Vicky Jones is a theatre director and writer. As a director, her credits include Mydidae (Soho Theatre, then Trafalgar Studios) and Fleabag (Fringe First Award, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013, then Soho Theatre). As a writer, her plays include Touch (Soho Theatre, London, 2017); and The One (Soho Theatre, 2014; winner of the Verity Bargate Award for Best New Play).

She is co-founder and co-Artistic Director of new-writing company DryWrite.

Anna Jordan's play Yen won the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. Her other plays include: We Anchor in Hope (Bunker Theatre, London, 2019); The Unreturning (Frantic Assembly & Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2018); Pop Music (Paines Plough & Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 2018); Chicken Shop (Park Theatre, 2014); Freak (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, 2014); Closer To God (Best Play and Audience Award at the Offcut Festival, 2009) and Just For Fun – Totally Random (Best New Writing at the Lost One Act Festival, 2009).

As a director her work has included Crystal Springs (Eureka, San Francisco, 2014) and Tomorrow I’ll Be Happy by Jonathan Harvey at the National Theatre Shed as part of the 2013 Connections Festival.

She is Artistic Director of Without a Paddle Theatre, Associate Director at Theatre503, London, and teaches acting and playwriting.

Clive Judd is a writer, director and bookseller from Worcester, living in Birmingham. His debut play, Here, was premiered by Papatango at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2022 after winning the Papatango New Writing Prize.

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer based in Prague, who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His best known works include the novella The Metamorphosis and novels The Trial and The Castle.

Friedrich Carl Georg Kaiser, known as Georg Kaiser, (1878–1945) was a German dramatist. His plays include The Burghers of Calais, From Morn to Midnight and The Raft of the Medusa.

Paul Kalburgi is a British playwright and screenwriter. Awarded a Master of Arts (Writing for Screen & Stage) by Regent's University, London, he also studied in the Writer's Program at UCLA. Paul has written and produced content for television in the UK, USA, Canada, and New Zealand, and his plays have been staged in London, New York, and Dallas. In addition to his writing projects, Paul facilitates playwriting courses and workshops internationally and proudly serves as an Ambassador for the Dramatists Guild of America.

He is the author of The Writer's Toolkit (Nick Hern Books, 2020).

Stephen Karam is an American playwright whose plays include: The Humans (Chicago, 2014; off-Broadway, 2015; Broadway, 2016; winner of a 2016 Tony Award, Drama Critics’ Circle Award and an Obie Award); Sons of the Prophet (2011; a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the 2012 Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel and Hull-Warriner awards for Best Play); and Speech & Debate (off-Broadway, 2007; Trafalgar Studios, West End, 2017).

Andrew Keatley studied English and Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Acting at Webber Douglas. His plays include Alligators (Hampstead Downstairs, 2016); The Gathered Leaves (Park Theatre, London, 2015); Go To Your God Like A Soldier (Old Vic Tunnels, London/Underbelly, Edinburgh); Colourings (Old Red Lion, Islington); Care (Bush); Why Don’t We Multiply? and Weapon of Choice (Theatre503).