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Dominic Slowie: Executive Director

Dominic is the founding father of Operating Theatre. A general practitioner who trained at Newcastle Medical School. he has been working in the Region since 1991. He developed an interest in the role of arts and humanities in medical education while working for ten years as a senior medical tutor at Newcastle University Medical School, completing a Masters Degree in Education focusing on the power and value of drama in medical education. Dominic works very closely with Carol in developing story ideas and characters and many of the plays that have been written were inspired by his clinical experiences over the years.  As well as continuing to work as a  GP, he  currently works as GP Advisor to Northumberland Tyne and Wear Foundation Trust and chairs the Learning Disability Clinical Innovation Team for the North East.

Carol Clewlow

Carol Clewlow has written the majority of the Operating Theatre plays. A novelist before becoming a playwright, she is best known for the best-selling A Woman's Guide to Adultery which became a television mini-series.  She has written five novels and been translated into 15 languages. Her most recent novel, also a best-seller, is Not Married Not Bothered.

Julia Darling

Julia Darling was a prolific poet, playwright and novelist. She wrote two novels, Crocodile Soup and The Taxi-Driver's Daughter.  Her best known collection of poetry Sudden Collapses in Public Places also deals with the subject of cancer.  Her plays were performed frequently on Radio 4 and she had a long association with Live Theatre in Newcastle. In 2005 she won the Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award, the country's biggest literary prize.

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