Michael Coveney edited Plays and Players before going on to be staff theatre critic on the Financial Times, Observer and Daily Mail. He has published biographies of Maggie Smith, Mike Leigh and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Brian Cox is an award-winning Scottish actor, best known for roles in films such as Manhunter, Troy and The Bourne Supremacy. He won an Emmy Award in 2000 for his role in Nuremburg.

Lucinda Coxon is an English playwright and screenwriter.

Her plays include: a version of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman (Bridge Theatre, London, 2022); Alys, Always, adapted from the novel by Harriet Lane (Bridge Theatre, London, 2019); Herding Cats (Ustinov Theatre, Bath, 2010, & Hampstead Theatre, 2011); and Happy Now? (National Theatre, 2008).

Her screenplays include The Danish Girl, The Crimson Petal and the White and The Little Stranger.

David S Craig is the co-founder and former Artistic Director of Roseneath Theatre and a playwright with twenty-nine professionally produced dramatic works including the award winning Danny, King of the Basement.

Iain Crichton Smith (1928–1998) was a Scottish poet and novelist, who wrote in both English and Gaelic. His work for the stage includes Lazybed (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1997) and The Visitor, a short play staged as part of the triptych Family at the Traverse Theatre in 1999.

Martin Crimp was born in 1956 and began writing for the theatre in the 1980s. Attempts on her Life, written in 1997, established his international reputation, and the plays that followed – among them, The Country, Cruel and Tender (written for director Luc Bondy), The City and In the Republic of Happiness – have been seen by audiences across the world.

Nilo Cruz is a Cuban-American playwright. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Anna in the Tropics, as well as Sotto Voce, Beauty of the Father, Two Sisters and a Piano, Lorca in a Green Dress, Dancing on Her Knees, Night Train to Bolina and other works.

Lluïsa Cunillé has written numerous plays, both in Catalan and Spanish. These include: Molt novembre (1993), La Festa (1994), Libración (1994, Premi de la Crítica de Barcelona 1993-1994), Accident (1996, Premi de la Institució de les Lletres Catalanes, 1997), Apocalipsi (1998), L'afer (1999, Premi Ciutat d'Alcoi 1998), La cita (1999), Passatge Gutenberg (2000, Premi de la Crítica de Barcelona 1999-2000), Vacants (2000), El gat negre (2001), L'aniversari (2001, Premi Born de Teatre 1999) and Aquel aire infinito (2003). She was awarded the National Dramatic Literature Award in 2010 by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.