Paul Bourne is a freelance director and Artistic Director of Menagerie Theatre Company, Cambridge, the East of England’s leading independent new writing theatre company. He has been developing new work for over fifteen years during which he has directed over fifty productions. He spent two years as the Artistic Director at Center Stage, New York, where he also taught directing at New School and The Actor’s Studio, and six years as a freelance director in Germany, Italy and Belgium. Credits include directing the European première of David Mamet’s Oleanna and the world premiere of Tennessee Williams’s last short play Williams’ Guignol. For Menagerie he is Artistic Director of the Hotbed Festival, and has directed Steve Waters’s The Cull, The Gifts of War by Fraser Grace, Seeds by Diane Samuels, Sweetie Pie by Anna Reynolds, and Hard Sell by Craig Baxter. Each of these pieces were commissioned and developed through the company’s own workshop process.