Mohamed-Zain Dada is a playwright, screenwriter and cultural producer. His plays include: Speed (Bush Theatre, London, 2025); Dizzy (Theatre Centre & Sheffield Theatres, 2024); and Blue Mist (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2023).

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John Dalby is a voice teacher, musician and actor who assisted on Rudolf Laban's courses.

Caitríona Daly is a playwright from Dublin whose plays have been produced in Ireland and internationally. Her plays include: Duck Duck Goose (Fishamble, 2021 Dublin Theatre Festival); Normal (nominated for the Fishamble New Writing Award); and Test Dummy (nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play).

Wendy Dann is a stage director and writes plays and screenplays. She is Professor of Directing at Ithaca College, New York. 

Christian Darley taught movement at LAMDA and was movement director on many productions there and elsewhere. She also conducted various community workshops and took her work into prisons and schools. She died in her forties in 2008 just after completing her book, The Space to Move.

Emmanuel Darley (1963-2016) was a French writer and playwright. He first published two novels: Des petits garçons and Un gâchis. His plays include: Pas bouger; Une Ombre; Indigents; Souterrains; Soldat Cheval; Tous autant que vous êtes…; C'était mieux avant; Quelqu'un manque; Le Mardi à Monoprix; Aujourd'hui Martine; and Elles Deux.

Branwen Davies is a playwright, dramaturg and theatre director. She is a member of the theatre company Dirty Protest and Os Nad Nawr, and was Literary Manager of the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff.

Oliver Ford Davies is a leading actor who has played major roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Before turning to acting, he was a university lecturer and then a drama critic for The Guardian.

He is the author of books including Playing Lear (Nick Hern Books, 2003) and Performing Shakespeare (Nick Hern Books, 2007).

He was awarded an OBE for services to drama in 2024.