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AMANDA WHITTINGTON has been described as Britain’s “most consistently popular female dramatist” (The Guardian). She has written extensively for stage, radio and won the 2001 BBC2 Dennis Potter Screenwriting award. Plays include Be My Baby, (Soho Theatre) which is now a GCSE/A level set text; Ladies Day and the sequel, Ladies Down Under (Hull Truck Theatre/national tours); Amateur Girl (Hull Truck), Bollywood Jane (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (New Perspectives) and Satin n Steel (Nottingham Playhouse/Bolton Octagon). She is published by Nick Hern Books and writes regularly for BBC Radio 4. Amanda has also run many writers workshops and has a strong track record in working with young writers.
www.amandawhittington.com
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ESTHER RICHARDSON is a freelance theatre director with over ten years’ experience in developing and directing new plays. She founded the award-winning Nottingham-based company Theatre Writing Partnership to support and develop new and established theatre writers, and has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Soho Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, Bolton Octagon, Headlong, Derby LIVE and Trestle among others. Recent credits as a director include Everything Must Go! for Soho Theatre where she also worked as Associate Artist, Wasteland by Laura Lomas for New Perspectives, Breaking the Silence by Stephen Poliakoff for Nottingham Playhouse, and Satin ‘n’ Steel by Amanda Whittington for Bolton Octagon and Nottingham Playhouse. Projects for 2010 include A Pair of Pinters for Derby LIVE and her first short film.
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