Sami Ibrahim is a writer from London. Sami won Theatre Uncut’s Political Playwriting Award for two Palestinians go dogging and has been a writer-in-residence at Shakespeare’s Globe as well as part of the Genesis/Almeida New Playwrights scheme. He has been on attachment at the National Theatre Studio and Theatr Clwyd, as well as a member of the Tamasha Writers Group and Oxford Playhouse Playmaker programme. Theatre credits include: two Palestinians go dogging (Royal Court/Theatre Uncut); Metamorphoses (Shakespeare’s Globe); Wonder Winterland (Oxford School of Drama/Soho Theatre); the Palestinian in the basement is on fire (Pint-Sized/The Bunker); Wind Bit Bitter, Bit Bit Bit Her (VAULT Festival); Iron Dome Fog Dome (The Yard/First Drafts), Carnivore (Write Now 7 Festival, Brockley Jack). Radio credits include includes: The Twig (That Podcast/ETT); Fledgling (Radio 4); 50 Berkeley Square (Radio 4). (he/him)

Yami "Rowdy" Löfvenberg is a movement and theatre director, and a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of dance, theatre and cross-arts. Between making her own work, Yami mentors, educate and deliver workshops nationally and internationally. She is the lecturer on the first-ever Hip-Hop module at Trinity Laban Dance Conservatoire. A British Council and Arts Council England recipient, Howard Davies Emerging Directors Grant Recipient, One Dance UK DAD Trailblazer Fellow, Marion North Recipient, and a Talawa Make Artist. She was on the creative choreographic team for the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony and is a member of the internationally acclaimed performance collective Hot Brown Honey. Movement Director credits include: Roundabout 22 (Paines Plough); The Concrete Jungle book (Pleasance); Kabul Goes Pop (Brixton House); Human Nurture (Theatre Centre/Sheffield Theatre); Athena (The Yard); Notes on Grief (Manchester International Festival); Rare Earth Mettle, Living Newspaper (Royal Court); Fuck You Pay Me (Bunker); Breakin’ Convention (Sadler’s Wells); Talawa TYPT (Hackney Showrooms); Boat (BAC) Director credits include: Fierce Flow (Hippodrome Birmingham); Kind of Woman (Camden People’s Theatre), Afroabelhas (Roundhouse/British Council/Tempo Festival, Brazil) Assistant Director/Choreographer credits include: Hive City Legacy (Roundhouse/Home/Millennium) (she/her)

Transgender and gender non-confirming people, particularly trans femmes of the Global Majority, are currently facing an unrelenting attack on their rights and dignity. Please support those at risk by donating to crowdfunding drives or to organisations such as Gendered Intelligence, Not A Phase, and Exist Loudly. Roly’s theatre credits include: On Railton Road (Brixton Pansies); Snowflake (Lowry); Death and Dancing (King’s Head); Cascando (Barbican); Ghost Stories (Lyric Hammersmith); Making Fatiha (Camden People’s Theatre); Skylight (tour); CARE (Vaults); Strangers In Between (Trafalgar Studios) Radio includes: Doctor Who - Susan’s War (Big Finish); A Funeral Of Plumes And Lights (BBC) Television includes: Secret Life Of Boys (CBBC); Doctors, Eastenders, Casualty (BBC) Roly is an associate artist of the award-winning physical theatre and devising ensemble The PappyShow. (they/them)

Yasmin Hafesji is Associate Director at the Gate. She was a member of the Young Vic Introduction to Directing Programme 2017, led by Natalie Abrahami. As director, theatre includes: George (Gate Generations, Gate Theatre); LETTERS (Gate Theatre Online, Co-Director), Rhino(s) (Lyric Evolution Festival, Lyric Hammersmith); Rashida (Fresh Direction: Replay project, as part of the Young Vic Directors Program, Young Vic, Maria); Two Heads and a Hand & The Jokers (Shubbak Festival Staged Reading, Gate Theatre); A Little Iraqi (The Upsetters Takeover Festival, Bunker Theatre); Watch Me Dance! (White City Youth Theatre Summer Project, Bush Theatre); Young Writers Group Showcase (Bush Theatre, Studio). As assistant director, theatre includes: Women Beware Women (Globe Theatre); Fairview (Young Vic Theatre); Dear Elizabeth (Gate Theatre); The Mob Reformers (Lyric Hammersmith).