Sam Mendes founded and ran the Donmar Warehouse for ten years. He was the first Artistic Director of the Minerva in Chichester and the founding director of The Bridge Project and Neal Street Productions. His work has been seen at the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court, the Old Vic, the Young Vic, in the West End and on Broadway. Mendes recently received the 2018 Tony Award for Best Director of a Play for The Ferryman. Theatre credits include The Cherry Orchard, The Glass Menagerie, Company, Cabaret, Uncle Vanya, Twelfth Night, and Richard III. Film includes American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, Skyfall and Spectre. Awards include Academy Award for Best Director, Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, Olivier Award for Best Director, the Olivier Special Award, Evening Standard Award for Best Director, Empire Inspiration Award, Empire Award for Best British Director, Directors Guild of America Award and the Shakespeare Prize. He has also won the Director’s Guild Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2019, he was awarded a Knighthood in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List for his services to Drama.

Es Devlin is an artist and designer, who works in a range of media, often mapping light and projected film onto kinetic sculptural forms. Her practice began in narrative theatre and experimental opera and she has made lyric stage sculptures in collaboration with Beyoncé, Kanye West, U2, The Weeknd and Adele. Recent solo sculptural work includes Please Feed the Lions in Trafalgar Square; PoemPortraits at the Serpentine Gallery; and The Singing Tree at the V&A Museum. Large-scale work includes Room 2022 at Miami Art Basel 2017; Mirror Maze in Peckham; EGG at the XI Gallery in New York; and Mask at Somerset House. Recent theatre includes Girls & Boys and The Nether (The Royal Court); Chimerica (The Almeida); and Master and Margarita (The Company Complicite). Devlin designed the 2015 production of Hamlet featuring Benedict Cumberbatch, and staged Cumberbatch’s reading of The Order of Time, on the roof at BOLD Peckham in 2017. She designed the London Olympic Closing Ceremony and has conceived the UK Pavilion for Expo 2020. Devlin has been named the artistic director of the London Design Biennale 2020 having won the London Design medal in 2017. She has been awarded three Olivier Awards, a UAL fellowship and was made OBE in 2015.

Katrina Lindsay’s work covers set and costume design in theatre, dance, opera, and television. She won the 2018 Tony Award and 2017 Olivier Award for Outstanding Costume Design for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (currently playing in the West End, on Broadway, and in Melbourne), and the 2008 Tony, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Costume Design for Les Liaisons Dangereuses on Broadway. Set and costume design credits include Small Island, Mosquitoes, My Country; a work in progress, Lost Without Words, Dara, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Table, The Magistrate, London Road, Death and the King’s Horseman (National Theatre); The King (Birmingham Royal Ballet); Cabaret (West End and UK tour); Porgy and Bess (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre); and All’s Well That Ends Well (Royal Shakespeare Company). Costume design credits include The Lehman Trilogy, wonder.land, Earthquakes in London (National Theatre); Hamlet (Barbican Centre); American Psycho (Almeida Theatre and Broadway); Bend It Like Beckham (West End, Olivier Award nomination). Set design credits include Market Boy (National Theatre). Costumes for opera include Benvenuto Cellini (English National Opera, Dutch National Opera, Opera National de Paris, and Teatro dell’Opera di Roma); The Damnation of Faust (English National Opera, De Vlaamse Opera, Teatro Massimo, and Palermo and Staatsoper Berlin); Eugene Onegin (Royal Opera House, Opera Torino, and Opera Australia); Turandot (English National Opera); and Die tote stadt (Finnish National Opera and New National Theatre, Tokyo). Dance credits include The Most Incredible Thing, Eternal Damnation to Sancho and Sanchez, and Blue Roses (Sadler’s Wells Theatre). Lindsay was the production designer for the film London Road. She is an Associate of the National Theatre.

Nick Powell’s work in theatre includes The Lehman Trilogy (also Park Avenue Armory and West End), The Tell-Tale Heart, Othello (National Theatre); Julius Caesar (Bridge Theatre); The Ferryman (also West End and Broadway), The Nether (also West End), The Prudes, Bad Roads, X, Unreachable, The Mistress Contract, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, Talk Show, Narrative, Get Santa!, The Vertical Hour, The Priory, Relocated (Royal Court Theatre); Beginners (Unicorn Theatre); People, Places and Things (Kulturhuset Stadsteatern); City of Glass (Lyric Hammersmith); Alice in Wonderland (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Running Wild, Peter Pan, All My Sons, Lord of the Flies, The Crucible (Regent’s Park and UK tour); The Tempest (Norfolk and Norwich Festival); The Haunting of Hill House (Liverpool Playhouse); Lanark: A Life in Three Acts (Citizens and Edinburgh International Festival); Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies (Royal Shakespeare Company, West End, and Broadway); Dunsinane (Royal Shakespeare Company and tour); 27, The Wheel, The Wonderful World of Dissocia (National Theatre of Scotland and Edinburgh International Festival); Of Mice and Men (Birmingham Repertory and tour); Show 6 – Secret Theatre (Lyric Hammersmith and Edinburgh Festival Fringe); A Life of Galileo, Richard III, The Drunks, God in Ruins (Royal Shakespeare Company); Urtain, Marat-Sade, Los Macbez (Animalario and Centro Dramático Nacional); Paradise (The Ruhrtriennale); Bank On It (Theatre Rites); ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Cheek by Jowl); Penumbra, Tito Andronico (Animalario, Madrid); The Danton Affair (Gothenburg City Theatre); The Wolves in the Walls (Improbable, National Theatre of Scotland, Tramway, Lyric Hammersmith, on UK tour, and the New Victory Theater); Realism (Edinburgh International Festival and the National Theatre of Scotland); Panic (Improbable); The Family Reunion (Donmar Warehouse). Awards include the Spanish Premio Max for Best Musical Composition for Scenic Arts (Urtain). Powell also writes extensively for television and film. He is half of the band OSKAR, who have released two albums and produced installations for the V&A Museum and CCA, as well as written live soundtracks for Prada in Milan. In 2017, he scored \"Bloom,\" the opening event of the Edinburgh International Festival and the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao’s 20th anniversary celebration \"Reflections.\" His chamber piece \"Cold Calling: The Arctic Project\" was presented at the Birmingham Repertory with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 2016.

Dominic Bilkey trained in technical theatre at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. His work in theatre includes The Lehman Trilogy (also Park Avenue Armory and West End), Peter Pan and Jane Eyre (also on UK tour) (National Theatre); Highway One (Wales Millennium Centre); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella (Towngate Theatre); Shadowlands, Flarepath, Birdsong (Birdsong on UK tour); Pinocchio, Tommy (Greenwich Theatre); The Best Christmas Present in the World (Nuffield Southampton Theatre); Bodies, The Fifth Column, What the Women Did, London Wall (Southwark Playhouse); Dr. Marigold and Mr. Chops, Masterclass (Theatre Royal Bath); Wagstaffe the Wind-up Boy, Rapunzel (Kneehig); and The Private Ear/The Public Eye, Journey’s End, Twelfth Night, See How They Run, Dancing at Lughnasa (Original on UK tour). As associate for the National Theatre his work includes Great Britain (also West End). As associate sound designer, his work includes Public Enemy, The Government Inspector, Wild Swans, and Kafka’s Monkey (Young Vic). Bilkey is Chairperson of the Association of Sound Designers and teaches sound and related technologies at a number of higher education establishments including Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Central School of Speech and Drama. His awards include the 2014 TTA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound.

Candida Caldicot trained at Cambridge University, where she received a University Instrumental Award for piano. Caldicot also plays the oboe, violin and accordion and is a composer and arranger. She is a music director, composer and arranger. Her work in theatre includes The Lehman Trilogy (also Park Avenue Armory and West End); King Lear (Duke Of York’s Theatre); Peter Pan (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Shadow Factory (Nuffield Southampton Theatres); The Little Mermaid (Metta Theatre); Queen Anne (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Woyzeck (The Old Vic); Snow White, Beauty and the Beast (The Lighthouse Theatre); Beyond the Fence (Arts Theatre); It’s a Mad World my Masters (English Touring Theatre); Hecuba, The Witch of Edmonton, The Heresy of Love, The Tempest, The Heart of Robin Hood (Royal Shakespeare Company); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Oxford Shakespeare Company); Galileo (Birmingham Repertory); A Soldier in Every Son; Bed and Sofa (Finborough Theatre); The Vaudevillians (The Lowry, Charing Cross Theatre); The First Lady Suite (Union Theatre); Everything Must Go (Soho Theatre); A Century of Women (Leicester Square Theatre); Jet Set Go (Jermyn Street Theatre); and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Oklahoma!, Cinderella, Anything Goes, Into the Woods (Trinity Laban). As associate music director, her work includes Wendy and Peter, The White Evil, Arden of Faversham, Titus Andronicus, Richard III, King John, City Madam and 50 Years of the RSC Musical at the Royal Shakespeare Company. As a composer, her work includes Zeraffa Giraffa (Little Angel and Omnibus); Buckets (The Orange Tree); 4 Pepys (Wilderness Festival); Hansel and Gretel, Treasure Island, Much Ado About Nothing, Pinocchio, Richard III, Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Romeo and Juliet and The Wind in the Willows (Iris Theatre); Macbeth (Shakespeare in Styria); Once Upon a Time (Booktrust on tour); and The Hostage (Southwark Playhouse). As a musical director, her work in musicals includes Prodigy (also orchestrator) for the National Youth Music Theatre at St. James and The Battle of Boat (Rose Theatre Kingston).