Nathan Lucky Wood grew up in London. He was a member of the Soho Theatre Writers' Lab. His plays include: Alcatraz (VAULT Festival, London, 2019); and A Haunting (King's Head Theatre, London, 2016; VAULT Festival and Belgrade Theatre, Coventry). His other work has been seen at the Bush Theatre, Arcola Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, Leicester Square Arts Theatre, Rich Mix, and Theatre503.

Charles Ludlam was an American actor, director, playwright and founder of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company. He was the winner of Obie and Drama Desk awards, as well as a number of playwriting fellowships.

Jennifer Lunn is a writer, director and producer. Her plays include Es & Flo (Wales Millennium Centre & Kiln Theatre, 2023) and Terroir (Sherman Theatre, 2021).

Es & Flo won the Popcorn Group Writing Award in 2020, was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award and longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize.

Her play Core was shortlisted for the inaugural Women's Prize for Playwriting in 2020.

Cordelia Lynn is a playwright, librettist and dramaturg. She received the Berwin Lee Award, 2020, the Harold Pinter Award, 2017, and the Jerwood New Playwright, 2015.

Her plays include: Sea Creatures (Hampstead Theatre, 2023); Love and Other Acts of Violence (Donmar Warehouse, London, 2021); Hedda Tesman, after Henrik Ibsen (Headlong / Chichester Festival Theatre / The Lowry, 2019); a version of Chekhov's Three Sisters (Almeida Theatre, London, 2019); Lela & Co. (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2015); Believers Anonymous (Rosemary Branch Theatre, 2012); and After the War, which has been performed in venues around the UK and abroad.

Taylor Mac is an American actor, playwright, performance artist, director, producer, and singer-songwriter.

Works include Joy and Pandemic; The Hang (composed by Matt Ray); Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus; A 24-Decade History of Popular Music; Prosperous Fools; The Fre; Hir; The Walk Across America for Mother Earth; The Lily’s Revenge; The Young Ladies Of; Red Tide Blooming; The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac; and the revues Comparison Is Violence; Holiday Sauce; and The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville (created with Mandy Patinkin, Susan Stroman, and Paul Ford).

Mac is the first American to receive the International Ibsen Award; is a MacArthur Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Tony nominee for Best Play; and is the recipient of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History (with Matt Ray), the Doris Duke Artist Award, a Guggenheim, the Herb Alpert Award, a Drama League Award, the Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, the Edwin Booth Award, two Helpmann Awards, a New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, two Obies, two Bessies, and an Ethyl Eichelberger.

Eduardo Machado was born in Cuba and came to the United States when he was nine, growing up in Los Angeles. He is the author of more than forty plays, and has two volumes of his works published by TCG; The Floating Island Plays and Havana Is Waiting.

Freddie Machin is a playwright, screenwriter, actor and teacher. His plays include: Party Pooper (Drama Studio London); The Real Estate (Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, 2017); Nailhouse (Old Red Lion); Winston on the Run (Edinburgh Fringe & UK Tour); The Revenge of Martha G. (Chichester Festival Theatre); Don't Waste Your Bullets on the Dead (Vault Festival) and Chicken (Southwark Playhouse).

He wrote the feature film Chicken (2016), based on his play of the same title.

He has taught both acting and playwriting for Shakespeare's Globe, the Almeida Theatre, the Royal Opera House, and Central School of Speech and Drama amongst others.