Neil Bartlett has been making rule-breaking theatre and performance since 1983. After a controversial early career he was appointed Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith in London in 1994; since leaving the Lyric in 2005 major cultural producers he has worked for include the National, the Abbey in Dublin, the Bristol Old Vic , the Manchester Royal Exchange, the Edinburgh International, Manchester International , Brighton ,Aldeburgh and Holland Festivals , the Wellcome Foundation and Tate Britain .

Neil is also an acclaimed author, with a whole shelf of novels, plays, adaptations and translations to his name. His most recent novel, Address Book, was published by Inkandescent in 2021 – and his very first novel, Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall (1990) , has just been republished by Profile as a Serpents Tail Classic

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