Rotterdam

About Mr Jon Brittain

Jon Brittain is a playwright comedy writer and director. His play Rotterdam won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre and was nominated for the Evening Standards Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright. His other plays include the Fringe First Award-winning A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) and the critically acclaimed musical adaptation of David Walliams childrens book Billionaire Boy. He co-wrote and directed the cult hit Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho and its sequel Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows. He has directed all of John Kearns stand-up shows including the Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning Sight Gags for Perverts and Shtick. He has also directed shows for Tom Allen Tom Rosenthal and Mat Ewins. Most recently he directed the world premiere of Richard Gadds Fringe First Award-winning play Baby Reindeer. For television he has worked as a staff writer for Cartoon Networks The Amazing World of Gumball and Netflixs The Crown. Stephen Farrier is Reader in Theatre and Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama University of London UK. With Alyson Campbell has co-edited Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer (2015) as well as a themed edition of RIDE The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance named the Gender and Sexuality Issue.