24 (Day): The Measure of My Dreams

Annie’s first play, In Lipstick, received readings at the Arcola and with Druid Theatre Company as part of the Galway International Arts Festival, as well as being shortlisted for the 2016 Theatre503 Award. It received a full production on the main stage at the Pleasance Theatre in 2019, co-produced by Up in Arms and Ellie Keel, directed by Alice Hamilton and published by Faber. Staying at Stacey’s was shortlisted for the 2020 George Devine Award and longlisted for the 2019 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. Karaoke Play ran at the Bunker in Autumn 2019, directed by Lucy McCann. It received an OffCom Short Run Commendation Award from the Off West End Awards. Annie was part of Theatre503’s 503Five for 2019/20 and a recipient of an MGCFutures bursary for her play the celebrity in the white bikini + how I accidentally looked. Most recently she wrote Birds, a short film set in a women’s prison, created with director Tyro Heath.

For the Almeida: The Key Workers Cycle – The Essence Of The Job Is Speed: The Delivery Driver’s Play.

Other work includes: Under My Barbie Duvet (Young Vic); VOID (VAULT Festival – VAULT Innovation Award winner); TINDER471 (Theatre503); Funemployed (London Short Film Festival).

Jack is a director and theatre-maker. He co-founded Glasgow-based theatre company Wonder Fools in 2014. Currently, he is an Origins Artist with Headlong, Creative Engagement Director at the Ayr Gaiety, Artist in Residence (Creative Development) at the Traverse Theatre and artistic lead of the international participatory project Positive Stories for Negative Times.

For the Almeida: The Key Workers Cycle – The Essence Of The Job Is Speed: The Delivery Driver’s Play.

Theatre includes:

As Director/Writer: 549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War; The Coolidge Effect (Wonder Fools); When the Sun Meets the Sky (Traverse Theatre/ Capital Theatres)

As Director: And Then Come the Nightjars (Wonder Fools); Lampedusa (Citizens Theatre/ Wonder Fools); Meet Jan Black (Wonder Fools/ Ayr Gaiety); Larchview (National Theatre of Scotland); The Lost Elves (Citizens Theatre/ RCS); The Mack; The Storm (Play, Pie, Pint/ Traverse Theatre).

As Associate/Assistant Director: Red Dust Road (National Theatre of Scotland/ HOME); The Broons (Sell A Door); Dr Dolittle (Music & Lyrics); Oresteia: This Restless House (Citizens Theatre/ National Theatre of Scotland); Blackbird (Citizens Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (Royal Lyceum); Hay Fever (Royal Lyceum/ Citizens Theatre).