Sophie Swithinbank is a London-based writer whose 2018 play, Bacon, was developed through Soho Theatre, resulting in her winning the Tony Craze award. When this play was staged in 2022, it won several Off West End awards, before transferring to New York and coming to Edinburgh in 2023. That year she also won the Peggy Ramsay/Film4 Award. This year, she’s worked with Phoebe Ladenburg on Surrender, a play that explores prison, motherhood, and abandoned love.

Finding Clarity In Visual Theatre: Alex Bird

In this series we’ll chat with the people who work behind the scenes to make this all happen. We’ll speak with reviewers, people in charge of running venues, we’ll look at the marketing side of things, as well as speaking with actors, writers, and directors who are taking work to the fringe.