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Claire Fowler
Claire is a Welsh writer-director working in film and TV in both the UK and USA. She directed on the final season of MANIFEST for Netflix, and was selected for the Sundance screenwriters and directors labs for her feature script TOAD.

Shelley Silas
Shelley Silas was born in Kolkata, India, with grandparents from India, Iraq and Malaysia. She grew up in north west London, and did the unthinkable by crossing the River Thames to south east London 27 years ago, where she has lived ever since.

Nicole Stafford

Samantha Harley

Joelle Taylor
Joelle Taylor is the author of 4 collections of poetry. Her most recent collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors. C+NTO is currently being adapted for theatre with a view to touring.

Mike Gunning

Photographer credit: David Reiss
Rachel wrote and stars in the live action short – THE SILENT CHILD – which won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short (2018).