Kay AdsheadKay Adshead is a poet, playwright and theatre maker. In 1999 with Lucinda Gane she co-founded award-winning theatre company Mama Quilla, producing: The Bogus Woman (Fringe First, Adelaide Fringe Sensation Award, M.E.N. award for best actress, nominatd for an E.M.M.A and Susan Smith Blackburn Award.) at the Traverse and the Bush; Bites, the Bush (nominated for Susan Smith Blackburn Award); and Bones at the Haymarket Leicester and the Bush. All plays have subsequently been produced internationally. Ongoing projects include Acts Of Defiance and Working Girls. She has written over twenty-five plays, including Thatcher's Women for Paines Plough at the Tricycle, (nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award); Bacillus for the Royal Court; Animal for Soho Theatre Company (nominated for Encore Best Play of Year); and Lady Chill for the RNT. Recently she contributed to Thatcherwrite for Theatre503 and wrote Happy Ending for Natural Shocks. She lives between London, and Houston Texas. Read More Read Less