Francis Turnly is a playwright, radio dramatist and screenwriter. He has written several plays for Radio 4 and his stage plays have been produced at numerous theatres across the UK and Ireland. He was a winner of a Channel 4 playwright bursary in 2015 and as a result was Playwright in Residence at the Kiln (then Tricycle) Theatre which culminated in him winning the Catherine Johnson Best Play Award in 2016 for his play The Great Wave which premiered at the National Theatre in 2018.
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. is Professor of Theatre Arts and Director of the Graduate Program at Loyola Marymount University, US, with areas of expertise in Japanese theatre, African theatre, Shakespeare, horror theatre, Asian cinema, horror cinema, Greek tragedy, stage combat and comedy.
