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David Edgar’s original plays for the RSC include Destiny (1976), Maydays (1983), Pentecost (1994), Written on the Heart (2014) and most recently The New Real (2024). His plays for the National Theatre include Entertaining Strangers(1988) The Shape of the Table (1990), Albert Speer (2000) and Playing with Fire (2005). His RSC adaptations include Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby (1980-1), and A Christmas Carol (2017-2022). He writes regularly for the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Prospect, Byline Times and other periodicals. In 1989 he founded Britain's first graduate playwriting course, at Birmingham. His book about playwriting, How Plays Work, was published in 2009. He is a founder member of the British Theatre Consortium.
Dan Rebellato is a playwright and academic. His plays for stage and radio, including Here’s What I Did With My Body One Day, Static, Chekhov in Hell, Cavalry, Emily Rising, My Life Is A Series of People Saying Goodbye, You & Me, Restless Dreams (shortlisted for the Tinniswood Award), and Plum in Prison. His adaptations include Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend and Radio 4’s award-winning adaptation of Emile Zola’s 20-volume novel sequence under the title Emile Zola: Blood, Sex & Money. His how-to guide, Playwriting, has been published by Bloomsbury/National Theatre. He is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway University of London and his books include 1956 and All That, Theatre & Globalization, and Modern British Playwriting 2000-2009.