John Donnelly's plays include The Pass and Bone (both Royal Court), versions of The Seagull (Headlong/UK Tour) and Tartuffe (National Theatre) and The Knowledge (Bush Theatre). He has written for television on shows by Dennis Kelly ( Utopia, Channel 4) and Jack Thorne ( Glue, Channel 4), and his screen adaptation of The Pass, starring Russell Tovey, opened the BFI Flare Festival in 2014. His plays have been published by Faber since 2007.