Ira Brand is a German-born, UK-raised artist, curator, writer, and theatre-maker. She graduated from Dartington College of Arts in 2007 and completed the DAS Theatre Master in Amsterdam in 2019, where she is now based. Her work is shown internationally. She is Co-Director of the award-winning artist-led collective Forest Fringe, with which she created projects, festivals, and residencies in Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong, New York, Auckland, Dublin, Lisbon, and Salvador da Bahia. She also teaches and mentors, including at Royal Holloway University of London. As an artist, she makes interdisciplinary live performance—solo works, duets, one-to-one and participatory pieces. Starting from personal experiences, she explores wider social and political questions, recently focusing on power and its relations to language, gender, and desire.

Gosia Wdowik is a Polish theatre director. After studying directing in Poland and abroad (at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen and DAS Theatre in Amsterdam), she developed a distinctive artistic language, independent of trends, rules, or even conventional communication. Her works are original, expressive, and accessible, using words and forms that set her apart. Notable pieces include “Shame”, “Girls”, “She was a friend of someone else”, “Gloria. Right to be desperate”, and “DEEPER”. She is an associate artist at CAMPO in Ghent and has created performances for SpielArt Festival (Munich), Theaterformen (Hannover), Sophiensæle (Berlin), and Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels). Her work has been presented at Theater der Welt, Theaterfestival Zürich, SPRING Performing Arts Festival (Utrecht), and Dublin Theatre Festival.