Duncan Macmillan is a London-based writer, director and lecturer. He is the author of Lungs. Lungs was recently nominated for the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Play or Musical at the Helen Hayes/Theatre Washington Awards and is being produced in several cities in the US. His play Monster won two awards in the inaugural Bruntwood Playwriting Competition and was nominated in the Best New Play category of the MEN and TMA Awards.