MARK FISHER is a theatre critic, editor, feature writer and freelance journalist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has written about theatre in Scotland since the late 1980s, contributing theatre reviews, interviews, arts features and travel articles to newspapers and magazines in Scotland and all over the world. He is the Scottish theatre critic for The Guardian and Variety, a former editor of The List magazine and a frequent contributor to the Scotsman and many magazines, newspapers and websites. As an editor, he has worked for the Edinburgh International Festival and others. He is the co-editor of Made in Scotland, an anthology of plays, author of The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide and How to Write About Theatre (both Bloomsbury Methuen Drama) and editor of The XTC Bumper Book of Fun for Boys and Girls.