Sophie Woolley is a writer and actress from London. As well as her stage plays, she is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3 and 4 and is starring in a new Channel 4 comedy drama series, 'Cast Offs' in January 2010. She has also appeared on Channel 4's The Art Show and Shoreditch Tw*t Comedy Lab pilot. Her first play, 'When to Run' toured the UK 2006-2008, with sell out runs at the Royal festival Hall, Soho Theatre and Manchester's Royal Exchange studio. Her adaptation of 'When to Run' was broadcast on Radio 4 in 2008. She was an attached writer and Soho Theatre 2005-2006.  Sophie is deafened and this has informed her passion for subtitling in live performance.

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 Gemma Fairlie's past directing work includes a critically acclaimed sell out run of Hangover Square at the Finborough, Eden's Empire, a new play at the Finborough Theatre, Silence by Moira Buffini (TOP, Stratford and Arcola), For Every Passion Something (RSC Learning Residency in USA) and Julius Caesar project for RSC Learning in Michigan. Assistant director credits include the Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of King Lear and The Seagull, directed by Trevor Nunn, (world tour and sell out runs in Stratford and London), the RSC's Regional Tour of Julius Caesar and The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Anthony Neilson's Realism for the National Theatre of Scotland and Edinburgh International Festival. She won the Gate Theatre's directing bursary in 2004 and is an Associate Practitioner with the Royal Shakespeare Company's Education department.