what happens to the hope at the end of the evening

Andy Smith has been making theatre and performance under the name a smith since 2003, creating a body of work that is characteristically simple and accessible in form but unafraid to approach and address big and complex subjects and ideas. His most recent works for theatre are all that is solid melts into air (2011) and commonwealth (2012).

Along with Karl James he has co-directed An Oak Tree, ENGLAND and The Author by Tim Crouch. He is currently undertaking a practice-as-research PhD at Lancaster University, where he also teaches applied theatre practice and performance composition.

Karl’s theatre work these days finds him co-directing the plays of Tim Crouch with Andy Smith. My Arm, An Oak Tree, England and The Author have enjoyed success in the UK and abroad.

As director of The Dialogue Project - founded by Karl in response to the events of 9/11 -most of his time is spent enabling powerful and productive conversations, bringing together people with different points of view to help them co-create ideas and resolutions. As a dialogue artist Karl records, edits and publishes conversations sometimes considered too difficult to talk about. His audio work includes the ongoing podcast series 2+2=5 and the acclaimed A Different Kind of Justice for BBC Radio 4. Karl recorded and created the content for Chris Goode’s Monkey Bars, his work is a regular feature of Latitude Festival since it began in 2005 and later this year his first book Big Conversations will be published by Pearson.