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Idris Elba

Double SAG and Golden Globe winning, 3 x BAFTA and 6 x Emmy Nominated IDRIS ELBA (OBE) is a billion dollar box office name known to audiences across the globe, as an Actor, Producer, Director, Musician and Entrepreneur. Idris’ career skyrocketed after he landed the role of Stringer Bell in HBO’s critically acclaimed series The Wire (NAACP Image Award nomination). After landing the lead role of LUTHER, BBC/Netflix , which earned him a Golden Globe, SAG Award and four Emmy nominations. Idris’ esteemed film career credits include; American Gangster (Golden Globe nomination), Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom (Golden Globe nomination), Beasts of No Nation (SAG award, Golden Globe nomination) and the Oscar-nominated Molly’s Game. Behind the camera, Elba made his feature film directorial debut at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival with YARDIE, and in 2024 directed ABOVE THE BELOW for LIONSGATE.

Ian Bartholomew

Ian is an award-winning actor and singer who has had a career spanning the last fifty years.

A prolific stage actor Ian has been nominated for 4 Olivier awards; Best Actor in a Musical for Mrs Henderson Presents (2016) and Into The Woods (1991) and for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for Half a Sixpence (2017) and Radio Times (1993.)

He recently received great acclaim playing Geoff Metcalfe in Coronation Street, from 2018 to 2021, winning many awards, including 2 Inside Soap Awards for Best Actor and Best Villain.

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****