Danielle is a stage and screen actor from Yorkshire, as well as the writer and star of Children of The Night.

She most recently starred as Alice in Masters of the Air, a Steven Spielberg & Tom Hanks production for Apple TV. Danielle also received a nomination for an Evening Standard Future Theatre Award 2021.

Television credits include: The Sister Boniface Murder Mysteries (BBC/Britbox) and Father Brown (BBC)

Film credits include: Ready Player One (Warner Bros)

Stage credits include: Sky Comedy Rep (Birmingham Rep), The Upstart Crow (The Gielgud) and Trying It On by David Edgar (RSC, Royal Court).

Directing credits include: Piaf (Watermill Theatre); The Land of Might-Have-Been (Buxton Festival / Norwich Theatre); Rough Girls (Lyric Theatre Belfast); Romeo and Juliet (Open Air Theatre); As You Like It (RSC/Barbican/UK Tour); The Whip (RSC); Beryl (Bolton Octagon); Mark and the Marked (Box Clever Theatre Company); The Hate Play (Box Clever Theatre Company); Working, A Musical (Royal Academy of Music); Dido Queen of Carthage (RSC); Macbeth (Box Clever Theatre Company); Whose Sari Now? (Rasa Theatre Company/Theatre Royal Stratford East); Pieces (Ugly Sister Productions/The New Diorama); Ironman (Itch, Pleasance Theatre London); Vol Au Vent (Rapid Write Response, Theatre 503); SATB (Rose Bruford New Writing Season, Soho Theatre); In the Solitude of Cotton Fields (Tristan Bates Theatre); Lomki (Tristan Bates Theatre) and Diary of a Thief (Wide Eyes Theatre).

Hannah Sibai is a British/Syrian performance designer based in Yorkshire. Since training at Wimbledon School of Art in London she has designed over 100 productions across 17 years in the UK and Europe. This includes theatre, opera, musicals, film, music videos and installations. She also often leads design workshops for arts organisations, community centres, theatre festivals, schools and universities, and is an Artistic Associate at Upstart Theatre.

Theatre design credits include: Sing Dance Leap (Royal Ballet, Northern Ballet, Opera North), Public Record (National Theatre Public Acts), OUM (Dutch National Opera), Northanger Abbey (Orange Tree, Bolton Octagon, Stephen Joseph and Theatre by the Lake), Arabian Nights (Bristol Old Vic), 24(Day) The Measure of my Dreams (Almeida Theatre), The Lost Spells (Goblin, Watford Palace, Theatre by the Lake and Polka), The City and the Town (Riksteatern Sweden and Matthew Linley Creative Projects), A Christmas Carol (Shakespeare North), The Doncastrian Chalk Circle (National Theatre Public Acts + Cast co-production), A Tale of Orpheus & Eurydice (Opera North), The Aspern Papers (Pegasus Opera), SWIM (Liz Richardson, Theatre by the Lake), REGNANT (Xavier de Sousa, HOME), Love n Stuff (Gitika Buttoo, Oldham Coliseum), The Magic of Wild Heather (James Blakey, CAST and National Theatre Public Acts), Meet Me At Dawn (Ellie Rose, Hope Mill Theatre), Outrageous Fortune (Deborah Newbold and dir: John Wright), The Travelling Pantomime (Juliet Forster, York Theatre Royal), Ladies That Bus, (dir: Kirstie Davis, national tour), The Boy Who Cried Wolf (Tutti Frutti), Gwei Mui (Jennifer Tang), The Elves and the Shoemakers (Juliet Forster, York Theatre Royal), Two (Tom Wright, Gala Theatre), Where We Began (SBC Theatre), War with the Newts (Knaive Theatre), Vulture’s Song (Blah Blah Blah), 666 Comments (Daniel Bye), Pygmalion and Handbagged (Tom Wright, English Theatre Frankfurt), Instructions for Border Crossing (Alex Swift, Daniel Bye), The Astonishing Vacuum Cleaner Adventure (Sarah Punshon), WANTED (Chris Goode and Company), Instant Light Circus Company (Slung Low), Bassett (Javaad Alipoor, Sheffield Crucible), Phone Home (Upstart Theatre), Weekend Rockstars (Middle Child), Mr Tiger Goes Wild (Goblin), When We Were Brothers and Home Sweet Home (Freedom Studios), SET FIRE TO EVERYTHING!!! (RashDash) The Situation Room (Oscar Mike) and Country Music (West Yorkshire Playhouse).

Jessie is a Hull based lighting designer. Their training is rooted in years of hands-on experience as a technician and theatre maker. They were an ALPD Lumiere (2020).

Recent credits include: The Borrowers (Hull Truck), Steel (Theatre by The Lake), Baby He Loves You (Middle Child), La Scala di Seta (RNCM), Snowmen (The Herd), Pinocchio (Hull Truck), These Majestic Creatures (Stephen Joseph Theatre), We Could All Be Perfect (Sheffield Theatres), Modest (Middle Child), Brief Encounter (The New Wolsey & Salisbury Playhouse), Children of the Night (CAST), Ladies Day (The New Vic & The Octagon Theatre), The Whispering Jungle (Concrete Youth), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Hull Truck/Queens Theatre Hornchurch), The Canary and The Crow (Middle Child).

Associate Credits Include: Animal Farm (The Octagon), Sanctuary (Red Ladder), Dogs (Liverpool Playhouse), 71 Coltman Street (Hull Truck Theatre), Megalith (Mechanimal), Shedding a Skin (SOHO Theatre).

Directing credits include: Piaf (Watermill Theatre); The Land of Might-Have-Been (Buxton Festival / Norwich Theatre); Rough Girls (Lyric Theatre Belfast); Romeo and Juliet (Open Air Theatre); As You Like It (RSC/Barbican/UK Tour); The Whip (RSC); Beryl (Bolton Octagon); Mark and the Marked (Box Clever Theatre Company); The Hate Play (Box Clever Theatre Company); Working, A Musical (Royal Academy of Music); Dido Queen of Carthage (RSC); Macbeth (Box Clever Theatre Company); Whose Sari Now? (Rasa Theatre Company/Theatre Royal Stratford East); Pieces (Ugly Sister Productions/The New Diorama); Ironman (Itch, Pleasance Theatre London); Vol Au Vent (Rapid Write Response, Theatre 503); SATB (Rose Bruford New Writing Season, Soho Theatre); In the Solitude of Cotton Fields (Tristan Bates Theatre); Lomki (Tristan Bates Theatre) and Diary of a Thief (Wide Eyes Theatre).

Stephanie Dale has a degree in Theatre and Media Drama, and an MA in Playwriting from the University of Birmingham. 

She founded and ran the MA in Drama Writing, with David Edgar, at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, June 2018-Dec 2021. 

​Publications include: Medieval and Early Modern England on the Contemporary Stage (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021); Women and Work, Women and Theatre (2021) and Poems That Make Grown Women Cry (Simon and Schuster, 2016).

Lauren Townsend is an experienced creative producer based in South Yorkshire. She has worked with organisations such as: Factory International, ARC Stockton, Sheffield Theatres, Leeds Playhouse, Leeds 2023, Chol Theatre, ThickSkin, Right Up Our Street, and Cast.

As an Assistant Producer she has worked on the original productions of notable shows such as Lolita Chakrobharti’s Life of Pi; and 2 x Olivier Award winning musical Standing At The Sky’s Edge. In 2023 she became an Associate Producer on the West End transfer of Standing At The Sky’s Edge marking her introduction to the commercial theatre sector.

In 2021 she co-founded Mad Friday Productions, with the ambition to originate and produce new writing productions from Northern, neurodiverse and women-led teams. Their first production, Children of the Night completed a sell-out run at Cast, Doncaster and was shortlisted for both The 2023 Women’s Prize For Playwriting and New Diroama’s 2024 Untapped Award.