Dymphna Callery has performed and taught drama throughout the UK, including Liverpool John Moores University and Wolverhampton University. She is a published playwright and poet.

Simon Callow is an actor, director and writer. In addition to his stage work, he has appeared in films such as A Room With a View, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Shakespeare in Love.

Alexi Kaye Campbell is a playwright and actor whose plays include The Pride (Royal Court, London, 2008; Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York, 2010; Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 2011; Trafalgar Studios, 2013); Apologia (Bush Theatre, London, 2009); The Faith Machine (Royal Court, London, 2011); Bracken Moor (Shared Experience at the Tricycle Theatre, London, 2013) and Sunset at the Villa Thalia (National Theatre, 2016).

The Pride received the Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright and the John Whiting Award for Best New Play. The production was also awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.

His work for film includes Woman in Gold (BBC Films and Origin Pictures, 2015).

Steven Canny is a writer, director and producer for BBC Radio and has worked as an Associate Director and Dramaturg for Complicite.

His plays include adaptations (with John Nicholson) of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles (Peepolykus, 2007) and H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (Original Theatre, 2023).

Cliff Cardinal is a Canadian playwright and actor whose plays include Stitch (SummerWorks 2011, winner of Theatre Passe Muraille’s Emerging Artist Award) and Huff (SummerWorks 2012, winner of the Buddies in Bad Times Vanguard Award for Risk and Innovation and The RBC Tarragon Emerging Playwright Award). Huff was revived by Native Earth Performing Arts in 2015, winning the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, and has completed two National Tours including presentations at The Push International Performing Arts Festival, The Magnetic North Theatre Festival and the High Performance Rodeo, and closed the studio season at the National Arts Centre in May 2014. Maria Gets A New Life was premiered at SummerWorks in 2013.

In addition to his work in theatre, he also has a music project called Cliff Cardinal and The Skylarks.

Dean Carey has taught for the Australian Film Television and Radio School, the Nimrod Company, Belvoir Street Theatre and the NSW Conservatorium. He was Associate Head of Acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art and Head of Acting at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. He established The Actor's Centre in Sydney, now Actors Centre Australia.

Lynette Carr Armstrong has been an English, drama and media teacher and adviser for nearly 30 years.

She is the co-author with Samantha Wharton of Leave Taking: The GCSE Study Guide (Nick Hern Books, 2024), a guide to Winsome Pinnock's play.

Alison Carr is a playwright and radio dramatist.

Her plays include: The Last Quiz Night on Earth (Box of Tricks, UK tour, 2020); Caterpillar (shortlisted for the Theatre503 Playwriting Award 2016; premiered at Theatre503, London, 2018) and Iris (Live Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2016; winner of the Journal Culture Awards 2017 Writer of the Year).

Her play Tuesday formed part of the 2020 and 2021 National Theatre Connections Festivals and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK.

In 2013, Alison was awarded the Live Theatre/Empty Space Bursary Award to develop her play The Soaking of Vera Shrimp and the play opened at Live Theatre in September 2014. Other theatre credits include: Hush (Paines Plough, RWCMD, Gate Theatre), Remains (troublehouse theatre, Reveal Festival), Clothes Swap Theatre Party (Derby Theatre), Fat Alice (The Lemon Tree, Òran Mór, Traverse Theatre), A Wondrous Place (Northern Spirit, Tour), Mary, Jesus's Mam (Live Theatre), Fine (Soho Theatre), Quick Bright Things (The People's Theatre, Newcastle), When It's Gone (part of nabakov's Present: Tense), The Surprising Germination of Andrea Fitzgerald (Hotbed Festival at The Junction), When It Falls (Soho Theatre), The Girls From Poppyfield Close (Live Theatre), Clint (Live Theatre), But Otherwise Went Well (Waterloo East Theatre), and Can Cause Death (National Theatre).

Radio credits include Dolly Would (BBC Radio 4), Yackety Yak (The Verb, BBC Radio 3), and Worn Around the Edges (BBC Radio 3).