Gurjot Dhaliwal is a London-based actor who trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (2021). Her previous stage credits include: Our White Skoda Octavia (Touring), Shewolves (Southwark Playhouse) and Asian Girls in Therapy (VAULT Festival). Screen credits include: Sweetpea (Sky Atlantic), Mr Bigstuff (Sky) and Extraordinary (Disney+). Her self-written and performed short film Pink or Blue (Rifco) premiered at the London Indian Film Festival 2025.

Prabhleen Oberoi is a London-based actress, dancer, and award-winning choreographer. A recent graduate of the Oxford School of Drama, her screen and stage credits include work for EastEnders, Netflix, Kylie Minogue and The Jonas Brothers. She recently made waves as the Commercial Bollywood Choreographer for BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing. Holding a degree from the London School of Economics, Prabhleen is passionate about championing brown artistry and exploring stories that celebrate shared humanity.

Hannah can next be seen reprising her lead role of Saara Parvin in the second season of Channel 4/Peacock’s The Undeclared War opposite Simon Pegg for showrunner Peter Kosminsky. Hannah’s performance in S1 drew unanimous critical acclaim including “Khalique-Brown, a newcomer is sensational” (New Statesman), “Khalique-Brown gives a masterclass in restrained acting” (The Times), and “there are few experienced actors who can share a scene with Rylance and not disappear and Khalique-Brown holds her own” (Sunday Times).

Hannah continued her brilliant relationship with Kosminsky and Rylance in season two of the hugely successful Wolf Hall for the BBC, where she played Dorothea, Cardinal Wolsey’s daughter. She was widely praised for the climax of episode two, in an “extraordinary scene” (The Guardian) between Dorothea (Khalique-Brown) and Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance).

Hannah can also be seen as Maggie Jones in the hit Netflix show Black Doves alongside Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw, as well as opposite Staz Nair in the BBC1 crime drama Virdee and as series regular Sister Farouz in the HBO series Dune Prophecy.

On the big screen Hannah had a memorable role opposite Margot Robbie and Kate McKinnon in the mega-hit film Barbie, written and directed by Greta Gerwig. On stage, Hannah was the lead role in a brilliantly reviewed summer-long run of The Secret Garden at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre for director Anna Himali Howard, receiving 5★ reviews from The Stage, The i and more in 2024. Hannah previously starred as the lead in I Know, I Know, I Know at Southwark Playhouse. When she’s not acting, Hannah sings in the band Big Sky Orchestra.

Karim Khan is a playwright and screenwriter based in Oxford. His sell-out show Brown Boys Swim won both the Fringe First and Popcorn Award at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022, and garnered a number of 5★ and 4★ reviews before transferring to Soho Theatre for two runs and a national tour the following year. His play Sweetmeats will premiere at the Bush Theatre in 2026 in a co-production with Tara Theatre.

He is currently working on new plays with the Royal Court Theatre, National Theatre and Soho Theatre. For screen, Karim wrote two episodes of All Creatures Great and Small, for which he won Best Debut at the Edinburgh TV Festival in 2023. He has been developing a number of original TV projects and has been in several writers’ rooms.

He is currently directing his debut short film with Amazon Prime and the National Film and Television School. Karim graduated from there in 2019 on the MA Screenwriting programme. He has also been on the Soho Writers Lab and Royal Court Writers Group.

Adam’s JMK Award-winning production of Guards at the Taj (Orange Tree Theatre) was nominated for a Stage Debut Award and won the Eastern Eye Best Director Award in 2025. He was previously Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio and Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse.

Directing credits include: Julius Caesar (RADA), Macbeth (LAMDA), Guards at the Taj (Orange Tree Theatre), MANTELPEACE (Young Vic Taking Part), Platform (East15), Pressure Drop (Immediate Theatre / The Yard Theatre / schools tour), and Second Person Narrative (Rose Bruford @ Omnibus Theatre).

Associate and Assistant Director credits include Clyde’s, When Winston Went To War With The Wireless, Trouble in Butetown (Donmar Warehouse); The P Word (Bush Theatre, Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre); and Sorry, You’re Not A Winner (Paines Plough).

Maariyah’s recent credits include: Designer for Fy Enw i yw Rachel Corrie (Theatr Cymru), Vitamin D (Soho Theatre), Duck (Arcola Theatre); Assistant Designer for A Tupperware of Ashes (National Theatre), The Empress (RSC), Hakawatis (Shakespeare’s Globe); Assistant Costume Designer for The Father and the Assassin (National Theatre); Associate Designer for Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew (Bush Theatre), As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe); Costume Researcher for Life of Pi (American Repertory Theatre); and Costume Designer for The Key Workers’ Cycle (Almeida Theatre). She is a first-class graduate from BA Design for Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (2021). Before her design training, Maariyah worked at Sands Films as a costume constructor.

Holly Ellis is a graduate of LAMDA’s technical theatre course. Lighting Designer credits include: Personal Values (Hampstead Theatre); Double Act (Southwark Playhouse); Bright Places, The Promise (Birmingham Rep/UK Tour); The Barber of Seville (Waterperry Opera); I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire, Blanket Ban (Southwark Playhouse); Errol’s Garden (UK Tour); The Long Run (New Diorama Theatre/UK Tour); Spy for Spy (Riverside Studios); On The Ropes (Park Theatre); Casteing (Roundabout); Animal Kingdom (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs); and Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon (Southwark Playhouse – OffWestEnd Nomination for Best Lighting Design).

Associate Lighting Designer credits include: Shanghai Dolls (Kiln Theatre for Aideen Malone); Kyoto (@sohoplace for Aideen Malone); A Sherlock Carol (Marylebone Theatre for Rui Rita); and Jabala and the Jinn (Belgrade Theatre for Aideen Malone).

XANA is a composer, spatial sound artist, music supervisor, musical director and a haptic specialist sound designer developing accessible audio systems for theatre and live art spaces. XANA is the recipient of the 2023 and 2024 Black British Theatre Awards for Best Sound Design and a nominee for Best Musical Direction at the Black British Theatre Awards 2025; and the music science and technology lead and project mentor supporting Black artists and inventors at audio research label Inventing Waves.

Theatre credits: After Sunday (Belgrade Theatre); Alterations (National Theatre); Shifters, Barcelona (West End, Duke of York’s); Not Your Superwoman, Make Me Feel, The Real Ones, My Father’s Fable, Elephant, Sleepova (Offie nomination, Production Olivier Award), The P Word (Offie nomination, Production Olivier Award) and Strange Fruit at the Bush; Pig Heart Boy (Unicorn Theatre, UK Tour); The Architect (Actors Touring Company); Beautiful Thing (Stratford East); Imposter 22, Word-Play and Living Newspaper #4 (Royal Court); Rumble In the Jungle (Rematch Live); Anna Karenina (Edinburgh Lyceum & Bristol Old Vic); Intimate Apparel, The Trials and Marys Seacole (Donmar Warehouse); Earthworks, Sundown Kiki: Reloaded, The Collaboration, Sundown Kiki, Changing Destiny, Fairview and Ivan and the Dogs (Young Vic); …cake (Theatre Peckham); Burgerz (Hackney Showroom); King Troll [The Fawn] (Offie nomination) and Deafinitely’s Everyday (New Diorama); Black Holes (The Place, London); Hive City Legacy (Roundhouse); Main Character Energy, But Daddy I Love Her, Glamrou: From Quran to Queen, Curious and Half-Breed at Soho Theatre; Blood Knot and Guards at the Taj at the Orange Tree (both Offie nominations); Samuel Takes a Break and SEX SEX MEN MEN (Yard Theatre); Is Dat Yu Yeah, Everything I Own (Brixton House).

Music includes featuring in the song “Afronaut” on Seed Ensemble’s album Driftglass (Mercury Prize nomination).

Rakhee Sharma is a multidisciplinary artist with a unique approach to movement, shaped by her neurodiverse perspective. Her work is influenced by somatic dance, Indian philosophy, and physical theatre. Rakhee began her career as a dancer and choreographer in the Bollywood film industry before training as an actor at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she received the prestigious Lawrence Olivier Bursary Award.

Recent theatre includes: Marriage Material (Associate) (Lyric Theatre); Santi and Naz (Soho Theatre / UK Tour); Macbeth (Guildhall); Silence (Donmar Warehouse); Bitter-Enders (Arcola Theatre); The Walden (Associate) (Harold Pinter Theatre); Sparks, Red Velvet, The Christians (LAMDA). Recent film and television includes: Wild Cherry (Associate Movement Director) (BBC); Incompatible (BFI Short).

Gurnesha is a freelance dramaturg, reader and programmer. She reads for both subsidised and commercial theatre companies as well as major playwriting prizes including the Bruntwood Prize and the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award. She is currently working as a dramaturg on plays commissioned by Hampstead Theatre, Bush Theatre and the Old Fire Station. Gurnesha was previously Literary Associate at the Royal Court.

Recent theatre credits: Elmet (The Javaad Alipoor Company); I’ll Burn The Ocean/For You (Talawa Theatre Company); Come Fall in Love (Playful Productions); Millennium Girls (Brixton House); The Da Vinci Code (Wiltshire Creative); Sophia (Eastern Angles Theatre); Bangers (SH Productions); Ghost Stories (HighTide); King Troll (Kali Theatre & New Diorama); A Tupperware of Ashes (National Theatre); Peanut Butter & Blueberries (Kiln Theatre); Dylan Mulvaney: FAGHAG (Soho Theatre); Refugee! (62 Gladstone Street); The Secret Garden (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Expendable, Dugsi Dayz (Royal Court); Red Pitch (@sohoplace); Sweat, Great Expectations (Royal Exchange); The Buddha of Suburbia, Falkland Sounds, The Empress (Royal Shakespeare Company); blackbird hour…, Wolves On Road, The Real Ones, The Cord, A Playlist for the Revolution, Paradise Now, The P Word, Favour, Red Pitch (Bush Theatre); and many others.

TV and film credits: Good Karma Hospital (ITV & Tiger Aspect Productions); Hotel Portofino (ITV, PBS & Eagle Eye); Strange Evidence (Matt’s Gallery).

Jessie is a theatre and opera producer working across the UK and internationally. Her productions include recent Bush Theatre hits Tender and This Might Not Be It; Untapped Award-winning show The Mosinee Project, which sold out its Edinburgh Fringe run in 2024; Offie Award-winning productions Yellowfin and The Bleeding Tree at Southwark Playhouse; and Virginia Woolf-inspired solo show Orlando, which transferred to New York as part of Brits Off Broadway.

She works as an in-house producer at Jermyn Street Theatre and is the company producer for Airlock Theatre. She has also worked with the National Theatre, Belarus Free Theatre, Wayward Productions, Kandinsky, Oxford Opera and The Big House. Jessie is supported by new producers’ charity Stage One.

Dan trained as a musician specialising in composition for the screen and has composing and sound design credits on several short films and an original musical. He also has Musical Directorship credits for The Wedding Singer and The Addams Family (Oxford Playhouse), as well as having performed in the pit on a number of productions as a drummer and percussionist. After completing a Masters in Post-16 education, he taught backstage theatre production for six years. Dan joined the OFS in 2024 and now oversees technical operations for both in-house and visiting productions.

Olivia trained at LAMDA. Her professional credits include: Measure For Measure (LAMDA); [BLANK] (LAMDA); Cinderella (The Hexagon); Macbeth (LAMDA); Persephone (Little Angel Theatre); She Loves Me (Mountview); Sleeping Beauty (The Hexagon; Panto Awards Nominee 2024); The Island (Archway Hospital); Primary Playwrights (Soho Theatre); Under The Kundè Tree (Southwark Playhouse Borough; Offies Nominee, British Black Theatre Awards Nominee); The Walworth Farce (Southwark Playhouse Elephant); Jack and the Beanstalk (The Hexagon; Panto Awards Nominee 2023); Mary (Hampstead Theatre); Get Dressed! (The Unicorn); Divine (ArtsEd); Pericles (Jackson’s Lane); Beauty and the Beast (The Hexagon; Panto Awards Winner 2022); It’s Beautiful Over There (Tristan Bates Theatre); Last Easter (Orange Tree Theatre); Cinderella (The Hexagon; Panto Awards Nominee 2020); Handbagged (Salisbury Playhouse); I’m Sorry But (Bread and Roses); Pride in London 2019.

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