Ashleigh Wilder is a Black trans masculine actor-poet-thinker from Yorkshire. They delight in speaking about the unspoken, and as a disabled activist channel multiple disciplines into creating art, facilitating workshops, and educating. Acting credits include: Macbeth (Leeds Playhouse), Brassic (Sky Max), The Chatterleys (BBC R4), The Film We Can’t See (BBC Sounds) and Left Behind (Sky Arts).

Steve Jacobs (he/him) trained at Guildhall. Credits include El Senoir Gallindez at The Gate, Constant Couple, Macbeth and The Tempest at RSC, School For Scandal at Haymarket and a tour of Brazil with Dudendance. Steve has worked with many Cornish companies including on Wolf’s Child, Souterrain and The Passion with Wildworks, Very Old Man With Enormous Wings with Wildworks and Kneehigh, Waiting For Godot with Miracle, and Goodnight Mr Tom with The Minack Company. He has also worked with English Touring Opera playing King Lear and on NoFit State Circus’ Immortal. TV and film work includes Wycliffe, Doc Martin,The Tape, and Poldark.

Richard P. Peralta (they/he) is a Deaf, NB, Filipino-American multidisciplinary artist. Recent performances include Much Ado About Nothing (UK tour; Ramps on the Moon, Sheffield Theatres), Ella Hickson’s Wendy and Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse), originating the lead role of Riz in local Hove writer Hilmi Jaidin’s musical Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading. Other recent works include writing, performing, and directing short film Champorado (Chocolate Rice) via New Earth Theatre & E.D.E.N. Films; contributing to Titilola Dawudu & Tamasha Theatre’s “Hear Me Now, Volume 2” as a playwright. Richard also works in EDI/social justice, counselling, education, psychology, and rugby.

Wet Mess (they/them) is an artist who works across multiple art forms including visual art, drag, dance, theatre, including choreographing videos for Will Young and London Grammar. Recently they were part of Travis Alabanza’s Sound of the Underground (Royal Court) which received 5 stars in the Guardian; and winner of Not Another Drag Competition (RVT) 2021.

Macy-Jacob Seelochan is an actor, writer, and music producer from Nottingham. A graduate from Central, MJ’s stage credits include Groove (Shoreditch Town Hall), Nevergreen (Arcola Theatre), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Nottingham Playhouse) & Dear Elizabeth (Gate Theatre). Screen credits include Shadow & Bone (Netflix), Plaggy Bag (BFI), & 2 self-produced short films, Mundane Living & A Casting Room, the latter being a finalist at Pinewood Studio’s Lift-Off Festival and available on YouTube. MJ was the 2022 Creative Associate at The Nottingham Playhouse, and as such created their first solo stage show, Jacob Wants His Grandad, which previewed at The Pleasance Islington & London Theatre Deli.

Ralph Bogard has performed on the West End to the Fringe in various plays, musicals and performance projects. Some Theatre credits include ‘Midsummer Night's Dream’ (Shakespeare’s Globe), 'Nativity! The Musical' (Birmingham Rep), 'Bridgerton' (Secret Cinema), 'April In Paris' (Hamburg), ‘Drood!’ (Arts theatre), 'The Process' (Bunker Theatre), ‘Joseph’ (UK tour), RENT (London), 'Ushers : Musical' (Charing Cross Theatre), Branded (Old Vic), Something Something Lazarus (Kings Head) and Saucy Jack (Leicester Sq Theatre & Edinburgh). He also has credits in film and TV, plus is the resident host of 'The Prince Charles Cinema' and 'Camp John Waters' (USA), where he interviews Hollywood stars and directors. Find out more @RalphBogard

Nadia trained at International Visual Theatre in Paris and Deafinitely Creative Hub under Deafinitely Theatre, London. Royal Court Theatre Productions: Maryland and Midnight Movie. Other productions include: A Christmas Carol at Leeds Playhouse and Bristol Old Vic; As You Like It & Hamlet at Shakespeare's Globe, Going Through at Bush Theatre; Our Town & House of Bernarda Alba at Royal Exchange Manchester, Grounded for Deafinitely Theatre for Park Theatre; A Midsummer Night's Dream and Love's Labour's Lost for Deafinitely Theatre at Shakespeare's Globe and Winning Award 'Can I Start Again Please' with Sue MacLaine Company. TV credits include: Vampire Academy and Coffee Morning Club. Short Films: One More Minute and Vox Furem

Antonia Kemi Coker is a performer with over 25 years experience working nationally and internationally in regional and West End theatre, TV film and Radio as well as in Young People’s theatre, Forum Theatre, Street Theatre, site-specific theatre. Kemi has worked on numerous projects with Chuck Mike’s Collective artists. Her recent work include a Jack Daniels advert filmed in the Ukraine, work with the theatre company Wake The Beasts project which deals with health care professionals experiences during covid, she was a cast member on I am Kevin with Wildworks. Kemi has recently finished working on Beyond Lyrics at The Tobacco Factory in Bristol with Beyond Face Theatre Company.

Charlotte studied Theatre, Arts, Education and Deaf Studies at Reading university. She has worked with a variety of projects and a number of theatre companies such as Facefront, Handprint, Deafinitely Theatre, Half Moon, The Globe, and the RSC. Charlotte specialises in children/youth theatre and workshops as an actor/ director/ and workshop leader. She also works as a creative bilingual BSL consultant. Charlotte trail-blazed her way into the mainstream industry with the RSC in 2018 playing Cassandra in ‘Troilus and Cressida’, and was in their 2019/20 season as Audrey in ‘As you like it’ and Curtis in ‘Taming of the Shrew’ - she was the first Deaf BSL actor to work with the RSC as well as understudying a principle role played by a hearing actor. Charlotte became an RSC associate artist as well as associate learning practitioner. Her recent works: ‘Macbeth’ at Leeds playhouse, the BBC series ‘This is going to hurt’, and a new comedy series on channel 4 soon to be released, ‘Entitled’.

Femi is a queer Nigerian/Togolese multi-disciplinary artist. A Barbican young poet alumni and co-founder of Sistren Collective, their personal work explores ancestral lineages, lost histories and rituals, and what it means to be a first generation Afrobrit raised in Sarf East London. With work spanning across radio, poetry, theatre, film and music, including producing Poetry + Film/ Hack with Inua Ellams- there is no art form off-limits when it comes to fully realising the perspective of this emo with a sunshine aura.

Recent credits include, writing: Cab Ride (dir. Femi Tiwo & Ola Jones), Rights For Whom, Exactly? (Fly The Flag/Young Vic) directing: Sound of The Underground (Royal Court Theatre), Cab Ride (dir. Femi Tiwo & Ola Jones) performance: Green Thumb (Pentabus Theatre), Losing Joy (dir. Juliana Kasumu), Head Over Wheels (Open Sky); Little Miss Burden (Bunker); Parakeet (Roundabout); And The Rest of Me Floats (Bush Theatre); Ackee and Saltfish (BBC3); Faces (dir. Joseph Adesunloye); We Love Moses (dir. Dionne Edwards); The Ting (Channel 4 Random Acts)

Theatre includes: Othello (The Watermill Theatre); The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time (NT/Frantic Assembly Tour); The Living Newspaper (The Royal Court); The New Tomorrow (The Young Vic); The Beauty Parade (Wales Millennium Centre) As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe); Emilia (Shakespeare’s Globe/ West End); Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Watermill Theatre); Jubilee (Lyric, Hammersmith/ Manchester Royal Exchange); The Greatest Wealth (The Old Vic); The Government Inspector (Birmingham Rep/ UK Tour); Herons (Lyric, Hammersmith); Mother Courage and Her Children (National Theatre); Mine (Shared Experience); Frozen (Birmingham Rep); Two (Southwark Playhouse); The Bloody Great Border Ballad Project (Northern Stage); In Water I’m Weightless (National Theatre of Wales); Pandora (Arcola); Woman Of Flowers (Forest Forge/UK Tour) and Multiplex, Fen and You Make Me Happy (When Skies are Grey) at The Watermill.

Television includes: The Chelsea Detective (2), Moving On, Two Doors Down (2), Shakespeare & Hathaway, Shetland, The Crown, Doctor Who, Mapp and Lucia, Moonstone, Marchlands, Midsomer Murders (2), Small World, Holby City, Casualty (2) and FM.

Film includes: Name Me Lawand, Retreat (Sophie was awarded Best Actress Award, Clin d’Oeil Festival), My Christmas Angel, Confessions and Coming Home.

Writing includes: Listen Harder Essay series (BBC Radio 3)Beethoven Essay Series (BBC Radio 3), Beethoven Can Hear You (BBC Raio 3 Drama) Multiple Scenes of Destruction (The Bunker Theatre), Maybe (Paines Plough/CTWIF), Butterfly (Talking Bodies/Hot Coals), SignHealth (DV), Magma Poetry.

Sophie Stone is Co-Founder of the Deaf & Hearing Ensemble Theatre Company, Associate Artist for The Watermill Theatre & Pentabus Theatre; is on the RADA Committee and works as a translator & consultant for several TV, Film and Theatre companies. She has also edited for Arachne Press Poetry.

Charmaine studied Drama at the University of Hull before fronting and writing for original music projects for several years. In 2013 and 2014 she studied at the London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA, now known as arthaus Berlin) and soon after created herdark clown show, Scarlet Shambles: It Used to be Me, playing nationally and internationally. Charmaine later studied in Berlin at The Thomas Prattki Centre of Integral Movement and Performance Practice.

Charmaine’s other performance credits include: Burnt Out In Biscuit Land (Touretteshero/CTN); Lilies On The Land (Apollo Theatre national tour); The Masked Ball (Southbank Centre/Unlimited Festival) Going Through (Bush Theatre); Not I (Mouth, performing in BSL) (Touretteshero/Battersea Arts Centre and national tour; Fram and Dunt (Push Festival, HOME Manchester); The Listening Room (Old Red Lion); Karagula (Soho Theatre); Grounded (Park Theatre/Deafinitely Theatre)

Voice over credits: Aimee in Magic Hands (Cbeebies,) Directing credits: Raymond Antrobus’ A Language We Both Know How To Sound Out (Roundhouse). She is currently writing her next show which will be at the Edinburgh Fringe this year.

Creator of the musical project “Caz Smiling” which blends music, spoken word and illustration to creatively communicate ideas around mental health and queer identity. Caz was the international guest at the Portugal Slam in Lisbon in October 2018 and the poet in residence at the Stanza poetry festival in St. Andrews, Scotland in March 2019, continuing to perform their work regularly at poetry and literary events across the UK.

They also curated from 2017- 2022 London’s only regular 3-round Slam, Genesis Poetry Slam, and they are an artist-in-residence at the Vauxhall-based queer cabaret night Bar Wotever, with their first poetry collection 'Good Earth' now out with Burning Eye Books, 2019. "

Bea (they/them) is a Deaf queer neurodiverse non-binary Scottish-Thai actor, writer, access/BSL/caption consultant and drag artist. Bea graduated with a BA Performance in British Sign Language and English from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2018.

Bea’s recent acting credits include Medea (National Theatre of Scotland), Everyday, Life It Goes On (Deafinitely Theatre), Red (Polka Theatre), The Winter's Tale (Royal Shakespeare Company).

Bea was nominated for Best Actor at the Stage Debut Awards 2019 for their role in Mother Courage and Her Children (Red Ladder/Leeds Playhouse).