Iseult Golden is an actor, writer and director. Writing work includes: CLASS (Dublin Theatre Festival, 2017, co-written with David Horan), The Roy Rap for the Little Roy Series (Jam Media / CBBC), co-writer on The Importance of Being Whatever for RTÉ (IFTA Winner 2012) and Belonging to Laura for Accomplice/TV3 (IFTA Nomination 2009). Also Fireworks, a one-act play for Tall Tales Theatre Company (published as part of the collection TXTs). Directing highlights include: Connected by Will Irvine and Karl Quinn (Dublin Fringe/Project Arts Centre), Payback by Marion O’Dwyer and Maria McDermottroe, Mangan’s Last Gasp by Gerard Lee and Buridan’s Ass by SR Plant (Bewley’s Café Theatre). Iseult also teaches at the Lir National Academy, Dublin.

James Goldman (1927–1998) was an American screenwriter and playwright. He is most noted as the author of The Lion in Winter, for which he received an Academy Award, and as the author of the book for the Broadway musical Follies.

Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793) was a Venetian playwright and librettist who, in his plays and operas, developed a unique comedic style that combined commedia dell’arte with a more realistic look at an emerging middle class.

Like many siblings growing up together, writers Robert and David Goodale enjoyed their own, very particular brand of humour. As children they created a range of ridiculous characters that seamlessly evolved into members of their extended family. It was only later that they discovered that P.G. Wodehouse had beaten them to it, in creating an entirely credible world full of even more deliciously bonkers characters.

As adults entering the real world, Robert became an actor, while David pursued a career as a documentary film-maker, but both remained committed to making people laugh. In 2010 they were encouraged to combine their comic talents to adapt P.G. Wodehouse’s The Code of the Woosters for the stage. They finally put pen to paper, and several drafts later, with the blessing of the Wodehouse Estate, Perfect Nonsense was born.

Rupert Goold is a leading theatre director. He has been the artistic director of the Almeida Theatre, London, since 2013. In 2026 he leaves the Almeida to become artistic director of The Old Vic, London.

He was artistic director of Headlong Theatre Company, 2005–2013, and has been an associate director at the Royal Shakespeare Company since 2010.

Natasha Gordon is an award-winning writer and actor born in London, of Jamaican descent. Her debut play, Nine Night, was premiered at the National Theatre in April 2018 before transferring to Trafalgar Studios in the West End, making her the first black British female playwright to be produced in the West End.

Nine Night won her the Most Promising Playwright Awards at the 2018 Evening Standard Theatre Awards and the 2018 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards.

She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2020 for services to drama.

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868–1936), primarily known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gorky's works include: The Lower Depths (1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl (1899), The Song of the Stormy Petrel (1901), My Childhood (1913–1914), Mother (1906), Summerfolk (1904) and Children of the Sun (1905).