Carmen Nasr is a British-Lebanese playwright whose plays include: The Climbers (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, 2022); The Maladies (Almeida Young Company, 2022); and Dubailand (Finborough Theatre, London, 2018).

Clem Naylor graduated with a BA in Arabic and French from St. John's College, Oxford, in 2009. He has been involved in various literary and non-literary translation projects which have included work for the Royal Court Theatre, London.

Henry Naylor is a writer, performer, producer and director. He has written for many award-winning comedy shows including Smith & Jones, The Lenny Henry Show, Dead Ringers and Alistair McGowan's Big Impression. He was a lead writer on Spitting Image, and, together with his double-act partner Andy Parsons, he starred in nine series of Parsons & Naylor's Pull-Out Sections on BBC Radio 2. He also created, executive produced and directed the multi-award-winning Headcases for ITV1.

He has written plays including The Collector (Edinburgh Festival and Arcola Theatre, 2014), Echoes (Edinburgh Festival and Arcola Theatre, 2015) and Angel (Edinburgh Festival, 2016).

Jeannette Nelson trained as a singer and dancer at the Arts Educational School, then worked in theatre and cabaret for ten years in Britain and around the world. In her late twenties, she took a degree in English at Queen Mary, University of London, and then trained as a voice teacher at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Jeannette taught for many years at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as well as working as a voice and dialect coach in theatre, film and television. Besides the National Theatre, where she has worked since 1992, becoming Head of Voice in 2007, she has been resident voice coach at Shakespeare's Globe, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Sydney Theatre Company, Australia. She has also worked on many productions for other British theatre companies in London's West End and leading regional theatres.

As a voice and dialect coach in film and television, her work includes the films The Merchant of Venice (with the cast, including Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Joseph Fiennes), Kingdom of Heaven (with Orlando Bloom) and Wuthering Heights (with Juliette Binoche). Her most recent work in television includes The Hollow Crown (with the cast, including Benedict Cumberbatch, Philip Glenister, Keeley Hawes, Sally Hawkins, Sophie Okonedo and Tom Sturridge).

She is the author of The Voice Exercise Book and Keeping It Active: A Practical Guide to Rhetoric in Performance, both published by Nick Hern Books.

Mary Elliott Nelson is an actor, writer and dramaturg. Her adaptation of Frank Capra's movie It's a Wonderful Life has been produced around the UK, including a revival at Reading Rep Theatre in 2023.

Richard Nelson's many plays include: The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family (a trilogy of plays, Hungry, What Did You Expect? and Women of a Certain Age); The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country (That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, Sorry and Regular Singing); Nikolai and the Others; Goodnight Children Everywhere (Olivier Award for Best Play); Franny's Way; Some Americans Abroad; Frank's Home; Two Shakespearean Actors and James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey; Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical).

Jean Newlove (1923-2017) was Rudolf Laban’s first assistant when he came to England. She subsequently became movement teacher to Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop and trained several generations of performers.

A serious student of dance from childhood, she was auditioned by Laban at Dartington Hall and was offered the post as his personal assistant. Initially she worked with Laban and F.C. Lawrence (design engineer and factory consultant), pioneering ‘Laban Lawrence Industrial Rhythm’ in factories. This improved the movement of women workers in the war effort, increasing their output considerably. These workers also included land-girls, forestry corps and textile workers. She also introduced Laban’s ‘modern dance’ to the A.T.S.

Jean helped Lisa Ullmann establish teachers’ classes in modern educational dance before the Art of Movement Studio opened in Manchester in 1946, and ran drama courses on her own account. Joan Littlewood asked Laban to recommend a dancer/choreographer to train a young company called Theatre Workshop. Jean joined the company - eventually marrying its co-founder, the playwright Ewan MacColl.

During a long working life time, Jean worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, gave masterclasses for actors at RADA and Bristol Old Vic, and for dancers and actors in Havana, Cuba. She introduced Laban classes to actors in companies in Sweden and Czechoslovakia whilst on tour with Theatre Workshop. Her own dance group visited Warsaw and Moscow. In addition she worked with actors in San Francisco, ran many courses in Europe, directing musicals and plays for young people.

Her two books, Laban for Actors and Dancers and Laban for All, are published by Nick Hern Books.