Colm Molloy is a composer-lyricist based in London and a composition graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His works for musical theatre include WORLD IN PROGRESS, The Other Palace, London; Edinburgh Festival Fringe; FORBIDDEN FRUIT, Theatre Utopia; IT’S WHO YOU KNOW, Shoestring Theatre, Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation. He has written incidental music for the following theatre/film: RIPE PICKINGS, a virtual, R&D adaptation of The Cherry Orchard; NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES, Catford Broadway; THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Milton Court Theatre; THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED, Barbican Centre Cinema; ABI UNDERSTOOD, Shoestring Theatre, Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation.

Colm's libretti/playwriting credits include: TOURISTS and THE GAL-BOY, THE CORINTHIAN, AND THE DOLLYMOP, London Transport Museum; THE PLAINS OF DELIGHT, Theatre Utopia; The Bread and Roses, Clapham Fringe Festival.

Colm collaborated as a composer-lyricist on the Theatre Royal Stratford East Musical Theatre Workshop with playwright Joyce Lee on REVOLUTION FOR THE SOCIALLY UNINFORMED. He has been a member of BML Workshop since 2019, and is working on a musical adaptation of SECRETS AND LIES with Richard Overall.

Colm is also an experienced pianist and musical director, and has been Musician-in-Residence at St. Dunstan’s College since 2018

Abi Zakarian is an award-winning British-Armenian playwright based in London. Her plays include: I AM KARYAN OPHIDIAN produced by Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre for the Sam Wanamaker Theatre; ENOUGH, produced by Small Truth Theatre for the Kensington Karavan Festival; FABRIC, produced by Damsel Productions for SOHO THEATRE and a London Community tour; I HAVE A MOUTH AND I WILL SCREAM produced by Joyous Gard for VAULT Festival where it won the festival's 2018 People's Choice Award; THE BEST PIES IN LONDON, produced by Rift Theatre for their immersive Shakespeare in Shoreditch festival; THIS IS NOT AN EXIT, produced by the RSC for The Other Place and transferred to the Royal Court; LULU7, produced by So & So Arts at Drayton Arms Theatre; SWIFTER, HIGHER, STRONGER, produced by Roundpeg Theatre at the Roundhouse; A THOUSAND YARDS, produced by Feast Theatre at Southwark Playhouse. FABRIC, produced by Tremers Theatre, played at Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016 and won a Fringe First Award.

Previously one of the writers involved in the playwright-in-residence Schoolwrights scheme in East London Schools and a participant in Theatre Royal Stratford East's Musical Theatre Workshop, she is also a current member of the RSC and Hampstead Theatre’s writers groups. She regularly runs workshops for both Caspa Arts and W1 Workshops.

Abi was awarded an MGCFutures bursary in 2018. She is also the recipient of a Peggy Ramsay Foundation grant. Abi is currently developing FABRIC for television and co-writing The BRIT School/Andrew Lloyd Webber Bridge Foundation musical for 2020 at Southwark Playhouse.

She is under commission with Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Damsel Productions and Small Truth Theatre.

Represented by Kara Fitzpatrick at Dalzell & Beresford Ltd

Rachel Lincoln is a theatre maker and director. Her recent work includes: Nest by Akin UK Tour & Lincoln Center, New York, & Southbank Centre. If We Were Older National Theatre. The Curtain, Young Vic. Skin Of The Teeth, Edinburgh and Vault Festival. God Of Carnage, Mountview. Rachel has been Associate Director with Ivo Van Hove for the National Theatre production of Hedda Gabler, and rehearsal consultant on A View From The Bridge at The Goodman Theatre, Chicago.

She co-founded FAT CONTENT in 2007 and their award winning work toured widely in the UK. Rachel is co-founder of Akin. Her work with Akin is produced by Farnham Maltings. She was a finalist in the National Theatre Women of Tomorrow Director's Award 2019. She graduated from the BRIT School #AlwaysBRIT, trained at the Jacques Lecoq school, National Theatre Director’s course and Young Vic Jerwood Assistant Director Program. Rachel has recently been commissioned by 45 North to develop a new play with writer Gillian Greer, and is developing new play House with Akin, beginning development at The Unicorn.