Declan Hughes is co-founder of Rough Magic. He was originally joint Artistic Director, before becoming Writer-in-Residence for several years. His writing for Rough Magic includes I Can't Get Started (winner of the Stewart Parker Trust Award); an adaptation of Farquhar's Love and a Bottle (joint winner of Time Out Best Play Award), Digging for Fire (joint winner of Time Out Best Play Award), New Morning, Halloween Night, Twenty Grand, and an adaptation of Moliere's Tartuffe.