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Lee is an award-winning playwright originally from West Cumbria.

Theatre credits include: ‘Crocodiles’ (Royal Exchange); ‘Snap’ (Young Vic); ‘Gary Lineker is Gay’ (Paines Plough); ‘Chalet Lines’ (Bush Theatre); ‘No Wire Hangers’ (Soho Theatre); ‘The Kids Are Alright,’ ‘I Heart Catherine Pistachio,’ ‘The Streets in the Sky,’ ‘Choir’ (Encounter); ‘Me and Cilla,’ ‘Jonathan Likes This’ (Live Theatre); ‘The Season Ticket’ (Pilot Theatre/Northern Stage)

Radio credits include: ‘Me and Cilla,’ ‘Tongue,’ ‘Glow in the Dark,’ ‘2 Clowns, 1 Trumpet’ (BBC Radio 3); ‘Magpie’ (BBC Radio 4); ‘Prom,’ ‘Snowglobe’ (BBC Radio Newcastle).

TV credits include: ‘Coronation Street’ (Story Associate, ITV); ‘Scallywagga’ (BBC 3).
Film credits include: ‘Fist’ (Elevator/BFI Network), ‘Show Pony’ (Knock & Nash).
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Liz is Artistic Director and joint CEO of Theatre by the Lake. Liz was formerly the co-founder and Artistic Director of Junction 8 Theatre, producing new plays made with, for and about the community in her hometown of Chorley, Lancashire. She is a recipient of the JMK Award and directed Barbarians at the Young Vic, which was nominated for an Olivier Award.

Other directing credits include: ‘Brassed Off’, (Theatre by the Lake/Stephen Joseph Theatre/Octagon Theatre Bolton); ‘A Little Princess’, ‘Every Brilliant Thing’, ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’, ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’, ‘Handbagged’ (TBTL); ‘Home I’m Darling’ (TBTL/Stephen Joseph Theatre/Octagon Theatre Bolton); ‘A Christmas Carol’ (Theatr Clwyd); ‘Lancastrians’, ‘Under the Market Roof’ (Junction 8 Theatre); ‘The Secret Garden’ (York Theatre Royal/Theatre by the Lake); ‘How My Light is Spent’ (Royal Exchange Theatre/Sherman Theatre/TBTL); ‘Macbeth’ (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster).

Theatre includes: Brassed Off (Theatre by the Lake/Stephen Joseph Theatre/Octagon Theatre Bolton); The Real & Imagined History of The Elephant Man (Nottingham Playhouse); Murder in the Dark (Original Theatre); Family Tree (Actors Touring Company); Duet For One (Orange Tree); Blue/Orange (Royal & Derngate Northampton); Nothello (Belgrade/Coventry City of Culture); The Art of Illusion, The Death of a Black Man (Hampstead); Footfalls & Rockaby (Jermyn Street); several UK tours for Eclipse including The Gift (Stratford East) and Black Men Walking (Royal Exchange); Crongton Knights, Noughts & Crosses (Pilot/UK tours); Red Dust Road (National Theatre of Scotland); Giraffes Can’t Dance (Curve); The Children (English Theatre Frankfurt); Holes (Nottingham Playhouse/UK tour); Rose (HOME); Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare’s Globe); Sleeping Beauty, The Ladykillers (Watermill); Ghosts (Theatr Clwyd); Island (National Theatre); and BORDER FORCE, an immersive installation/performance/club event for Duckie.

Musical theatre includes The Lord Of The Rings: A Musical Tale (Watermill/Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Whistle Down The Wind (Watermill); The Lion (Southwark Playhouse/Arizona Theatre Company); The Light in the Piazza (Royal Academy of Music); The Wiz (Hope Mill); Ghost Quartet (Boulevard Theatre); Assassins (Nottingham Playhouse); the multi award-winning Sweeney Todd in a purpose-built pie shop (West End/Off-Broadway); The Selfish Giant (West End); Cabaret (English Theatre Frankfurt); The World Goes Round (Stephen Joseph Theatre); and Saturday Night Fever (UK tour).
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Mark Melville is a composer and sound designer for theatre and film and studied at Leeds Conservatoire. His music and sound design work has been presented across the UK and internationally. Recent projects include: The Fifth Step (National Theatre of Scotland/Edinburgh International Festival); Kin (Gecko/National Theatre); Midsummer (Mercury Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Royal Exchange); Around the World in 80 Days (Bolton Octagon); Love the Sinner (Vanishing Point); Exodus, The Panopticon (National Theatre of Scotland); They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay! (Mercury Theatre); Snow Queen (Storyhouse); Flight (Vox Motus/The Bridge Theatre/Barbican); The Metamorphosis (Vanishing Point/Emilia Romagna Teatro, Italy); A Little Space (Gecko/Mind The Gap); The Greatest Play in the History of the World... (Tara Finney Productions/Royal Exchange/West End/UK Tour); Frankenstein, Wit, B!rth (Royal Exchange); Human Animals, Violence and Son, God Bless the Child (Royal Court); 1984 (Emilia Romagna Teatro); Tomorrow (Vanishing Point/Cena Contemporânea Festival, Brazil/ Brighton Festival/Tramway); Where Do We Belong?, Where Do We Stand? (Northern Stage); Little Gift (M6 Theatre/ AndyManley); Road (Leeds Playhouse); Charlie Sonata (Royal Lyceum Theatre); Wonderland (Vanishing Point/Napoli Teatro Italia/Edinburgh International Festival).

Jessie is a Hull based lighting designer. They are also associate lighting designer for The Roaring Girls and was an ALPD Lumiere (2020).

Some of their credits include: GUTS! The Musical (Hull Truck Theatre); Baby He Loves You (Middle Child); La Scala di Seta (RNCM); Snowmen (The Herd); Pinocchio (Hull Truck); These Majestic Creatures (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It (Leeds Conservatoire); We Could All Be Perfect (Sheffield Theatres); MODEST (Middle Child & Milk Presents); Brief Encounter (The New Wolsey & Salisbury Playhouse); Children of the Night (CAST); Ladies Day (The New Vic & The Octagon Theatre); Jack, Mum and The Beanstalk (Hull Truck Theatre); Macbeth & Twelfth Night (Leeds Conservatoire); Ladies Unleashed (Hull Truck Theatre); The Whispering Jungle (Concrete Youth); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hull Truck Theatre); Teechers Leavers 22’ (Hull Truck Theatre); The Hound of The Baskervilles (ERT Theatre); we used to be closer than this (Middle Child); Hull and High Water (Hull Truck); Everything I Own (Hull Truck); Ducklings (The Herd); Beauty Queen of Leenane (Hull Truck Theatre & Queens Theatre); The Canary and The Crow (Middle Child); Beach Body Ready (The Roaring Girls); Paragon Dreams (Hull Truck); Us Against Whatever (Middle Child).

Associate Credits Include: Dogs (Liverpool Playhouse); 71 Coltman Street (Hull Truck Theatre); Megalith (Mechanimal); Shedding a Skin (SOHO Theatre).

Kieran has worked as a movement artist over the last 20 years collaborating on many different kinds of projects and productions; he is currently Associate Director of theatre company Silent Uproar. Kieran develops research projects using movement and often writes and performs about this. Kieran is very proud to be the Director of Everyone Here whose creative programme is led and shaped by a citizens panel known as Jury for Joy, based in West Cumbria.

Mark Macey (they/them) is an American writer and director living and working in the UK. A graduate of Dell’Arte International’s Professional Training Program, Mark is currently pursuing an MFA in Theatre Directing from the University of London, Birkbeck.