Kristina Gavran is a writer from Croatia, living in the UK since 2013. Her theatre plays were produced by numerous Croatian theatres, National Radio and published in anthologies. Her play Ready won the national award by Ministry of Culture in 2013. Kristina was chosen for the Birmingham Repertory’s one-year programme for emerging writers.

She co-founded Notnow Collective with Tina Hofman and worked on Wonderwoman and DadMan shows. Kristina has a PhD in true-life storytelling from Loughborough University. Her book of short stories Rain in India, Summer in Berlin and novel Palisander Guitar were published by Disput in Croatia. The novel won the prestigious Mirko Kovac award in 2019.

Tilly Branson is a director, dramaturg and producer who specialises in new writing.

Directing credits include: It Is Now and Think of England(Anonymous is a Woman Theatre Company, three national tours and Vault Festival); Getting Better Slowly (Lincoln Drill Hall/touring); Acting Alone (International tour); Man to Man (Mercury Theatre Colchester/Park Theatre London); Entertaining Angels (New Perspectives, national tour) and End to End (The Gramophones, Edinburgh Fringe/three national tours).

Producing credits include:I Dare You by Tom Powell; Mashi Theatre’s Tales of Birbal by Sayan Kent, and Major Labia’s Vulva La Revolution.

She is a founding member of The Party Somewhere Else and has co-produced their two week-long festivals at Nottingham Playhouse. She is currently developing her own show, Aunting, about becoming an aunt and the importance of aunts.

Eleanor Field is a Theatre Designer and Artist, experienced in all styles of production including collaborative and non-traditional theatre practice. In 2016 she designed some windows for Selfridge’s, London, which really impressed her Grandma!

Theatre credits include: Eureka Day (Nottingham Playhouse); Kiss Me Quickstep (Derby Theatre); Talking About The Fire (The Royal Court, London & International tour); A Family Business (Staatstheater Mainz, Germany & UK Tour); Finding Home – A collection of new plays and Oh What A Lovely War (Curve Theatre, Leicester); GAZE (Northern Stage); All of Me (Main Hall, Summerhall, Edinburgh. The Yard, London and UK Tour.);  Pepper & Honey (UK Tour); Macbeth, Zigger Zagger, Into The Woords, Our House and Bollywood Jane (Curve Theatre Studio, Leicester); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Party Somewhere Else and Vulva La Revolution (Nottingham Playhouse); Down The Hatch (GBS Theatre, RADA); All of Me (Birmingham Rep, BAC, Derby Theatre, Camden People’s Theatre); Nutcracker and The Mouseking (Watermans Art Centre, Lincoln Drill Hall & Deda Derby); The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors, Cymbeline, Macbeth, A Winter’s Tale, Othello and All’s Well That Ends Well (RADA Schools Tours & Vanbrugh Theatre); Lear/Cordelia (Derby Theatre & Attenborough Arts Centre); Spoonface Steinberg and I Am England (Derby Theatre); Ugly Duckling (Nottingham Playhouse); For the Little People (Latitude Festival); Hitler’s People – a selection of plays from Fear & Misery of the Third Reich and Three Bird’s Alighting On A Field (Tristan Bates Theatre, London); Man to Man (Park Theatre, London & The Mercury Theatre); Amateur Girl (Fifth Word Theatre Company & Nottingham Playhouse.)

Jovana Backovic is a Serbian born composer and performance artist based in London, U.K. Her main interest lies within the field of improvisational electroacoustic and electronic music performance and composition, and how they can help facilitate transition from oral tradition to authorship. Her sound has often been described as cinematic. As well as composing for theatre, feature and documentary movies Jovana performs as a part of duo Arhai that have been touring the UK, EU and the Balkans extensively. Duo has two releases Eastern Roads (2013) and Where Light Resides (2019).

James has worked across the UK as a lighting designer, with credits ranging from rural touring and nontraditional spaces (Pepper & Honey, Notnow Collective, 2019-25; LOOP, Theatre In Black, 2019), to youth company productions at Curve Theatre (Into The Woods and Zigger Zagger, 2019), to midscale theatre on tour (Twopence To Cross The Mersey, Pulse Records Ltd, 2022) and in London (Wilko: Love and Death and Rock ‘n’ Roll, Canvey Rock Productions, 2025).

He also has creative experience on larger scale shows, as assistant lighting designer for Ben Cracknell (Grease The Musical, UK Tour and West End run 2021/22), and as associate lighting designer for Zoe Spurr (Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World, UK Tour 2023/24), and for Ian Scott (Only Fools And Horses, UK & Ireland Tour 2024/25).

Adam P McCready is a composer, sound designer, musician and sound recordist. In addition to his theatrical and dance production work he has also devised several multi- speaker, interactive sound installations for galleries and museums as well as creating sound designs and music scores for films, audio dramas and podcast series.

Sound Design and Composition credits (Theatre) In excess of a hundred productions for regional theatres across the UK and commercial West End and UK Touring productions. Producers include Nottingham Playhouse, Derby Theatre, Curve Leicester, Hull Truck, HOME Manchester, Mercury Theatre Colchester, York Theatre Royal, Pilot Theatre, Coventry Belgrade, Greenwich Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, Ovalhouse London, Tristan Bates Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse, West Yorkshire Playhouse, New London Theatre, Teatro Nazionale Milan, Filament Projects, Potboiler Theatre, Little Pixie Productions, Bristol Old Vic, CAST Doncaster, New Perspectives, Theatre by the Lake Keswick, Northampton Royal Theatre, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, Derby Playhouse, Qdos, First Entertainments, Stage Entertainment, Leicester Haymarket, Salisbury Playhouse, Cheltenham Everyman, Lakeside Nottingham, Queens Theatre Hornchurch, Oldham Coliseum, Really Useful Group, Bill Kenwright Ltd. Recent Audio Drama/Podcasts From Sad Shires for Little PixieProductions, PlacePrints for New Perspectives and Youth Grows in a Wasteland for Potboiler Theatre.

Twitter: @AdamPMcCready @PoeticalMachine

David Hately is a theatre practitioner specialising in lighting design and lighting programming. Production relight work has taken him to Serbia, Belgium, Germany and France (as well as a lot of the UK!). David also enjoys working with other departments including AV (production and Catalyst programming), and installs props and set elements with lighting and sound fittings. Recent credits include: Deputy Head of Lighting and Sound at Curve Theatre (current); Macbeth- Lighting Designer, Curve CYC Act, Curve Theatre, March 2019; ViragoLighting Designer/Programmer/Relighter, Sonia Sabri Company, Touring to Lincoln Drill Hall, March 2019; The Cat in the Hat- Lighting Programmer, Curve, December 2018; Memoirs of an Asian Football Casual- Lighting Programmer, Curve, Sept/Oct 2018; Fiddler on the RoofLighting Programmer, Curve, August 2018; The Siren Club- Lighting Designer/Programmer, Curve Young Company, April 2018.

Kitty Randle most recently worked on the movement for Moving Stories’ production of Romeo and Juliet at the Minack Theatre. Other credit’s include The Winter’s Tale (RCSSD and Minack Theatre), Cornerstones (Smock Alley), Midsummer Nights Dream: A Power Nap (Southbank Centre), The Tempest and their award-winning production of Twelfth Night at the Minack Theatre. Other credits include Wickedness of Oz (Project Arts Centre, Dublin), The Shaughraun (Smock Alley), Bronte (Smock Alley), Hallelujah (Contact Theatre), The Christmas Chocolate Shop (Derby Live), Orestes: Re-Examined (Southwark Playhouse), Oh Whata Lovely War (Arc Theatre, Trowbridge), Heresies (Bristol Old Vic). Kitty is a co-founder of Moving Stories Theatre Company and director of REC Youth Theatre Company.

Tina Hofman is a bilingual theatre and performance maker and producer. Of Croatian origin, she moved to the UK to train in physical theatre. Her work includes a one-to-one piece Talking to Shiran under the mentorship of Adrian Howells, which she performed 7 months into her pregnancy, examining the creation and loss of life sitting together. She regularly works in Croatia: co-devising/performing and directing for young audiences with the renowned Mala Scena ; collaborations with Tirena Teatar on making new work for teenage audiences, an ongoing investigation of the resentment and forgiveness within human conversations, and new performance forms with the director Marina Petkovic; Through International Residencies by Conflux Theatre, Scotland she commenced working on her latest solo work Lucid Interval, currently re-developing for digital form. Tina is currently working on an international collaborative project investigating Protest. Twitter: @hofmanica