Nessah Muthy is a multi-award-winning, two times Writer’s Guild-nominated, writer for stage and screen.

For screen, Nessah has written for On The Edge Series III (Blacklight / Channel 4) and her script will shoot in 2020. She currently has a television series idea in development with Character 7, is taking part in the KAOS/Netflix Shadow Writers Scheme led by Charlie Covell and is due to join the Coronation Street writers team in 2020.

For theatre, Nessah is currently under commission to: the Young Vic, Actors Touring Company (ATC), National Youth Theatre, Theatre Centre, The Brit School, Fuel, COMMON, Boundless Theatre and English Touring Theatre (ETT).

She has worked with a number of leading theatres and arts organisations including: the Royal Court Theatre, Punchdrunk, the National Youth Theatre, Cardboard Citizens, HighTide, Kali Theatre, Theatre Centre, Iris Theatre, Cloakroom Theatre and the King’s Head Theatre and the Gate Theatre/Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

After a critically-acclaimed, sell-out run in London, Nessah’s immersive play for young people, Small Wonders, (co-created with Punchdrunk) transferred to Imaginate’s Edinburgh International Children’s Festival in May 2019 where it received five star reviews and was subsequently nominated in the Best Play for Young Audiences category at the Writers’ Guild Awards 2020.

Awards include: Character 7 Prize 2017 and the Adrian Pagan Award 2018

Danusia is an actress, writer and singer from London. She has worked at numerous UK theatres, including at the Royal Court, RSC, Globe, and Royal Exchange. Her screen credits include Tyrant (FOX); Ghost in the Shell (Paramount/DreamWorks) and Hulu’s The Great by Tony McNamara (The Favourite).

Danusia’s writing credits include: Out of Sorts (winner of Theatre503 International Playwriting Award); Busking It, a musical play inspired by her experience as a busker (Shoreditch Town Hall/HighTide); Snap (Old Vic Connect) Decolonising History (Tamasha Digital/ SOAS University); Conditionally (Soho Theatre/Oxford School of Drama); Langthorne Stories (Soho Theatre/ Waltham Forest). Danusia is an alumni of the BBC’s TV Drama Writers Programme. She is currently under commission with Soho Theatre, the BBC and writing on Gangs of London Season 2.

Joel MacCormack is an actor, writer and facilitator from London. He graduated from RADA in 2013 as winner of the BBC Radio Carleton Hobbs Award and has received an Ian Charleson Commendation and UK Theatre Award for his work on stage. On screen he has appeared in Wolf Hall (PBS/BBC), Safe House 2 (ITV), Ready Player One (Warner Bros), Hobbs and Shaw (Universal) and Hope Gap (Origin Pictures). He has also appeared in nearly 100 plays for radio. Joel’s first full length play In That Short Space was a finalist in Theatre 503’s International Playwriting Award 2018 and was due to debut in Spring 2020.

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 Directors 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.

http://www.rachellincoln.co.uk/

In 2010 Ola graduated from Rose Bruford College with a Frist Class Honors BA in Theatre Directing. Since graduating Ola has worked at a number of prestigious Theatres such: Donmar Warehouse, Young Vic, Royal Court, National Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, St. Ann’s Warehouse (NYC) and Lunt-Fontane Theatre (Broadway).

Ola is a critically acclaimed and award winning Director. In 2012 she was the Borris Karloff Bursary recipient. In 2015 Ola became a BBC Performing Arts Fellow, Resident Associate Director at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Red Women of the Year nominee.In 2016 she became the Genesis Future Director Award winner and Artistic Associate at Lyric Hammersmith and Theatre Royal Stratford East. In 2018 she won the h100 Theatre & Performance Award. In 2019 she was named one of the Elle list’s ‘50 Game Changers of Now’. Ola is currently an Artistic Associate at the Royal Court Theatre.

https://www.olaince.com/about

His credits as a director whilst in this post include ‘Hang’ by Debbie Tucker Green, and credits as an Associate and Assistant Director include ‘Desire Under The Elms’, ‘The Wizard of Oz’, ‘Frost/Nixon’ and ‘Love and Information’.

Taio was previously the Jerwood Assistant Director on ‘Life of Galileo’ at the Young Vic Theatre, and was formerly the Resident Director at The Almeida Theatre.

His previous directing work has predominantly been with new writing, and includes ‘Mozart and Salieri’ (Sheffield Crucible Studio - Music in the Round), ‘Face in a Jar’ (Rhoda McGaw Theatre), ‘How To Make Love To A Muslim Without Freaking Out (Bush Theatre - Rehearsed Reading), ‘90’s Kid’ (Etcetera Theatre) and ‘What We Are’ (Etcetera Theatre).