Mosquitoes

Lucy Kirkwood is a British playwright and screenwriter whose plays include: The Welkin (National Theatre, 2020), Mosquitoes (National Theatre, 2017), The Children (Royal Court Theatre, 2016), Chimerica (Almeida Theatre & West End, 2013; winner of the 2014 Olivier Award for Best New Play, the 2013 Evening Standard Best Play Award, the 2014 Critics’ Circle Best New Play Award, and the Susan Smith Blackburn Award), NSFW (Royal Court, 2012), small hours (co-written with Ed Hime; Hampstead Theatre, 2011), Beauty and the Beast (with Katie Mitchell; National Theatre, 2010), Bloody Wimmin, as part of Women, Power and Politics (Tricycle Theatre, 2010), it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now (Clean Break & Arcola Theatre, 2009; winner of the 2012 John Whiting Award), Hedda (Gate Theatre, London, 2008), and Tinderbox (Bush Theatre, 2008).

She won the inaugural Berlin Lee UK Playwrights Award in 2013.

Sara Aniqah Malik is a London based Theatre and Film Director making work with a political drive.​

Her work interrogates the racial and gendered structures around us in order to imagine a better future, with a particular focus on incorporating live music. 

​Sara has directed and assisted as venues such as The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Donmar Warehouse, Gate Theatre, Royal & Derngate.

​Sara is the current Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse and Associate Director at the Watermill Theatre. 

She is one of the directors of Diversity School Initiative, a charity seeking to support and enhance diversity in UK drama schools. 

Explores challenging topics and themes including suicide, child death, grief, childbirth, mental illness, bullying, drug abuse and attempted drug overdose, alcohol, mental and physical abuse, and contains use of slurs, mention of miscarriage, unconsensual spread of nude images, and flickering lights.