Jade Anouka is an actress born in London. Her debut play as a playwright, HEART, was premiered at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe, following previews in New York. It transferred to Brixton House, London, in 2024.

Will Arbery is an American playwright, screenwriter and TV writer, known for his plays Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Plano, and Evanston Salt Costs Climbing. Heroes of the Fourth Turning was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Arbery was the recipient of the 2020 Whiting Award for Drama.

Eline Arbo is a theatre director. She has been Artistic Director at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam since 2023.

Her stage adaptation of Annie Ernaux's The Years has been staged in the Netherlands, at the Almeida Theatre, London, and in London's West End.

Karen Ardiff is a Dublin-based actress who has performed on every major stage in Ireland. Her first play, In Skagway, was produced by Guna Nua Theatre Company and the Civic Theatre Dublin under the title The Goddess of Liberty. It won the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Best New Play Award, the Stewart Parker/BBC Northern Ireland Award and was nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Karen is also the author of an acclaimed novel, The Secret of my Face.

Aristophanes (born c. 447 BC) was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. His surviving works belong to a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and are some of the most influential comedies ever written.

Aristotle (born 384 BC) was a philosopher, pupil of Plato and author of numerous works including his Poetics, one of the most influential tracts in world theatre.

Jamie Armitage is a theatre director and writer. He was the co-director (with Lucy Moss) of SIX, nominated for a 2022 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical.

He is Associate Director at the Bridge Theatre, London. He was a Resident Director at the Almeida Theatre from 2019-2021, and an Associate Artist at the King's Head Theatre.

His plays include An Interrogation (Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2023; Hampstead Theatre, 2025).

Gareth Armstrong has worked extensively as an actor in regional theatre, the West End and the RSC and was a founding director of the 'Made in Wales' stage company and of the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. He often works for radio and has had no fewer than three stints as an actor in The Archers.

Siobhan Arnatsiaq-Murphy has performed traditional Inuit drum dance and has worked as a choreographer for over twenty years. She studied ballet and was in the aboriginal modern dance core at the Banff Centre for the Arts with the Aboriginal Dance Project. In her choreography work, Siobhan melds traditional drum dancing with modern dance. She is a graduate of the University of Victoria where she earned her law degree in 2005. She has worked as a lawyer and also taught drum dancing to youth and children. Siobhan lives in Iqaluit.