Katherine Chandler is a Welsh playwright whose plays have been produced by companies such as National Theatre Wales, Bristol Old Vic, Sherman Cymru, Pentabus theatre, Theatr Nan”Og and Dirty Protest. She was the inaugural Winner of the BBC and National Theatre Wales, Wales Drama Award, with Parallel Lines. Her first play, Before it Rains, won the Writers” Guild Playwright award, Theatre Critics of Wales award, and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn prize. Her play Bird won the 2013 Bruntwood Judges” prize. Her adaptation of Terry Jones”s fairytales The Silly Kings was produced by National Theatre Wales in Cardiff Castle, and her play Hood was performed as part of the National Theatre Connections.