Lydia Marchant is a writer for stage, screen and audio. Her plays include Mumsy (Hull Truck, 2023).

She has written for TV's Holby City, Casualty and EastEnders.

Donald Margulies is the author of Dinner with Friends (Pulitzer Prize), Time Stands Still, Brooklyn Boy and Sight Unseen, among many other plays. His plays have been performed on and Off-Broadway, throughout the US, and around the world. He is an adjunct professor at Yale University.

Francesca Martinez is an English comedian, writer and actress, and a committed campaigner on issues including austerity, climate change, and disability cuts. Her play All of Us was staged at the National Theatre, London, in 2022.

Clem Martini is an award-winning Canadian playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. His books on playwriting, The Blunt Playwright, The Greek Playwright, and The Ancient Comedians, are employed widely at universities and colleges across North America. He teaches in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary.

Javier Marzan is an actor and writer, and one third of acclaimed comedy theatre company Peepolykus. His solo work has included roles in Benidorm (for ITV), Watson and Oliver (for BBC 2), and the feature film Paddington (2014) on which he was also the Physical Comedy Creator.

Robert Massey’s first play Deadline was developed through the writers’ programme at the Abbey Theatre and produced by Lane Productions in Andrews Lane Theatre. Other plays include Over and Out, produced by Lane Productions at the Civic Theatre, Dublin, before embarking on a nation-wide tour including Pavillion, Draoicht and the Cork Opera House; Rank, produced by Fishamble at the Helix as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival, 2008, before transferring to the Tricycle Theatre, London, for an extended run and subsequently revived in summer 2013 in a critically acclaimed production directed by Wilson Milam at the Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles. He was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre to write the short play Growth which ran as part of the ‘Something Borrowed’ season on the Peacock stage.