'Frontline is a young company dedicated to emerging talent'
Michael Billington, The Guardian

Frontline began as a collaboration between Rebecca Manson Jones of Spikenard and Timothy Hughes of Weaver Hughes Ensemble. Their common desire was to develop and produce new writing, underlined by the wanting to explore and create new creative partnerships, which led to the creation of a new endeavour.

Spikenard is a director-designer collaboration between Rebecca Manson Jones and Jens Demant Cole using minimalist design and non-textual elements to bring new energy to live presentation.

In November 2003, Frontline presented a week of semi-staged readings at Soho Theatre. This was the culmination of an exciting and far-reaching development process centred on the voices of 8 new playwrights collaborating with a team of directors and dramaturgs.

The plays presented were:
Achidi J's Final Hours by Amy Evans
Burning Down The House by Jenny Mitchell
Felt Effects by Joy Wilkinson
The Flats by Darren Murphy
Judith Bloom by Peter Elkins
The Last Pig by Ali Taylor
Looking for Mister by George Gotts
Timewatching by Simon Macullum

Committed to the discovery and development of new voices for theatre, Frontline explored theatrical form, language and presentation and forged artistic collaborations between the next generation of theatre-makers.

Then in 2004, Frontline presented a season of three of the plays as full productions over a period of four months from April to July:
The Flats by Darren Murphy
Achidi J's Final Hours by Amy Evans
Judith Bloom by Peter Elkins