Dr Philip Roberts is Emeritus Professor of Theatre Studies in the University of Leeds and a theatre historian, particularly of the Royal Court.

Lianne Robertson is from small fishing town Fraserburgh in the north east of Scotland. She studied Acting & Performance at Aberdeen College then went on to gain her BA (Hons) Acting at Northampton University. Upon graduating Lianne went to work in Thailand as a Creative Arts specialist with disabled children at Rainbow House orphanage then returned to work as an Actor in London.

Lianne has worked on short/feature length films and in commercials with brands such as Ford, The Famous Grouse, Gala Bingo, Nintendo, RBS, NHS, Go Outdoors, Arnold Clark & the Commonwealth Games.

She also has experience in running national and international industry events for Actors, creating platforms where professionals can come together up pick up a wide range of useful information and resources to develop their career.

Danny Robins is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, journalist, and creator of the hit BBC podcast The Battersea Poltergeist.

His play 2:22: A Ghost Story premiered in the West End in 2021, starring Lily Allen. It won Best New Play at the 2022 WhatsOnStage Awards.

Matthew Robins is a multi-disciplinary artist from the West Country. His work includes animation, puppetry, short films, sculpture, and music, and he regularly tours with his band.

Ashley Robinson is a Brooklyn-based writer and actor. As a writer, he adapted Annie Proulx's story 'Brokeback Mountain' with Dan Gillespie Sells (West End, 2023).

Holly Robinson is a Birmingham-born playwright now based in London.

Her debut play soft animals was premiered at Soho Theatre, London, in 2019.

Her adaptation (with Anna Himali Howard) of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Secret Garden was staged at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in 2024.

Billy Roche is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and author. Born in Wexford, he worked as an actor and a singer before turning to writing in the 1980s.

His plays include the acclaimed Wexford Trilogy, comprising A Handful of Stars (1988), Poor Beast in the Rain (1989) and Belfry (1990), which won him numerous awards in both Ireland and Britain. Other plays include: Amphibians (1992), The Cavalcaders (1993), On Such As We (2001) and Lay Me Down Softly (2008).

His prose works include the novel Tumbling Down (1986) and the short story collection Tales From Rainwater Pond (2006).

His work for the screen includes his IFTA-nominated, four-part TV series Clean Break, which premiered on RTE in 2015.

J. T. Rogers is an American playwright whose work includes Oslo (Lincoln Center Theater, NYC, 2016; National Theatre, London, 2017); Blood and Gifts (National Theatre; Lincoln Center Theater); The Overwhelming (National Theatre, followed by UK tour with Out of Joint; Roundabout Theatre, NYC); White People (Off-Broadway with Starry Night Entertainment) and Madagascar (Theatre503, London; Melbourne Theatre Company). He is a co-author of the Olivier Award-nominated The Great Game: Afghanistan (Tricycle Theatre). His works have been staged throughout the United States, and in Germany, Canada, Australia, and Israel.

For Oslo he won the Tony, New York Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Drama League, Lortel, and Obie awards. Rogers’s essays have appeared in the New York Times, in London’s Independent and the New Statesman, and in American Theatre. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Pinter Review Prize for Drama. Rogers serves on the board of the Dramatist Guild’s Dramatists Legal Defense Fund. He is an alum of New Dramatists and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Fernando de Rojas (c. 1465/73–1541) was a Spanish author and dramatist, known for his only surviving work, La Celestina (originally titled Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea), first published in 1499.