Alison Carr is a playwright and radio dramatist. Her plays include: The Last Quiz Night on Earth (Box of Tricks, UK tour, 2020); Caterpillar (shortlisted for the Theatre503 Playwriting Award 2016; premiered at Theatre503, London, 2018) and Iris (Live Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2016; winner of the Journal Culture Awards 2017 Writer of the Year). Her play Tuesday formed part of the 2020 and 2021 National Theatre Connections Festivals and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK. In 2013, Alison was awarded the Live Theatre/Empty Space Bursary Award to develop her play The Soaking of Vera Shrimp and the play opened at Live Theatre in September 2014. Other theatre credits include: Hush (Paines Plough, RWCMD, Gate Theatre), Remains (troublehouse theatre, Reveal Festival), Clothes Swap Theatre Party (Derby Theatre), Fat Alice (The Lemon Tree, Òran Mór, Traverse Theatre), A Wondrous Place (Northern Spirit, Tour), Mary, Jesus's Mam (Live Theatre), Fine (Soho Theatre), Quick Bright Things (The People's Theatre, Newcastle), When It's Gone (part of nabakov's Present: Tense), The Surprising Germination of Andrea Fitzgerald (Hotbed Festival at The Junction), When It Falls (Soho Theatre), The Girls From Poppyfield Close (Live Theatre), Clint (Live Theatre), But Otherwise Went Well (Waterloo East Theatre), and Can Cause Death (National Theatre). Radio credits include Dolly Would (BBC Radio 4), Yackety Yak (The Verb, BBC Radio 3), and Worn Around the Edges (BBC Radio 3). Daf James is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, composer and performer working across theatre, radio television and film in English and Welsh.
