David Ireland is a writer and actor from Belfast. He won the Meyer Whitworth Award in 2012 for Everything Between Us and was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright 2016 for Cyprus Avenue. Cyprus Avenue also won the IrishTimes Award for Best New Play and the James Tait Black Award in 2017. In 2018, Ulster American won a Scotsman Fringe First and the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland for Best New Play. His other plays include Not Now, Sadie, Yes So I Said Yes, The End of Hope, Can't Forget About You and What the Animals Say. He is currently working on new plays for the Almeida, Sonia Friedman Productions and the National Theatre of Scotland.

He has written several radio plays and, for television, his recent series The Lovers was recently released on Sky Atlantic - he also has written an episode of The Young Offenders (RTE/BBC). As an actor he is best known for playing Clare's Dad in Derry Girls. He has also appeared in Still Game, Shetland, Taggart and Scots Squad. 

He lives in Glasgow with his wife Jennifer and two children, Ada and Elijah. Power dynamics, cultural identity and the perils of being a woman in the entertainment industry; nothing is off limits in this pitch-black comedy from the award-winning playwright David Ireland (Cyprus Avenue, The Lovers).

Jeremy Herrin trained as a theatre director at both the National Theatre and the Royal Court, where he became Deputy Artistic Director in 2008. Between 2000 and 2008 he was an Associate Director at Live Theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne. Jeremy replaced Rupert Goold as Artistic Director of Headlong Theatre in September 2013. In 2007, he directed the UK premiere of David Hare’s play, The Vertical Hour, as well as Polly Stenham’s award-winning That Face at the Royal Court. That Face later transferred to London’s West End, where it starred Lindsay Duncan and Matt Smith and was produced by Sonia Friedman. Two years later, in 2009, Jeremy directed Polly’s second play, Tusk Tusk for which he was nominated for an Evening Standard Best Director Award. Other work at the Royal Court includes EV Crowe’s Hero, Richard Bean’s The Heretic, Kin, Spur of the Moment, Off The Endz and The Priory, which won an Olivier Award for best Comedy.

In 2012 Jeremy directed the Olivier-nominated This House, written by James Graham, at the National Theatre. The production was revived at the Garrick Theatre at the end of 2016 and toured the UK in 2018.

In 2014 Jeremy directed the critically acclaimed adaptations of Hilary Mantel’s novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies for the RSC and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Director. The productions transferred to the West End at the end of 2014 and opened on Broadway in April 2015. He also directed the

Broadway production of Noises Off which opened in January 2016. His production of People, Places and Things at the National Theatre transferred to the Wyndhams Theatre in March 2016 and then to St Ann’s Warehouse in October 2017. Jeremy directed James Graham’s Oliver Award Winning Labour of Love which opened in November 2017 and his production of David Hare’s The Moderate Soprano transferred from Hampstead Theatre to the West End in April 2018.

Most recently Jeremy directed Noises Off at The Garrick Theatre, The Visit at The National Theatre and After Life at The National Theatre and The Mirror and The Light at the Gielgud, West End, and The Glass Menagerie at the Duke of York’s Theatre. For TV Jeremy directed Talking Heads and Unprecedented for the BBC.

Jeremy has most recently directed the world premiere of A Mirror at the Almeida Theatre starring Johnny Lee Miller, Tanya Reynolds and Micheal Ward, and the West End production of Best of Enemies starring Zachary Quinto and David Harewood at the Noël Coward Theatre.

Emma trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She was the Deputy Head of Sound at the Royal Court from 2002 – 2007. She has also worked as a senior sound technician in the Olivier at the National Theatre. 

Emma won an Olivier Award for Best Sound Design for Emilia in 2020 and the Falstaff Award for Best Sound Design/Original Score for her work on Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse in 2014.  

Recent Theatre credits include: 

Mlima’s Tale (Kiln); Dancing At Lughnasa (National Theatre); The Collaboration, Hamlet, Blood Wedding, See Me Now (Young Vic); Walden (Harold Pinter Theatre, West End); A Kind Of People, Superhoe, The Living Newspaper: Edition 1 (Royal Court); The Effect, Julius Caesar, Sisters, Coriolanus (Sheffield Theatres); Vassa, The Writer (Almeida); Emilia (West End); The Country Wife, Random/Generations, The House They Grew Up In, Forty Years On (Chichester Festival Theatre); Titus Andronicus (RSC & Barbican Centre); Trouble in Butetown,The York Realist, Limehouse, Measure For Measure, Coriolanus, Berenice, The Physicists, Making Noise Quietly, The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse); Breaking The Code, All My Sons, A Doll’s House, Three Birds, The Accrington Pals, Lady Windermere’s Fan (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Sweet Charity (Nottingham Playhouse); Ghosts, The Oresteia (Home Theatre, Manchester); Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme (Headlong, UK Tour); Great Expectations (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Elizabeth (Royal Opera House); 101 Dalmations, The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep); Henry The Fifth (Unicorn Theatre, Imaginate Festival); All My Sons (Talawa Theatre, UK Tour); Uncle Vanya, Hello/Goodbye, The Blackest Black, #Aiww: The Arrest Of Ai Wei Wei, Lay Down Your Cross, Blue Heart Afternoon (Hampstead Theatre); Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Royal Exchange/ Royal & Derngate/Northern Stage); Pests (Clean Break/Royal Exchange/Royal Court); Much Ado About Nothing (Old Vic); Nut, Men Should Weep, Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (National Theatre); Omg! (Sadlers Wells/The Place/Company Of Angels); There Are Mountains (Clean Break/Hmp Askham Grange); The Promise (Donmar Warehouse At Trafalgar Studios); You Can Still Make A Killing (Southwark Playhouse); The Sacred Flame (ETT); Black T-Shirt Collection (Fuel UK Tour & National Theatre); Invisible (Transport UK Tour & Luxemborg); Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndhams Theatre, West End); Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios), Where’s My Seat, Like A Fishbone, The Whiskey Taster, If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, 2nd May 1997, Apologia, The Contingency Plan, Wrecks, Broken Space Season, 2000 Feet Away (Bush Theatre); Charged (Clean Break/Soho Theatre); My Romantic History (Sheffield Theatres/ Bush Theatre); Travels With My Aunt (Northampton Theatre Royal); Pornography (Birmingham Rep/Traverse/ Tricycle Theatre); Europe (Dundee Rep/ Barbican Pit).

Credits include:

As Director:

Oh What a Lovely War! (regional tour);

The Shape of Things (Park Theatre),

The Walworth Farce, and Romeo & Juliet (Southwark Playhouse); Crackers! (Polka Theatre); Maddie (Arcola); Invisible Me (Bloomsbury Festival); Moment of Grace (Lockdown Film); Market Boy (Union Theatre); Summon up the Blood (RSC Open Stages community project, director and adapter of Henry IV, V and VI).

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As Associate / Assistant Director:

Dragons & Mythical Beasts (Regents Park and Tour); My Brilliant Friend (National Theatre); Summerland (film directed by Jessica Swale); Finishing the Picture (Finborough Theatre);

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Nicky is a freelance director and dramaturge, working with writers in the development of new plays and musicals. A returning to work mother of three, she has collaborated on projects with dozens of writers that have gone on to become produced. During a new writing residency at the Swiss Church Covent Garden, she helped 16 writers host readings, workshops and development rehearsals to further their new work, including a highly successful week with writer Suzette Coon on a play for three generations of women, called A Jewish Love Story.

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She also attends the BML (book music lyrics) workshop under the auspices of Tim Sutton and Jason Carr and is about to start the third year of this prestigious training in how to write a musical. Learning the ingredients and formulas for making successful musicals is the start of what she hopes will lead to further development of exciting new work with like-minded collaborators, combining life experience with cutting edge new techniques that stretch the form.