Brigid Larmour: Artistic Director & Chief Executive, Watford Palace Theatre

Brigid Larmour has been the Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Watford Palace Theatre since August 2006. Before this she was the founding Artistic Director of Act Productions, a leading West End production company, from 1998 to 2006.  Her work as a director has focused on Shakespeare and new plays, including Shakespeare Unplugged for Royal National Theatre [Education] directing The Tempest, Henry V and Twelfth Night.  From 1989 – 1994 Brigid was the Artistic Director of Contact Theatre in Manchester, as well as having been an Associate Director previously.
Brigid trained at the Royal Shakespeare Company as Assistant Director to Terry Hands and is a Granada trained TV director. Her work with Granada has been nominated for the Prix Danube, she has written and presented BBC TV documentaries, and was the Theatre Consultant to the BBC4 plays

George Perrin: Artistic Director, Nabokov; Associate, Watford Palace Theatre

George is co-founder and artistic director of nabokov. He is also Trainee Associate Director of Paines Plough and an associate of Watford Palace Theatre.  He was the first recipient of the Genesis Director's Award from the Young Vic and is a member of Old Vic New Voices.  Credits as director include: The Dirt Under The Carpet by Rona Munro (Oran Mor Glasgow & Shunt Vaults London, Paines Plough),  Crazy Love by Che Walker (Oran Mor Glasgow & Shunt Vaults London, Paines Plough),  Terre Haute by Edmund White (West End / National Tour / Assembly Rooms Edinburgh, nabokov),  My Little Heart Dropped In Coffee by Duncan Macmillan, Babies by Katie Douglas (Paines Plough/Young Vic Wild Lunch) and Camarilla by Van Badham (Old Red Lion London/Edinburgh Festival Fringe, nabokov).
Credits as associate director include: Long Time Dead by Rona Munro (Drum Theatre Plymouth, Paines Plough), After The End by Dennis Kelly (New York/Moscow/National Tour, Paines Plough) and Nikolina by Van Badham (National Tour, nabokov).
George also produces Paines Plough's monthly writers' salon LATER.

James Grieve: Artistic Director, Nabokov

For nabokov, James directed and produced Kitchen at The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, and Edinburgh Festival; Bedtime For Bastards at The Old Red Lion Theatre and Edinburgh Festival; and Nikolina at The Edinburgh Festival and on tour. He produced Camarilla in Edinburgh and London, and Terre Haute in Edinburgh, on tour and at Trafalgar Studios. He will direct the World Premiere of Artefacts by Mike Bartlett at The Bush and on tour in 2008.
James trained as assistant and associate director to Josie Rourke, as staff director to Howard Davies on Philistines and Present Laughter at The National Theatre, and on The National Theatre Studio Director’s Course.
As a freelance director James’s credits include Luke Wright’s solo shows Poet Laureate and Poet & Man (Pleasance, Edinburgh and on tour); Simon Brodkin’s List Best Newcomer Award winning show Everyone But Himself and One Man Comedy Club (for Avalon: Pleasance, Edinburgh); Aisle 16’s Poetry Boyband (Time Out Critic’s Choice of the Year 2005) and Comfort by Mike Bartlett (Old Vic, 24 Hour Plays).

Gary Owen: Associate Writer, Watford Palace Theatre

Gary's plays include Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco, The Shadow of a Boy (which shared the 2002 George Devine Award, and won the 2003 Meyer Whitworth Award), The Drowned World (2003 Pearson Best Play Award, Fringe First) and Ghost City. His work has been produced all over the world from New York to Tokyo, and he has written new plays for the Royal National Theatre, the National Theatre of Scotland, and Sgript Cymru.  Gary’s play We That Are Left premiered at Watford Palace Theatre in April 2007.

Michael Bhim: Writer Facilitator for 200 Years, Watford Palace Theatre

Michael has worked with the Royal Court Theatre, Soho Theatre, the Tricycle (as part of the Bloomsberg Writers Group) and Paines Plough (Future Perfect Scheme). He is a past winner of the prestigious Alfred Fagon Award for most outstanding achievement by a writer of Caribbean descent. His play Distant Violence has been nominated for the Meyer Whitworth Award and his play Pure Gold completed a successful run at Soho Theatre in 2006.  Michael was the writer facilitator for 200 Years which was performed at Watford Palace Theatre in November 2007.

Dan Rebellato: Writer

Plays include Static, Mile End, Outright Terror Bold and Brilliant, Chekhov in Hell, A Modest Adjustment, and Here’s What I Did With My Body One Day. His plays for radio include Cavalry, Emily Rising and Antique Silver, and adaptations of Girlfriend in Coma, Dead Souls and Midwich Cuckoos. His work has been performed widely in Britain – at venues like the National Theatre, Young Vic, Traverse Theatre, Soho Theatre, Birmingham Rep, Plymouth Drum and Belfast Grand – and also in Germany, Spain and the US. He also lectures in theatre at Royal Holloway University of London.