Kay just wants to earn a living in UK Plc; but life is not that simple. He soon realises he has entered a dangerously puritanical and punitive world in which menace lurks around every administrative corner...                                     

Andrew Dawson has worked as an actor and director for five years and has directed across the country including as Young Programme People's Director at the Theatre Royal Plymouth: Medea, The Misanthrope and Henry IVth Part One (a partnership production with Frantic Assembly) at the Drum Theatre as well as Betrayal (Burton Taylor) and Cyrano De Bergerac, Oxford Old Fire Station, he produced and directed the Plymouth Young Company Hubs scheme that toured to the Olivier with Black Out. He has assisted at the National and in various London theatres. He teaches drama and performance, poetry and writing at various schools and drama schools and his acting credits include John Keats in Keats in Hampstead, Onwards and Upwards with DumbWise at the Barbican and extensive touring in this country and international with Relatively Speaking, MacBeth, Twelfth Night.

Adapted from an original play by Michael O'Brien

Oringinally from Bradford, Michael has had a number of plays workshopped and staged. A graduate of the Birmingham University Playwriting MA where he studied under April de Angelis and Sarah Woods,he has had plays performed at the Bradford University Theatre in the Mill, Bristol Old Vic Basement and Pentameters Theatre, Hampstead.  He has also had rehersed readings at CB2 Cafe Theatre Cambridge, the Nuffield Theatre Southampton, Yorkshire Playwrites and with Moving Parts playreading group, Paris. He is currently working on a series of short plays taking an off beat look at contemporary life in Britain.

A short play about two relationships that begin the same, but which end very differently.

Mel Hillyard

Training: Rose Bruford College (MA), University of Berkeley, California and the University of Kent (MDrama)

As director: The Spit of Me by Adam Barnard (for Nabokov's 'Present Tense' - Southwark Playhouse), WriteBites for Eyebrow Productions (8 new short plays, RADA Theatre Bar), Southgate by Will Hammond (radio play for 503/Urban Scrawl), His Face her Face by Ben Cooper and Three Is Company by Erin McMahon (King's Head Theatre), Grey Days and Loose Ends (Edinburgh Festival), Imposition (Rose), Pillars of Society (Lumley Studio), Cloud Tectonics and Play (Durham Studio Theatre, Berkeley).

As assistant: Dreaming of Fitzrovia by Matt Philips (reading for 'Write On' - County Hall), The Spanish Tragedy (Arcola Theatre), Me and My Girl (London Palladium) Cherry Docs and The Shadowmaster (King's Head), The Winter's Tale (Courtyard), Helen of Troy and The Jungle Book with Phil Willmott at the Scoop.

Mel is currently Associate Director with Nabokov on Joel Horwood's play Is Everyone OK? on it's UK tour of festivals and theatres.

She is resident Assistant Director for ATTIC Theatre Company.

Kieran Lynn's writing credits include: The Recurring Rise and Fall (Hampstead Theatre) An Incident at the Border (Oran Mor) and A Volunteer from the Audience (Liverpool Everyman Theatre) He has completed the Playwrights Studio Scotland mentoring programme, the BBC Sparks Residential Course and the Old Vic 24hr Plays event. He is currently on attachment at the Hampstead Theatre.

It's Joe's birthday and he's on his way into the only school that hasn't chucked him out. Jodie is in her bedroom (and on Facebook) getting ready to meet someone special. Will either of them come home tonight?

Ned Glasier set up Islington Community Theatre in 2008 to create brave, innovative and exciting theatre with, for and about local people in Islington.  In the last 14 months the company has grown exponentially and has produced six new plays, including Success by Nick Drake, performed by a cast of 36 young people on the Olivier Stage at the National Theatre as part of the New Connections Festival 2009, and Hive 9 by the award winning playwright Ali Taylor.  The company's work has been featured in Time Out and The Guardian and in November 2009 they were shortlisted for the Achievement in Arts Award at the Spirit of London Awards.

Islington Community Theatre currently works with over 125 local young people every week, as well as numerous others through ad hoc workshops and projects.  The performers in Bare Bones nights are all members of the Work in Progress group, made up of young people aged 16-22.

As well as Success, Hive 9 and many other ICT shows, Ned's work includes Childhood (Roel Adem) and A Story and a Song (Isabel McCann) for Company of Angels, You Me Us (Pete Lawson) for Pyramid Theatre, Where Are We Going? (devised) and numerous other projects for Almeida Projects and workshop/performance projects for the Old Vic Theatre, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, Watford Palace Theatre and Southwark Playhouse.  He is a visiting director at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts and in 2007 conceived and directed a major new video project about HIV/AIDS for Theatre for a Change in Ghana.

Adam Barnard has worked mainly as a theatre director over the past decade, where career highlights have included a number of productions at the Orange Tree Theatre (including Ted Hughes's Vasco earlier this year); a residency at the Stephen Joseph Theatre directing for Sir Alan Ayckbourn; running the acclaimed Activated Image company; a premiere in Copenhagen; seven Edinburgh Fringe shows; productions at Trafalgar Studious, the Arcola, the King's Head and the Finborough; and ongoing work with Torben Betts, one of his favourite contemporary writers.

He has recently become a playwright too. He has written short plays for Present:Tense at the Southwark Playhouse and WriteBites at RADA. He is developing a new piece for Gilt & Grime, and is currently writing a play on commission for Vienna's English Theatre, aimed at teenage audiences. He also works as a journalist, for The Times and more recently The Guardian.

He is also currently developing a new piece exploring the lives of Britain's most troubled teenagers with Company of Angels, of which he is an Associate Artist. Sixteen emerged partly from research for this project.

Keep busy, don't think, that's the secret but what happens when you can't? When the stuff in your head starts spilling out and makes your own family want to kill you.

Emily Jenkins graduated from Exeter University in July 2008 with a First Class Degree in English Literature before studying as a Theatre Director at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. 

As Director: Overspill by Ali Taylor (Cockpit Theatre), Songbook Review (Etcetera Theatre), Angus by Alex Carey (Karamel Club), Mojo Mickybo by Owen McCafferty (Karamel Club), Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones (Mountview Academy), Play in a Day (The Ram), Wherever I am by Emily Jenkins (M&D Room - shortlisted for the NSDF 2008), Fame the Musical (Barnfield Theatre), The Commandoes by Emily Jenkins (The Ram).

As Assistant Director: Miracle by Reza de Wet (Leicester Square Theatre), This Much is True by Paul Unwin and Sarah Beck (Theatre 503), Come Back to the 5 and Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean by Ed Gryzack (Upstairs at The Gatehouse), The York Realist by Peter Gill (Jackson's Lane Theatre), Saraband by Bergman Adpt. Kaplow (Jermyn Street Theatre), Twelfth Night, Sweet Jack Falstaff, Merry Wives of Windsor by W. Shakespeare (The Old Forge). She recently had the opportunity to observe Sir Peter Hall's rehearsals for 'The Browning Version'/'Swansong' and 'The Apple Cart (Theatre Royal Bath) and her technical theatre credits include Stage Manager for 'Yoga Bitch' (Theatre 503/Burton-Taylor Studio) and backstage crew at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford. visit her website www.emilyjenkins.co.uk for more information about her productions.

Greg Glover has had several productions staged at both Sherman Cymru, Cardiff and The Riverfront, Newport. He was part of the Dirty Protest night curated by Gary Owen and has been mentored by the Royal Court/BBC as part of the 24 Degrees project. He has scripted a short film that was recently shown on BBC2 Wales.

Sally & Steve can't communicate with each other any more. The initial flush of love has gone and now they are left with resentment and suspicion. Shame then, that they are about to have a baby. 

Laura Farnworth is Artistic Director of the award-winning Labyrinth Theatre. Productions include, Jungle awarded 5 weeks as Time Out Critics Choice (BAC and Theatre Royal Bath); The King of Schnorrers UK Tour and NSDF Award for Storytelling; Don Q, Edinburgh Festival Metro 'Pick of the Fringe'; UND (RADA). Currently Labyrinth are in the early stages of developing Miguel de Unamuno's novel 'Abel Sanchez', adapted by Annie Siddons and So Just Stories in association with Caughtshort and STK International.

As freelance director Laura is also developing with writer Annie Siddons, a new play with support from the National Studio. In 2007 and 2008 she was invited to take part in ATC's 'Playsize' at the Young Vic, and as a result is now developing Floor 44 with writer Lydia Adetunji, also performed at the Young Vic. Lydia and Laura are also worked together recently as part of the Tristan Bates 'Ignition Festival'. With Story Productions she directed The Roaring Girl, (RSC, The Dell, Stratford).

As Assistant Director; Spring Awakening, Fecund Theatre (Brockley Jack Theatre); Search and Destroy (New End Theatre) and Witch of Edmonton (Southwark Playhouse). For the Young Vic's Special Needs Festival Laura assisted on 'Paper Promises' at the Young Vic. As part of the Royal Court's 50^th Anniversary she assisted Paulette Randall on Moon on a Rainbow Shawl. At the National Theatre Laura was Associate Director to Thea Sharrock on Happy Now, and worked with Marianne Elliott on Saint Joan and Therese Raquin.

Laura attended the National Theatre's Studio Director's Course 2007.

Rosalind Wyllie is a Newcastle based writer. She has written for Live Theatre, Alnwick Touring Theatre and The Customs House. More recently she has written for the RSC during their Newcastle season, and for Theatre 503 as part of their Playlist evening.