Wade, Laura
Laura Wade's plays include
The Watsons (Chichester Festival Theatre and Menier Chocolate Factory),
Home, I'm Darling (Theatr Clwyd, National Theatre and West End),
Posh (Royal Court Theatre and West End),
Tipping the Velvet (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith),
Alice (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield),
Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer (Globe Theatre, Sydney Opera House and Australian tour),
Other Hands (Soho Theatre),
Colder Than Here (Soho Theatre and MCC Theatre New York),
Breathing Corpses (Royal Court Theatre),
Catch (Royal Court Theatre, written with four other playwrights),
Young Emma (Finborough Theatre),
16 Winters (Bristol Old Vic Basement) and
Limbo (Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield). Films include
The Riot Club. Awards include the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Pearson Best Play Award and the George Devine Award. Laura Wade's plays have been performed in the UK, USA, Australia, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and Mexico.
Waters, Sarah
Sarah Waters has written six novels:
Tipping the Velvet (1998, Betty Trask Award);
Affinity (1999, Somerset Maugham Award, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award);
Fingersmith (2002, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize, and winner of the South Bank Show Award for Literature and the CWA Historical Dagger);
The Night Watch (2006, shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize);
The Little Stranger (2009, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the South Bank Show Literature Award) and The Paying Guests (2014, shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction). She was included in Granta's prestigious list of 'Best of Young British Novelists 2003', and in the same year was voted Author of the Year at the British Book Awards and the BA Conference, and won the Waterstones Author of the Year Award. In April 2015 she joined the Council of the Society of Authors.
