Tim Fountain is een auteur en toneelschrijver wiens werk zich vaak verdiept in thema's als identiteit, seksualiteit en de Britse cultuur, met scherpe humor en provocerende taal. Zijn schrijven verkent gemarginaliseerde figuren en maatschappelijke normen met een onderscheidend perspectief, waardoor hij een opmerkelijke stem is in de hedendaagse Britse literatuur en theater. Fountain breidt zijn creatieve inspanningen ook uit naar schrijven voor televisie, radio en journalistiek.
Guides the would-be playwright over the many hurdles that must be cleared. This work raises - and provides answers to - over fifty topics ranging from 'Should you know which theatre you are writing for?' to 'What if you get stuck?' and on to 'Where do you send your script?' It also includes a directory of theatres and contacts.
With a childhood surrounded by alcoholism and petty cruelties, an adolescence of rebellion and punkish anarchy and an adulthood peppered with heroin addiction, voluntary crucifixion, failed suicide and a penchant for sex with prostitutes, Sebastian Horsley’s life was always destined to become a work of art. An artist, dandy and author who was perhaps best known for having undergone a voluntary crucifixion in the Philippines before beginning a regular column in The Erotic Review, Horsley’s memoirs focused on his dysfunctional family, his drug addictions, sex, and his love of prostitutes, and unsurprisingly became a cult literary sensation. Soho Theatre's theatrical version, has been adapted from Horsley’s no-holds-barred memoir and directed by fellow moral delinquent Tim Fountain. This insane tale of the prototype of modern day dandyism has now found its spiritual platform in the heart of the crazy village he likes to call home. Dandy In The Underworld premiered at Soho Theatre in the summer of 2010.