Juan Radrigán is the elder statesman of South American playwrights. He won the Chilean Critics’ Circle Art Award in 1981 and 1982, the Altazor Prize in 2005 and the 2011 Seal of National Excellence (Chile), as well as representing his country as a special guest at multiple international festivals and cultural conferences. Robert Shaw graduated from Cambridge University. In May 1995 he founded Inside Intelligence. Robert’s translation of Fermín Cabal’s Tejas Verdes received its UK premiere at the Gate in 2005 with Gemma Jones, directed by Thea Sharrock. It was first performed in a reading at Jermyn Street Theatre in 2002 directed by Robert with Joely Richardson and Patsy Byrne. He has worked extensively in Theatre, most recently directing Happy New (Trafalgar Studios).