Róisín McBrinn is a theatre director. She became Joint Artistic Director of Clean Break in 2018. Prior to this she was Head of the Artistic Programme since 2014 with responsibility for commissioning and developing writers and artists. She has directed many productions including shows at The Abbey Theatre, The Gate Theatre (Dublin), West Yorkshire Playhouse, The Donmar Warehouse, Sheffield Theatres, The Bush Theatre and Sherman [...] Clean Break, she has directed Joanne by Deborah Bruce, Theresa Ikoko, Laura Lomas, Chinonyerem Odimba and Ursula Rani Sarma; House by Somalia Seaton; Amongst the Reeds by Chinonyerem Odimba; and Thick as Thieves by Katherine Chandler.

Lauren Mooney is a writer, producer and dramaturg. She joined Clean Break in 2016 and worked as their Literary Producer until autumn 2018, supporting emerging writers and producing the company's engagement work in prisons. Since 2015, she has co-run Kandinsky Theatre Company with director James Yeatman, where her work as producer and co-writer includes Dog Show, Still Ill and Trap Street (all New Diorama Theatre). In 2019, the company's work will include Dinomania (New Diorama Theatre), There Is a Light that Never Goes Out (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester) and a transfer of their 2018 show Trap Street to the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin. She is a graduate of the Royal Court Introduction to Playwriting course (2015) and has written extensively about theatre, arts and culture for Exeunt, The Stage and The Guardian. She is currently the David Higham Scholar on the Creative Writing MA at University of East Anglia.

Clean Break
Introduction Lucy Perman
Acknowledgements
Little on the inside by Alice Birch, B
[ BLANK ] by Alice Birch, A
Black Crows by Linda Brogan, Leonora
Jadan by Danni Brown, Jadan
Joanne by Deborah Bruce, Kath
Didn't Die by Annie Caulfield, Dinah
Thick as Thieves by Katherine Chandler, Karen
Spent by Katherine Chandler, Nat
Apache Tears by Lin Coghlan, Merle
Head-Rot Holiday by Sarah Daniels, Helen
Trainers by Raina Dunne AKA Titch, Ellie
Fingertips by Suhayla El-Bushra, Kidisti
Pests by Vivienne Franzmann, Pink
Sounds like an Insult by Vivienne Franzmann, Brenda
Blis-ta by Sonya Hale, Kat
Daddycation by Katie Hims, Jess
The Garden Girls by Jacqueline Holborough, Mary
Killers by Jacqueline Holborough, The Prisoner
FKA Queens by Theresa Ikoko, Ngozi
Firm by Daisy King, Stevie
it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now by Lucy Kirkwood, Dijana
Wicked by Bryony Lavery, Rosie
That Almost Unnameable Lust by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Katherine
Typical Girls by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Munch
Amazing Amy by Laura Lomas, Amy
Inside a Cloud by Sabrina Mahfouz, Carly
A Bitch like Me by Natasha Marshall, Lesha
Fatal Light by Chloë Moss, Jay
This Wide Night by Chloë Moss, Marie
Amongst the Reeds by Chinonyerem Odimba, Gillian
Te Awa I Tahuti (The River that Ran Away) by Rena Owen, Toni
Mules by Winsome Pinnock, Allie
Taken by Winsome Pinnock, Della
Yard Gal by Rebecca Prichard, Boo
Joanne by Ursula Rani Sarma, Grace
Red by Anna Reynolds, Kay
House by Somalia Seaton, Mama
Mercy Fine by Shelley Silas, Mercy
21.23.6.15 by Sandrine Uwayo, A Voice
And I and Silence by Naomi Wallace, Dee
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