Jon Brittain is a playwright, television writer and director. His critically acclaimed play Rotterdam premiered at Theatre503 in 2015 before transferring to Trafalgar Studios where it earned him a nomination for the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2016. It later transferred to 59E59 in New York and the Arts Theatre in the West End. Rotterdam won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre in 2017. 

Other work includes the cult hit show Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho and its sequel Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows, and the plays A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) which won a Fringe First Award in 2017. He is currently a staff writer on The Crown for Netflix and working on several new scripts for the BBC as well as the musical How to Stop Being Fat and Start Being Happy with composer Harry Blake. 

For LAMDA: In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, Wild Honey, Macbeth, Posh, Romeo and Juliet

Other Theatre includes: The Ice Cream Boys (World Premiere, Jermyn Street Theatre), There of Here (London Premiere, Park Theatre), Home (London Premiere, The Last Refuge), The Drunken City (London Premiere, Tabard Theatre), Twelfth Night (Iris Theatre), Macbeth (Sainsbury Theatre), The Tempest (Rio Olympics), Invisible Man (RSC @ Park Avenue Armory, NY), The Radio Serenade (Medicine Show Theatre, NY), Much Ado About Nothing (The Whitman Theatre, NY), Closer (New Crescent Theatre) and Crimes of the Heart (Old Rep Theatre).

Vik is Senior Tutor- Acting Projects at LAMDA. He is a graduate of the Arts Council/ Birkbeck, University of London MFA in Theatre Directing and also holds a PG Award in Teaching Shakespeare (RSC/ Warwick University).