Biyi Bandele is a novelist and playwright who has worked with the Royal Court Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company in addition to writing radio drama and screenplays for television. His four novels include The Man Who Came In From the Back of Beyond; The Sympathetic Undertaker: and Other Dreams; The Street; and Burma Boy. His plays include Rain; Marching for Fausa; Resurrections in the Season of the Longest Drought; Two Horsemen, selected as Best New Play at the 1994 London New Plays Festival; Death Catches the Hunter; Me and the Boys; Happy Birthday Mister Deka; and Brixton Stories (a stage adaptation of his novel The Street). In 1997 he adapted Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart for the stage, and in 1999 wrote a new adaptation of Aphra Benn’s Oroonoko, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Bandele was born in Nigeria and now lives in London. He was Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge from 2000-2002, and Royal Literary Fund Resident Playwright at Bush Theatre from 2002-2003.