Kate Hennig is a Canadian playwright, actor, teacher, and director. She is the author of The Queenmaker Trilogy, about the lives of Tudor queens: The Last Wife (Stratford Festival, Ontario, 2015); The Virgin Trial (Stratford Festival, 2017; winner of the 2017 Carol Bolt Award for Best New Play, shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama); and Mother's Daughter (Stratford Festival, 2019).

She has translated and adapted Cyrano de Bergerac and Oscar Wilde's stories for children, Wilde Tales. She is Associate Artistic Director at the Shaw Festival and lives in Stratford, Ontario.

Ruthie Henshall is a leading star of musical theatre who has played lead roles in many hit musicals including Chicago, Oliver!, The Woman in White, Cats, and Les Misérables.

Josh Hepple is a writer, activist, lecturer and disability equality trainer who has severe cerebral palsy. His play Animal, written in collaboration with Jon Bradfield, was shortlisted for the 2020 Papatango New Writing Prize and won the 2021 Hope Mill Prize. It was staged in 2023 in a co-production between Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester, and Park Theatre, London.

Nick Hern is the founder and publisher of Nick Hern Books. His adaptations for the stage include a version of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Amy Herzog's plays include Mary Jane (Yale Repertory Theatre & New York Theatre Workshop, 2017; Best Play, New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, 2018); The Great God Pan (Playwrights Horizons, 2012); Belleville (Yale Repertory Theatre, 2011; Donmar Warehouse, 2017; finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); 4000 Miles (Duke on 42nd Street Theatre, 2011; Lincoln Center Theater, 2012; Pulitzer Prize finalist; Obie Award for the Best New American Play) and After the Revolution (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Horizons, 2010).

She is a recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Helen Merrill Award, the Joan and Joseph F. Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity and the New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award.

Julie Hesmondhalgh was born and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, and trained at LAMDA. She was a member of Arts Threshold Theatre in London in the 1990s, and is co-founder of the political theatre company Take Back in Manchester, her home city.

She is best known for her award-winning role as Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street, a part she played for sixteen years. She has since worked extensively in theatre (Wit, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Greatest Play in the History of the World, There Are No Beginnings), television and film (You & Me, The Pact, Broadchurch, Happy Valley, Black Roses, Doctor Who, Inside No. 9, Catastrophe, Cucumber, Peterloo), and radio, where she is a regular voice on BBC Radio 4. Her Working Diary was published by Methuen Drama in 2019.

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Rosa Hesmondhalgh is a writer and actor from Yorkshire. Her plays include Madame Ovary. first performed at the Pleasance, Edinburgh, in 2019, then at VAULT Festival, London, in 2020.

Lewis Hetherington is a Glasgow-based playwright and performance maker. His work is rooted in collaboration, storytelling and play. He has won two Fringe First Awards and an Adelaide Fringe Award.

He is co-founder of fieldwork performance, Constellation Points, and also an associate of The PappyShow. He has worked with companies including National Theatre of Scotland, Platform, Lyceum Theatre, Traverse and Grid Iron. He has created performances in castles, climbing arenas and swimming pools and many others sites in between. He often makes work with community groups, and has a real passion for amplifying stories which need to be heard, using creativity to empower people to find their voices and agency.

Recent work includes The Coming Back Out Ball (National Theatre of Scotland), Red Riding Hood (Citizens Theatre), Rocket Post! (Constellation Points), Dear Green Place (fieldwork performance), BOYS (The PappyShow).

His work has travelled all over the world including performances in Australia, China, Canada, Germany, Japan, the US and Singapore amongst others.

Robert Hethmon was a director, teacher and editor. He was director of the Wisconsin Center for Theatre Research (1960-2) and was a faculty member in the Department of Theater at UCLA.