Moyra is a movement thinker, director and researcher from Lima, Peru. She holds a Choreomundus International Master's in Dance Anthropology and a Bachelor's in Communication Science and Arts. Inspired by her Chinese-Peruvian ancestry, she explores art's intersections with ancestry and identity, integrating academic research with diverse movement and visual arts practice. Delving into dance's transformative power, she connects individual to collective experiences, investigating the role of imagination and memory. Currently, she collaborates with Lenora Lee Dance (USA) on Chinatown and Chinese-Peruvian stories, for a short-film and a dance performance (awarded by Peru's Minister of Culture).

Moyra will be mentored by Sung Im Her.

Hector is a London-based multi-disciplinary theatre-maker from Taiwan. Trained in puppetry and obtained an MFA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media at the RCSSD, he creates stories based on personal queer and migrant lived experience for stage and other media. He uses puppetry and object theatre to explore identity, trauma and conflicts between one’s internal and external world. Credits include River’s World (puppetry digital theatre commissioned by Little Angel Theatre), puppetry shows Where the Water Falls (Little Angel Theatre) and Lost Personhood (The Hope Theatre), the stage play A Thousand Papercuts Still Skin Deep (Barons Court Theatre), and more.

Hector will be mentored by Hiran Abeysekera.

Somebody Jones is a Los Angeles native playwright/dramaturg, currently living, working, and dreaming in London. Jones primarily works within the genres of horror, magical realism, verbatim, and recently, Black fantasy.

Somebody Jones's play ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD won Soho Theatre's Tony Craze Award in 2022, is currently Paines Plough's Playwright Fellow, and Jones's play, HOW I LEARNED TO SWIM will be at Roundabout at Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August, and Brixton House and Bristol Old Vic in September.

The name Somebody Jones means the more you run from your past, the more you'll run into it.

Somebody will be mentored by Enda Walsh.

Linn Johansson is a Swedish/Dutch actor, theatre maker and singer/songwriter based in London. She trained on the Complicité associated BA (Hons) Acting Collaborative and Devised Theatre course at Central School of Speech and Drama. Her work includes acting on stage and screen with companies such as Complicité, Les Enfants Terrible and Hartshorn Hook, assistant directing at Malmö Stadsteater on the critically acclaimed “All We Need is Love”, and directing community theatre. With her company Artistic Rebellion, she makes new, multidisciplinary work that responds to current events, questions norms and explores the link between the personal and the political.

Linn wil be mentred by Sirine Saba.

Alysha is a boundary-pushing artist, theatre maker and performer from Malaysia exploring cultural heritage, climate resilience, and social justice via immersive performances and emerging technologies. With a focus on democratising Virtual, Augmented Reality and Spatial technology, she collaborates with leading studios to amplify marginalised voices; giving rise to diverse genealogies beyond dominant western ideals. Alysha's work cultivates empathy and connection, transcending borders and fostering understanding.

Alysha will be mentored by Gillian Tan.

Claud (they/them) is a queer, non-binary artist working in dance, movement and live performance. Their artistic interest draws from queer thinking, and emerges out of questions around identity and our existence as humans, exploring our place in the world. They strongly believe in the power of the performing arts to imagine and create spaces that challenge, reconsider and redesign societal structures and systems. Through their work, they use the body, movement and physicality to explore potential, transformation, choice - all while reclaiming space, being visible, making queerness visible.

Claud will be mentored by Vera Chok.

Ewa is a movement director/director/movement teacher who expresses herself through movement. Originally from Poland, she trained in Physical Theatre and Theatre Making at the Gardzienice Theatre, as well as Contemporary Dance at the Warsaw Dance Department. Since moving to London, she graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama MA: Movement: Directing and teaching, and began working as a movement director for theatre shows and short films. In her work, she is interested in transformative languages from everyday actions and social themes and their interconnected relationships to the body, space, and materials.

Ewa will be mentored by Shelley Maxwell.

Shahaf Beer is a visual theatre maker from Israel. He grew up in the community theatre, creating work for stage and street performances from an early age. Shahaf is based in London and graduated from UAL, Wimbledon College of Arts BA Theatre Design. His recent work includes credits at the Royal Court Upstairs, Lyric Hammersmith Studio, a collaboration with drag artist WetMess and the queer collective Sweet Beef.

Shahaf will be mentored by Ana Inés Jabares-Pita.

Inna Cebotari is a playwright, screenwriter, performer, curator, and theatre producer from Romania based in London. As a writer, her plays ha e been included in several anthologies and have been translated into German. As a performer, Inna has performed in a number of productions at various international theatre festivals such as Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Golden Mask (Moscow, Russia), International Theatre Festival FNT (Bucharest), and many more. Inna graduated with her MA in Theatre Directing and Management of Public Theatres from Moscow Art Theatre School, holds another MA in Creative Writing from the University of Arts (Targu-Mures, Transylvania, Romania), as well as a BA in Acting for Stage and Film. She is the recipient of a scholarship for the International Forum Theatertreffen (Berlin, Germany).

Inna will be mentored by Tanya Moodie.

Oleksandra is a theatre maker from Ukraine who moved to the UK in 2022 because of the war. She started her career as a playwright a few years ago and had multiple successful shows in Ukraine. Six months before the war, she opened a small theatre with friends in Kyiv.

Now based in Manchester, Oleksandra’s most recent work was presented at international festivals in Poland (Peremyshl) and the UK (Liverpool and Manchester).

Oleksandra will be mentored by Ako Mitchell.

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).