Sabrina Mahfouz is a writer and performer. Her work for the theatre includes: Metamorphoses, co-written with Laura Lomas and Sami Ibrahim, after Ovid (Shakespeare's Globe, 2021); A History of Water in the Middle East (Royal Court, 2019); and a stage adaptation of Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses (Pilot Theatre, 2019).

Her most recent publications as editor include Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making it Happen (Saqi, 2019) and Poems From a Green and Blue Planet (Hachette, 2019).

Martyna Majok is an American playwright whose plays include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cost of Living (Williamstown Theatre Festival, 2016; Manhattan Theatre Club, 2017).

Other plays include Sanctuary City (New York Theatre Workshop), Queens (LCT3/Lincoln Center, La Jolla Playhouse), and Ironbound (Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Round House, WP Theatre/Rattlestick, Geffen Playhouse, and other theatres in America and abroad).

Lanre Malaolu is a director, choreographer and writer working across theatre and film. His work includes: Now, I See (Stratford East, 2024); Samskara (Yard Theatre, 2021); and Elephant in the Room (Camden People's Theatre, transferring to the Roundhouse, Camden, 2019);

His hybrid dance-documentary film The Circle had its world premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest and was acquired by The Guardian in 2020. His film The Conversation was selected for the BAFTA recognized Aesthetica film festival, winning the Best Dance Film award. He was the choreographer for British Council film Dear Mr Shakespeare (Sundance Film Festival 2017).

Emily Mann is an American playwright and director. Her plays include Execution of Justice, Still Life, and Having Our Say. She has been Artistic Director of McCarter Theatre Center since 1990.

Manjeet Mann is a multi-award-winning children's author, actress, playwright and screenwriter. Her debut YA novel Run, Rebel was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2021 and won the CILIP Carnegie Shadowers Choice Award, The UKLA Award, Diverse Book Award and Sheffield Children's Book Award. It was also a Guardian best book of 2020. She adapted it for the stage in a production toured by Pilot Theatre in 2023.

Hilary Mantel (1952-2022) was an English novelist, regarded as one of the greatest of her time. She was the first woman and the first British author to win the Booker Prize twice, for Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, which also won the 2012 Costa Book of the Year.

The conclusion to her ground-breaking Wolf Hall Trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, was published in 2020 to huge critical acclaim and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

Mantel was the author of fourteen novels, two books of short fiction, a memoir and a book of essays, Mantel Pieces. She was appointed DBE and a Companion of Literature, and her work has been translated into thirty-six languages.

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a writer, poet and educator. Her debut play, Peanut Butter & Blueberries, was premiered at Kiln Theatre, London, in 2024.