Tasnim Hossain is a playwright, director and screenwriter.The Village premiered at Q Theatre at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre in 2023. She has been shortlisted for the 2022 Griffin Award for her script Bombay Takeaway. She wrote and toured the solo works, Boys Light Up, Letters to John and Zak and Reefa's Bollywood Funeral, to festivals around Australia. She has written work for ATYP, Shopfront Youth Arts and Canberra Youth Theatre.From 2022 to 2025, she was Resident Director, followed by Associate Artist, at Melbourne Theatre Company, where she directed the Australian premieres of Never Have I Ever and English, which transferred to Canberra Theatre Centre after an extended season and was nominated for two Green Room Awards. She also directed I Wanna Be Yours for Melbourne Theatre Company's Education program, which toured regional Victoria. She developed and led Future Creatives, a development program for early career theatre designers from culturally diverse backgrounds.Tasnim has been an Artistic Associate at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Griffin Theatre Company's Studio Artist, and ATYP Resident Playwright. She was selected to be a part of Sydney Theatre Company-CAAP Directors' Initiative, as well as Melbourne Theatre Company's Women in Theatre program. She received the Women's Agenda 2022 Emerging Leader in Arts and Entertainment Award. She was a Theatre Network Australia's Leadershift program participant, as well as a Creative Australia Future Leader. An award-winning multidisciplinary artist, Vidya Rajan works in writing for stage and screen, contemporary performance, comedy and interactive media. She is a graduate of the VCA and a former writer-in-residence at the Malthouse. Vidya's practice is deeply interested in play, speculative fiction, colonial legacies and emergent technology; and her work is often described as contemporary, inventive and sharply hilarious. Her work has been programmed by spaces like Arts House, Now or Never, Sydney Festival, Darwin Festival, the Blue Room, Griffin, Malthouse and Belvoir; and she has acted in and written for shows on ABC, Netflix and SBS, amongst others. Recently, her projects have been shortlisted for the International New Media Prize, the Freeplay game awards, and acquired by ACMI, while her scriptwriting both won (The Feed SBS-Comedy Writing) and was nominated for (Looking for Alibrandi-Best Stage Adaptation) awards at the AWGIEs. Jordan Shea is a writer, performer and teacher. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Theatre) and a Masters of Secondary Teaching (English and Drama) from the University of Notre Dame, and a Masters of Writing for Performance (Honours II) from the Victorian College of the Arts. As co-writer, he collaborated with Callan Purcell on Before the Sun Comes Up (NSW Department of Education) and Kenneth Moraleda on One Hour No Oil (KXT/kwento). He was a co-writer on The House at Boundary Road, Liverpool (Old 505 Theatre) and Intersection (ATYP). Additional credits include: Malacañang Made Us (Queensland Theatre), Diwa (Performing Lines & Australian Plays Transform) CAGE (Old 505 Theatre), Ate Lovia (kwento/Old Fitz) and Kasama Kita (Belvoir). Awards include: the 2025 Queensland Premier's Drama Award (Malacañang Made Us), and the 2024 Notre Dame Alumni Award. His play They're not listening won the Writing NSW Fellowship and was runner-up for the Australian Theatre Festival's New Play Award. Jordan's practice has been supported by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Create NSW and the City of Sydney. In 2025, he was the keynote speaker for Currency Press Festival of Playwrights, as well as making a triumphant return to performing in musical theatre, starring as Franz Liebkind in Joshua Robson Productions/Hayes Theatre's The Producers and Neglected Musicals' The Witches of Eastwick as Clyde Gabriel. Jordan lives on Wangal Country (Ashfield) and is a proud Filipino-Australian.