Two-time Olivier award-winner, Golden Globe winner, and Tony and BAFTA nominated actress and producer Ruth Wilson has paved her way in theatre, television, and film. Best known for her portrayals of Mrs Coulter in His Dark Materials, Alison Bailey in The Affair, Alice Morgan in Luther and for her Award winning work on the London stage, Wilson has quickly become … Read More

Co-founder of the film and TV production company Merman, Sharon Horgan is an Emmy-nominated, multi-BAFTA award-winning Irish actress, writer, producer, and director, best known for her multiple award-winning sitcom CATASTROPHE with Rob Delaney. She has written and created many TV series including Pulling, Divorce, Motherland and Shining Vale. Her film work includes Military Wives, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Together and the … Read More

Sinéad Cusack is an award winning actress, renowned for her extensive career both on stage and screen. Cusack began her theatrical career at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Travis Alabanza is a writer, performer and theatre maker. Since 2016 they have been using their art to archive trans experiences within the UK. Through theatre, their solo show Burgerz toured internationally to critical acclaim, with the Guardian readers selecting it as their top show of 2018, winning a total theatre award and being placed on over 15 university courses … Read More

Steve Coogan was born and raised in Manchester where he trained as an actor at the Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre. Shortly after Drama School, Steve landed his first job as an impersonator and comic on the satirical TV series, SPITTING IMAGE. In 1992 Coogan won the Perrier Award for his show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Whilst appearing on … Read More

Shon Faye was born in Bristol, and is now based in London. After training as a lawyer, she left the law to pursue writing and campaigning, working in the charity sector with Amnesty International and Stonewall. She was an editor-at-large at Dazed, and her writing has been published by the Guardian, the Independent and Vice, among others. Faye recently launched … Read More

Rachel Poirier trained in France in the conservatoire of Rennes, l’École Nationale de la Rochelle. She furthered her training at the Rudra Béjart school and then joined Rambert Dance Company. She has also worked with Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Rafael Bonachela, John Jasperse and Christophe Garcia.  She has worked with Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Fabulous Beast and Teaċ Daṁsa for the last … Read More

Professor Shirley Ze Yu is the Director of the China-Africa Initiative at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the London School of Economics, and a Senior Practitioner Fellow with the Ash Center of Harvard Kennedy School. She is also a MBA professor at the IE Business School and a distinguished Foreign Faculty professor at the National Defence University, Islamabad. … Read More

Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction), Say Nothing: Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, as well as two previous critically-acclaimed books, The Snakehead, and Chatter.  He is the writer and host of … Read More