Jacqueline Bolton Editor & Author

Simon Stephens has been the recipient of both the Pearson Award for Best New Play 2001-2 for his play Port, and the Olivier Award for Best New Play 2005 for On the Shore of the Wide World. His recent plays include Harper Regan (National Theatre), Punk Rock (Lyric Hammersmith/Royal Exchange, Manchester), Pornography (Traverse and Birmingham Rep) and Wastwater (Royal Court and Wiener Festwochen). He is currently the Artistic Associate at the Lyric Hammersmith, London. Jacqueline Bolton is Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at the University of Lincoln. Her research interests include dramaturgy, new writing and British fringe theatre of the 1970s and 1980s. She has written for the journal Studies in Theatre and Performance, and is the author of ‘Joint Stock’ in British Theatre Companies: From Fringe to Mainstream Volume II, eds. John Bull and Graham Saunders (Methuen Drama, 2014)