Robbie O’Neill is a British actor working across television, film, theatre, radio, and voiceover.

Theatre credits include: Flares (York Theatre Royal); To Have to Shoot Irishmen (Almanac Arts); The Path (Hightide Theatre); Lines (The Yard Theatre); Club 44 (Soho Theatre) and Shakespeare’s Pericles (Redgrave Theatre).

Screen credits include: Adolescence, Cursed, Boiling Point and upcoming Legends (Netflix); The Responder (BBC) and The Tower (ITV).

Writing credits include: This City Is Ours (BBC).

Theatre credits include: Backstroke (Donmar Warehouse); The Comedy of Errors, Bartholomew Fair and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare’s Globe); Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Romeo and Julie (National Theatre/ Sherman Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (ETT/Leeds Playhouse/ Rose Theatre); A Monster Calls – Helen Hayes Award nominee for Outstanding Performance (The Old Vic /Bristol Old Vic/US tour); Ear For Eye (Royal Court Theatre); Absolute Hell (National Theatre); Hang (Run Amok/The Other Room); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Arabian Nights, Romeo And Juliet, Measure For Measure and Horrible Histories (Sherman Theatre); Speechless (Shared Experience/ Sherman Cymru); The Move (Made in Wales); Carers (Turning Point Theatre Co); Cinderella (Unicorn Theatre); Forbidden Fruit (Nottingham Roundabout Theatre); Wishful Thinking (Hijinx Theatre); Dealing With Feelings (London Bubble Theatre) and How High Is Up/Mirror Mirror (Theatre Centre).

Television credits include: The Party; The Rapture; Deian a Loli; The Light in the Hall; Somewhere Boy; The Pembrokeshire Murders; In My Skin; Rellik; Keeping Faith; Casualty; Stella; Gwaith Cartref; Talking to the Dead; Being Human; Caerdydd; Belonging; Dau Dy a Ni; Nice Day for a Welsh Wedding; Doctors; The Story of Tracy Beaker; Dose; Bay College; Holby City; Nuts and Bolts; Pobol y Cwm; The Bench and The Hull Project.

Films credits include: I Used to Be Famous; Mother’s Day; G Flat; Wild Geese; Telling Tales; Sweet 16; Rain and Paradise Grove.

Alexandra Wood is a playwright from London. She is a winner of the George Devine Award, and has been playwright-in-residence at Paines Plough. She holds a PhD in playwriting and teaches at NYU in London.

Her plays include: Britney’s Lock (National Theatre Connections); The Tyler Sisters (Hampstead Theatre); Never Vera Blue (Futures Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe); The Human Ear (Paines Plough); Ages (Old Vic New Voices); Merit (Plymouth Drum); The Initiate (Paines Plough); The Empty Quarter (Hampstead); Unbroken (Gate) and The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court).

Adaptations and translations include: Kate Summerscale’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (Watermill); Kavita Puri’s Silence (co-writer, Donmar/Tara Theatre); a translation of Manfred Karge’s Man to Man (Wales Millennium Centre) and Jung Chang’s Wild Swans (Young Vic/American Repertory Theater).

Audio plays include: Descent (Audible Originals) and Twelve Years (BBC Radio 4).

John trained on the National Theatre Directors Course and is a former Resident Assistant Director at The Finborough Theatre. Prior to this he completed the Emerging Trainee Director Scheme at Theatre Clwyd. John has twice been Staff Director at The National Theatre. Later this year he will return as Associate Director on The Jungle Book in the Olivier.

Theatre credits include: A Man of No Importance (Leeds Conservatoire); The Government Inspector (The Tobacco Factory); Beauty and the Beast (Storyhouse); The Crucible (Leeds Playhouse); Chester Mystery Plays (Chester Cathedral); Gangs of New York, Romeo & Juliet and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre); Into the Woods, Spring Awakening, Carrie, Alice by Heart and Jesus Christ Superstar (The Hammond); The Funny Thing About Depression (South Douglas Old Friends Association); The Drag Nativity (United Services); When the Light Goes Out (Tatton Park); Vincent River (Hope Mill Theatre); To Dream Again (Polka Theatre and Theatr Clwyd); A Brief History of Holding Hands (Vault Festival); Scattered (Theatr Clwyd, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Tour); We Know Where You Live (Finborough Theatre); A Place in the Woods (Tristan Bates); The Watchers (Southwark Playhouse); What the Walls Saw, The Thing Is and The Joy Show (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre Young Company) and Soft Beats the Heart (Theatre503).

Staff Director: Kerry Jackson and The Father and the Assassin (National Theatre).

Ceci is a set and costume designer based in London. She trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and has since worked across the UK and internationally.

Theatre credits include: Emma (Theatre Royal Bath/ UK Tour); Farm Hall (Jermyn Street/Theatre Royal Bath/UK tour/West End); Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington); Most Favoured (Soho Theatre); Autumn Opera Scenes (Guildhall); A Christmas Carol (Opera Holland Park/ Concert), Don Giovanni and The Barber of Seville (Waterperry Opera Festival); Rosalind (King’s College Chapel); Ragdoll (Jermyn Street Theatre); HIR starring Felicity Huffman and Our Cosmic Dust (Park Theatre); Stiletto: The Musical (Charing Cross Theatre); Autobiography of a Cad, Much Ado About Nothing and Othello (Watermill Theatre, Newbury); The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas and A Skull In Connemara (Dailes Teātris Riga, Latvia); Under The Black Rock (Arcola); Breeding (Kings Head Theatre); Warrior Queens (Sadler’s Wells); Waiting For Anya and The Mozart Question (Barn Theatre).

Simisola is a Lighting Designer based in the UK. She graduated from Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) with a specialised degree in Lighting Design.

Theatre credits include: Jaja’s African Hair Braiding and Ghosts (Lyric Hammersmith); Once On This Island Concert (Theatre Royal Drury lane); Dracapella (Park Theatre); The Red Rogue of Bala (Theatre Clwyd); The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives (Arcola); The 39 Steps (Salisbury Playhouse); Odd and the Frost Giants (Unicorn Theatre); Pontypool and Es & Flo (Wales Millennium Centre); Lost Atoms and Metamorphosis (Frantic Assembly & UK Tour); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare North & Theatre By The Lake); The Hound of the Baskervilles (Theatre by the Lake); My Father’s Fable (Bush Theatre); Before I Go (Brixton House The Ballad of Hattie and James (Kiln Theatre); A Taste of Honey and Electric Rosary (Royal Exchange Theatre); I, Daniel Blake (Northern Stage & UK Tour); Choir Boy (Bristol Old Vic); Sound of the Underground, Is God Is and Living Newspaper (Royal Court); Family Tree (Belgrade Theatre & UK Tour); Treason: The Musical in Concert (Theatre Royal Dury Lane); J’OUVERT (Theatre503 & West End) and A Christmas Carol (Shakespeare North Playhouse).

Dance credits include: Carnival (Tour) and Traplord (Factory International/ 180 Studios/ Sadler’s Wells).

Opera credits include: A Single Man, Dark with Excessive Bright (Royal Ballet and Opera) and Piratenkönigin (Nederlandse Reisopera).

Anjali trained at Central School of Ballet (MA in Choreography).

Movement Director credits include: Manic Street Creature and The Ballad of Hattie and James (Kiln Theatre); The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Flowers for Mrs Harris (Riverside Studios); Ragdoll (Jermyn St Theatre); Sinbad the Sailor (also Director) (Lilian Baylis Theatre); Marriage Material (Lyric Hammersmith/Birmingham Rep); Jesus Christ Superstar and Lord of the Rings (also Chicago Shakespeare Theatre/New Zealand & Australia Tour); As You Like It, Brief Encounter and Spike (and UK Tour) (The Watermill Theatre); A Tupperware of Ashes (National Theatre); The Elixir of Love and The Handmaid’s Tale (2024 revival); Jacob Lenz (ENO); Pierrot Lunaire, and Mavra (Royal Opera House); Othello (Co-Director/Movement Director); Cherry Town (Welsh National Opera); Daddy (Almeida); Rumi The Musical (Coliseum); Judgment Day (Park Avenue Armory, New York); God Only Knows (Tate Modern); La Tragedie de Carmen (Jette Parker Young Artists at The Royal Opera House/Wilton Music Hall); Fanciulla – revival (Sante Fe Opera); L’Orfeo (Silent Opera); Queen of Spades (revival choreographer) (Lyric Opera Chicago) and Hansel and Gretal (revival choreographer) (WNO/Bayerische Staats Oper Munich).

Choreographer and Director for Film credits include: Moving in Time, Little Grasses Crack Through Stone and Hum for Doorstep Duets (all commissioned by New Adventures Dance Company).

Laura Copeland is an Irish actor and director from Belfast. From the ages of 12-19, she was a member of The Rainbow Factory. Within this time she volunteered her time as an assistant facilitator, technician, actor and found her love for community theatre and the arts.

She went on to train at LIPA, completing her actor training with a First in BA Acting. She has participated in Kino Guarimba, an international film residency, where she took on acting, producing and R&D roles across 8 short films. Her directing debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, was 86, a show she directed, devised and performed to critical acclaim.

Theatre credits include: 86 (And So On Theatre); Love Will Tear Us Apart (ThickSkin Theatre); The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Troilus and Cressida.

Film credits include: Love You More – St. Lundi (music video, actor); People Tell Me Things (short film, actor and producer); The Old Church (short film, research and development); Rooted (documentary); Water Vs Salt (short film, actor) and Il Decreto (short film, actor and research and development).

Tommo Fowler is a dramaturg for text and production, and New Works Associate at Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse. He was previously Literary Associate for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting, a Board Member of the Dramaturgs’ Network, and co-founder of RoughHewn dramaturgy company.

For the Everyman & Playhouse, credits as a dramaturg include: The Walrus Has a Right to Adventure, Takeaway, Rapunzel and Tell Me How it Ends (Everyman Theatre).

Other credits as a dramaturg include: Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz (Paines Plough Roundabout and tour); Jews. In Their Own Words. (Royal Court); Gathering Day/Diwrnod Casglu; Acorn (Eryri National Park, Sherman Theatre and Jump Spark Theatre); Pilot (Summerhall, Edinburgh); One Jewish Boy (Trafalgar Studios) and Out of the Dark (Rose Theatre Kingston).

Theatre director credits include: Stray Dogs (Theatre503); Jam, I Wish to Die Singing, Obama-ology (Finborough Theatre); Mumburger (Old Red Lion); Comet (Pleasance); The Strip, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (Oxford School of Drama) and Boy (Leeds Conservatoire).

Awards include: Olwen Wymark Award and Writers’ Guild of Great Britain.