Judges
For the 2024 QuietManDave Prize
Judges
Catherine Love
Catherine Love is a Lecturer in Theatre at the University of York. Her teaching and research focus on contemporary theatre-making practices, with a particular interest in ecodramaturgy and innovative uses of text. Alongside numerous journal articles and book chapters, she has published books on the relationship between text and performance in contemporary British theatre and on the work of writer and performer Tim Crouch. She also works as an arts journalist and has written for titles including the Guardian, The Stage and Exeunt, as well as appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row.
Catherine Love
Mufaro Makubika
Mufaro Makubika is a playwright living and working in Nottingham. He won the Alfred Fagon Award for best new play 2017 with SHEBEEN (Nottingham Playhouse/Theatre Royal Stratford East). Other credits include MALINDADZIMU (Hampstead Theatre), THIS IS NOT A COUP (Paines Plough) and WE NEED NEW NAMES (Fifth Word/New Perspectives and Brixton House). Mufaro won the 2023 Theatre Royal Haymarket Writers’ Award.
Mufaro Makubika
Michael Pinchbeck
Writer and theatre-maker, Michael Pinchbeck, co-founded Metro-Boulot-Dodo theatre company in 1997. His notable works include the live art project, The Long and Winding Road, and plays such as The White Album, The Ashes, and Bolero. Currently, he is working on The Berger & Mohr Trilogy and curates Bunker Talks at Manchester School of Art. His research explores the intersection of composed theatre, immersive theatre, and ‘staging scores’. Recent books include Staging Loss: Performance as Commemoration (2018), Acts of Dramaturgy: The Shakespeare Trilogy (2020) and Following the Score: The Ravel Trilogy (2024). He is Professor of Theatre at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Michael Pinchbeck
Joe Shute
Joe Shute is a writer and national newspaper journalist. He is the author of Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat (Bloomsbury, 2024), Forecast: A Diary of the Lost Seasons (Bloomsbury, 2021) and A Shadow Above: The Fall and Rise of the Raven (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is a contributor to national newspapers including the I, Independent and Daily Telegraph where he is the newspaper’s long-standing ‘Weather Watch’ columnist. He is currently a postgraduate researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Leverhulme Unit for the Design of Cities of the Future (LUDeC).
Joe Shute