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Alice Birch’s film work includes Mothering Sunday, Lady Macbeth,
which won the BIFA for Best Screenplay in 2017 and was nominated for
Outstanding Debut & Best British Feature BAFTA 2018. Alice has also

written for TV, working on Normal People (BBC / Element Pictures)
adapted from the novel by Sally Rooney. Alice has also worked on their
forthcoming adaptation of Sally Rooney’s CONVERSATIONS WITH
FRIENDS. 2022 will see her new TV series, DEAD RINGERS, premiere
on Amazon, on which Alice is the Lead Writer and Executive Producer.
Alice was also in the writers’ room as Story Editor for Season 2
of Succession (HBO). In theatre, Alice has written [BLANK] (Donmar

Warehouse / Clean Break); Orlando (Schaubühne, Berlin); La Maladie de
la Mort (Bouffes du Nord); Anatomy of a Suicide, Ophelia’s Zimmer,
Revolt. She said. Revolt again (Royal Court Theatre); We Want You To
Watch (National Theatre); The Lone Pine Club (Pentabus); Little
Light (Orange Tree); Little on the inside (Almeida/Clean
Break); Salt (Comedie de Valence); and Many Moons (Theatre503).

Tom Coult composes playful and seductive music and has been
championed by many of the UK’s major orchestras and ensembles,
resulting in a series of acclaimed large-scale pieces including Beautiful
Caged Thing for soprano Claire Booth and the Mahler Chamber
Orchestra, Sonnet Machine for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, and St
John’s Dance (premiered by Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony
Orchestra to open the First Night of the 2017 BBC Proms). In 2021 he was
made Composer-in-Association with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra,

who have played his music on a number of occasions – the first major
piece of his residency was Pleasure Garden, a concerto for violinist
Daniel Pioro, also broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Listings

Tom Coult music
Alice Birch libretto

Anna Dennis Violet

Richard Burkhard Felix
Frances Gregory Laura
Andrew Mackenzie-Wicks The Clockkeeper