Adi Alfa is a multi award-winning actress with over 15 years of experience across screen, stage, and voice. Originally from Liverpool and now based in the South, she has carved out a dynamic and diverse career in the arts. She has worked as an actress globally including America, Europe and the Caribbean. Adi is the founder of Media Worx Films, a multi award-winning production company known for producing bold, impactful content and championing underrepresented voices. Their next project has been shortlisted for the BFI Early Development Fund.

TV & Film credits include: Liverpool-based Channel 4 drama The Gathering, Netflix’s The Intent, and the recently released Traces. Committed to representation and storytelling, Adi is developing several original TV series she will also star in—bringing to life narratives that centre brown and Black Liverpudlian voices.

Theatre credits & Voice Acting credits include:  BAFTA-winning game Disco Elysium; the BAFTA-nominated The Falconeer and The Ballerina (Vault festival).

Bill trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre school.

TV & Film credits include: The Responder; Buckingham Murders; Doctors; Outlander and Sugarland.

Theatre credits include: Dear England (National Theatre).

Phina began her career as a fashion model in London, before emigrating to New York. She trained at the renowned Actors Studio in Los Angeles.

Theatre credits include: Identity Crisis (her one woman show which opened at the Edinburgh Fringe and has since played in London, Bristol, Manchester, NYC and Shakespeare North).

UK TV & Film credits include: Unforgiven; Magpie Murders; Anthony; Moving On; Taken Down; Hollyoaks; Little Miss Jocelyn and Footballers Wives.

US TV & Film credits include: The Pretender; VIP; Nash Bridges; Nip/Tuck; Charmed; Buffy The Vampire Slayer; Diagnosis Murder and NYPD Blue.

Other credits include: Phina has also been a regular panellist on entertainment and talk shows such as The Wright Stuff and has produced and hosted her own radio show for BBC Radio Merseyside. She is also a published writer, with the books Jacopo Jacopo Football Star and Jacopo Jacopo on Lockdown which both came out in 2020 on Amazon. Currently she is working on her new play writing and rehearsing to perform Cancel Culture.

Making his Liverpool debut, Wayne is an all-round entertainer whose career spans the globe over the decades in everything from Rastamouse Live to Gangster Kittens. He also is a professional DJ as well as an actor.

Theatre credits include: Pantomime residence as Dame Dibbi the Dancehall Queen,Young Gifted and Phat and Why Me? (Broadway Theatre, Catford); Nine Night (Leeds Playhouse); Sucker Punch (Curve Leicester); Josie and the Multicoloured Weave (The Open Door Theatre); Real Housewives of Brixton and Scrooge and his solo show, Will the Real Wayne Rollins Stand Up (Hackney Empire).

Other project credits include: Ted Lasso (season two), commercials for Experian with Marcus Brigstocke and a memorable role opposite Dizzee Rascal in his Money Right video.

Bene is a Northwest-based actor and spoken word artist. She is a two-time slam champion with The Poet Society and continues to develop her work across theatre and spoken word.

Theatre credits include: Smiles (Shakespeare North Playhouse, Unity Theatre, and community spaces).

Other stage work feature performances at: Soho Theatre and Theatre503, alongside spoken word appearances nationwide, including at the Royal Festival Hall.

Nathan is the Creative Director of the Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse theatres.

Previously Artistic Director of the National Student Drama Festival (NSDF), Nathan has championed emerging talent and forged groundbreaking partnerships, showcasing some of the most exciting new work from across the country. He was the Creative Producer and Associate Artist for 20 Stories High (an Associate Company of the theatres) and is co-founder of New Step Theatre with writer Joe Ward Munrow (their production of DOGS was a sellout in the Playhouse Studio in 2022).

As a director his recent credits include: Alice in Wonderland (Shakespeare North Playhouse); The Mountaintop (Leicester Curve and UK Tour); Sucker Punch (Queens Theatre Hornchurch in association with the National Theatre) and A Play for the Living in the Time of Extinction (Headlong and The Barbican in association with Shakespeare North).

As writer and adapter credits include: Pleasant Land and Homegirl (Derby Theatre).

Amanda has over 25 years of experience in the creative industries. She is a highly regarded Theatre Director and has worked across the UK and Internationally. Presenting productions around the world including at the biannual National Black Theatre Festival in the USA and as part of the British Council in Sierra Leone, supporting writers with script development for screen and live work for British Council Venezuela. Amanda is former co-director of Vanitas Arts and has recently completed her role as co -director of GeoStories.

When it comes to story, Amanda has actively worked for the diversification of the cultural sector in the United Kingdom all her professional life and has been an invited guest speaker at The University of Manchester Advanced Directing, The University of Leeds MA Writers and The Arden School of Theatre MA Directors.

As a director her recent credits include: Nine Night and Unknown (Leeds Playhouse); Persons of Interests Audio Drama Series, Trumpet, I leave you love and  Ladies of Situations (Vanitas Arts); Everything I Own and Abigail’s Party (Hull Truck Theatre); Bread and Roses and The Engagement Party (Oldham Coliseum); Wondr (Metta Theatre, Edinburgh Festival); Bag Lady (Hidden Gems); Hilda and the Northern Powerhouse (Kate Hainsworth) and Just an Ordinary Lawyer? (Tayo Aluko & Friends).

Other credits include: Chair of the Board for Reggae Jazz Contemporary Dance, Leeds and is a Committee Member for Huddersfield Literary Festival. Recently she has become a BAFTA Connect Member.

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).

Red Robinson-Stanley is an experienced actor, writer and director. From the ages of 9-18, she was a member of Derby Youth Theatre and went on to be a member of The Television Workshop in Nottingham where she trained to be a professional screen actor. Red is currently an English and Film Studies student at the University of Liverpool and Takeaway is Red’s first role as a Trainee Assistant Director on a professional theatre production.

Theatre credits include: You, Door and multiple other productions (Derby Youth Theatre). This year Red will debut her one woman show WHITE at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

TV credits include: Without Sin (ITV) and a FIFA mental health awareness campaign.