Rona Munro is a writer who has written extensively for stage, radio, film and television.

Her plays include: James V: Katherine (Raw Material and Capital Theatres tour, 2024); Mary (Hampstead Theatre, 2022); James IV: Queen of the Fight (National Theatre of Scotland, 2022); a stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (UK tour, 2019); a stage adaptation of Louis de Bernières' novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin (UK tour & West End, 2019); Scuttlers (Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2015); The James Plays trilogy (National Theatre of Scotland, the Edinburgh International Festival and the National Theatre of Great Britain, 2014); Donny's Brain (Hampstead Theatre, 2012); Pandas (Traverse, 2011); Little Eagles (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2011); The Last Witch (Traverse Theatre & Edinburgh International Festival, 2009); Long Time Dead (Paines Plough & Drum Theatre Plymouth, 2006); The Indian Boy (RSC, 2006); Iron (Traverse Theatre, 2002; Royal Court, London, 2003); The Maiden Stone (Hampstead Theatre, 1995); and Bold Girls (7:84 and Hampstead Theatre, 1990).

She is the co-founder, with actress Fiona Knowles, of Scotland’s oldest continuously performing, small-scale touring theatre company, The Msfits. Their one-woman shows have toured every year since 1986.

Film and television work includes the Ken Loach film Ladybird Ladybird, Aimee and Jaguar and television dramas Rehab (directed by Antonia Bird) and BAFTA-nominated Bumping the Odds for the BBC. She has also written many other single plays for television and contributed to series including Casualty and Dr Who. Most recently, she wrote the screenplay for Oranges and Sunshine, directed by Jim Loach and starring Emily Watson and Hugo Weaving.

She has contributed several radio plays to the Stanley Baxter Playhouse series on BBC Radio 4.

Colleen Murphy is a Canadian playwright, winner of the 2016 and 2007 Governor General's Literary Award for English Language Drama for her plays Pig Girl and The December Man / L’homme de décembre respectively. Both plays were also awarded a Carol Bolt Award.

Her other plays include: The Breathing Hole, The Society For The Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius, Armstrong's War, The Goodnight Bird, The Piper, and Beating Heart Cadaver, which was shortlisted for a Governor General's Literary Award.

She is also a librettist and an award-winning filmmaker.

Paul Murphy is a London-based playwright. He was the joint winner of Theatre503’s inaugural Playwriting Award in 2014 with Valhalla, his full-length professional debut.

Tommy Murphy is an Australian playwright best known for his stage and screen adaptations of Timothy Conigrave's memoir Holding the Man, which won numerous awards including Best Play at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, an award he also won for Strangers in Between.

Ben Musgrave grew up in Britain, Bangladesh and India. His debut play, Pretend You Have Big Buildings, won first prize in the inaugural Bruntwood Playwriting Competition and was premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2007. Other plays include: Crushed Shells and Mud (Southwark Playhouse, 2015); Across the Dark Water (The Point, Eastleigh and The Berry Theatre, 2015); His Teeth (Only Connect, 2011); Exams are Getting Easier (Young REP at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 2010); Pancras Boys Club (Only Connect, 2009); and Breathing Country (Y Touring, 2009-10, shortlisted for the Theatre Centre Brian Way award for the Best New Play for Young People).