Nick Blood

Theatre includes: Much Ado About Nothing (RSC); After The End (Stratford East); Backbeat (West End); The Boy on the Swing (Arcola); The Duchess of Malfi (Royal and Derngate); Women Beware Women (National Theatre); The Priory (Royal Court); Inches Apart (Theatre 503).

Phoebe Ladenburg

Phoebe Ladenburg is an award-winning actress, director, and theatre maker.

Theatre includes: Surrender – Lustrum Award, Comedian’s Name: Quirky Title (Arcola); Tuesday (White Bear); Stillmine (Portrait).

Adelle Leonce

Theatre includes: Summerfolk, Amadeus, Light Shining In Buckinghamshire (National Theatre); Romans, A Novel, Against (Almeida); A Child of Science (Bristol Old Vic); Anna Karenina (Sheffield Theatres); Emilia (West End); A Streetcar Named Desire, Woyzeck, A Stab in the Dark, Glitterland, A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts (Lyric Hammersmith); Anatomy of a Suicide, Torn (Royal Court).

Sophie Swithinbank

Sophie is a multiple award-winning playwright and screenwriter; she is the 2023 winner of the Peggy Ramsay/Film4 Award.

Theatre includes: Beans – Sonia Friedman Productions Prize Winner for Best Play 2024 (National Theatre Studio); Surrender (Arcola); Circle Game - Shortlisted Phil Fox Award 2020 (Southwark Playhouse); Bacon – Tony Craze Award Winner 2018 (Finborough Theatre); Even in Arcadia (Abingdon Arms, Oxford); Come Inside (Bush); The Superhero (Lyric Hammersmith).

Nancy Medina

Nancy is the Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic, taking the role in 2023.

Theatre includes: Yellowman (Young Vic); Choir Boy, The Beautiful Future is Coming, Curried Goat And Fish Fingers (Bristol Old Vic); A Good House (Royal Court/Bristol Old Vic); littleboy/littleman (Geffen Playhouse); The Darkest Part of the Night (Kiln); Moreno (Theatre 503)

Debbie Duru

As Set and Costume Designer: Beneatha’s Place (Young Vic); Fatherland (Hampstead); woman.life. song (Birmingham Opera Company); A Christmas Carol, A White Card (Northern Stage); How I learned to Swim (Roundabout/Brixton House); A Song Project (Royal Court). As Costume Designer: Tellus (DanceEast/The Lowry); Twice Born (Scottish Ballet/UK tour); Romeo & Juliet (Almeida); Alice in Wonderland (Brixton House).

Ryan Day

Training: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre includes: Sherlock Holmes (Regent’s Park Open Air); Henry V, All is But Fantasy, Macbeth, The Constant Wife, The Red Shoes (RSC); The Boy at the Back of the Class (Rose Theatre/UK tour)

Nicola T. Chang

Nicola is a composer and sound designer for stage and screen. She was the co-winner of the Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund (Audio Design) in 2021. Theatre includes: TRIBE (Young Vic);

Rachael Nanyonjo

Theatre includes: Changing Destiny (Young Vic); The P Word (Bush); The Meat Kings! (Inc.) Of Brooklyn Heights (Park Theatre); Retrograde (West End); Vanya (Theatre Dortmund); Macbeth (ETT/ Lyric Hammersmith); My Mother’s Funeral: The Show (Edinburgh Fringe/Bristol Old Vic/UK tour/ Soho Playhouse)

Lisa Makin

Lisa was Head of Casting at the Royal Court for 20 years and was previously Creative Producer at Sonia Friedman Productions, Chichester Festival Theatre and Stratford East. Lisa is currently an Artistic Associate at the Young Vic.

Yarit Dor

Yarit is co-director of Moving Body Arts. Theatre includes: Death of A Salesman, The Second Woman, The Homecoming, Changing Destiny, A Face In The Crowd, Girl In The Machine (Young Vic); Othello, Why Am I So Single?, Hamilton, Hadestown, The Glass Menagerie (West End); Stage Kiss (Hampstead)

Samantha Adams

Samantha is a registered HCPC London based production Dramatherapist, Arts Supervisor, Academic Researcher, Lecturer, and Artist. As Production Dramatherapist and Wellbeing Consultant: Game of Thrones, Mad King (RSC)

Carol Fairlamb

Carol Fairlamb has been a voice coach for over thirty years. Trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, she spent a decade as Head of Voice at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Aimee Russam

Aimee has worked in costume, working as a costume maker, running wardrobe and costumer supervising for a decade. She is currently in house Head of Costume at the Young Vic.

As Costume Supervisor: Sundown Kiki Reloaded, Earthworks, I Wonder If, The Second Woman (Young Vic); First Person Narrative (Derby Theatre). As Costume Maker: Hansel & Gretel, Jungle Book, One Man Two Guvnors (Derby Theatre); Noughts and Crosses (Pilot Theatre). Costume Design: Tortoise

Olivia Millar-Ross

Olivia is a theatre director from Glasgow, Scotland. She trained as an actor at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, before completing her Common Law (Accelerated) LLB at the University of Glasgow. As Director: Jackals (Scissor Kick/HISSYFIT); The Bench (Gala Durham). As Associate Director: ART (Original Theatre); Silence (Tara Theatre). As Assistant Director: Dancing Shoes (A Play, A Pie and A Pint/Traverse Theatre); Sugar Coat (Southwark Playhouse); Exodus (National Theatre of Scotland).

Yi Gao

Yi Gao is a London-based theatre designer from China and a 2025 Linbury Prize Recipient. She graduated from UAL Wimbledon College of Arts with an MA in Theatre and Performance Design. With a background in urban design, her cross-cultural practice spans the UK and China, exploring power, human nature, and social structures through visually led and interdisciplinary performance. Works include: Aboard the Raft of Medusa; The Visit; and Soong Mei-ling Lost Her Earring.

Gisela Mulindwa

Gisela is a multidisciplinary artist based in London. Her background is in Animation, graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 2021. Having worked at Theatre Peckham and Little Angel Theatre her passion for Theatre Design and puppetry grew. She is interested in creating designs that challenge expectations, using experimental practices and collaboration to explore themes around identity and social change.

Carmel Macaree

Carmel has worked in production, festival and stage management roles for over a decade. She is currently in-house Deputy Production Manager at the Young Vic. Prior to Young Vic, Carmel ran National Theatre’s flagship Young Technicians and Stage Management courses and worked at festivals including Brainchild, Pleasance Edinburgh, VAULT, Latitude, High Tide and LIFT.