Lauren Mooney is a writer, producer and dramaturg. Since 2015, she has co-run award-winning Kandinsky Theatre Company with director James Yeatman.

As writer-dramaturg for Kandinsky, theatre includes: More Life (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2025); Mrs Caliban (Theatro Technis / CSSD); SHTF (Schauspielhaus in Vienna); There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Royal Exchange Manchester); Dinomania, Trap Street (&Schaubühne), The Winston Machine (&Tour inc Marlowe/Bristol Old Vic/Theatre by the Lake), Still Ill, Dog Show (New Diorama).

DC Moore is a playwright and screenwirter. His work for the stage includes The Empire (Royal Court Theatre and Drum Theatre, Plymouth, 2011; nominated for an Olivier Award, winner of the TMA Award for Best Touring Production).

His work for the screen includes the 2015 BAFTA award-winning comedy drama series Not Safe for Work (Channel 4 / Clerkenwell Films). In 2016 he won the Best Long Form Drama award at the Writers' Guild Awards, and the BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Writer for Not Safe For Work. He has also been nominated in the Breakthrough Talent category at the BAFTA Craft Awards 2016.

Dominique Morisseau is an American playwright and actor from Detroit, Michigan. Her plays include Pipeline, Sunset Baby, Blood at the Root, Follow Me to Nellie’s and the three-play cycle, The Detroit Projects, which includes Paradise Blue, Detroit ’67 and Skeleton Crew.

Charlie Mortimer was educated (reluctantly) at Eton. Now describing himself as a ‘middle-aged, middle-class spiv (mostly retired)’, amongst other things he was in the Coldstream Guards, a vintage-car restorer, oil-rig roughneck and pop-group manager, as well as a boatboy/mechanic in Africa, car salesman in California, manufacturer of boxer shorts in Asia and an antiques dealer. He now lives in West London with his partner.

Roger Mortimer was born in 1909 and educated at Ludgrove, Eton and Sandhurst. In 1930 he was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards. He fought at Dunkirk in 1940, was captured and spent the remainder of the war as a POW. After resigning from the army in 1947, he became racing correspondent for The Sunday Times for almost thirty years. He wrote several classic books on racing including The History of the Derby. He met Cynthia Denison-Pender in 1947 and married the same year. They had two daughters: Jane and Louise, and one son, Charles. Roger died in 1991.

His letters to his son Charles were published postumously in 2012 in a bestselling collection entitled Dear Lupin.

David Morton is a director, designer and playwright. He has created works, as well as designed and constructed puppets, for Lincoln Center, St. Ann’s Warehouse, the New Victory Theater, Queensland Theatre Company, La Boite, Brisbane Festival, Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival, Terrapin Puppet Company, Darwin Festival, Adelaide Festival Centre, The Garden of Unearthly Delights at the Adelaide Fringe, Metro Arts, Queensland Performing Arts Centre and the Brisbane Powerhouse.

David was named Best Director by the Matilda Awards in 2016 for The Wider Earth, and has been nominated for Helpmann Awards in writing and design in both 2016 and 2017 for The Wider Earth and Laser Beak Man. He holds a PhD from the Queensland University of Technology focusing on the contemporary use of puppetry for adult audiences.

David is a founding member and the Creative Director of the Dead Puppet Society.