Biographies
Édouard Louis
Author
Édouard Louis’ first novel, En
finir avec Eddy Bellegueule
(The End of Eddy) was
published when he was 21
years old. It became an
immediate bestseller and has
now sold in excess of 300,000
copies in France, heralded
as a literary revelation by El
País, Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung, Corriere della Sera
and other publications. He
is also the editor of Pierre
Bourdieu: l’insoumission
en heritage (2013). In 2014
Louis received the Prix Pierre
Guénin. His second novel,
Histoire de la Violence (History
of Violence), was adapted
for the stage by Thomas
Ostermeier and premiered in
Berlin last year. Qui a tué mon
père was published in 2018 in
France and this year in English
as Who Killed My Father.
Pamela Carter
Adapter
Pamela Carter is a playwright
and dramaturg and lives in
London. Her work has been
produced in the UK and
internationally since 2004.
Her plays include Them!
(National Theatre of Scotland),
LINES (The Yard Theatre and
Theatre Republic), Fast Ganz
Nah/Almost Near (Theater
Dresden), Skåne (Hampstead
Theatre; winner of the
New Writing Commission
at the Berliner Festspiele
Stückemarkt in 2012), What
We Know (Traverse Theatre),
Wildlife (Magnetic North
Theatre Co), Sophocles’
Antigone (University of
South Florida). She has been
collaborating with director
Stewart Laing since 2004.
Her plays for his company
Untitled Projects include The
End of Eddy (2018), Slope
(2006) and Slope Redux (2014),
Paul Bright’s Confessions of a
Justified Sinner (2013) and An
Argument About Sex (After
Marivaux) in 2009. Carter also
works in opera, film, dance and
the visual arts. She has written
for the artists Goldin+Senneby
since 2010, making work
about high frequency trading,
credit default swaps and
land ownership, which has
been staged in galleries and
museums across the world.
As dramaturg and writer
with Vanishing Point Theatre,
she has made the award-
winning Interiors (touring
internationally since 2009),
Saturday Night and Tomorrow.
Stewart Laing
Director
Stewart Laing is currently
Associate Director at National
Theatre of Scotland and is
Artistic Director of Untitled
Projects. The End of Eddy
is the most recent venture
from Untitled Projects.
Other productions Laing
has directed for Untitled
Projects include J G Ballard
Trilogy, blind_sight, Slope,
An Argument About Sex, The
Salon Project, Paul Bright’s
Confessions of a Justified
Sinner and Slope Redux. He
works extensively with the
playwright Pamela Carter,
who has scripted most of his
work with Untitled Projects
since 2006. Beyond Untitled
projects Laing has directed
for the Royal Court Theatre,
National Theatre of Scotland,
Citizens Theatre, Dundee
Rep and Traverse Theatre. He
also directs opera and has
created new productions for
Scottish Opera, Grange Park
Opera, Norrlandsoperan,
Malmö Opera, the Bavarian
State Opera’s Opera Studio
and Garsington Opera. Laing
originally trained as a theatre
designer and has worked
extensively as a theatre
designer throughout the UK
and internationally.