Joel Horwood

Joel Horwood burst on to the Edinburgh scene with his joyous first play, a musical entitled Mikey the Pikey, which won a Cameron Mackintosh Award. His second piece for Edinburgh, Food, about a troubled celebrity chef played by Sean Campion, won a Fringe First Award.

Joel's bittersweet depiction of East Anglian teenagers, I Caught Crabs At Walberswick, toured nationwide after premiering at the HighTide Festival and came to the Bush Theatre for a sell out run.

His ingenious adaptation of Dumas's epic novel The Count of Monte Cristo opened on the mainstage of the West Yorkshire Playhouse in May 2010