Tayo started acting professionally after a fifteen-year career as an architect in Liverpool.

Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse credits include: The Mystery Plays (Playhouse).

Theatre credits include:  Call Mr. Robeson, Just an Ordinary Lawyer and Coleridge-Taylor of Freetown (National and international tours).

TV & Film credits include: Moving On, Temple, The Madame Blanc Mysteries, and TERRA.

Adelaide trained with the Lyric Hammersmith’s SPRINGBOARD programme.

Theatre credits include: Kaleidoscope (Alfred Fagon Award/National Theatre); Lysistrata and SPRINGBOARD Showcases (Lyric Hammersmith); The Great Barbeque (Theatre Peckham) and A City Shaken (Bush Theatre).

Radio credits include: I LOVE HIP-HOP BUT I THINK HE HATES ME (BBC Radio London).

Theatre credits include:  One Flew over the Cuckoo Nest (Old Vic); An Inspector Calls (National Theatre); and work with Almeida, Young Vic, National Theatre, Soho Theatre, Kiln, David Glass, Volcano, People Show, V-TOL,  Polka Theatre, Teatro Vivo, and International and National tours. 

TV & Film credits include: The Devil’s Hour; Get Millie Black; The Pursuit of Love; The Strike; Eastenders; Casualty; Doctors; and the award-winning feature film Profile.

Emma is the writer/ co-director of Cloakroom (produced in association with PW Productions).

Kiren trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and with Complicité.

Theatre credits Include: Hamlet (Primary Theatre);
Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet (National Theatre); First Encounters: The Tempest (The RSC); and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Complicité).

TV & Film credits Include: The Wheel of Time, Doctors, Lewis and Comedown.  

Voice work includes: Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, The Carpenter’s Flame, Thieves!, That Hideous Strength and BBC Bitesize History – Abolition of the Slave Trade.

Director credits includes: The Journey Project (Complicité).

Cyril Nri is a BAFTA-nominated actor known for his work across TV, film, radio and theatre.

Theatre credits include: a renowned stage performer, Cyril has worked at many of London’s most prestigious theatres including The National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Young Vic and The Royal Court.

TV & Film credits include: Cucumber, Jellyfish and Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.

Since graduating from ALRA in 2020 Noah has had an extensive career in the creative media industry. Noah also writes, directs and produces original short films and is developing new projects for stage and screen.

Theatre credits include:  Alice in Wonderland (Shakespeare North Playhouse); The Owl and The Pussycat (Hammerpuzzle); Four Minutes Twelve Seconds (Oldham Coliseum) and The Monstrum (Dalton Theatre Company).

TV & Film credits include: Coronation Street, Sky Sports, CBS Golazo and A League of Their Own.

Mixed Media credits include: BBC Funny Parts, Enact Solutions, Whisper TV and BlackFest.

Theatre credits include:  Elf and the Musical Arena Tour (John Conway Company); Guys and Dolls, Harvey and Nude With Violin (Royal Exchange); I Can’t Sing (London Palladium);  The Color Purple (Menier Chocolate Factory London); The Harder They Come (The Barbican, Birmingham and the West End);  Carmen Jones (The Southbank Centre); The King And I (Irish Tour);  To Kill A Mockingbird (National Tour); To Kill A Mocking Bird (Regents Park); The Official Tribute To the Blues Brothers (West End);  Boogie Nights 2,  Boogie Nights, The Official Tribute To the Blues Brothers (National and International Tours);  Smokey Joe’s Cafe (National Tour);  The Mysteries 2003, Twelfth Night, Of Mice and Men, Martin Chuzzlewit, Bouncers, Hansel and Gretel (Bolton Octagon); The Revenger’s Tragedy (West Yorkshire Playhouse) Bare, (Oldham Coliseum); Peter Pan and Toad of Toad Hall (Birmingham REP).

TV & Film credits include: Death in Paradise (BBC); The Gathering, World Productions (Channel 4); Prime Suspect V, Cracker, Coronation Street, Children’s Ward (Granada Television); Raffle Baby (Real Life Productions); Emmerdale (Yorkshire Television); The Bill (Thames); That Peter Kay Thing (Open Mike Productions) and Cold Earth (Bridgeway Productions).

Radio credits include: September Song; The Last of The Mohicans and Anacaona, (BBC Radio 4).

Theatre credits include:  The Motive and The Cue (National Theatre & West End); A Place for We (Talawa, Park); The Cabinet Minister and The Watsons (Menier Chocolate Factory); House of Games (Hampstead Theatre); The Welkin (National Theatre);  The Deep Blue Sea (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Glass Piano (The Print Room at Coronet); Stop and Search, Top Trumps by Caryl Churchill/Roy Williams et al. (Theatre503); Jumpy (Theatr Clwyd); The Winter’s Tale (Orange Tree); How to Find Us and  Swordy Well (Soho). 

TV & Film credits include:  The Chelsea Detective, Doctors and The Capture (BBC); Flatshare (Paramount+); Back and Humans (Channel 4); Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim and My Dinner with Herve.  

Arthur Miller (1915–2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944), All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1964), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), The Archbishop’s Ceiling (1977), The American Clock (1980) and Playing for Time (1980). Later plays include The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1994), Mr. Peters’ Connections (1998) and Resurrection Blues (2002). Among his other works are Situation Normal (1944), the novel Focus (1945), screenplay The Misfits (1960), and texts for In Russia (1969), In the Country (1977), and Chinese Encounters (1979), three books in collaboration with his wife, photographer Inge Morath. Memoirs include ‘Salesman’ in Beijing (1984), and Timebends, an autobiography (1987). Short fiction includes the collection I Don’t Need You Any More (1967), the novella Homely Girl, a Life (1995) and Presence: Stories (2007). Essay collections published in his lifetime include The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller (1978) and Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays 1944–2000, as well as individually published volumes ‘The Crucible’ in History (2000) and On Politics and the Art of Acting (2001). He was awarded the Avery Hopwood Award for Playwriting at University of Michigan in 1936.  He twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, received two Emmy Awards and three Tony Awards for his plays, as well as a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.  He was named Jefferson Lecturer for the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2001. Among other honors, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the John F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu is a British-Ghanaian theatremaker whose work stretches the imagination of his audiences with his unique brand of storytelling. He was nominated for an Olivier in 2022 for his work on For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy by Ryan Calais Cameron.

As director, theatre includes: Deep Azure (Shakespeare’s Globe); Pig Heart Boy (Unicorn/Fiery Angel Tour); For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy (Nouveau Riche/Boundless/New Diorama & Royal Court Theatre); Little Baby Jesus (Orange Tree); Twilight (St. Mary’s University); The Spalding Suite (LAMDA); Gone Too Far! (Guildhall); Bootycandy (Gate Theatre).

As writer/director, theatre includes: Sweet Like Chocolate Boy (Jack Studio/BAC/Tobacco Factory/Theatre Peckham); Sundown Kiki (Young Vic); Divine (Arts Ed); Hyde & Seek (Guildhall). As writer: Rumble In The Jungle (Rematch ltd).

Awards include: 2025 UK Theatre Award for Best Show for Children & Young People, 2019 JMK Young Director Award, 2022 Black British Theatre Award for Best Director, 2024 WXO Award for Excellence in Art and a Blooloop Innovation Award 2024. Tristan was awarded the prestigious Arts Foundation Futures Award 2026.

Georgia trained in Interior Design at Liverpool John Moores University before moving in to Theatre Production and Costume Design. In 2024 Georgia was thrilled to be nominated for a Black British Theatre Award in the Theatre Design (body of work) category.

As a set & costume designer credits include: Conversations After Sex(Park Theatre); Cross the Line (Lyric Hammersmith); Communion, The End Red Pitch, Elephant, Clutch, Invisible, The Kola Nut Does Not Speak English, BACK UP!, The Route and Project (Bush Theatre); Before I Go (Brixton House); Red Pitch (Soho Place); This Is A Love Story (Birmingham Hippodrome); Proof, Three Sisters, Chaos and  Animal Farm (St Marys University Summer Festival Production); The Wrong Reindeer (Oldham Theatre Workshop); The Time Has Come (The Playground Theatre); Invisible (59E59 Theatre); Covered (New Heritage Theatre at Paddington Arts Centre); I knew you (Birmingham Repertory Theatre) and Days Of Significance (Questors Theatre).

Writing & illustration credits include: The Adventures Of (Book 1, series of children’s books, Illustrator); My Trauma, My Healing (Instagram, Illustrator); Life, Lemons and Melons (Illustrator) and The Tiger in the Trilby (Author and Illustrator).

Television, Advertising & Social Media credits include: Monroe (ITV -costume trainee) and Superdrug’s YouTube channel Christmas campaign 2017.

Ernest is the Creative Engagement Co-ordinator at the Stephen Joseph Theatre and works as a freelance Sound Designer. He studied Creative Music Technology at the University of Hull, Scarborough Campus.

Theatre credits include: Alice in Wonderland, The Wind in The Willows and A Christmas Carol (Shakespeare North Playhouse: Sound Designer); Show and Tell (SJT: Associate Sound Designer); Road (YMCA/Coventry University: Sound Designer): DNA, Collected Grimm Tales, Thor’s Great Big Adventure, These Majestic Creatures, Coventry University Showcase, Game Over, The Giant Who Had It All (And Then Lost It), Children of Killers, The Swing of Things, My Own Show, Grimm Tales and Jim of the Garden (SJT: Sound Designer); Build A Rocket (2023 Edinburgh Festival and tour: Sound Designer);Constant Companions (SJT: Associate Sound Designer); Be Gay Do Crime (Shakespeare North Playhouse/Transcend Theatre R&D: Musical Director); Sammy The Shoemaker’s Impossible Day, The Sad Club, The Adventures of Aluki and Nanuk and Thumbelina (SJT: Sound Designer/Stage Manager); Jack and the Beanstalk (Eastfield Youth Theatre: Director/Sound Designer); Antigone (YMCA/Coventry University: Sound Designer); Marky and the Mad-dogs Magical Musical Tour (Actor-Musician/Sound Designer); Billy Brite Sally By the Sea (SJT: Sound Designer/Composer/Stage Manager) and Colin the Caveman Invents the Wheel (SJT: Actor/Sound Designer/Composer).

Yusra Warsama is a performance poet, actor, writer, and theatre practitioner based in Manchester, with over 20 years of experience across the arts. Her work spans spoken word, storytelling, live art, and physical performance, with a focus on intimacy and the relationship between performer and audience.

Yusra began her theatre career in Manchester while studying BA (Hons) Criminology and Sociology, and has since worked nationally and internationally across theatre and interdisciplinary performance. Her collaborations include Grace and Make–Believe with Quarantine, exploring one-to-one performance beyond traditional character-driven theatre, and Don Letts’ Speakers Corner.

She develops ambitious solo work, including her triptych. Of All the Beautiful Things In The World (2023) opened to sold-out audiences, and she is currently developing Triptych 2: Prodigal Sons with the Royal Shakespeare Company, alongside new work for Manchester International Festival 2027 (MIF27) and a project inspired by Arawelo, the Somali warrior queen.

Yusra is founder of BIG SOUL PRODUCTIONS, delivering projects such as “Same Roots, Different Branches”, a cross-cultural exchange connecting young people and individuals with experiences of migration. She continues to work extensively with young people and community groups, fostering creativity, collaboration, and shared storytelling.