Ian McHugh was born in Norwich and brought up in Great Yarmouth. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and a doctorate in English Literature from the University of Sussex.

His work includes The Uncanny (Old Vic New Voices), Behind Closed Doors (Old Vic New Voices), supplementary text for Massinger’s Believe What You Will (RSC), How to Curse (Bush Theatre), Come to Where I’m From (Paines Plough), Women Who Set Fires and the Men Who Stalk Them (The Miniaturists), Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre) and Binary (Curious Directive/HighTide).