This is Jack. Leave A Message, Alright? by Jimmy Osborne, dir Tom Hughes

Set in the voicemail of a missing teenager's mobile phone as his dad, his girlfriend and the police try to coax him back home.

(This is Jack. Leave a Message was the winner the BBC Writersroom Rapid Response Competition. Jimmy is a graduate of the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers Programme, where readings of his plays 'Ripples' and 'Windows' were performed. He is currently working with FallOut Theatre on an original play and an adaptation of a major novel for the stage)

(Tom Hughes is learning directing with Living Pictures and the Young Vic Genesis Programme. He is the Project Manager for the Living Pictures Directors Acting programme. Directing includes:  'Best Men'' for LPG, Etcetera Theatre, Tape (Warwick Student Arts Festival), 'The Great Irish Elk' (Theatre503), 'Zoo Meat' (One Night Stands). Assistant directing includes: 'Bronte' 2010 & 2011 (Shared Experience / Watermill Theatre / Oxford Playhouse), 'Wild Horses' (Theatre503), 'Three Minute Hero' (Cock Tavern Theatre)

Lucky Stars by Charles Inge, dir Kati Rynne

A Bloody Farce in One Act: A cheerful contract killer and his world-weary victim come to terms with life, death and horoscopes.

(Charles Inge is one of advertising's most awarded copywriters. He is currently taking an MA in writing for Screen and Stage at Regent's College, London. Lucky Stars is his first play.)

(Kati trained at the École Philippe Gaulier and the École de Mime Corporel Dramatique. She has directed Shakespeare, Beckett and Sophocles at the Drama Barn York and was assistant director at York Theatre Royal and at the Trestle Theatre Company. Kati has won awards for choreography (dance) and has choreographed aerialists at the Circus Space. She is currently leading research and development work on plays by Ibsen and J. B. Priestley and has devised and directed 'Chopped Onion' for the Brockley Jack and Cockpit Theatre which will be staged this November and December. She runs workshops for actors at Transmission Workshop and Acting Gymnasium).

I Made You A Mixed Tape, by Teresa Burns, dir Ben Buratta

3 am. 2 best friends: In a bid to win back her ex-boyfriend, Jess is on a mission to compile the perfect mixed-tape but her best friend Sara is on a mission of her own.

(Teresa is a writer, theatre maker and co-director of How It Ended Productions. Teresa graduated from the University of Birmingham's Playwriting MPhil in 2009 and since then has written several plays including 'The Museum of Us' (Tour), 'Roll Credits' (Hen and Chickens), 'Waterproof' (Riverside Studios/Pleasance Dome) and 'Kindness on the Northern Line' (BAC)

(Ben is founder and director of  'Outbox', an all gay theatre company that had a sell out run at The Drill Hall and mac, Birmingham with a 'The Front Room'. Ben has been funded for a further three years to make LGBT work. He trained as a director at Central School of Speech and Drama and is a member of their acting staff as well as working regularly as a tutor at The Actors Centre. Ben was selected as a director for 'Starting Blocks', an artist development scheme at Camden People's Theatre and  his piece, 'Temperance' was performed there as part of the Sprint Festival. He has previously directed for East 15 Acting School, The Cockpit Theatre, Sixth Sense Theatre for Young People, Wycombe Swan Theatre, Wyvern Theatre and for various community and arts organisations.)

A Riot of My Own, by Andrew Curtis, dir Daniel Raggett

"You got a toaster?"  "It was hectic okay. What was I supposed to do? It aint like normal shopping."  Four individuals with four personal riots of their own.

(Andrew has been writing plays for a few years and was a student in three cohorts of the Royal Court's Young Writers Programme. He received a rehearsed reading of 'Exodus' at the Clerkenwell Theatre and 'Raiders Road' was performed at Hampstead Theatre's Start Night last year)

(Daniel has previously directed productions at the Bloomsbury Theatre, the Arcola Theatre and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He has worked with companies including the National Theatre, Shared Experience and the YoungBlood Theatre Company. He is excited to be part of his first Little Pieces of Gold showcase)

Bohemians*, by Jaki McCarrick, dir Audrey Sheffield

A couple live with the memories of their lost child but what if that's all that's keeping them together?

(*This short piece is part of a much longer play (called Bohemians) comprising six interweaving stories set over four decades and two continents. Jaki's first play, 'The Mushroom Pickers', premiered at the Southwark Playhouse in London in May 2006 and in New York in February 2009. Her play, 'Leopoldville', won the 2010 Papatango New Writing Award and was staged in April 2010 at the Tristan Bates Theatre in London to much critical acclaim. Her next play, 'Belfast Girls', won the 2011 Stage Write Playwriting competition at the Galway Theatre Festival and will be developed at the National Theatre studio in 2012. Jaki has also published and won numerous prizes for her poetry and short stories. Her story, 'The Visit', won the 2010 Wasafiri Short Fiction Prize and is to appear in the 2012 Anthology of Best British Short Stories (published by Salt).

 sound & lighting: Marie Kearney  SM: Imogen Lewis   ASM:  Lindsay McConnell