Susanna Best Actress & Director : Susanna has extensive credits both as an actress and Director. Her directing work includes seasons at the Royal Opera House as staff director and several seasons with the ESC. She also runs her own company, Shakespeare Link, with her partner, the actor Philip Bowen.

Jason Robert Brown Composer : Jason Robert Brown has been hailed as "one of Broadway's smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim" (Philadelphia Inquirer), and his "extraordinary, jubilant theater music" (Chicago Tribune) has been heard all over the world, whether in one of the hundreds of productions of his musicals every year or in his own incendiary live performances. The New York Times refers to Jason as "a leading member of a new generation of composers who embody high hopes for the American musical." Jason is the composer and lyricist of the musical, The Last Five Years, which was cited as one of Time Magazine's 10 Best of 2001 and won Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics. Jason won a 1999 Tony Award for his score to Parade, a musical written with Alfred Uhry and directed by Harold Prince, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theatre in December 1998, and subsequently won both the Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards for Best New Musical. Parade was also presented on a national tour in 2000, which Jason conducted. Jason's first musical, Songs for a New World, a theatrical song cycle directed by Daisy Prince, played Off-Broadway at the WPA Theatre in the fall of 1995, and has since been seen in more than two hundred productions around the world. Jason's newest musical, 13, written with Dan Elish and directed by Todd Graff, premiered this January to rave reviews at Los Angeles's Mark Taper Forum, and opens on Broadway in the spring of 2008. Jason is the winner of the 2002 Kleban Award for Outstanding Lyrics and the 1996 Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Foundation Award for Musical Theatre. Jason's songs, including the cabaret standard Stars and the Moon, have been performed and recorded by Audra McDonald, Betty Buckley, Karen Akers, Renée Fleming, Philip Quast, Jon Hendricks and many others. Jason's first solo album, Wearing Someone Else's Clothes, featuring his band The Caucasian Rhythm Kings, was named one of Amazon.com's best of 2005, and is available from Sh-K-Boom Records. His collaboration with singer Lauren Kennedy, Songs of Jason Robert Brown, is available on PS Classics. Jason's piano sonata, Mr. Broadway was commissioned and premiered by Anthony De Mare at Carnegie Hall. Also in the wings: an musical adaptation of the 1992 film Honeymoon in Vegas, in collaboration with screenwriter/director Andrew Bergman. Jason is also the composer of the incidental music for David Lindsay-Abaire's Kimberly Akimbo and Fuddy Meers, Marsha Norman's Last Dance, David Marshall Grant's Current Events, Kenneth Lonergan's The Waverly Gallery, and the Irish Repertory Theater's production of Long Day's Journey Into Night, and he was a Tony Award nominee for his contributions to the score of Urban Cowboy the Musical. His scores are published by Hal Leonard. Jason currently teaches musical theater performance and composition at the University of Southern California. jasonrobertbrown.com

Alison Chard Casting Director : Alison has extensive casting credits for Theatre and Television. She has worked for the Royal National Theatre and she was head of casting for the Royal Shakespeare Company for several years. Her TV credits include Real Women, M.I.T and The Bill, where she was Head of Casting from 2002 to 2003. Alison is currently working on Emu for Endemol. She is a member of the Casting Directors Guild of Great Britain and BAFTA.

Edward Max Actor & Director : Edward has extensive acting credits but in recent years he has concentrated more on directing. He is currently Artistic Director of Frinton Summer Theatre.

Harry Richards Director : Harry is a graduate of the Bournemouth Screen Academy and has written and directed several award winning short films including Still Life, Same Difference and Crisis. harryrichards.com

Richard Ryan Fight Director : Richard has choreographed fights for all the major Subsidised Companies and for many West End productions. He is also Master at Arms at RADA. Recently Richard has been concentrating more on film. He was Swordmaster on Troy choreographing all the fights for Brad Pitt. Other film credits include: The Last Legion with Colin Firth and Sir Ben Kingsley and Stardust with Robert de Niro. He has recently finished working with Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan on the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight.