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Shevaun Wilder
Shevaun Wilder, a Dubliner, began work as an actor at The Abbey Theatre, the RSC, and the BBC. She then read English at Cambridge University. She has worked widely as a producer and director in regional and West End theatre, and on film. And produced festivals and events for the Directors Guild of GB, the Writer’s Guild of GB and BAFTA. She was Inaugural Artistic Director of the Mayfair Literary Festival in 2018/19. As Director of The Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation since 2017, Shevaun has produced, cast, and directed 26 Poetry Hours, and taken the Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, and W.H. Auden Poetry Hours to The Abbey Theatre, Dublin.