Nilgün Yusuf is an alumna of Soho Theatre Writers Lab, was longlisted for the Tony Craze Award in 2025 and recently received a Peggy Ramsey Award for her current work in progress. Her debut play Nine Moons—a rites-of-passage story with a supernatural twist—was supported by Mrs C’s Collective and performed at four London venues. Her plays have also been performed at  The Space, Bridge House Theatre, Old Red Lion, Lion & Unicorn, Bold Theatre, Barons Court Theatre, Drayton Arms and INK Festival. She is currently working on an MA in Writing for Screen and Stage at Birkbeck and regularly reviews for London Pub Theatres and The Reviews Hub.

Annie Power is a London-based writer and producer working across theatre and film. A graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme, her work has been staged at venues including Soho Theatre, The Old Red Lion and Pleasance Theatre. Her films have screened at festivals such as the BFI London Film Festival, and she won Best Screenwriter at the Underwire Film Festival in 2014. In 2024, she founded the theatre and film company Open Page Productions.

Andi Courtland is a writer of both fiction and drama whose short story DIFFERENTIAL DIAGONSIS was a winner of the Cheshire Literature Prize in 2024 and whose full-length play WATCHING THE SKY GO DARK was recently given a table-read by Show Up Productions.  Other work includes the comedy two-hander A FRANK TALK ABOUT AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT and the short story TENURED, read on BBC Radio Sheffield in 2021.  

Trish Bertram lives in Teddington and started seriously writing about 4 years ago after joining a writers’ class  in Kingston.  She has a background in theatre stage management and broadcast television, but has always wanted to write.  Theatre was always her first love  so playwriting is her particular interest, and  having now reached a point in her life where she can finally make  time to do it.  

Emma Dawson is a playwright and novelist. She currently has DYCP funding from the Arts Council to experiment with a new form of disabled queer theatre. In 2023-4, she participated in Vital Xposure’s Wellspring disabled playwright development programme and Relish Theatre’s LGBTQI+ playwrights support programme. Her play, EDIE, was performed for a short run at Theatre503 in 2022, alongside being longlisted for Theatre503 International Playwriting Prize, longlisted for development with Traverse Theatre, shortlisted for development with Middle Child Theatre, and shortlisted for Through the Mill Playwriting Prize. For her prose work, she is represented by Suzannah Ball at WME and her debut novel, MARINE, was longlisted for the 2025 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize.