Penelope Wilton is an acclaimed British actress, best known for her roles in Ever Decreasing Circles, Doctor Who and Downton Abbey. She has won two Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, and been nominated for five Oliviers.

Matt Winkworth is a composer. He was artist-in-residence at The Oxford Playhouse 2016-17, won the KSF Artist of Choice award in 2015 and the Perfect Pitch Award in 2014.

He has collaborated with the writer Chris Bush on Robin Hood and the Christmas Heist (Rose Theatre, Kingston, 2024) and The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (Theatr Clwyd, 2018).

Lyndsey Winship is an arts journalist and filmmaker who specialises in dance. A former dance editor at Time Out, she is currently dance critic of the Evening Standard and a regular contributor to the Guardian.

Kit Withington is a playwright from Manchester. Her debut play The View From Down Here was on at Ovalhouse in 2015. Kit was a member of the Soho Theatre Writers' Lab in 2018 and her play Scrap was shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award. Kit has been part of the Emerging Writers' Group at the Bush Theatre as well as being part of both an Intro group and an invitational group at the Royal Court. In 2021 she wrote Our Moon Under Water for The Living Newspaper at the Royal Court. In 2023 Kit's play As We Face the Sun was commissioned by the Bush for their 18-25 young company.

Pelham (‘Plum’) Grenville Wodehouse was born in Guildford in 1881. After leaving school he spent two years as a banker, before switching careers to sports reporter and columnist at the Globe newspaper. Around this time he started writing short stories, mainly for boys’ magazine The Captain, before discovering his talent for comic dialogue. By 1910 he was reaching millions of readers all over the world, and dividing his time between his homes in the US, France and Britain.

In his ninety-six years he wrote almost two hundred short stories, plays, articles, song lyrics – including working with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes – and novels. He began writing the Jeeves and Wooster novels, for which he is best known, with The Man with Two Left Feet in 1917, followed by others such as Right Ho, Jeeves (1934), The Code of the Woosters (1938) and Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963), and finally Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen in 1974.

His final years saw him constantly in and out of hospitals with a series of illnesses. He continued writing throughout, leaving his final work, Sunset at Blandings, unfinished. He died of a heart attack in a hospital in Southampton, Long Island, on Valentine’s Day 1975.

Kathryn Wolfe had a twenty-five-year career as a TV director on top BBC and ITV shows. Since 2003 she has taught hundreds of aspiring presenters and launched countless careers with her training company Pukka Presenting. She was Senior Lecturer in Media Performance and Course Leader in TV Production at the University of Bedfordshire from 2006 to 2018. Kathryn is a presenting coach, video presenter, narrator and newsreader.

Alexandra Wood is a UK playwright whose plays include: an adaptation of Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (Watermill Theatre, 2023); The Tyler Sisters (Hampstead Theatre, 2019); The Human Ear (Paines Plough, 2015); Ages (Old Vic New Voices); an English version of Manfred Karge's Man to Man (Wales Millennium Centre); Merit (Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2015); The Initiate (Paines Plough, 2014; winner of Scotsman Fringe First); an adaptation of Jung Chang's Wild Swans (ART/Young Vic); The Empty Quarter (Hampstead Theatre, 2013); The Centre (Islington Community Theatre); Decade (co-writer, Headlong); Unbroken (Gate Theatre, London, 2009); The Lion's Mouth (Royal Court Rough Cuts); The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2007) and the radio play Twelve Years (BBC Radio 4).

She is a winner of the George Devine Award (for The Eleventh Capital) and was the Big Room Playwright-in-residence at Paines Plough in 2013.

Beth Wood is Artistic Director of Prospero Theatre Company, an inclusive award-winning theatre company that uses drama to improve the quality of life for adults and young people with disabilities and mental health conditions.

She is the co-author of Developing Your Emotional Health: The Compact Guide (Nick Hern Books, 2024) with Andy Barker and Brian Cooley. She also writes the drama activities for Longman's Shakespeare series and her plays have been widely performed.

Leo Woodall is an English actor known for his roles in the HBO series The White Lotus and in the Netflix drama series One Day.