Rafaella Marcus is a writer, director and dramaturg from South London. As writer, her work for audio includes The Last Love Song of Suzie Costello (Big Finish); Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later, Trice Forgotten (Rusty Quill); The Gift, The You Play: small acts, The You Play Volume II: The Haunted Woman (45North/Atticist/EKP). Sap is her first full-length stage play. Their work as director focuses on new writing, often bringing to the stage marginalised voices. Recent directing credits include: BLUBBER (R&D); Richard II (RADA); Stop Kiss (Above The Stag); I Have a Mouth and I Will Scream (VAULT Festival – 2018 People’s Choice Award winner); Bury the Dead (Finborough Theatre); Alley. Pearls. Gunshot. (The Yard); Spooky Action at a Distance, Crave (Bunker Theatre); The Wild Party, The Window/Blank Pages (The Hope Theatre); Sonya and Andrey (Sheffield Theatres); Laughing Boy (site specific, Bethnal Green). Work as Associate Director includes: Blithe Spirit (Harold Pinter Theatre); Fury (Guildhall); The Cause (Jermyn Street Theatre). Work as Assistant Director includes: Emilia (Vaudeville Theatre); Pericles (Shakespeare’s Globe); Romeo and Juliet, The Wind in the Willows (Chester Performs); Boeing Boeing, Afterplay, Love Your Soldiers, The Winter’s Tale (Sheffield Theatres); The Killing of Sister George (Arts Theatre). Rafaella trained on the Birkbeck Theatre Directing MFA. In 2021, she was awarded an MGCFutures bursary to establish a new free script-reading scheme, supplying essential feedback to writers otherwise unable to access it. They were the runner-up of the JMK Award 2021.