Stephen Laughton is a playwright whose work includes: One Jewish Boy (Old Red Lion, London, 2018; Trafalgar Studios, West End, 2020); Run (VAULT Festival, London, 2016; The Bunker, London, 2017); Nine (part of the PlayWROUGHT#3 Festival at the Arcola Theatre, 2015); and Marina Abramovic is Staring at Me (Terra Firma Theatre's 2011–12 Boxcar Reading Series at the Railroad Playhouse in Newburgh, New York, then Cell Theatre, Manhattan).

His work for television includes Forward (Blacklisted Films) and Black Hill (Lime Pictures).

He is currently the Writer in Residence in the Astrophysics team at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Paul Laverty is a screenwriter who has collaborated with the filmmaker Ken Loach on films including Carla's Song, My Name Is Joe, Bread and Roses, Sweet Sixteen, The Wind That Shakes the Barley and I, Daniel Blake.

Bryony Lavery is a playwright whose work includes: Last Easter, A Wedding Story and Frozen (TMA Best Play 2001, Eileen Anderson Best Play 2001), which began life at Birmingham Rep, moved to the National Theatre, London, and was then produced on Broadway where it was nominated for four Tony awards.

She has written five plays for National Theatre Connections.

She adapted Philip Pullman's novel The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage for the Bridge Theatre, London (2021).

Jude Law is an acclaimed British actor, best known for roles in films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain and Sherlock Holmes. Nominated for three Olivier and two Tony Awards, he won a Critics' Circle Theatre Award in 2010 for his performance in Hamlet.

David Herbert Lawrence (1885–1930) was an English writer and poet. Amongst his most acclaimed works are the novels Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), and the plays The Daughter-in-Law (1913) and The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd (1914).

Denis Lawson has been running film workshops for drama students and working actors for over twenty years. His work as an actor includes the BBC’s Bleak House, Holby City, Sensitive Skin, Marchlands and Inside No. 9 on television, and Local Hero, Broken and The Machine on film. In 2012 he joined the cast of BBC TV’s New Tricks, now in its eleventh series with an audience of almost nine million.

Adam Lazarus is an award-winning actor, director and acting teacher whose work has been showcased nationally, in the USA and Europe.

Le Navet Bete is a physical-comedy theatre company based in Exeter, Devon, whose spectacular and hilarious shows have wowed audiences globally since their formation in 2007.