SIMON MENDES DA COSTA (Playwright). Losing Louie is Simon Mendes da Costa’s second staged play. His first, Table for One was performed at the Hen & Chickens theatre, Islington in North London (Awarded Time Out’s Critic’s Choice). He has also written two plays for children both of which were performed in the studio at Hampstead Theatre in North London, and is currently working again with Hampstead on a new commission for the main house. Simon was nominated for this year’s most promising playwright at the Evening Standard awards in London.