Tom Wentworth is a writer for theatre, television and audio. He is currently writing an episode of Ralph and Katie (BBC/ITV Studios) and his play Burke and Hare ran at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, in May 2022, after productions at Watermill Theatre, Newbury and Jermyn Street Theatre, London. Tom is a recipient of 2021 Unlimited Festival Commission for his play Little Bits of Ruined Beauty (Pentabus). Recent credits include: CripTales: The Real Deal (BBC), Pen Pals (Rural Arts) and Bully (recipient of an MGCFutures Bursary, performed at Wales Millennium Centre). He currently has projects in development with production companies including Erebus Pictures, Quay Street Productions, Silverprint Productions and West Road Pictures. Tom was recently part of BBC Writersroom’s Writers Access Group and London Voices.

Tom is proud to be a trustee of Disability Arts Cymru, The Watermill Theatre and a member of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain’s Equality and Diversity Committee.

Roy Williams is one of the UK’s leading dramatists. In 2000 he was the joint winner of the George Devine Award and in 2001 he was awarded the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. He was awarded an OBE for Services to Drama in the 2008 Birthday Honours List. His plays include an adaptation of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

His other credits include Sucker Punch (Royal Court – Olivier Award nomination for Best Play); Days of Significance (RSC); Joe Guy (Soho Theatre/Tiata Fahodzi); Baby Girl (National Theatre Connections); Wildefire (Hampstead Theatre); Absolute Beginners (Lyric Hammersmith); Fallout (Royal Court); Sing Yer Heart Out For the Lads (National Theatre); Clubland (Royal Court); The Gift (Birmingham Rep/Tricycle); Local Boy (Hampstead Theatre); Lift Off (Royal Court) and Starstruck (Tricycle – Winner of John Whiting Award, Alfred Fagon Award).

Aisha Khan is a writer, director and dramaturg. She was Co-Artistic Director of Freedom Studios from 2015 to 2022.

Aisha’s writing work includes No Man’s Land (Theatre An Der Parkau, Berlin/Leeds Playhouse), The Market (Leeds Playhouse), The Johnny Eck and Dave Toole Show (co-written with Mark Catley, Slung Low, dir. Alan Lane), The Bee Mask (dir. Sam Wood, Northern Bullits) and Moonshed (dir. Sarah Frankcom, Royal Exchange Theatre). For BBC Radio 4 work includes Road Trip, Driftwood Heart, Paper Flowers and Durkopianap D (dir. Alan Lane, 15 Minute Live, Slung Low).

Kate has been Executive Producer at Donmar Warehouse since 2012, where she has produced over 50 productions. Over this period Kate produced Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female Shakespeare Trilogy – Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest – in London and New York. Kate produced filmed versions of all three productions, the first of which, Julius Caesar, premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2017. Previously, Kate was Producer at The Old Vic, where she worked on all aspects of programming and produced The 24 Hour Plays. She also founded Old Vic New Voices, the theatre’s programme to promote and nurture the work of new talent. Kate was appointed to the board of The Society of London Theatre in 2015.

James has been Artistic Director of Royal & Derngate Theatres for eight celebrated years. He is also a Trustee of Britain’s primary Black-led theatre company, Talawa, a Board Director of the Olympics legacy charity Spirit of 2012 and a Franco-British Young Leader, promoting greater cultural exchange with France. His productions at Royal & Derngate include the world premiere of The Pope by Anthony McCarten, subsequently adapted into the 2020 Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominated film The Two Popes. Prior to Royal & Derngate, James held Associate Director roles at The New Vic Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent, Theatre503 and The National Youth Theatre.

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti writes for stage, screen and radio. Her first play Behsharam broke box office records. Her second play Behzti was closed after protests at the Birmingham Rep and won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Other credits include A Kind of People (Royal Court Downstairs); Khandan (Royal Court); Behud (Soho/Coventry Belgrade); Elephant (Birmingham Rep); Dishoom (Rifco/Watford Palace Theatre); Fourteen (Watford Palace Theatre); the feature film Everywhere And Nowhere; DCI Stone (Radio 4); Londonee (Rich Mix); Dead Meat (Channel 4) and An Enemy Of The People (BBC).

Her collection of plays, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti: PLAYS ONE, is published by Bloomsbury. She is currently writing screenplays for Moonage Pictures, Cuba Pictures and Martha Stone Productions. She is adapting Sathnam Sanghera’s Marriage Material for the Rep and writing plays for the Donmar, Hampstead Theatre and Clean Break.

Amelia Bullmore writes for theatre, radio and television. Her theatre credits include Mammals (The Bush and national tour, co-winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award); Ghosts (adapted from Ibsen’s play, The Gate); a 24-hour play for the Old Vic; Anyway, a monologue (Old Vic); and Di and Viv and Rose (Hampstead downstairs, Hampstead main house and the Vaudeville Theatre), a play that’s been performed in many countries and in 2019 was published by Methuen Drama as part of its Modern Classics series.

Radio credits include four series of Craven; Cashflow and the afternoon plays The Middle; Family Tree (co-written with Duncan Macmillan); The Bat Man and County Lines, which won the BBC Audio Drama Awards Best Single Drama in 2018.

Television credits include This Life, series 2 (Writers’ Guild Best Television Drama Award); Attachments and Scott and Bailey series 2, 3 and 4.

Amelia devised and co-wrote a series of 10-minute films, Black Cab, for the BBC. She was a Dennis Potter Award finalist for her television screenplay, The Middle. Most recent television work is Traces and Traces 2. Traces was a finalist for Best Drama Series at the RTS Northwest Awards 2021.Traces 2 was broadcast on Alibi in March 2022.

Amelia is a member of the Writers’ Guild Theatre Committee.