Devaki Rajendran (she/her) is a multidisciplinary performing artist from Kerala, India, currently based in London. Along with her Bharatanatyam (traditional Indian dance) and Carnatic music (traditional Indian music) training, she is also an actor and theatre maker. Her creative practice explores themes of gender, power and reimagined myth through the interweaving of folk and classical performance traditions from India and theatre. Devaki is interested in creating work that is both personally meaningful and socially relevant through collaboration with artists from various backgrounds and training.

An accomplished actor, singer, and writer, Dionne Draper is a powerful voice in the arts. She is the founder of Sing With Soul and the driving force behind DAWTA The Podcast, which follows her sell-out, one-woman musical, DAWTA. Dionne’s work is often focused on social and racial justice, leveraging her singing and compositional skills to create empowered music spaces.

A recipient of the Women of The West Award and the Lord Mayors Medal, her professional credits span stage and screen; including roles in C4’s The Cure, Little Shop of Horrors, and Sky 1’s Trollied.

Viv Gordon is a theatre maker, writer, performer, activist and Artistic Director of Viv Gordon Company. Her work centres the othered voices of adult child sexual abuse (CSA) survivors exploring social justice and the politics of survival. Viv enjoys creative risk taking and sees her practice as an act of reclamation - taking back what was stolen in childhood - voice, play, personhood. Her current work includes Restless, a punk gig theatre show in development which draws on coastal imagery to reflect survivor experiences; Cutting Out, a theatre show and participatory campaign about dissociation and resistance. Click here for Viv Gordon’s website.