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Gemma is a London-based director, actor, writer and theatre maker. Gemma's recent work includes the play Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of Your Dead, which was chosen as one of The Guardian's Top 10 theatre shows of 2023.

Gemma started her theatrical career as a founder and co-artistic director of Shunt, a collective of 10 artists, who started making their own shows in Bethnal Green between 2000 and 2004 and in other venues across London until 2010.

Laura Wade is a playwright and screenwriter. Her recent plays include The Watsons (Chichester Festival Theatre and Menier Chocolate Factory), and Home, I’m Darling (National Theatre, Theatr Clwyd and the Duke of York’s Theatre) which won the 2019 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. Film work includes The Riot Club, adapted from her play Posh (Royal Court Theatre and Duke of York’s Theatre).

Laura’s playwriting career began at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, and developed at the Royal Court Theatre Young Writers Programme and Soho Theatre’s Writer Attachment scheme.

Laura’s plays have been performed in many countries including the USA, Australia, Germany, Mexico, Sweden, Slovenia and France. She is currently developing a feature film with support from the BFI Film Fund, and recently made her broadcasting debut in February 2020 as presenter of the new BBC Radio 4 narrative history series, Equal As We Are.

This play contains themes of childhood trauma, grief, and violence, references to child loss and the death penalty, and discussions of death.