Ginny has been Casting Director for the RSC, Chichester Festival Theatre, Rose Theatre Kingston, English Touring Theatre and Soho Theatre and has been freelance since 2001. As one of the most prolific casting directors working in the UK Theatre, she has worked with directors including Lucy Bailey, Michael Boyd, Suba Das, Rupert Goold, Joe Hill-Gibbins, Robert Icke, Jamie Lloyd, Michael Longhurst, James Macdonald, Nancy Medina, Trevor Nunn, Deborah Warner and Sam Yates on shows for the West End and No.1 touring circuit as well as for venues including the Almeida, Arcola, Bath Theatre Royal and Ustinov Studio, Birmingham Rep, Bolton Octagon, Bristol Old Vic, the Bush, Frantic Assembly, Hampstead Theatre, Headlong, HOME Manchester, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Menier Chocolate Factory, Regents Park Open Air, Sheffield Crucible, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Wilton's Music Hall.

Stephanie Bain is the Literary Manager at the Almeida Theatre, where she plays a key role in the development and imagination of the artistic programme. Prior to her role at the Almeida, Stephanie was a Literary Agent at The Wylie Agency and a freelance script reader for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and the Bush Theatre.

Suzanne Bell has over 20 years professional experience working as a Dramaturg in new writing in theatres across the UK. She has also worked in development for a range of TV and film companies including Channel 4, Lime Pictures, United, Granada, BBC, BFI and Creative England. She is currently the Dramaturg at the Royal Exchange Theatre where she has worked on a number of award-winning productions of new work including plays by Simon Stephens, Winsome Pinnock, Rona Munro, Hattie Naylor, Kendall Feaver, Rory Mullarkey, Alistair McDowall, Insook Chappell and Anna Jordan. She is currently working on projects with Stef Smith, Zodwa Nyoni, Chino Odimba and Testament. In 2019, she was awarded the Kenneth Tynan Award for Excellence in Dramaturgy. In 2020, she was awarded the Olwen Wymark Award for Encouragement in Theatre, awarded by the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, nominated by Winsome Pinnock. She was recently dramaturg on ROCKETS AND BLUE LIGHTS by Winsome Pinnock, winner of the Eclipse Playwriting Award, which was produced at the National Theatre.

Stewart is a writer and dramaturg, born and bred in the north-east and now living in London. His plays include Trestle (winner of the Papatango Prize 2017), The Wooden Meadow (Finborough Theatre, Vibrant Festival), The Ghost Hunter (Pleasance & UK Tour) and The Horror! The Horror! (Wilton's Music Hall). Recently he has also authored a trilogy of short plays in collaboration with the Wall Street Journal and the National Theatre. He is currently under commission from Papatango and Big Finish productions. Stewart is a dramaturg at the National Theatre, and previously worked as associate dramaturg at the Bush Theatre, and artistic director of the Old Red Lion Theatre (OffWestEnd Award 2016, Best Artistic Director). He has also written for publications including New Scientist, Time Out and Exeunt Magazine.

From Ireland, Sue Healy is a full-time Lecturer in Creative Writing and Publishing at the University of Lincoln; she has a PhD in modern theatre history (Royal Court Theatre) and serves as Literary Manager at the Finborough Theatre, London. Sue is also an award-winning writer and playwright. In 2018, her play Imaginationship had a sold-out, extended run at the Finborough Theatre, London and showed later at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough. Sue’s work has been supported and developed by Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, the Peggy Ramsay Foundation, MGCfutures and Arts Council England. Sue has been named a 2020 Hawthornden Castle Fellow. She is Regional Editor (Ireland) of TheTheatreTimes.com.

Sue’s previous full-length stage productions include Cow (Etcetera Theatre, 2017) and Brazen (King’s Head Theatre, 2016), funded by Arts Council England. Her short plays have been performed at the Criterion (Criterion New Writing Showcase), Arcola (The Miniaturists) and Hackney Attic (Fizzy Sherbet Shorts by Women). Sue’s radio work includes nine plays broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (Opening Lines winner), WLRfm and KCLR96fm.

Sue is a 2009 UEA Creative Writing MA alumnus. She spent eleven years in Budapest, where she edited Hungary A.M.

Jennifer is currently the Genesis Fellow & Associate Director of the Young Vic theatre in London. She was recently listed in ELLE UK's 2020 Hotlist, a celebration of the new leaders and shakers reframing the worlds of fashion, beauty, politics and culture.

Jennifer is an award-winning UK and International theatre director, specialising in new writing and fusing theatre with music. She has worked with buildings and organisations including The Young Vic, Hampstead Theatre, The Gate, The Royal Exchange, The Royal Opera House and The Royal Shakespeare Company. Her practice also spans devised work, musicals and opera, and she has extensive experience of working with communities and young people.

She trained at the University of East Anglia and on the National Theatre Studio Director’s course, and was resident assistant director at Theatre Royal Plymouth between 2013-14.

Amy Jackson is a freelance Casting Associate and Co-Casting Director at Amy Hubbard Casting. She started her casting career working full time with Sasha Robertson and has gone on to work in a freelance capacity with some hugely respected Casting Directors, such as Kate Rhodes James, Rachel Freck, Julie Harkin, Jina Jay, Kate Dowd, Gemma Sykes, Rachel Sheridan, amongst others. Her most recent credits include, The Outlaws (BBC/Amazon), Deceit (Channel 4), Trying S2 (Apple tv) In My Skin S1 (BBC), The Other One (BBC), Flack Series 2 (Pop and UKTV) Work soon to come is BBC and HBO Max’s newly announced Limited series, The Girl Before (based on the global bestselling book) and Suspicion, coming soon to Apple TV. Amy prides herself on her ability to connect and work with an understanding of actors, having come from an acting background and family.

Tom Wright is the New Work Associate at Kiln Theatre where he is responsible for guiding the commissioning, developing and programming of new work, including brand new works by Zadie Smith, Roy Williams and Marina Carr. He created the Kiln Young Writers Programme that supports local first-time writers to use their voices, alongside managing Kiln’s esteemed Artistic Associates.

As Head of Artist Development at The Old Vic, Tom ran the prestigious Old Vic 12, leading the scheme over five years towards its groundbreaking repertory season in partnership with Shoreditch Town Hall. Through an array of innovative projects, Tom developed over fifteen new plays and helped springboard countless theatre artists into the next stage of their career, many of whom are fast becoming major names.

Tom is also an award-winning playwright & theatre director, and will utilise his 360 experience in order to make invisible sector processes more transparent and best support you to make your ideas happen.

Caroline studied English and Drama at Bristol University before training in directing at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. As a freelance director, Caroline worked at many regional and London buildings. She was an associate director at Salisbury Playhouse and interim Artistic Director at NYMT. Caroline has directed work that has toured nationally and played in the West-End. In 2014 she became the Head of Acting at LAMDA for 6 years until stepping back in order to re-focus on making her own work, although she is still a lead mentor on the directing course and sits on the panel for acting auditions. Caroline is directing The Kitchen Sink by Tom Wells for The Queens Theatre, Hornchurch in Spring 2022.

Rosie Kellagher is Dramaturg at National Theatre of Scotland and has previously worked as Literary Associate at theatres such as the Traverse, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and Live Theatre in Newcastle. As a freelance dramaturg and award-winning director she has made work for both theatre and radio with companies across the UK and beyond including the Traverse, Soho Theatre, the BBC, Vanishing Point, the Arches, Dance City, Live Theatre, the Arcola and Riksteatern, Sweden.

Guy is a director and a dramaturg. He is currently Literary Associate at the Orange Tree, and Creative Associate at Headlong, where he guides the development and programming of new work. This summer he will direct the world premiere of The Climbers by Carmen Nasr for Theatre by the Lake.

As a director his credits include Either (Hampstead Theatre), Out of Water, Mayfly (Orange Tree), Busking It (HighTide / Shoreditch Town Hall). He has been an Associate Artist of Company Three, and a Staff Director at the National Theatre and the RSC.

Suzy Catliff works as a casting director, theatre director, lecturer and writer. She is a member of the Casting Directors Guild, a mentor for Generation Arts and an NYT Associate Artist. She has worked extensively in most UK drama schools as a theatre and television director and developing casting workshops. Suzy was associate lecturer at the Northern Film School for ten years, teaching casting at BA and MA level. Suzy was guest lecturer at the University of Stafford and Plymouth Marjon.

Suzy is the co-author of ‘The Casting Handbook’ published by Routledge and co-artistic director of Fantastic Garlands Theatre Company, creating devised work with particular interest in telling untold female stories. Her stage adaptations include ‘No Name’ by Wilkie Collins. www.suzycatliff.co.uk

Steve Harper currently heads the Literary Department of Theatre503. As a founding member of Theatre503 he has played a pivotal role in the development of the theatre. He founded Rapid Write Response, co-created the 503Five Writer Residency Scheme & the International Playwriting Award, and working as the in-house dramaturg on all productions has been responsible for identifying and supporting over 1,000 debut playwrights, including two Olivier Award winners and a number of Evening Standard Best New Playwright nominees. He works freelance for numerous companies including Synergy and Cardboard Citizens and is a regular guest lecturer and panel member for colleges and universities. Prior to focusing on Literary Management he has worked extensively as a director and held a long term position working on the recording of musical theatre.

Fleur has worked in the theatre since leaving drama school in the early nineties. She trained at GSA and has worked as an actor, writer, director and producer. She currently serves at the Stephen Joseph Theatre as Assistant producer and Literary coordinator. As well as working as a freelance dramaturg. At the theatre, she looks after the open submissions, as well as producing and directing the new writing play readings. She works with writers at various stages of their careers, through dramaturgy, providing support, introducing new opportunities, and commissioning.

Kate Bassett is a freelance dramaturg and former Literary Associate at Chichester Festival Theatre, working on incoming scripts and new commissions. In relation to new writing, she has also worked for BBC TV and BBC Radio, the National Theatre, the Michael Grandage Company, the New Diorama, Cheek by Jowl, Sheffield Theatres, Hampstead Theatre, London’s Gate Theatre, and on co-productions with Theatre Clywd, Elliott and Harper Productions, and Francesca Moody Productions. As a writer she is the author of In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller, and, as a journalist, she wrote on theatre and the arts for The Times, Telegraph, Independent on Sunday and Guardian.

Nona Shepphard is RADA’s Associate Director, Chair of the Audition Panel and International Consultant at the Lir Academy in Dublin – RADA’s sister school. She is also a freelance writer and director, with over a hundred and seventy productions and fifty commissioned plays to her credit. In the few years before lockdown, she worked internationally - in the Philippines, where she created and directed The Tempest Re-Imagined at PETA Theatre in Manila; this was a fusion of Shakespeare’s play with survivors’ stories from the catastrophic hurricane Haiyan of 2013; she directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in San Antonio,Texas, and she devised and directed a large, site specific project in Freemantle, Western Australia called The House On the Hill. Her last two productions at RADA were Assasins in 2018 and Sweeney Todd in 2022.

Steve Grihault is Mountview’s Head of Acting. He originally trained as an actor,

working with companies including The Young Vic, English Shakespeare Company and Trestle Theatre Co. As a director he worked at The Royal Court, English Shakespeare Co, Jacksons Lane. Directing credits at Mountview include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Our Country’s Good, Swallows & Amazons and Nell Gwyn. He has taught acting for over 20 years and sat on audition panels for many leading drama schools.

Hannah was Head of Casting at the RSC from 2008-2022.

Having studied Drama at the University of Hull in the mid 90’s and presenting shows in Edinburgh and the National Student Drama Festival she went to work at Cheek by Jowl followed by the National Theatre as a Casting Assistant and casting shows such as South Pacific and Anything Goes (1998-2002). She then moved to the RSC as Deputy Casting Director (2003-2005), was Casting Director for the Birmingham Rep (2005-2008), returning to the RSC in 2008. Hannah continues to work with the RSC's Learning and National Partnerships department and works regularly in drama schools and with other industry organisations advising actors on professional development, resilience and demystifying the casting process. She is a Trustee of both Northampton Theatres Trust and Tamasha and a member of the Casting Directors’ Guild. Hannah is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (RSA) and RSC Associate Artist.

Mary-Ellen trained as an actor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama before studying Drama and Theatre Studies at Queen’s University, Belfast, and started her professional career as an actor.

Her passion for casting came about in the active and diverse Northern Irish Short film scene. From Cathy Brady’s, ‘Wasted’, Stacey Gregg’s ‘Mercy’, Andrea Harkin’s ‘The Party’ (BAFTA Nominated) to Mike Lennox’s ‘Boogaloo & Graham’ (BAFTA Winner & Oscar Nominated), Mary-Ellen has been championed for her contribution towards finding, working with and continuing to develop new and emerging talent.

She has always created a safe space for actors to work, not only believing that any good production stands upon its treatment of all creatives, but that this is also the most creatively rewarding way to work.

Mary-Ellen has been working with Carla Stronge Casting since 2015 and these have been the most amazingly happy years of her professional career. Working across film and television. In casting, some standout productions for her are ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Derry Girls’, ‘The Dig’ ‘Doing Money’ ‘My Mother & Other Strangers’ ‘Ups & Downs’ ‘The Secret’ ‘Secret Life of Boys’ and ‘Krypton’.

Mary-Ellen is a big believer in daily learning and practice. Our industry is forever evolving and pushing forward and with that we must all be striving to move with it.

Laura is a Scottish Casting Director working across theatre, film and TV throughout the UK and beyond. She is the resident Casting Director at National theatre of Scotland, as well as casting for independent projects.

Her credits at National Theatre of Scotland over the last nine years include: Total Imminent Collective Terrestrial Salvation, Tim Crouch (2019 NTS/Royal Court); Red Dust Road, Dawn Walton (2019 NTS/ HOME); Them! Stewart Laing (2019 NTS); The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black Black Oil, Joe Douglas (2019 NTS/ Dundee Rep), Cyrano De Bergerac, Dominic Hill (2018 NTS/Citizens/Lyceum); Midsummer, Kate Hewitt (2018 NTS/EIF); My Left Right Foot, Robert Softley-Gale (2018/19 NTS/Birds of Paradise); This Restless House, Dominic Hill (Citizens Theatre NTS/Lyceum/EIF 2016/17); Adam, Cora Bissett (NTS 2017/18); How To Act, Graeme Eatough (NTS 2017/18); The 306 Trilogy: Dawn, Day, Dusk, Laurie Sansom (NTS/Perth Theatre 2016/17/18); Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour, Vicky Featherstone (2015-2017 NTS/Live/ Sonia Friedman, UK, National Theatre, Duke Of Yorks); The James Plays, Laurie Sansom (2015/16 NTS/National Theatre/EIF, UK/International); The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart, Wils Wilson (2016/17/18 New York, UK/US); Let The Right One In, John Tiffany (2014-16UK/US/ 2017 Abbey Theatre); Anything That Gives Off Light, Rachel Chavkin(2016-2018NTS/The TEAM/EIF/ New york).