CV: Anthony Neilson

Age: 43Born: Edinburgh

Theatre work: The Big Lie; God In Ruins and The Drunks for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and The Death of Klinghoffer for Scottish Opera and the Edinburgh International Festival in 2005. Also an Artistic Associate of the National Theatre of Scotland for whom he directed Home: Edinburgh, and wrote and directed Realism as well as The Wonderful World of Dissocia, which won the 2007 TMA Award for Best Touring Production.

TV work: The Debt Collector; Spilsbury; Deeper Still and Spooks.