Writers Profiles
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Tuesday 28th August

Alia Bano
My name is Alia Bano.  I love the creative process, thus, I write plays, poems and short stories which generally tend to be quite dark; thankfully my writing is no reflection of my personality. For me, the imagination is the great escape as well as the visionary for the future.  When I'm not writing; I teach English to a variety of students.  I love travelling and Spain, Norway, Egypt are a few of the delights I have seen.  I am partial to Lebanese food and love the company of anyone who enjoys a good debate and dance. 

Thomas Crowe
Thomas has had plays produced at Theatre 503 and also by the BBC Radio Drama Department. He advises on literary things at the Gate Theatre. In 2001, he wrote for Paines Plough’s Wild Lunch. Some time previously, he too was a member of the National Youth Theatre and had one line in Othello which he is still word perfect on and can deliver if required. His short play about China - part of The Seven Wonders of The Divided World produced by Jessica Dromgoole - is to be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 this coming Sunday September 9th. Please listen!
Kenny Emson
I grew up and was educated in a rural, now Thames Gateway massacred community in Essex. I began playwriting while I was an amateur actor and have now enjoyed four premieres on the London fringe in 2007. I have worked in India with children teaching drama, dance, gardening and art, in England with sufferers of MS teaching poetry, and dramatic writing (and making lots of cups of green tea when energy is low) I am a city bound country boy, hanging on to areas of trees, lakes and grass as if my life depended on it, for my sanity does.
Ben Gallacher
Ben is a trained actor and aspiring writer. He attended the Guildford School of Acting, and graduated in 2004. Ben recently completed the young writers programme at the Soho Theatre where his play Let’s be Pacific was selected for a rehearsed reading. He is currently working on a project for Creative First theatre company as well as developing other work.
James Graham
I am currently the Playwright in Residence at the Finborough Theatre in West London. My plays there include Albert’s Boy (2005), which starred Tony-award winning actor Victor Spinetti and won a Pearson Playwrighting award, and Eden’s Empire (2006), both published by Methuen. My third play for the theatre, Little Madam, opens in October. I was selected as one of ‘The50’ emerging writers by the BBC and Royal Court to mark the theatre’s 50th anniversary, and have an original TV comedy drama under commission by producers Greenlit..
Dawn King
Winner of the UK Film Council's 25 Words or Less pitching competition Dawn is currently working on feature length screenplay The Squatters' Handbook. Recent work includes Face Value - Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, Water Sculptures, Theatre503 and The English Theatre of Bruges, The Bitches’ Ball, Hoxton Hall, National Tour and Edinburgh Assembly Rooms and Doghead Boy and Sharkmouth Go To Ikea, The Junction, Cambridge.  Previous work has received performances, workshops and readings at - Royal Court Theatre, Soho Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Arcola, Old Red Lion, Etcetera Theatre, The Latitude Festival, Resonance FM and The Union Theatre. She has also had a short play performed in a pod of the London Eye.
Tena Stivicic
Born in Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated from the Department of Dramaturgy at the Academy of Drama Art in Zagreb, and then completed an MA in Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She took part in Future Perfect, the Paines Plough Young Writers Programme and the 50, Royal Court’s and BBC Bursary for young writers. Her new play Fireflies was commissioned by the National Theatre Studio in London. Her award-winning plays Can’t Escape Sundays, Perceval, Psssst, Two of Us and Fragile have been produced in Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Germany, Switzerland, Slovakia, Greece, Italy and the UK.  Played to huge acclaim across Eastern Europe, Fragile will premiere at the Arcola Theatre in London this September. Tena’s latest play Goldoni Terminus was commissioned by the Venice Biennale 2007. Tena lives in London and writes in English and Croatian.
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