Trap Street & Dinomania: Two Plays by Kandinsky

Author Biography

  Kandinsky is Al Smith, James Yeatman and Lauren Mooney. James co-founded Kandinsky while at Edinburgh University. For Kandinsky: There Is A Light That Never Goes Out: Scenes From the Luddite Rebellion (Director/writer), Dinomania (Director/writer), Trap Street (Director/Writer), Still Ill (Director/Writer), Dog Show (Director), Limehouse Nights (Director/Writer), Enola (Performer/Director), Radio (Director), On Wonderland (Director), The Bird (Director/Performer), The Bee (Performer) Other work includes: Persuasion – Royal Exchange (Dramaturg/co-adaptor with Jeff James), The Kid Stays In The Picture – Royal Court (co-adaptor and co-director with Simon McBurney), Beware of Pity – Schaubuhne (co-adaptor and co-director with Simon McBurney)  Lionboy by Marcelo Dos Santos for Complicite – Tricycle and International Tour (Co-Director with Clive Mendus); Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood – Harold Pinter Theatre (Associate Director); The Master and Margarita by Complicite from Bulgakov – Barbican & International Tour (Associate Director).     Al Smith co-founded Kandinsky while at Edinburgh University. For Kandinsky he has written Enola, Radio and The Bird, and co-written Dog Show and Still Ill. Other writing includes: The Astronaut Wives Club (Soho), Sport (Headlong), Harrogate (HighTide/Royal Court), and Diary of a Madman (Traverse/Gate). He writes extensively for radio and television, and was the winner of the inaugural Wellcome Trust BFI / Film4 Screenwriting Prize. He is currently under commission at the Royal Court Theatre and the Traverse Theatre.     Lauren Mooney is a writer, producer and dramaturg. She joined Kandinsky in 2015. Work with the company includes DOG SHOW (as producer/dramaturg), STILL ILL, TRAP STREET, DINOMANIA (all as producer/co-writer), and THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT (co-creator/dramaturg). She is a graduate of the Royal Court Playwriting course, has written about arts and culture for Exeunt, The Stage and The Guardian, and worked for two years in the literary team at Clean Break Theatre Company, where she co-edited their monologue collection Rebel Voices (Methuen, 2019). She is currently the David Higham Scholar on the Creative Writing MA at University of East Anglia.