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P O L I N A K A L I N I N A
director

Polina is a Russian theatre director working in the UK. After completing her training at LAMDA she went on to work as an assistant director at the Orange Tree Theatre. It was there that Polina made her professional debut with ‘Dutchman’ by Amiri Baraka. The theatre's interest in new and re-discovered plays has been a strong influence on her work.

After working as an Associate for the Actors Touring Company, and touring with the award-winning ‘The Events’, she is now a freelance director based in London.

Polina was a 2017 JMK finalist and a MGC Futures Bursary recipient in 2016.

J O S H C O C K R O F T
producer

Polina is a Russian theatre director working in the UK. After completing her training at LAMDA she went on to work as an assistant director at the Orange Tree Theatre. It was there that Polina made her professional debut with ‘Dutchman’ by Amiri Baraka. The theatre's interest in new and re-discovered plays has been a strong influence on her work.

After working as an Associate for the Actors Touring Company, and touring with the award-winning ‘The Events’, she is now a freelance director based in London.

Polina was a 2017 JMK finalist and a MGC Futures Bursary recipient in 2016.

M A T T P A R V I N
writer
Matt's plays include Jam, which premiered to critical acclaim at the Finborough Theatre in 2017. Matt received an Off West End Awards nomination for Most Promising Playwright, and the play text was published by Oberon Books.

The Noble Nine premiered at VAULT Festival 2019. He has been commissioned by the Nuffield Theatre, Mountview and Oxford School of Drama, and has had short plays on at the Arcola, the Orange Tree, the Bunker, Theatre503, and Clapham Omnibus. His short play The Hyperviolent King of the Universe was published by Litro Magazine

He won the Oxford New Writing Festival 2013 Best Script Prize, has been shortlisted for the Kings Cross Award for New Writing 2015 and the Marlowe Society’s Other Prize 2018, and longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize twice. He has been on the Royal Court Young Writers Programme, the Orange Tree Writers Collective, and the Arcola Writers Group.

Matt also has a number of screen projects in development. These include an adaptation of his play Two Roads, in development with Bird Flight Films, and his TV drama pilot Roost. Roost was shortlisted for 2019 All3Media New Script Award at the Edinburgh International TV Festival New Voice Awards.