Ben Clark is a BAFTA and four time Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominated Writer/Director. He has most recently directed Christopher Hall's hit Edinburgh show, Girl for All Seasons.

Ben is also a Comedian, Actor and Writer, best known as one third of the award winning sketch group Pappy's.

Caitlin Magnall-Kearns is a writer from East Belfast, passionate about telling new Northern Irish stories from underrepresented and unheard perspectives with humour, wit and heart.

Caitlin is currently part of the BBC Comedy Collective 2024 and has just finished up six months as a part of BBC Belfast Voices with BBC Writers. Her play Safe Space airs on Radio 4 in January 2025.

Chris Hawkins has been a regular on BBC Radio 6 Music from its inception, presenting the Early Breakfast show every weekday morning and regularly depping for Craig Charles in the afternoon.

He is also a regular voice on Radio 5 Live and regularly presents Radio 4's Pick of the Week.

David Quantick is a much-admired comedy writer, cultural commentator, acclaimed best-selling author and an occasional music journalist.

David won an Emmy as part of the writing team on Veep and a BAFTA for Harry Hill's TV Burp. He has also won Writers’ Guild Award for The Thick Of It and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen. He has a new podcast, The Old Fools, which he presents with Ian Martin.

Ed Amsden & Tom Coles have written material for flagship BBC programmes including Have I Got News For You, The News Quiz, Mock the Week, and as part of the head writing team on Dead Ringers. They have a few projects in development with Hat Trick.

Emma Clarke presents Saturday Breakfast on BBC Radio 3, and featured as the voice of Ceefax on Radio 4’s Ceefax Strikes Back! She’s also composer, studying at the Royal Northern College of Music, and a very experienced voiceover,  known as one of the voices of the London Underground.

Gareth Gwynn is a prolific TV and radio writer. He‘s also a presenter and radio producer, and hosts the podcast So Not Over It with Esyllt Mears, and appeared recently on TL;DR with Catherine Bohart and the last ever series of The Now Show on Radio 4. He also writes the scripts for the Welsh BAFTAs.

Geoff Lloyd is a podcast pioneer, and host of the massively successful 'Firecrotch and Normcore', the 'Succession' podcast and the follow up They Like To Watch. 

Geoff came to prominence as a radio & TV broadcaster best-known for his multi award-winning shows for Virgin/Absolute Radio where he worked for twenty years.

Lyn Papadopoulos cut her story telling teeth at Coronation Street, working on many major, award winning storylines.

Having also written for Family Affairs, Moving On and BBC Education, Lyn is working on a new commission for the Liverpool Royal Court.

Matthew Crosby is a comedian, broadcaster and highly sought-after TV writer. He works closely with some of the biggest names in comedy and is head writer for Great British Bake Off, and writes for the huge hit shows The Last Leg, 8/10 Cats Does Countdown, Joe Lycett's Got Your Back and BBC1's Blankety Blank. Right now he’s writing The Traitors: Uncloaked for BBC2. He hosts Radio x’s Sunday morning show with Ed Gamble.

Michael Legge is a stand up, writer, actor, compere, improviser, warm-up and Chortle and Sony award winner. His Edinburgh show, The Idiot is available on Next-up comedy.

Nathaniel Tapley is an award-winning comedy writer. Natt was head writer on the global top ten smash hit animation Bad Dinosaurs for Netflix. He’s currently writing a feature with Snafu.

PJ Smith, who performs as Roy, was born in North Liverpool.

His deft, articulate and startlingly observed stories veer from the comic to the calamitous in a breath. He’s not a poet. He nearly had a Christmas number one this year, with Loss Is Not Infinite.

Peter Curran is a writer, producer, broadcaster and publisher with a host of BBC Radio 4 credits, including the long running hit, Bunk Bed.

He has written and presented many arts and culture programmes for TV and radio including a long stint presenting Radio 4's Loose Ends and presenting Saturday Live.

Rich Robinson is a writer, crafting original comedy/drama projects that reflect the bittersweet interplay between aspiration and everyday life. Currently living in LA and developing several shows with Warners. 

His first project 'Heir Apparent' is in development with Aldgate Pictures and Warner Entertainment.

Shôn Dale–Jones is a producer, director, performer and writer whose shows with his company Hoi Polloi have all won Fringe Firsts. He’s adapted them for BBC Radio and they’ve been on at the Barbican, National Theatre Wales and Sydney Opera House. His last Radio 4 play, Cracking, won the Tinniswood Prize at the BBC Radio Drama awards.

Sian Harries is a comedy writer and performer who co-wrote Greg Davies's Man Down for Channel 4 and Tourist Trap for BBC Wales, starring Sally Phillips.

Sian is contributing additional material for the forthcoming BBC Sunday primetime crime drama, Death Valley starring current BAFTA winner Timothy Spall and Gwyneth Keyworth.

Stuart Maconie is a prolific, popular and extremely highly regarded TV and radio presenter, journalist, columnist and best-selling author.

He’s on BBC Radio 6 Music (with Mark Radcliffe) every weekend morning between 8 and 10am and again on Sunday evenings with his own show, The Freak Zone. He’s the host of the BBC Northern Soul Orchestrated shows, and his most recent book, The Full English was a Waterstone’s Paperback of the Year in 2024.

Zoë Tomalin is a multi-award-winning comedy writer working across scripted, entertainment and children’s TV.

She’s a regular contributor to Have I Got News For You , and recently co-wrote Badjelly, an animated Spike Milligan adaptation starring Miriam Margolyes and Rhys Darby. She’s doing some development work with AnyDay for a new series set in Japan, and co-wrote the recent Sarah Mills Radio 4 series, Bad Bod Squad.