Writers Profiles
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Thursday 30th August

Ben Clare
Ben is a graduate of Kingston University where he won the Drama Prize. He has been a member of the Young Writers Programme at the Royal Court and recently did workshops with Paines Plough. He works with other new writers producing work for his company lifelike. He directed his first play, Tell Me a Story in 2004 and his most recent play Dirty was on Upstairs at the Cricketers, Kingston earlier this year. He has also directed work by Pinter, Mamet and Crimp amongst others and won an Arts Council Award for his production of Robert David Macdonald’s Summit Conference.

Jennifer Moule
Just finished a 4-week run at The Edinburgh Fringe of my play The Tail of Rampant Rabbit (5* The British Theatre Guide). I directed an up-dated version of Schnitzler's La Ronde at Bristol University which was a sell-out and was critiqued by NSDF who said it was a 'work of creative genius' and won the prize for best ensemble of 2006. Also this year I put on an all-female production of Hamlet entitled To Let: Ham, which was Bristol's magazine Venue's pick of the week.
Esther Shanson
Esther is an NYT alumna and went on to train as an actress at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as a clown at Ecole Philippe Gaulier, Paris and as a dancer at Laban. She developed her writing through the Royal Court writers group, Stephen Jeffrey’s masterclass, Soho Theatre workshops and was a writer/guinea pig for the ‘Writing a Play with Paines Plough’ workshops and forthcoming book. A reading of her first play After Light will take place at Trafalgar Studios 2 this autumn; cast includes Mariah Gale. Esther is currently researching a play with dance, entitled Three Scientists.
Takbir Uddin
My writing debut was in the first Transmissions Festival at Birmingham Rep in 1998; after which I wrote two new full length plays for the festival, and headlined in 2000 and 2004.  Whilst at University I was commissioned to adapt A Doll’s House for Yehlehleh Young People’s Theatre Company, Tagore’s The Home And The World for the Dartington Festival and directed for The Red Theatre Company.  My play Ammah was performed in different versions at Birmingham Rep and York University.  I now work as a mentor and dramaturg for young people with Theatre Centre in Shoreditch.
Megan Walsh
I was previously a member of the Royal Court and Soho Theatre young writers’ programmes and last year worked on a youth theatre production at the BAC. My play Lyre was selected this year for the Hightide Festival. It was performed and published in April 2007. Recently, I have been writing for Rabbit, a company specialising in audience participation and adventure theatre. I like taking photographs and writing from them. This summer I’m making a documentary in South Queensferry about the Burry Man. Right now, my favourite word is plucky. I have written four plays and lots of unfinished plays.
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