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	BREAKFAST SHORTS   HighTide have invited leading playwrights to contribute unperformed short plays to be performed exclusively at the HighTide Festival. At the start of each festival day, HighTide will feature premiere performances from the HighTide company of these short plays.   Extra Ordinary by Laura Wade Belfast by Owen McCafferty Directed by Kate Wasserberg Saturday 3rd May // 9.30 // Ticket Price: £7/£5 Book Tickets >>    No Dad by David Eldridge Flowers by Rebecca Lenkiewicz Directed by Michael Longhurst Sunday 4th May // 10.00 // Ticket Price: £7/£5 Book Tickets >>    Lawrenny Hall by Gary Owen Untitled by Chloe Moss Directed by Lucy Kerbel Monday 5th May // 10.00// Ticket Price: £7/£5 Book Tickets >>    BIOGRAPHIES Owen McCafferty Owen lives with his wife and three children in Belfast. His previous work includes, Closing Time for the National Theatre (2002) and Scenes From The Big Picture also at the National (2003), which won the John Whiting Award, the Meyer Whitworth Award and the Evening Standard Charles Wintour Award for New Playwriting. His stage version of JP Miller's Days of Wine & Roses was produced at the Donmar Warehouse (2005), and Shoot the Crow, at the Trafalgar Studio (2005) received an Olivier Award nomination for Best New Comedy. His other recent work includes Cold Comfort produced by Primecut and Theatre 503 (2006) also directed by Owen and a revival of Mojo Mickybo at Trafalgar Studio (2007). At present Owen is commissioned to write a play for the National Theatre. David Eldridge David's plays have been performed at major new writing institutions in the UK, including The Royal Court Theatre, the Bush Theatre, the Finborough Theatre and the National Theatre. His stage adaptation of the film Festen transferred from the Almeida Theatre to the West End and Broadway. Theatre includes: Market Boy (National Theatre), Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness (Royal Court Theatre), M.A.D. (Bush Theatre), Under the Blue Sky (Royal Court Theatre), Falling (Hampstead Theatre), Thanks Mum (Red Room/Battersea Arts Centre), Summer Begins (Donmar Warehouse). Rebecca Lenkiewicz Stage plays include: Soho - a Tale of Table Dancers (won a Fringe First at Edinburgh then toured Israel with the British Council and opened the Arcola Theatre in 2001); The Night Season (National Theatre, Cottesloe, nominated for an Evening Standard Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and won the Critics' Circle Award 2004 for Most Promising Playwright); Shoreditch Madonna (Soho Theatre, 2005); adaptation of Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale (Old Vic, 2006); Blue Moon Over Poplar (NYT/Soho Theatre, 2006); Invisible Mountains (written for 11 year olds toured London Schools with the NT Education Department, 2006); Justitia (for the Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company, UK Tour and Sadlers Wells, 2007); adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy Of The People (Arcola Theatre, 2008). Radio Plays include: Fighting For Words (BBC, 2005, Observer Critics' Choice, Pick of the Day); Caravan Of Desire (BBC, 2006, Telegraph Critics' Choice, Radio Times Choice, Pick of The Week); Blue Moon Over Poplar (BBC, 2006). Rebecca has adapted The Sea Change by Elizabeth Jane Howard into a screenplay for Fragile Films. She is presently under commission to the Royal National Theatre who will produce her next play Her Naked Skin on the Olivier stage in July 2008. Chloe Moss Chloe wrote her first professional play, A Day In Dull Armour, as part of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme. She soon became a writer-in-residence at the Bush and is under commission to the Manchester Royal Exchange, the Royal Court, Paines Plough, Liverpool Everyman and Clean Break Theatre Company. Theatre includes: How Love is Spelt, (Bush Theatre, Off-Broadway), Christmas Is Miles Away (Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, Bush Theatre), The Way Home (Liverpool Everyman), Catch (with April De Angelis, Laura Wade, Stella Feehily, and Tanika Gupta) (Royal Court) Gary Owen His first attempt at playwriting, Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco, was produced by Paines Plough in 2001, and has since been staged all over the world. The Shadow of a Boy was produced by the Royal National Theatre in 2002, and won the George Devine Award and the Meyer Whitworth Award. The Drowned World, again directed by Vicky Featherstone at Paines Plough, won the Pearson Best Play Award and a Fringe First at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival, and has had many productions since then. Other work includes a number of radio plays for the BBC, and the stage plays Cancer Time, Ghost City, An Enemy for the People and most recently We That Are Left at the Watford Palace Theatre. Laura Wade Previous plays include Catch (Royal Court Theatre, collectively-written with April de Angelis, Stella Feehily, Tanika Gupta and Chloe Moss), Other Hands (Soho Theatre), Colder Than Here (Soho Theatre and subsequently off-Broadway at MCC Theater New York), Breathing Corpses (Royal Court Theatre), Young Emma (Finborough Theatre), 16 Winters (Bristol Old Vic Basement), The Wild Swans, TwelveMachine and The Last Child (Playbox Theatre at the Dream Factory, Warwick) and Limbo (Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield). Laura was awarded the 2005 Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, and she was also nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. Breathing Corpses earned Laura the 2005 Pearson Best Play Award and she was joint winner of the 2005 George Devine Award. Radio plays include Good Times Roll (broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 as part of the Royal Court 50th Birthday celebrations) and Otherkin (BBC Radio 4). Laura is currently working on new plays for the Royal Court Theatre, Hampstead Theatre and West End producer David Pugh, as well as her first screenplay.