Lisa Carroll is a playwright, screenwriter and comedian, whose plays have been staged at Soho Theatre, the Arcola Theatre, and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. They include The Misandrist (Arcola Theatre, London, 2023).

She is the co-author, with Milly Thomas, of Making Your Solo Show: The Compact Guide (Nick Hern Books, 2023), and teaches regular solo-show workshops.

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Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor.

She has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the United States and Canada, including McGill, Michigan, NYU, and Princeton.

With more than twenty books of writings and translations published to date, Carson was awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, has won the Lannan Literary Award, two Griffin Poetry Prizes, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Princess of Asturias Award, the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry, and the PEN/Nabokov Award, and was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2005 for her contribution to Canadian letters.

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Jo Carson (1946–2011) was an American playwright, poet, fiction writer, and actor, as well as the author of three children's books. She was the founder of AlternateROOTS, an organization devoted to community-based arts.

pamela carter is a playwright and dramaturg. Her plays include: Almost Near (Dresden Staatsshauspiel, Germany; Finborough Theatre, London); Skåne (Hampstead Theatre, London; Theater Ulm, Germany; winner of the New Writing Commission at the Berliner Festspiele Stückemarkt, 2012); What We Know (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; Teatro Circulo, New York); and several plays for Untitled Projects including slope, An Argument About Sex and Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner. She also works regularly with Swedish conceptual artists Goldin+Senneby (The Nordenskiöld Model) and Vanishing Point Theatre Co (including Interiors and Tomorrow).

Sarah Case is a text and voice coach, and a former actor. She has been Head of Voice on the Acting Degree Course at Italia Conti Academy for 14 years, and also lectures in voice at the Central School of Speech and Drama and East 15 Drama School. She also works with Speak Easily, a private voice, speech and accent company.

Anne-Marie Casey is a screenwriter, novelist and playwright.

Her novels include An Englishwoman in New York and The Real Liddy James.

Her plays include stage adaptations of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (Gate Theatre, Dublin, 2011) and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (Gate Theatre, 2014). A revised version of Little Women was staged in 2022 by Watford Palace Theatre and Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

A graduate of Oxford University, Syracuse University and the short directing programme at NYU, she holds dual UK/Irish nationality and lives in Dublin, Ireland.

Nick Cassenbaum is a writer, performer and theatre maker.

His plays include REVENGE: After the Levoyah (Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2024; Yard Theatre, London, 2025) and Bubble Schmeisis (Edinburgh Fringe and UK tour).

He is co-artistic director of Take Stock Exchange.

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Jessie Cave is a writer and performer. She is best known for playing Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter films. She was a regular in Sky’s flagship sitcom Trollied and has also appeared in Call the Midwife, Black Mirror, Loaded and Father Brown.

Jessie’s doodles about love and her depiction of motherhood have a cult following on Instagram. Her doodles and comedy were featured in Dictionary Corner on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Her first book of doodles, Love Sick, was published by Penguin Random House in 2015. 

Her solo comedy shows have been critically acclaimed and have had sell-out runs in Edinburgh and Soho Theatre.

Maureen Chadwick is the creator and writer of a wide range of award-winning, critically acclaimed and controversial shows for both television and theatre, including single plays, primetime drama series, stage plays and musicals.

She was one of the co-founders and creative directors of Shed Productions, writing and producing a new wave of entertaining and hard-hitting television drama series, notably Bad Girls, Footballers’ Wives and Waterloo Road. 

Previous television credits include Angels, EastEnders, Coronation Street and BBC Screen One single dramas Watch with Mother and Two Golden Balls.

Previous theatre credits include Joséphine (at BAC and on national tour), Dust (BAC), Bad Girls: The Musical (at West Yorkshire Playhouse and in the West End), The Speed Twins (Riverside Studios) and The Realness (Hackney Downs Studios).