Caroline Jester led The REP's award-winning young writers' programme Transmissions for ten years. She is the originator of 'REPwrite', an interactive playwriting tool, and has developed playwriting projects throughout the world. She has taught on the MPhil in Playwriting at Birmingham University, the Arvon Foundation, Salford University and BCU. She is the co-author of Playwriting Across the Curriculum (2012).

Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk is one of Poland's foremost contemporary playwrights. Her plays include The Death of the Squirrel Man, The Suitcase, and Loose Screws.

Tena Stivicic studied Dramaturgy in Zagreb and Writing for Performance in London. Her plays include Can't Escape Sundays, The Two of Us, and Fragile!, as well as plays for children Perceval - the Quest for the Grail and Psssst!

Lutz Hübner was born at Heilbronn in 1964. One of the most performed playwrights in Germany, his recent plays include Das Herz eines Boxers (Heart of a Boxer), Creeps, Hotel Paraiso and Ehrensache (Respect).

Steve Waters is a British playwright. His plays includes World Music, The Contingency Plan and Ignorance/Jahiliyyah and he is author of the book The Secret Life of Plays.