Enda Walsh is a multi-award-winning Irish writer for stage and screen based in London. His work has been translated into over twenty languages and has been performed internationally since 1998. Once, his adaptation of the film by John Carney, picked up eight Tony Awards on Broadway in 2012, including Best Book. His 2008 biopic, Hunger, told the story of the final days of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands and won a host of awards, including the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He collaborated with David Bowie on the musical Lazarus (New York Theatre Workshop, 2015, and West End, 2016).

Tanya Moodie is a Canadian-born British actress. She won the Royal Television Society’s Breakthrough Award for the role of Meg in the BAFTA winning comedy Motherland (BBC). Other film and television credits include Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,, The Man Who Fell to Earth (Showtime), Ten Percent (Prime Video), A Discovery of Witches (Sky), Sherlock (BBC), and The Pentaverate (Netflix). In theatre she is a two-time Olivier nominee for Outstanding Achievement In An Affiliate Theatre. Her many Best Actress nominations include What’s On Stage, the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards, and the UK Theatre Awards.

Hiran Abeysekera is a Sri Lankan actor. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the stage adaptation of London’s West End: The Life of Pi (also at Sheffield Crucible and on Broadway). Other productions include: Cymbeline, Hamlet and The Taming of the Shrew for the RSC; Tempest and The Prisoner for Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord; Botticelli in the Fire at Hampstead and Peter Pan at Regent’s Park.

Ana Inés Jabares-Pita is a Spanish-born award winning designer and creative director working across opera, dance, theatre, concerts, film and exhibitions. She has extensive musical training and a keen interest in new technologies and illusionism. Ana Inés was overall winner of the Linbury Prize in 2013 and a Jerwood Young Designer at the Gate Theatre in 2014 and has worked with Royal Shakespeare Company, Glyndebourne, Royal Court Theatre, Young Vic, Headlong, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Royal Lyceum, Gate Theatre and the National Theatre of Scotland as well as internationally.

Shelley Maxwell is an award-winning choreographer, movement director and intimacy professional originally from Jamaica. She works across theatre, film and television and trained as a dancer in both Jamaica & Cuba. In 2019 she received the award for Best Choreographer at the inaugural Black British Theatre Awards for her outstanding work on Equus at Trafalgar Studios/ Stratford East.

Vera Chok is a Malaysian-Chinese actor, performance maker and poet. They attended The Poor School and Ecole Phillippe Gaulier & have taught via New Earth’s Academy, RHIIF, and the ESEA Improv Festival. Theatre includes the National Theatre, the West End, UK tours, and projects with The RSC, Complicité, Manchester Royal Exchange and the Royal Court. Vera was series regular Honour Chen-Williams in the first ever East Asian family in a UK continuing drama (Hollyoaks).

Ako Mitchell is a US born, London based actor and filmmaker. His recent stage work includes Sound of Music (Chichester Festival Theatre); Black Superhero (Royal Court) and The Color Purple (Leicester Curve & Birmingham Hippodrome UK tour). Ako appears as Charlie in Marvel’s Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and as The Woodman in Netflix’s Hilda.

Sung Im Her studied contemporary dance at Han-Sung University in Korea, and since graduating she has worked with Jan Fabre, Les Ballets C de la B, Alias, Needcompany and Abattoire Ferme. As a director of Her Project, she creates interdisciplinary performances, working across the UK, Europe and Korea. Last year, Sung Im Her was invited to the Korean National Contemporary Dance Company to make a new piece called “Everything Falls Dramatic”, which was presented in Brussels, Madrid and Manchester. Her was awarded Dance Artist of the year in 2022 by the Korean Ministry of Culture and was recently named as one of ten “Stage sensations to watch out for in 2023” by the Guardian.

Gillian is a multi-disciplinary designer, working across lighting and video for various theatrical, immersive and interactive experiences.

Theatre credits include: Mind Mangler (Apollo Theatre); Elephant (Bush Theatre); A Playlist for the Revolution (Bush Theatre), South Pacific (Chichester Festival Theatre, Sadlers Wells & UK Tour); Black Love (Paines Plough & Belgrade Theatre Coventry with tiata fahodzi); The Song Project – Is In Our Blood (Royal Court Theatre); 4.48 Psychosis (revival. Lyric Hammersmith/Royal Opera House); Coraline (Barbican Theatre/Royal Opera House).

She is also a member of the Somerset House Exchange and is the recipient of the Unreal Engine Fellowship - spring 2022.

Sirine Saba is a Lebanese-born actress who studied at RADA. Her credits include Phaedra, Another World (NT), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC), Word Play, Goats, Fireworks (Royal Court), Britannicus (Lyric, Hammersmith), Romeo and Juliet, The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare’s Globe), Botticelli In The Fire, iHo (Hampstead), Wife (Kiln).