royal Court Theatre in London, and before
that was the founding Artistic Director of the
National Theatre of Scotland (2005—2012).
She was Artistic Director of Paines Plough
from 1997 to 2005. Productions for the Royal
Court include X, Cyprus Avenue, How to Hold
Your Breath, God Bless the Child, Maidan: Voices
from the Uprising, The Mistress Contract, The
Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, Untitled
Matriarch Play and The President Has Come to
See You (Open Court weekly rep). Her work as
director for the National Theatre of Scotland
includes Enquirer (co-director), Appointment
with the Wicker Man, 27, The Wheel, Somersaults,
Wall of Death: A Way of Life (co-director), The
Miracle Man, Empty, Long Gone Lonesome,
Cockroach (with Traverse), 365 (with Edinburgh
International Festival), Mary Stuart (with Citizens
and Edinburgh Royal Lyceum) and co-director
on The Wolves in the Walls (with Improbable,
on UK tour and at the New Victory, NYC). Work
for Paines Plough includes The Small Things,
Pyrenees, The Drowned World, Tiny Dynamite,
Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco, Splendour, Riddance,
The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman
He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union and
Crave. TV includes Where the Heart Is and Silent
Witness.

LEE HALL
Adaptation
Lee studied English Literature at the University
of Cambridge. He has been writer in residence
at the RSC and Live Theatre, Newcastle Upon
Tyne. His work in theatre includes The Pitmen
Painters (Evening Standard Award, Best Play
and TMA Award, Best New Play) for Live Theatre,
the National of Great Britain, on Broadway,
in London’s West End, and on UK tour; Billy
Elliot – the Musical (Olivier Award, Best Musical
and nine Tony Awards including Best Book) in
London, Australia, on Broadway and in Chicago;
and Cooking with Elvis at Live Theatre and
in London’s West End. Adaptations include
Shakespeare in Love at the Noël Coward; The
Barber of Seville at Bristol Old Vic; The Good
Hope at the National Theatre; Mother Courage
for Shared Experience and at the Ambassadors;
The Adventures of Pinocchio at the Lyric
Hammersmith; A Servant to Two Masters at the
RSC and Young Vic; Mr Puntila and his man Matti
at the Almeida; and Leonce and Lena at the
Gate. Opera includes the English adaptation of
Pagliacci for ENO. TV includes Toast, The Wind
in the Willows, A Prince of Hearts and Spoonface
Steinberg. Film includes War Horse and Billy
Elliot (Oscar nomination, Best Screenplay). Radio
includes I Luv U Jimmy Spud (Writers’ Guild
Award, Best New Play; Gold Sony Award, Best
New Play; Alfred Bradley Award; and Society of
Authors Award), Spoonface Steinberg, The Love
Letters of Ragie Patel, The Sorrows of Sandra
Saint, Blood Sugar, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter,
Gristle, Child of the Snow and Child of the Rain.