Alice Birch is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose recent plays include [BLANK] (DonmarWarehouse / Clean Break), Orlando (Schaubühne, Berlin) and Anatomy of a Suicide (Royal Court Theatre).
She has written for television, adapting Normal People (with Sally Rooney and Mark O’Rowe, for which she and Sally were nominated for an Emmy award) and Conversations with Friends.
She was the Story Editor for Season 2 of Succession (HBO) and, more recently, Lead Writer and Executive Producer on the critically acclaimed Dead Ringers, starring Rachel Weisz, for Annapurna and Amazon. Her debut feature, Lady Macbeth, won five British Independent Film Awards in 2017, including Best Screenplay. Her second feature was an adaptation of Graham Swift’s novel Mothering Sunday for Number 9 Films and Film 4. More recently, she co-wrote The Wonder with Sebastián Lelio and Emma Donoghue. She was also awarded the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2018, the George Devine Award (for Revolt. She said. Revolt again), and the Arts Foundation Award for Playwriting.

Christophe Rauck founded his company in 1995 with actors from the Théâtre du Soleil. From 2003 to 2005, he was director of the Théâtre du Peuple de Bussang, where he created Le Dragon [The Dragon] by Evgueni Schwartz, La Vie de Galilée [Life of Galileo] by Bertolt Brecht and Le Revizor [The Government Inspector] by Nikolai Gogol. He then staged Getting Attention by Martin Crimp at the Théâtre des Abbesses, and L’Araignée de l’Éternel based on texts by Claude Nougaro, and Le Mariage de Figaro by Beaumarchais at the Comédie-Française before directing the TGP centre dramatique national de Saint-Denis from 2008 to 2013. He created Coeur ardent [The Ardent Heart] by Alexander Ostrovski, Têtes rondes et têtes pointues [Round Heads and Pointed Heads] by Bertolt Brecht, Cassé by Rémi De Vos and Les Serments indiscrets [Careless Vows] by Pierre de Marivaux (Grand prix du Syndicat de la critique). During this period, he also staged Phèdre by Racine and two operas by Monteverdi. In 2014, he was appointed director of the Théâtre du Nord and its affiliated school, the École du Nord, in Lille. He has directed three plays by Rémi De Vos (Toute ma vie j’ai fait des choses que je ne savais pas faire, Ben oui mais enfin bon and Départ volontaire), Figaro divorce by Odön von Horvath (Prix Georges-Lerminier du Syndicat de la critique: best provincial production), Comme il vous plaira [As You Like It] by Shakespeare and recently, two plays by Sara Stridsberg: La Faculté des rêves [The Faculty of Dreams] and Dissection d’une chute de neige [Anatomy of a Snowfall]. In 2017, he created Molière’s Amphitryon in Moscow, with eight former students of Piotr Fomenko. Invited to the 2018 Festival d’Avignon with the young actors graduating from Year 5 of the École du Nord, Christophe Rauck presented Le Pays lointain
(Un arrangement) by Jean-Luc Lagarce.

Since January 2021, Christophe Rauck has been the director of the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers.
In July 2022, for the 76th Festival d’Avignon, he staged Shakespeare’s Richard II, which opened the 22-23 season at the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers.