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Henrik Georgsson
HENRIK GEORGSSON is a Swedish director best known in the UK for his work on THE BRIDGE and ITV’s MARCELLA. As well as directing a significant amount of both series of THE BRIDGE he has worked on WALLANDER and WALK THE TALK in his native Sweden.
Hassan Abdulrazzak
Hassan Abdulrazzak is of Iraqi origin, born in Prague and living in London. He holds a PhD in Molecular Biology and has worked at Imperial College and Harvard University.
His plays include Sea Things (Southwark Playhouse, 2022), The Special Relationship (Soho Theatre, 2020), And Here I Am (Arcola Theatre, 2017 and UK tour; Europe, Middle East and Africa tour, 2018-2019), Love, Bombs and Apples (Arcola Theatre, 2016 and UK tour; Golden Thread, San Francisco, 2018 followed by a second UK tour; Kennedy Centre, Washington DC, 2019), The Prophet (Gate theatre, 2012) and Baghdad Wedding (Soho Theatre, London 2007; BBC Radio 3, 2008; Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney 2009; Akvarious productions, Delhi & Mumbai 2010). He has also recently written a musical adaptation of The Shadow World by Anthony Feinstein, a satirical and moving exposé of the damage of global arms trade does to our lives.
His film Catalina is being produced by Nadia Nadif and developed with the BFI.
Hassan is commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
He had translated numerous Arabic language plays including Chronicles of a City We Never Knew by Wael Qadour (reading at the Gate Theatre 2019), Voluntary Work by Laila Soliman (reading at The Royal Court Theatre 2012) and 603 by Imad Farajin (reading at the Royal Court Theatre 2008).
He has adapted Baghdad Wedding into a feature film for Focus Features, wrote an original screenplay called Cutting Season about FGM for New Century. He has also written four episodes for HWJN, an upcoming TV series commissioned by O3 and Image Nation productions.
He wrote an episode of The Good Listener, a BBC radio 4 drama series about GCHQ, developed by Fin Kennedy and Boz Temple-Morris which was broadcast in 2018.
His contribution to anthologies include A Country to Call Home (Unbound, 2018), Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic (Saqi Books, 2017), Iraq+100: Stories from a century after the invasion (Comma Press, 2016) and A Country of Refuge (Unbound, 2016).
He is the recipient of George Devine, Meyer-Whitworth, Pearson theatre awards as well as the Arab British Centre Award for Culture. Love, Bombs and Apples won the Bay Area theatre award for outstanding production in 2018. And Here I Am won best monodrama at Sharm El Sheikh International Theatre Festival For Youth in 2019. He was a Sundance Theatre Lab Fellow in 2020.
Select reviews
The Special Relationship
“Urgent drama” The Sunday Times ****
And Here I Am
”Irreverently funny….charming and compelling” The Stage ****
Love Bombs and Apples
”Witty and insightful” The Scotsman ****
The Prophet
“Visceral, verbally dexterous, edgy, exciting, darkly humorous and downright riveting” What’s On Stage *****
Baghdad Wedding
“Hassan Abdulrazzak’s astonishing play tells how human lives are shaped by political crisis” Michael Billington (The Guardian). Billington chose it as his favourite play of the year.
“The Prime Minister and his cabinet should take a brief course in political illumination. They should go to see Baghdad Wedding. Hot theatre” Evening Standard****
Hamish Clark
Freddie Bowerman
Fode Simbo
Fode trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Floella Benjamin
One of six children, Floella Benjamin was born in Trinidad, but was brought up in England. Over the last forty-seven years she has had a diverse and varied career in several sectors of the entertainment industry as an actress, presenter, writer, independent producer, businesswoman and media regulator. It all started in 1970 when she appeared in several successful West End shows including ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ and ‘The Black Mikado’, she then progressed to television drama, one of her notable early roles was in six episodes of ‘Within These Walls’ with Googie Withers. She went on to work with some of Britain’s top directors including Richard Eyre and Richard Stroud. Many drama, comedy, current affairs and magazine programmes followed and she was soon also a regular presenter of lifestyle programmes such as Channel 4’s ‘A Houseful of Plants’ and BBC ‘Daytime Live’ In 1977 she appeared in her first and only leading role in the feature film, ‘Black Joy’, and she was critically acclaimed at the Cannes film festival for her portrayal of ‘Miriam’ in the film, which was the British entry that year. Thirty years later in 2007 she played cameo roles in ‘Run Fatboy Run’ and ‘Rendition’ with Jake Gyllenhaal. However she may be best known as the iconic presenter of the BBC’s legendary children’s programmes, ‘Playschool’ and ‘Playaway’, through which she became a household name. Floella has worked on numerous radio programmes, from children’s education and entertainment shows to adult drama. She has also written and appeared in numerous educational, and entertainment videos and continues to narrate many commercial audio books and story tapes. She has done hundreds of voice-overs for television and radio commercials and appeared in several pantomimes and Christmas shows including, ‘Puss in Boots’, ‘Aladdin’, ‘Peter Pan’ and ‘Babes in the Wood’. Floella has also written over 30 children’s books, along with magazine articles and novels. Since 1987 Floella has produced hundreds of programmes through her own television production company that she set up with her husband Keith Taylor. After 46 years in show-business she still regularly appears on Children’s television and makes frequent public appearances.
Fiona Glascott
Emer Gillespie
Based in London, Emer Gillespie is currently EP and showrunner on a returning geopolitical thriller, set in the global north, working with MGM and Escape Artists. Its award-winning director and star to be announced, imminently.
Emer is also currently writing a supernatural feature thriller with Matt Jackson, Lena Dunham and Chockstone Pictures.
Prior to this Emer worked extensively on UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN with Lance Black and Gina Welch for FX/Disney, an Emmy and Critics Choice nominated show. FX also then hired Emer as EP and showrunner to adapt Julie Mayhew’s novel, IMPOSSIBLE CAUSES as a limited series. She was also part of the team creating the third season of the Netflix series, MARCELLA.
Emer wrote the feature SALT 2 for Angelina Jolie, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Sony Pictures. She also wrote UNDERCARD, a feature based on Deirdre Gogarty, the world- champion female featherweight boxer, for eOne with Philippa Lowthorpe directing.
Emer has written the thriller feature GIRLS WEEKEND, based on the novel by Jody Gehrman, adapting this for Rudy Langlais and Suzann Ellis at Beacon Pictures. Also the feature, JOAN, for Josh Varney and Erica Steinberg at 42, the sweeping medieval tale of Joan of Arc.
Before writing for the screen, Emer was a novelist. VIRTUAL STRANGER and FIVE DEAD MEN were both published by Headline. She began as an actor, appearing on the BBC at the age of 16, with Stephen Rae and Liam Neeson, then working extensively in film and television, such as CHIMERA for ITV, ULTRAVIOLET with Idris Elba, TROUBLES with Ian Charleson and Ian Richardson, and Greenaway’s THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER.
