WE ARE ARRESTED: Can Dündar is one of the best-known figures in Turkish Media. Dündar is the recipient of many major awards including the Whistleblower Award, the Gustav-Heinemann-Burgerfeis Award, the International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award for Freedom of Expression and was named European Journalist of the Year. Together with Erdem Gül, he was awarded in 2016 the Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media by the Leipzig Media Foundation. Pippa Hill is the RSC's Literary Manager and has worked across a huge range of plays and projects. Sophie Ivatts is a freelance director, writer and script-editor, who develops original drama for both stage and screen. She was the Associate Director for the RSC's A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Play for the Nation and was the Clore Fellow for Theatre for 2016/17.DAY OF THE LIVING: Darren Clark is an award-winning writer of music and lyrics for the theatre. His credits include The Wicker Husband (Winner of Stiles & Drewe Award 2016), Scarecrows Wedding (UK Tour, Leicester Square Theatre) and These Trees Are Made of Blood (Southwark Playhouse/Arcola Theatre), a play he collaborated on with Amy Draper.

Theatre director and creator Amy Draper's other recent work includes Hansel and Gretel (Iris Theatre) and Princess Charming (Ovalhouse). In 2013 Amy was the Community Director for the CASA Latin American Theatre Festival. Juliet Gilkes Romero is an award-winning playwright and journalist. She has reported for the BBC from countries including Cuba, Ethiopia, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Juliet is currently the RSC and Birmingham University Creative Fellow. Her recent plays include Upper Cut (Southwark Playhouse), Razing Cane (shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award) and radio play One Hot Summer (Radio 4).