Birmingham born-and-based actor/theatre-maker Graeme Rose is a co-founder of Stan’s Cafe Theatre and The Resurrectionists. He has also worked with companies including BE Festival, Bodies in Flight, BoldText, Bone Ensemble, Coventry Belgrade, Creation Theatre, Kali, Kindle, Imitating the Dog, Modified Toy Orchestra, No Stone Theatre, Talking Birds, Theatre Absolute, The Other Way Works, The Playhouse, Red Shift, Untied Artists, Vamos and Women & Theatre.

Previous Birmingham Rep co-productions include the site-specific Eat! (with Black Country Touring), The String Quartet’s Guide to Sex & Anxiety (dir.Calixto Bieito) and Fred Jeffs: The Sweetshop Murder, created following a Rep Foundry commission, and also available as a Podcast.

Recent performance roles include: Winston in 1984, Sancho in Don Quixote, Bosola in Duchess of Malfi, Capulet in Romeo & Juliet, Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (all Creation Theatre), and Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities: (Chung Ying HK/ Red Shift).

Janice Connolly BEM is a founder member of Women & Theatre and has been Artistic Director for over 20 years. She has written, directed and performed in many projects for the company. Janice is a trained teacher and has worked both in mainstream education and as an education project worker for Barnardos. In 2017 Janice was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to Community Arts in the West Midlands.

She is also a successful performer in her own right and has featured in series such as Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights (Channel 4), Dead Man Weds (ITV), Thin Ice (BBC) So Awkward (CBBC), Man Like Mobeen (BBC) Doctors (BBC) as well as appearing twice in Coronation Street. Her theatre roles include Glitterball (Rifco Theatre Company), A Taste of Honey (New Vic Theatre, Stoke) and Tartuffe and Anita & Me (The Rep, Birmingham). Her alter-ego, Mrs. Barbara Nice is a well-loved comedy circuit headliner as well as a Birmingham Icon.

Tonia Daley-Campbell is an actress, award-winning writer, published author, director and recent casting director for heart casting. Tonia has been working in the creative industries for over 25 years. She is the annual host for Tedx Wolverhampton, and most recently hosted MAWA theatre companies, all black female Shakespearean monologue slam, at the Sam Wannamaker playhouse the Globe.

Tonia is the Audience Development consultant and chair of the Black African and Caribbean ambassadors for The Wolverhampton Grand Theatre. She is the elected Equity Midlands councilor and is a trustee for the charity Safety Curtain which supports actors and performers from war torn and developing countries financially. Tonia was nominated for a Black British Theatre award 2022 for her pioneering work in theatre. Tonia is an energetic whirlwind of creative energy, she creates open safe spaces for creatives to be inspired and thrive.

Tonia’s Recent acting credits: Lead Role Thema in short film “Good Hair“, finalist for the British short film awards. Lead Role Milly in BFI animation, She’s My Best Friend (And i hate her)