Raz Shaw has been a theatre director for over twenty years: he was in the middle of rehearsing for his first ever professional production when he was diagnosed with cancer. He has directed plays in an array of theatres and locations from the South Bank to Salisbury to South Sudan. His work has ranged from new plays to the classics and everything in between, and he has recently directed a production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit by Margaret Edson starring Julie Hesmondhalgh. He has also made the first of what he hopes will be a series of podcasts called Cancer Talk.