Joseph is an award-winning writer and actor. He is an alumni of the Soho Writers’ Lab, Soho Writers’ Alumni Group, and LAMDA.

Simon Amstell is a writer, director and comedian.

Will and Andy have written “An Odd Job” for Radio 4. They have also developed a 6 part comedy series called “Shit Or Bust” with Baby Cow, a comedy drama called “Cornerstone” with Red Productions and a comedy series called “Road To Rio” with Baby Cow. Most recently, their comedy drama, “Here After”, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2014. They are currently developing a new sitcom “Nowhere Fast” and “Manning” with Red Productions.

Perrie Balthazar spent four years as a core writer on Coronation Street and three years as a core writer on Eastenders.

Simon Beaufoy started his writing career with the screenplay for THE FULL MONTY – returning to it fifteen years later for a stage adaptation that was nominated for an Olivier Award and continues to tour nationwide.

Ben is currently writing a black comedy-drama, MY LIFE IN ANALYSIS with Ecosse, has a three-part thriller, THE SCREENS in development at Leopard Films, and has a second thriller, THE PACT at ITV studios.

Dylan is a queer black actor and writer from Derby in the East Midlands.

Harriet is a screenwriter, executive producer and playwright.

Jeremy Brock is an English screenwriter and director. His career began in 1985 with the play In Times Like These, starring Greta Scacchi and Tim Woodward, which premiered at the Bristol Old Vic. He also adapted Dickens’ Oliver Twist into a play, directed by Phyllida Lloyd at the Bristol Old Vic in 1990.

Sean is a BAFTA nominated and Emmy Award winning writer for television, film and theatre.

Before focusing on writing and directing, Dan began his career as a comedian and actor.

Suzette is a writer and theatre maker. She is currently developing A Jewish Love Story, a play about three generations of Jewish women in England, with support from Arts Council England and Watford Palace Theatre.

Celine is an award-winning British-Lebanese writer and director, with a focus on female-driven, genre bending stories in Film and TV. Her previous work has been supported by the BFI, Doha Film Institute, Trademark Films and Goldfinch: First Flights.

David is a screenwriter, playwright and story consultant.

Claire, Stuart and Ian – or CSI, as they are affectionately and collectively known – have been screen writing together since 2010.

Jeremy wrote GRAND THEFT PARSONS for MGM/UA, BATTLEFIELD 2: MODERN COMBAT for EA and BAD SANTAS for Channel 4. His real-time feature IN THE LINE OF DUTY was released in early 2020 and he is developing CONSTABLE & TOOP for Sky and THE OUT for Sprout Productions.

Clare is a writer for stage, radio, television and is increasingly working in new story telling platforms such as digital games and virtual reality.

Matthew Dunster is a theatre and film director and writer.

Angharad writes for TV, film and theatre in both English and Welsh.

Christine is a writer, performer and director. She is currently developing her comedy drama DOYOUWISHTOCONTINUE with production company Big Talk and was recently commissioned to adapt and direct her play MURMURATION for Hampstead theatre. Her award winning writing for radio lead her to be selected for the ERA 50:50 TellHerVision all female comedy writing room for TV.

Sue has been working on SILENT WITNESS, with the 2 x 1hr episodes for her story ‘Bad Love’ now in production, to air as part of series 24 in 2021.

Megan Everett-Skarsgård is an American screenwriter and children’s book author based in
Stockholm, Sweden.

Robert’s play THE BIG I AM – a re-imagining of Ibsen’s ‘Peer Gynt’ was the last production of the Liverpool Everyman’s 2018 award-winning Rep season.

Tom has recently completed work on FOOL ME ONCE for Netflix and Quay Street Productions. This gripping thriller is based on the mega-selling novel by Harlan Coben. Also currently in production is BLACKSHORE, a new police detective series for BBC / RTE for which Tom wrote the finale episode.

Brian has several projects in development. He is currently script-writing with Toby Whithouse on a detective series with a familiar flavour, based on an 80s old school classic. He is also developing a drama series tackling climate change with Blacklight TV, and ‘You Canceled Me’ – a four part thriller serial set in the world of social media moderators.

Simon trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Acknowledged to be one of the greatest adapters for television, Arthur is best remembered for his adaptations of HARD TIMES; TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY; BLEAK HOUSE; A TALE OF TWO CITIES and A PERFECT SPY.

John has a number of projects in development ranging from contemporary immigration thriller THE ILLEGAL to period ballroom dance series WALTZER, culture-wars drama RICEMAN and martial arts vigilante show KING COBRA.

Jemima Khan is a British screenwriter and independent TV, film and documentary producer and founder of Instinct Productions.

Kasia’s debut feature film FLYING BLIND premiered at the 2012 Edinburgh International Film Festival where was nominated for the prestigious Michael Powell Award. The film received three Awards (Grand Prix, Best Director, Critics Award) at the Polish Festival of First Films in Koszalin. FLYING BLIND was released cinematically in the UK and in Poland in 2013.

Francis wrote and directed the hugely successful debut feature film God’s Own Country. Francis’ second feature film, Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, funded by BBC Films and BFI, was selected in Official Competition at Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival and premiered at Toronto International Film Festival before its worldwide release to critical acclaim.

Gareth’s series, SPY WARS, an eight part TV documentary for The History Channel, was broadcast in October 2019, and on the Smithsonian Channel in the USA in March, 2020.

Catherine first feature NUCLEAR, a supernatural thriller which she directed and which was co-written by David-John Newman premiered at the Warsaw Film Festival 2019. The film is financed by Ffilm Cymru Wales and BFI and stars Emilia Jones, George Mackay and Sienna Guillory.

In 2016, Liz’s play THON MAN MOLIERE was directed by Tony Cownie at The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh and in 2015, WHAT GOES AROUND made its way around Scotland’s theatres. She held the prestigious post of Scots Makar from 2011-16, which took her around the world.

Rae Mainwaring is a writer and theatre maker from Birmingham. She lives with a Chronic illness and identifies as a disabled artist.

Izzy’s comedy thriller SAVING SADIE is in development with ITV Studios America & Genial Productions. She’s developing comedy drama series THE MIRAGE with Various Artists Limited, and supernatural drama INVISIBLE with Company Pictures. She has been chosen as one of the BBC Drama Pilot Scheme writers 2022. She’s also a comedian.

Lise Mayer is a comedy writer, author and screenwriter

Jaki McCarrick is an award-winning writer of plays, poetry and fiction.

Conway McDermott is a non-binary writer from Liverpool.

Martin is an award winning writer/director. His latest film, The Banshees of Inisherin, was released in October 2022.

Bruce McLeod is an author, playwright and screenwriter, based in North Yorkshire, UK.

Maimuna Memon is a Lancashire born writer, composer, musician and actor. She is Co-Founder and Resident Composer of Wildcard Theatre Company.

Gez Mercer is a self-taught musician, dancer, and natural-born punk who has carved his own unique path in musical theatre and the arts, evolving into a multi-talented artist with a focus on the intersections of pop culture, social issues, politics and the empowering essence of being an outsider.

Novelist and screenwriter, Andrea Newman changed the face of British television in the seventies with her steamy television serial A BOUQUET OF BARBED WIRE.

Carol Noble has just devised and written a four-part crime thriller vis Quad for TF1 in France and ZDF in Germany called THE PERFECT MOTHER [airing in 2020].

Simon Nye has two TV drama series in production – FINDING ALICE (co- written with Roger Goldby) starring Keeley Hawes, and THE LARKINS: DARLING BUDS OF MAY, both for ITV.

Owen O’Neill is an award winning writer, actor and director. Theatre writing includes: Sixteen one-man stage shows. Two stage plays. Shaving the Dead and Absolution and an adaptation of the Shawshank Redemption which did a number 1 tour of the UK produced by Bill Kenwright and has been sold to Broadway Licensing for production across North America and Canada.

Barunka is a writer for stage, film, TV and radio.

Phil is a screenwriter and playwright. He’s currently writing an original series for the BBC and STV Studios. His plays have been performed across the UK and overseas.

Mike Packer is a Dramatist who has written several critically acclaimed plays, among them Cardboys, Carpet Pony Monkey, tHe dYsFUnCKshOnalZ!, and “Inheritance”.

Ripley is a young upcoming writer based in London.

Ol Parker most recently wrote and directed MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN starring Lily James, Cher and the original cast of MAMMA MIA!.

Matthew Parkhill is a writer, director and showrunner.

Morna Pearson is an Elgin-born Edinburgh-based playwright and screenwriter. She has been a recipient of the Channel 4 Playwright Scheme, the Catherine Johnson Best Play Award, and the Meyer- Whitworth Award. Her first short film, I WAS HERE, gained BAFTA Scotland and EIFF nominations for Best Short Film.

Lucy Prebble is a writer for film, television, games and theatre. She was an Executive Producer and writer on the BAFTA, GOLDEN GLOBE and EMMY award-winning HBO drama SUCCESSION, for which she has also won a WGA and a PGA Award.

Stephen’s film TORMENTED, a classic tale of undead revenge, was produced by Slingshot, BBC Films and Pathe, and was released to great reviews:

Howard Read is a writer, stand-up comic and animator.

Rebecca is a brilliant journalist and novelist, who is developing a TV project with Caryn Mandabach Productions about female friendship and influencer culture.

Philip Ridley was born and brought up in the East End of London. HIs first stage play, The Pitchfork Disney, changed the course of British Drama and is now published as a Modern Classic. One of his most recent plays, The Poltergeist, won the Off West End OnComm Award for Best Live Streamed Play.

A Humanities and Golden Globe recipient, Sally was honoured by PEN USA for her work on the Emmy nominated “Iron Jawed Angels.”

MARTIN SADOFSKI was born in Bradford from an Eastern European Jewish background. He studied English and Theatre at Manchester University and was lead singer in the indie band “The Passmore Sisters” Recording three Radio One sessions.

Lisa is recipient of the NEA/TCG Playwrights Residency Award and winner of the BBC International Playwriting Award and a finalist for a United States Artists Fellowship.

Deli Segal is a writer and actor from North London.

Donna Sharpe is a series writer / creator. Her critically acclaimed work has been shown by the BBC, HBO MAX, C4 Walter Presents, AMC, Viaplay, ZDF, DR, SVT, Arte and Netflix.

Trevor is best known for A ROYAL NIGHT OUT (Ecosse Films / Lionsgate). He is currently developing a musical adaptation of ARNO for Katy Lipson at Aria Entertainment.

Richard Smith is a Scottish BAFTA award-winning screenwriter. His most recent feature, the Asian-set GARDEN OF EVENING MISTS, was adapted for HBO from the booker-nominated novel by Tan Twan Eng. It was nominated for Best Screenplay at the 2019 Golden Horse Awards (‘the Chinese Oscars’), among others.

Ali’s plays include CATHY (Cardboard Citizens), GOTH WEEKEND (SJT, Live Theatre), UNDER MY SKIN (Pegasus Theatre), FAULT LINES (Hampstead Theatre), OVERSPILL (Soho Theatre, Churchill Theatre Bromley) and COTTON WOOL (Theatre503).

Ed is a playwright,director and producer whose award winning work has been widely distributed to over 100 countries.

Robert is the creator of DEATH IN PARADISE for BBC One, which is currently in its twelfth series. Episodes regularly attract audiences of over 8 million in the UK, and it’s been sold to most territories around the world.

Since 2019, Daniel has been one of the core writers of the BBC’s iconic radio drama The Archers. To date, he has written over seventy episodes.

Matthew Todd is a multi award winning writer and sometime performer, and was editor of the UK’s best selling gay magazine, Attitude, for 8 years, where he interviewed countless celebrities including Madonna, Elton John and Lady Gaga and was responsible for Prince William’s first gay press appearance.

Theo is a dyslexic actor and writer for Stage, Radio, Television and Film. His plays have been produced at Theatre503, Park Theatre London, and the Pleasance Edinburgh/Islington.

Paul is an actor/writer/director born in London to Hungarian and Canadian parents. His first film Sex&Drugs&Rock’n’Roll which he also exec produced, starring Andy Serkis was critically acclaimed.

Laura is a Olivier award winning playwright and screenwriter.

Naomi Wallace’s plays have been produced in the United Kingdom, the United States, Europe and the Middle East and include One Flea Spare, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, In the Heart of America, Slaughter City, Things of Dry Hours, The Fever Chart: Three Vision of the Middle East, And I and Silence, The Liquid Plain, Night is a Room and an adaptation of Returning to Haifa by Ghassan Kanafani and The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon (both adaptations co-written with Ismail Khalidi).