Robert Khan
Robert Khan
Robert Khan read law at the Universities of Cambridge and Southampton and was called to the Bar in 1995. Since then he has worked variously in Parliament, policy, law and politics. As well as being a writer and playwright, he is a Fellow of the Public Relations and Communications Association and he specialises in helping businesses and organisations with the provision of strategic counsel and reputation management, offering integrated advice across corporate communications, stakeholder engagement and public, regulatory and political affairs.
Tom Salinsky
Tom Salinsky
Tom Salinsky is the artistic director of improvisation company The Spontaneity Shop, co-author of the book The Improv Handbook (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama) and he teaches presenting, public speaking and storytelling for a wide-range of corporate clients.

He is the producer of the award-winning podcast THE GUILTY FEMINIST (starring Deborah Frances-White) and is the co-creator and host of the BEST PICK film podcast and the podcast ALL BRITISH COMEDY EXPLAINED.

Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky are writers and playwrights who have written and produced several critically and audience acclaimed plays, a wide range of audio scripts for Big Finish productions and a number of treatments and other scripts for film, TV, podcasts and radio.

Robert and Tom have been writing together since university and they founded and ran the satirical online magazine (with Jason Smith) THE BRAINS TRUST in the 2000s, which the Guardian dubbed “the British Son of the Onion”. They are now firmly established as playwrights, having written numerous plays which have been presented at the Edinburgh Fringe and transferred to a variety of UK theatres. They are also regularly commissioned by Big Finish Productions and have written several audio-plays over a range of different franchises, including Doctor Who and The Avengers.

Their recent plays include The Gang of Three, about the intertwined lives and rivalries of Labour politicians Denis Healey, Roy Jenkins and Tony Crosland. Following its sell-out run at the King’s Head Theatre in 2025, it returned for a UK tour in autumn 2026. In the Print, about Rupert Murdoch, Brenda Dean and the Battle of Wapping, was presented at the King’s Head Theatre from 26 March to 3 May 2026, directed by Josh Roche.