Marcelo Dos Santos is an award-winning Latinx British-Brazilian-Australian writer. His play Backstairs Billy received the 2023 Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright. He has been a writer on attachment at the National Theatre, the Bush Theatre, HighTide Festival Theatre, as well as the Royal Court Theatre.  In 2014 he adapted the critically acclaimed best-selling Zizou Corder novel Lionboy for Complicité, which toured extensively in the UK and internationally, including to the New Victory Theater Off Broadway, where it was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. In 2022 Marcelo received a Scotsman Fringe First award for Excellence in New Writing for his monologue Feeling Afraid as if Something Terrible is Going to Happen directed by Matthew Xia, starring Tony and Olivier-nominated Samuel Barnett. Critics hailed the play as “A masterclass in comic delivery” (WhatsOnStage), “razor sharp” (Scotsman), and “Frank, funny and occasionally filthy… following in the footsteps of Fleabag” (The Independent). The production transferred to London’s Bush Theatre in November of 2023. Marcelo’s other theatre work includes Trigger Warning at Camden People’s Theatre; The End of History, a site-responsive play staged at St Giles In The Fields in Soho; Open Plan at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama; Knights directed by Michael Longhurst at Tristan Bates Theatre; and New Labour directed by Richard Wilson at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and Lovers Walk at Southwark Playhouse. On social media @marcelo_dos_santos_p

Matthew Xia is the multi-award-winning Artistic Director of Actors Touring Company. He was previously the Associate Artistic Director at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, where he established Open Exchange, an artist development scheme for over 400 next generation theatre-makers; a Director-in-Residence at The Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse; and the Associate Director at Theatre Royal Stratford East. He was an Associate Artist at the Nottingham Playhouse alongside James Graham and Amanda Whittington. His directing credits include Small Island at Leeds Playhouse/Nottingham Playhouse/Birmingham Rep/Actors Touring Company [ATC]; Tender at Soho Theatre; The Harder They Come, Sleeping Beauty, and The Blacks at Theatre Royal Stratford East [TRSE]; Bodies of Water with ATC/Greenwich + Docklands International Festival [GDIF]; Skeleton Crew at Donmar Warehouse; The Architect with GDIF/ATC/Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation; Tambo & Bones with ATC/TRSE; the Olivier Award-winning Hey Duggee – The Live Theatre Show with Kenny Wax Family Entertainment/Cuffe & Taylor Productions; the Fringe First Award-winning Feeling Afraid as if Something Terrible is Going to Happen with Francesca Moody Productions/Bush Theatre; Rice with ATC/Orange Tree Theatre; The Wiz with Ameena Hamid Productions/Hope Mill Theatre/BBC Big Night of Musicals; Family Tree with GDIF/ATC/Belgrade Theatre/Brixton House; 846Live at TRSE/GDIF; Amsterdam at ATC/Orange Tree/Plymouth Theatre Royal; Blood Knot at Orange Tree Theatre; Eden at Hampstead Theatre; One Night In Miami… at Nottingham Playhouse/Bristol Old Vic/HOME; Into The Woods and Frankenstein at the Royal Exchange; Wish List at Royal Exchange/Royal Court; Shebeen at Nottingham Playhouse/TRSE;  Dublin Carol at Sherman Theatre; Blue/Orange and The Sound of Yellow at the Young Vic; Sizwe Banzi is Dead at the Young Vic/Eclipse; and I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky (Co-Director) at TRSE/Barbican.

Steven Webb began his career starring as the titular character in Sam Mendes’s production of Oliver! (London Palladium). Since then, he has appeared in a wide range of film, television and theatre. Stevie most recently performed in the UK premiere of Tony Award-winning musical comedy Shucked at the Regent’s Open Air Theatre after previously performing in the tour of the Dolly Parton Musical Here You Come Again as ‘Kevin’. Prior to this he completed a long stint starring as ‘Elder McKinley’ in the West End run of The Book of Mormon. He’s also perhaps best known as ‘Posner’ in the second casting of The History Boys. Other theatre credits include I Want My Hat Back, On the Shore of the Wide World (National Theatre), As Is (Trafalgar Studios) as well as many productions at the Lyric Hammersmith including seven shows in Sean Holmes’ creative ensemble ‘Secret Theatre’. His many television credits include the upcoming BBC series Twenty Twenty Six, BBC's Miranda, E4’s The Inbetweeners, and ITV’s Believe Me. On social media at @mrsteviewebb