Helen Mirren is an acclaimed British actress, who won an Academy Award in 2007 for her performance as Elizabeth II in The Queen. Other work includes The Long Good Friday, The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & Her Lover and her BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning role in Prime Suspect.

Gary Mitchell is a British playwright based in Northern Ireland. His plays, many of them political thrillers about contemporary life in Belfast, have been widely performed, and he has been called 'Northern Ireland's greatest playwright' (Guardian).

His stage plays include In a Little World of Our Own (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1997), As the Beast Sleeps (Abbey Theatre, 1998), Tearing the Loom (Lyric Belfast, 1998), Trust (Royal Court Upstairs, London, 1999), The Force of Change (Royal Court, 2000, winner of the George Devine Award and the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright), Loyal Women (Royal Court, 2003) and Burnt Out (Lyric, Belfast, 2023).

Natalie Mitchell writes for theatre, television and radio. Her theatre work includes Germ Free Adolescent (Bunker Theatre, London, 2019); Can't Stand Me Now (Royal Court Young Writers' Festival); Crawling in the Dark (Almeida Theatre, London); When They Go Low (National Theatre Connections, 2018); and This Wounded Island (tour).

Her work for TV includes Holby City, Doctors, Ackley Bridge, and two years as a core writer on EastEnders.

Her work for radio includes Proud (BBC Radio 3) and The Man Who Sold the World and Hidden Harm (BBC Radio 4).

Katherine Moar is a PhD Student at King's College London and Imperial War Museum. Her plays include Farm Hall (Jermyn Street Theatre, London, 2023; West End, 2024).

Steven Moffat is an award-winning writer and producer, whose internationally successful television shows include Doctor Who and Sherlock. His play, The Unfriend, was premiered at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in 2022, and transferred to the West End in 2023.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622–1673), known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best known works are The Misanthrope, The School for Wives, Tartuffe, The Miser, The Imaginary Invalid and The Bourgeois Gentleman.

Playwright Louise Monaghan was the winner of a Bruntwood Prize Judges' Award 2011 for Shadow Play. Her first radio drama Alone in the Garden with You, produced and directed by Jessica Dromgoole, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 earlier this year. Her other plays include Beautiful – nominated by Out Of Joint Theatre Company for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2009, and Aurora which was a finalist for both the London Festival New Writing Award and Little Brother's Big Opportunity competition 2010.