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Sarah May has collaborated extensively with The Mayhem Company, which has been devising and staging boundary breaking productions since 2001 and whose core members are young non-professional actors living and working in London. Previous work for the theatre includes urban fairytale Hamelyn Heights (Young Vic Studio); 100° Fahrenheit (Southwark Playhouse), a study of corruption in the black religious community; Deluxe (Southwark Playhouse) about a fatal shooting in a south London school; and See You Tomorrow (Southwark Playhouse), the company's response to a former member's decision to join the British Army and serve in Iraq. Real Life Sex Makes Baby (Royal Festival Hall, 2009) was written to mark SE1 United's hosting The Mayhem Company at Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, and her latest collaboration with The Mayhem Company, Elephant 21, about the regeneration of London's Elephant and Castle, was performed in July 2010 at Unit 215, Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre. You can find out more about Sarah's work with The Mayhem Company at www.themayhemcompany.net. Sarah has also written the following works of fiction: The Nudist Colony (1999), Spanish City (2002); The Internationals (2003) and the Rise and Fall trilogy: The Queen of Suburbia (2006), A Domestic Diva (2008) and The Wonder Girls (2009). Her play The Butterfly Club was published by Methuen Drama in Producer's Choice: Six Plays for Young Performers in 2010.