The Production Team
Steering Group
Henry Sutton
UEA Team
Henry Sutton is Professor of Creative Writing and Crime Fiction, and the Director of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of 14 novels and a collection of short stories, including My Criminal World, Kids’ Stuff (which was adapted for the stage, and received an Arts Council Writer’s Award), and Get Me Out Of Here. The first in his new crime series, The Hotel Inspector: Mallorca, will be published by Kampa Verlag (Berlin, Zurich) in spring 2021. He also co-edited a collection of essays, Domestic Noir: The New Face of 21st Century Crime Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Jean McNeil
UEA Team
Jean McNeil is the author of 14 books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and travel. Her work has been shortlisted for or won several international awards. Most recently, her account of a year spent as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, Ice Diaries, (ECW Press) won the 2016 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival Grand Prize and was named as one of the best nature books of 2018 by the Guardian. A new novel, Day for Night, is forthcoming in May, 2021. At UEA she is Professor of Creative Writing and Co-ordinator of the International programme for Literature, Drama and Creative Writing.
Tessa McWatt
UEA Team
Tessa McWatt is the author of six novels and two books for young people. Her fiction has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the City of Toronto Book Awards, and the OCM Bocas Prize. She is one of the winners of the Eccles British Library Award 2018 for her first non-fiction book, Shame On Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging, which won the 2020 Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction. She co-edited, with Dionne Brand and Rabindranath Maharaj, Luminous Ink: Writers on Writing in Canada. She is also a librettist, Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, and is on the Board of Trustees at Wasafiri.
Tim Wright
Executive Producer (Digital)
Tim Wright is a writer, crossplatform producer, interactive consultant and tutor, who has worked at the cutting edge of digital media since 1994. He was a director of two successful dotcom entertainment startups in the 1990s – NoHo Digital & XPT. His writing credits include two BAFTA-winning interactive projects: the comedy self help disk ‘Mind Gym’ and web & email drama ‘Online Caroline’.
Tim has consulted, produced and written for many high profile cross media projects in the entertainment & arts industries and also in the education and public information sectors. He led the Creative Producing for Digital Platforms Diploma course at the National Film and TV School – and in 2018 became the school’s first Acting Head of Immersive, helping to launch the National Centre for Immersive Storytelling.
Molly Taylor
UEA Team
Molly Taylor is an arts manager, who spent her former career working in museums and galleries including National Gallery and Victoria Miro Gallery, and as exhibitions manager for artist filmmaker Isaac Julien. She has worked on exhibitions at MoMA, New York; SESC Pompeia, São Paulo Brazil; Museum Brandhorst, Munich; Hayward Gallery, London; Tate, Liverpool, Sydney Biennale, Australia and Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, amongst others.
She has production and post-production credits on four multi-screen installations and a biopic of Derek Jarman featuring Tilda Swinton. She is now Festival and Events Manager at UEA working across a broad range public-facing and academic events for the Arts and Humanities Faculty such as flagship engagement events UEA Live and Noirwich.
UEA Leads
Justine Mann
UEA Lead - Tash Aw
Justine Mann is Lead Archivist for the British Archive for Contemporary Writing at UEA and is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA. She works with researchers and writers to curate public exhibits of literary archival material that illuminate the creative process, the most recent of which was Doris Lessing 100.
Sophie Scott-Brown
UEA Lead - Mitch Johnson
Sophie Scott-Brown is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of East Anglia with research interests in modern British politics, activist lives and performance theory. Her book, The Histories of Raphael Samuel: A Portrait of a People’s Historian (ANU Press, 2017) examined the political imagination of the first British New Left through the life of its elusive founder. She is currently writing a biography of Colin Ward, the most prominent British anarchist writer of the twentieth century.
Jos Smith
UEA Lead - Mona Arshi
Jos Smith is a lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Academic Director of the British Archive for Contemporary Writing at UEA. He has published widely on the relationship between literature and cultural geography, and literature and the environmental movement. He also publishes poetry and non-fiction.
Rebecca Stott
UEA Lead - Imogen Hermes Gowar
Rebecca Stott is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at UEA, a radio broadcaster and writer. She is the author of fourteen books including most recently the Costa-award-winning memoir In the Days of Rain, the novels Ghostwalk and The Coral Thief and several books on the history of science such as Darwin and the Barnacle and Darwin’s Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists. She is currently writing a historical novel set in the sixth century in the ruins of Londinium after the evacuation of the Romans. She is a regular broadcaster for Radio Four’s A Point of View.
Steve Waters
UEA Lead - James McDermott
Steve Waters is a playwright and Professor of Scriptwriting at UEA; his many plays for the stage include Temple and Limehouse for the Donmar Warehouse, and his diptych of plays on climate change The Contingency Plan first staged at The Bush Theatre in 2009 and to be revived by Donmar/Theatre Clwyd in 2021; he also writes for radio with award-winning recent multi-part podcasts such as Fall of the Shah and Miriam and Youssef for BBC World Service. He is currently embarking on an AHRC funded Leadership Fellowship scheme ‘The Song of the Reeds: Dramatising Conservation’; his books include The Secret Life of Plays and the forthcoming A Life in 16 Films.
Jean McNeil
UEA Lead - Ayobami Adebayo
Jean McNeil is the author of 14 books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and travel. Her work has been shortlisted for or won several international awards. Most recently, her account of a year spent as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, Ice Diaries, (ECW Press) won the 2016 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival Grand Prize and was named as one of the best nature books of 2018 by the Guardian. A new novel, Day for Night, is forthcoming in May, 2021. At UEA she is Professor of Creative Writing and Co-ordinator of the International programme for Literature, Drama and Creative Writing.
CHASE Researchers
Sasha Bergstrom-Katz
Researcher & Website Editor
Sasha Bergstrom-Katz is an artist and researcher working on a practice-led PhD in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck. She completed her MFA in Art at the University of California, Irvine in 2018. She exhibits internationally and is looking toward residencies at the Inter Arts Center (IAC) University of Lund, Sweden and The Braunschweig University of Art (HBK). Her research spans artistic methodology, psychoanalysis, queer theory and the history and philosophy of science.
Wes Brown
Researcher & Website Editor
Wes Brown is a writer, lecturer, and researcher based at the University of Kent. He has been awarded a CHASE doctoral scholarship to research narrative nonfiction, teaches creative writing at the University of East London, and has a background in publishing. He has written for The Real Story, Litro, The Mechanic’s Institute Review, Aesthetica, Storgy and the TLS. He is currently writing an autobiographical novel about his time as a pro wrestler.
Andrew Kenrick
Legacy Officer & Website Editor
Andrew Kenrick is a writer, editor and CHASE-funded researcher based at the University of East Anglia, where he teaches English literature and publishing. His research is focused on new ways of writing biography; he is currently researching the 1st C BC Roman client-kings Juba II and Cleopatra Selene. He is also the founder and editor of the nonfiction magazine Hinterland.
Digital Production Partners
Guildhall Live Events (GLE)
Production Partner - Mitch, James, Tash
Mutiny
Production Partner - Ayobami, Imogen, Mona
Mutiny is a public art organisation inspired by the potential to bring new stories and experiences to audiences across the UK and Europe. Connecting the excitement of a live show, with the wonder of new mobile technologies, Mutiny is playful, diverse and always entertaining. The company programmes its own new work and helps other people to develop ambitious new projects.
Mutiny has direct expertise in curating digital projects, commissioning, digital and conventional theatre and outdoor events and activities. Mutiny makes all of it’s work in house, with broad input from skilled associates
The core creative team of Mutiny are Sophie Mellor, Marcus Romer and Simon Poulter.
GRIT Digital
Website design & development
PR and Marketing Partners
Grafik Language
Copywriting & Social Media Management
“Around our writing tables we gather people with passions as broad as the worlds we create. We are novelists, painters, videographers, podcasters, and even fire-eaters and our professional and creative expertise spans creative, technical, commercial and corporate worlds. Our lives are varied, our backgrounds vast and we’ve come together because we love words – what they can do, what we can do with them and the worlds we can create when we put them together just right.”
Meantime Media
Video Production
Ark Design
Graphic Design & Print