Dominic Cooke is an acclaimed theatre director who was Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre 2006-13. He is the author of plays including Arabian Nights and an adaptation of Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses. He was awarded a CBE in 2014 for services to drama.

Brian Cooley has had a successful and diverse career in business, theatre and education, and co-runs Mind Fitness, an organisation dedicated to developing mental health and wellbeing alongside business effectiveness.

He has worked as a core company member of Red Ladder, Sheffield Crucible, Theatr Clwyd & Doctor Foster's Travelling Theatre, and has taught theatre skills at drama schools and universities throughout the UK. He has also worked in corporate environments in the UK and USA, and has led commercially successful teams in the public and private sectors.

He is the co-author of Developing Your Emotional Health: The Compact Guide (Nick Hern Books, 2024) with Andy Barker and Beth Wood.

Zoe Cooper is a playwright whose work includes: A Song for Ella Grey, adapted from the novel by David Almond (Pilot Theatre, 2024); Northanger Abbey after Jane Austen (Orange Tree Theatre Richmond, Octagon Theatre Bolton, Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough & Theatre by the Lake, 2024); The Kiss (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, part of the Inside/Outside season of short plays, 2021); Out of Water (Orange Tree Theatre, 2019, in association with the RSC; a finalist in the 2020 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and shortlisted for the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Awards 2019); and Jess and Joe Forever (Orange Tree Theatre, 2017, followed by UK tour; winner of the Most Promising Playwright Award at the Off West End Awards 2017; longlisted for the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award).

Zizou Corder is the pen name of Louisa Young and her daughter Isabel Adomakoh Young, who have been writing together since Isabel was seven, including the critically acclaimed Lionboy trilogy (Lionboy, Lionboy: The Chase and Lionboy: The Truth), Lee Raven, Boy Thief and Halo.

Alastair Cording is an actor and writer, and has lectured at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities.

His extensive career as an actor and director led to writing as a result of the Edinburgh Fringe First-winning epic, The Golden City. He has written for a number of theatre companies: a series of children's plays for Masque; Mrs O's Saturday Nights (Covent Garden Festival); Fatale (Basingstoke Haymarket); and The Walsingham Organ, Margaret Catchpole and Margaret Down Under (Eastern Angles). Adapted works include Wild Harbour and Gay Hunter for BBC TV; David Copperfield for Eastern Angles; and for TAG, Lanark and the Scots Quair trilogy, including Sunset Song.

Rachel Corrie (1979-2003) was an American college student who joined other foreign nationals working for the International Solidarity Movement in Gaza in January 2003, where she was killed by an Israeli bulldozer while protesting.