Richard Zajdlic, graduated in English Literature at Southampton University. Founder-member of Ratskins Theatre Company working as writer, actor, director.

Plays include Cock & Bull Story (with Richard Crowe), published by Methuen, which has received productions world-wide and for which he was nominated 'Best Playwright' by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle 1993.

His first solo play Infidelities was winner of the 1990 West London Playwriting Competition and was published by Nick Hern Books. He was nominated Best Playwright for the Charrington Fringe Awards and became winner of T.A.P.S Writer of the Year Award 93/94'. Infidelities has twice been adapted for radio and broadcast overseas.

His play Rage, commissioned and produced by the Bush Theatre in 1994 was subsequently produced in New York. The Bush then commissioned and produced a second play Dogs Barking which premiered in May 1999 and has been published by Faber & Faber. Further productions of Dogs Barking are being planned in Madrid, Boston and Sydney.

He has written nine episodes of the BBC soap EastEnders and one episode of the LWT drama London's Burning.

He wrote two episodes (ep's 4 & 5) in the first series of This Life. He then became Head Writer for the second series, responsible for story-lining the series as well as writing the opening and closing set of episodes (ep's 1 & 2, 20 & 21).