Adrian Jackson is the Artistic Director of Cardboard Citizens, which he founded in 1991. He has directed over thirty plays for the company, including adaptations of Timon of Athens and Pericles as co-productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Visible by Sarah Woods, which toured nationally. He has written numerous Forum Theatre plays for the company, most notably Home and Away and Going Going Gone, both of which have also been performed by Formaat Theatre in Rotterdam. He recently directed Mincemeat, co-written with Farhana Sheikh, for Radio Four. He has worked extensively abroad, teaching the Theatre of the Oppressed of Augusto Boal, whose books he translated into English. Farhana Sheikh in her own words: I am: a novelist (The Red Box); a playwright (Arabian Nights, The Flood etc); a Lahori, who does not live in Lahore; a Londoner, who does not live in London; a foreigner, who writes about the West; a feminist, who writes about women: sweatshops, Scheherazade; and about men: Gilgamesh, Gulliver, Glyndwr Michael. I have: a British passport; a house; some money. I eat: enough, more than many.
