Eleanor Crosswell. Eleanor originally trained as an actor at LAMDA. When there, she created verbatim work using her own interviews with people about their greatest fear. Upon leaving training, she had an idea for a short film highlighting abortion rights (Trust), using the thriller genre to show a different angle on this issue. An early draft of the script was selected as a quarter finalist in the ScriptApalooza short film competition. The film was picked up by a producer, and completed 2021. It screened at UN Women's film festival and won the Jury prize at Boundless. Earlier drafts of Ember have been longlisted for RSC's 37 Plays, and made it to the top 10% of the Verity Bargate Award, BBC Writers Open Call, and the Bush Theatre open submissions.

Júlia Levai
Júlia is a theatre director from Budapest based in London. She recently co-directed the ★★★★★ revival of ‘Smoke’ by Kim Davies at Southwark Playhouse, and ‘We’ll Be Who We Are’ by Naomi Obeng at the VAULT Festival. Her Assistant Director credits include ‘Hope Has A Happy Meal’ at the Royal Court, ‘All’s Well That Ends Well’ at the RSC, and ‘Nora: A Doll’s House’ at the Young Vic. She previously received an MGCFutures bursary, and was ‘Director in Residence’ at the National Theatre in Belgrade. Júlia trained on LAMDA’s MA Directing course and on the Young Vic’s Jerwood Assistant Director Programme. She is a script reader for the NT Studio, Papatango Prize, Bruntwood Prize and for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting. She is currently working as Staff Director on ‘Dear Octopus’ at the National Theatre.