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Ian Pirie is a Scottish actor born in Aberdeen who boasts a wealth of credits on both stage and screen.
After graduating from Central London Film School, Max Ellis Fisher got his first job as a trainee on the set of Disney’s Christopher Robin.
Jane Rogers has published ten novels, written original television and radio drama, and adapted work (her own and others') for radio and TV.
Patrick Neate
Patrick Neate is an award-winning novelist, critic, scriptwriter and founder of literary event, Book Slam. He won the 2001 Betty Trask Award with his novel MUSUNGU JIM AND THE GREAT CHIEF TULOKO, and the 2001 Whitbread Novel Award for TWELVE BAR BLUES.
Sir Roland Penrose (1900-1984) was an English artist, historian and poet. He was a major promoter and collector of modern art and an associate of the surrealists in the United Kingdom. He was friends with the artists Pablo Picasso, Wolfgang Paalen and Max Ernst.
Abigail Abbas
Abigail Abbas began her career in financial PR. She left the City to raise her children and worked as an illustrator, later embarking on an MA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Art.
Forthcoming novel:
The Estate of Dannie Abse
Dannie Abse was, and still is, one of Britain's most well-respected poets. He was born in 1923, in Cardiff, to Jewish parents. He studied Medicine in Wales and at King's College, London, qualifying as a doctor in 1950.
Uma Nada-Rajah
Uma is a playwright based in Kilbarchan, Scotland. She was one of the BBC's Scottish Voices 2020 and was the Starter Female Political Comedy writer-in-residence at the National Theatre of Scotland.