Ibrahiim, Khadijah

Khadijah was born in Leeds of Jamaican parentage. Educated at the University of Leeds, she is a literary activist, theatre maker and published writer, who combines inter-disciplinary art forms to re-imagine poetry as performance theatre. Hailed as one of Yorkshire’s most prolific poets by the BBC, her work appears in university journals and poetry anthologies. […]

Iannucci, Armando

Armando Iannucci is a writer and broadcaster, who has written, directed and produced numerous critically acclaimed television and radio comedy shows. His screenplay for the film In The Loop was nominated for an Oscar at the Academy Awards, and his iconic series for BBC – The Thick of It – was nominated for 13 BAFTA Awards, […]

Icke, Robert

Robert Icke is a writer and theatre director. He is currently Associate Director at the Almeida, where his work has included new adaptations of Mary Stuart, Oresteia and 1984 (co-created with Duncan Macmillan), all of which transferred to the West End. His other recent work includes a new adaptation of Oedipus (Toneelgroep Amsterdam) and Hamlet […]

Ishiguro, Kazuo

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on 8 November 1954. He came to Britain in 1960 when his father began research at the National Institute of Oceanography, and was educated at a grammar school for boys in Surrey. Afterwards he worked as a grouse-beater for the Queen Mother at Balmoral before enrolling at the […]