NINA RAINE graduated from Christ Church Oxford with a double First in English Literature. In 2000 she won the Channel Four/Jerwood Spaces Young Regional Theatre Director bursary and joined the Royal Court as a Trainee Director, while also writing plays. Her first play, Rabbit, premiered in London in 2006. In 2010 her play Tribes was a huge success at the Royal Court Theatre in London before being produced in New York and embarking on a highly successful US tour. She is the daughter of poet Craig Raine, and lives in London.