Naomi Alderman worked with Artangel on Longplayer Assembly – joining 23 other participants in a non-stop 12-hour conversation relay presented live online on 26 September 2020, marking the twentieth anniversary of Longplayer.
Alderman is a novelist and game writer. Her most recent novel The Power was the winner of the 2017 Baileys' Women's Prize for Fiction. It was longlisted for the 2017 Orwell Prize and chosen as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, NPR, Entertainment Weekly and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her first novel, Disobedience, was published in ten languages and has recently been adapted into a feature-length film by Oscar-winning director Sebastián Lelio, starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams. Alderman has worked as a games writer for over a decade, and is a lead writer on the alternate reality game Perplex City.
In 2012 she co-created the top-selling fitness game and audio adventure Zombies, Run!