The Hound of the Baskervilles

About Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Steven Canny is a writer director and producer for BBC Radio and has worked as an Associate Director and Dramaturg for Complicite. His plays include adaptations (with John Nicholson) of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles (Peepolykus 2007) and H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (Original Theatre 2023). John Nicholson is a writer director and performer. He is Co-Artistic Director of Peepolykus with whom he has toured throughout the UK and worldwide since 1995. As a writer his work includes: King Arthur (Le Navet Bete 2024); The Time Machine co-written with Steven Canny (Original Theatre 2023); Treasure Island (Le Navet Bete 2019); Dracula: The Bloody Truth (Le Navet Bete 2017); The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary co-written with Javier Marzan for Peepolykus (Liverpool Everyman 2016); and The Hound of the Baskervilles co-written with Steven Canny for Peepolykus (West Yorkshire Playhouse 2007). He has also written extensively for BBC Radio including Richards Rampage and the four-part series Trespassers Guide to the Classics (2015). As an actor he has numerous television credits particularly across the BBC and ITV.