JUSTIN BUTCHER - writer & performer
Justin read Classics Greats at Oxford, and trained at Drama Studio London, graduating with honours in 1992. Justin has worked all over the world as a director, writer, actor and musician in a vast range of roles and productions in theatre, television, radio and film. Among his written credits are Scaramouche Jones, The Madness of George Dubya, A Weapons Inspector Calls (Fringe Report Best Political Dramatist Award 2003) and Guantanamo Baywatch. Recent directing credits include: Breaking Strain (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), H.G. Wells' The Red Room (Union Theatre, London), The Winter's Tale (Creation Theatre, Oxford), Trade Justice Vigil (Westminster Abbey - 2005 Make Poverty History campaign), his own modern re-working of the Mystery Plays, The Millennium Man (Theatre Royal, Bath & UK tour), Black Comedy (Colorado Festival of World Theatre), Child Of Biafra (Contact Theatre, Manchester) and King Of Fools (Westminster Abbey and five UK tours). Justin has also written three plays for BBC Radio 4: Chukwudebelu – Preserved Of God, The Man On The Pillar and The Seven White Masks Of Scaramouche Jones. Justin has just completed The Ruin Of Britain and is currently writing a new circus-theatre version of Peter Pan (Kensington Gardens, London 2009). He is also working on two stage adaptations of novels: William Golding's The Spire and Paolo Maurensig’s The Lüneburg Variation.

GUY MASTERSON - director