I am the son of a German Jew who came to England in the 1930s, who afterwardstranslated books about that history, but died when I was 15. I have always wanted
to understand more about the war. People would say I am quite argumentative,
impatient, irritable verging on the great dictatorial, but I think I am very patient.
I have a house, a car, a family, all that. I have an absence of memories from
childhood. Food is important, I eat and cook everything, it’s how I relax. I started
Cardboard Citizens.

I am: a novelist (The Red Box);
a playwright (Arabian Nights, The Flood etc);
a Lahori, who does not live in Lahore;
a Londoner, who does not live in London;
a foreigner, who writes about the West;
a feminist, who writes about women: sweatshops, Scheherazade;
and about men: Gilgamesh, Gulliver, Glyndwr Michael.
I have: a British passport; a house; some money.
I eat: enough, more than many.

I see myself as a transparent human-shaped container that stores a record of
decisions I make every day till the end of my life.
www.iriguchi.co.uk

Composer/Writer/Director – People say I take on too much, sleep too little.
Eat well… Exercise? Ha! They say they like my music, I’m not certain why. People
bought 10 million of my books…I ask 10 million more whys? I am Welsh, no I am
Canadian… I am Polish, no…none of these really and yes all passionately. Certainly
I am a loving father. There are people I love and have loved and lost. I try to avoid
hate. I have been homeless, I have been married, been displaced and artistically, I
seem to find myself best when I am all at sea!

I hope I am evolving, Too slowly for some. Too slowly for me.
I have luck with people, mostly.
Food is fuel, if I’m lucky enough to keep it down or up.
Slow, mostly lucky.

I say: I’m a theatre maker, a community campaigner, a mother, daughter and wife.
People say: I’m tenacious, bolshy, sometimes harsh, passionate, friendly, anxious
and strangely calm.
I have: a handbag full of keys, pencils, biscuits, insulin, notebooks, lists, lipsticks,
oyster cards (3) and a multitude of unsorted receipts.
I’m a bowl of rice, not a loaf of bread.

You are what people say you are,
Trained at Goldsmith’s and the The Bartlett School of Architecture. Worked as a
lighting designer in theatre opera and dance both nationally and internationally
productions La Vie Parisien (Malmö Opera), Sweden: Dead Man Walking
(Copenhagen Opera House), The Abduction from the Seraglio (Opera North).
You are what you say you are.
Someone who is interested in telling stories visually.
You are what you have.
I have two amazing children and we love living up the road in Stoke Newington.
You are what you eat.
In which case I am almost everything.

I am what I eat – rich, spicy, sweet, sour, bitter, hot, cold, à la carte, junk, fast,
delicate, tender, rare, exotic, local, take-away, international – take your pick – I am
complex and committed to them all. I am also a product of the house I love and live
in – London. Each day I think I might know where the rooms are, but suddenly I
stumble on a door I didn’t know was there. I’m surprised but not afraid to walk in
and turn the light on, where almost always I become someone new.
www.londonartistsprojects.com

Rather a personal question: what do people say you are? It’s gratifying to be valued
but mostly I just hope that people will get me. I am an optimist. I have a strong
sense of myself. Work is important. I like to be part of something that moves or
provokes people. I think opera can be sublime. I collect small, resonant objects and
images but live very simply in an attic. I wander. I take photographs. I cook. I drive
too fast. I like to be alone a lot but love my friends. There is never enough time.

People see me as French. Some people think I am too French, some people think I
am not French enough. People think I spend my life cooking French food, drinking
French wine and singing ‘Non, rien de rien’. But the fact is I can’t cook and I love
hamburgers so am I really French?
I possess nothing. I share everything. I share my life with my partner, and good
times and diffi cult times with my friends. Whoever I am, ‘je ne regrette rien’.

I am Stuart David Grey.
My grandfather was a rear gunner in WW2.
I am the youngest of three siblings. My mother says I was a gift from God.
I eat music and theatre and drink three pints of water a day.
I am hungry.
I own one pair of trousers which have a large hole in them.
I need a new pair of trousers.

Mother; friend, yoga practitioner, yoga teacher, sibling, aunt, maker of special
clothes for special people, gardener, violin player, lover of textiles; maker of bread;
costumier; comforter; great aunt; advisor; host of garden parties; maker of feasts;
lover of wild fl owers; admirer of the human body, admirer of all bodies, questioner;
collector of hand made textiles and artifacts, (especially from the Silk Road); lover
of music from Bach to Glass, and of course the London Gypsy Orchestra cos I play
with them.

I have a balcony and an occasional pet.
I have one TV but hundreds of books.
I have a fridge full of healthy food but don’t have the willpower to turn down
chocolate or crisps if they appear within reach.
I have an oven I don’t know how to use but a boyfriend who uses it on my behalf.
I have family in Canada and the US but have friends all over the world.
I have lots of shoes but hate shoe shopping…I don’t know how that happened…
I have no interest in mediocrity.

I see myself as someone who is very passionate about her job and about life. But I
am also a hopeless romantic, and that was the reason I left the comfort of home
to live in London. I love travelling and conversation. I know my big downfall can be
how opinionated I am at times, but I would never judge someone for believing in
something that I don’t. People say that I am temperamental at times (this is true!)
I possess a lot of happy memories. I eat a lot of chocolate in ANY shape or form, it’s
an easy way to get on my good side.

I am my mother’s daughter: stubborn and determined. I direct the course of my life
with the infl uences of my friends and family around me. I’m a hard and passionate
worker and enjoy what I do, whether its theatre productions, live music or events.
I’m not really sure what people say about me and perhaps it is better not knowing.
My friends tell me I’m good to them because I care, and I do, about them, my
family and my work.
I eat traditional home-made Jewish Mediterranean/Moroccan food made by the
inspirational, hard-working women of my family.
I have a goal and a dream that I want so much and everything that I do and every
job that I undertake will hopefully lead me to my ambition.

Kind-hearted, pop-experimentalist, hedonistic-anarcho-Marxist, pro-fox-hunting
vegetarian musician WLTM sexy atheist who gives blood.
I have no idea what anyone says about anything. I am a musician, my ears are
made out of wet asbestos. Safe to love because I already love music and chips
and such. My name is Ken Buddha. Last year and a bit of this, I lobbied to close a
loophole in the law that allows for eviction of tenants by lenders without notice. It
worked. The institution of government and the brains of its workforce, however, are
inedible.

People say I am a very strange person. This is due to the fact that I do on occasion
express my confusion by cocking my head and barking, some may say this is
because I grew up with two dogs in my household or because it was the easiest
way to talk to my baby brother.