Polly Teale is Joint Artistic Director of Shared Experience. Her productions for the company include Mermaid, Speechless (co-writer/director; Fringe First Award), The Glass Menagerie, Mine (writer/director), Ten Tiny Toes, Kindertransport, Jane Eyre (director/adapter, touring and West End), Brontë, After Mrs Rochester (writer/director, touring and West End; Evening Standard Award for Best Director, Time Out Award for Best West End Production), Madame Bovary, The Clearing, A Doll’s House, The House of Bernarda Alba, Desire Under the Elms; and as co-director with Nancy Meckler: War and Peace (co-production with the National Theatre) and Mill on the Floss. Further writing credits include Afters (BBC Screen Two) and Fallen (Traverse, Edinburgh/ Drill Hall).