About Neil Bartlett

Neil Bartlett works as a performer, director, translator and writer and lives in Brighton. He set up The 1982 Theatre Company and was a founding member of Gloria theatre company; he has previously worked as director for Theatre de Complicite and Artistic Director of the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, leaving the latter in 2004 to return to independent directing creating work for Royal Shakespeare Company, The Brighton Festival and the Manchester International Festival amongst others. His novel Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall was Capital Gay’s Book of the year 1990 and another, Mr. Clive and Mr. Page, was nominated for the Whitbread prize in 1996; his most recent novel, Skin Lane was published in March 2007.