Bio's Anastasiia Kosodii Anastasiia is a playwright and director based in Kyiv (Ukraine). Anastasiia’s plays have been read and performed in theaters across Ukraine and Europe as a whole. Before February 2022 Anastasiia was often working with NGOs in Eastern Ukraine in the towns on the front line of the war between Ukraine and Russia - as a playwright and cultural manager. After the start of the full-forced Russian invasion Anastasiia temporarily moved to Germany. She orginised series of Ukrainian Readings called Vom Krieg - Ukrainische Dramatiker*innen erzählen vom Leben während der Invasion durch Russland in number of theatres around the world Royal Court Theatre (London), Münchner Kammerspiele, Gorki Theater (Berlin), NTM Nationaltheater Mannheim, Schauspielhaus Wien, Staatstheater Hannover, ETA Hoffmann Theater (Bamberg). In the fall of 2022, Anastasiia started her work as a Hausautorin at National Theater Mannheim. Jana Svobodová Jana Svobodová is a theater director and founder of the International Summer School of Documentary Theatre. In her work, she combines authentic stories with video art, music, light design and modern technologies. Her latest projects Those Who Speak for Themselves (2021), Perché non Io (2022) and Eight Short Compositions on the lives of Ukrainians for a Western Audience (2023) focus on the issue of personal freedom. Her projects have been presented at festivals in the Czech Republic as well as in the USA, Japan, South Africa, Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovenia and other countries. The production Ordinary People (2018), which she co-directed with Wen Hui, was presented in the main program of the Festival D‘Avignon 2019 and the Festival D‘Automne in Paris 2019.   Rosa Berman Rosa Berman is a contemporary music theatre maker, performer and violinist from the Netherlands. With her violin and voice she creates philosophical and documentary performances. She specialises in making site-specific music theatre; performing in forests, on the streets, in people’s houses and on various festivals. Currently, she is following a traineeship at the Theaterschip in Deventer, the Netherlands making various performances in collaboration with Oostpool, Theater Gajes and Deventer op Stelten. Rosa is also part of the Dutch Music theatre Collective RAM and contemporary string quartet Four Frogs in the Woods. Amanda Doherty Amanda Doherty is an award-winning actor and theatre maker who makes politically engaged work. Her original work elevates the narratives and experiences of oppressed communities, exploring themes of resilience and vulnerability and has toured across Europe and the USA. Trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, acting credits include: The Fall (BBC), Seanchaí (BBC NI), Scúp (BBC NI) for television; Bird About Town, Faust, Girl in the Machine for theatre, and forthcoming feature film Pulcinella. Lotta Karlsson Lotta Karlsson is a Swedish-Norwegian multi-artistic performer with educations in classical piano from Barratt Due musikkinstitutt (Oslo), Universität der Künste (Berlin) and NTNU institutt for musikk (Trondheim), as well as in Songwriting at the University of Agder (Kristiansand). She is a creator of innovative projects within the musical world as well as for the stage, with a particular fascination for meshing classical music with electronics. Her stage works in this field include both creating electronic opera as well as several youth and adult productions. She also releases music under her artist project named The Turning of the Tide, where she writes with a particular focus on societal and social issues. Mariia Kosiichuk Mariia Kosiichuk is currently the manager of the contemporary theatre projects at the Jam Factory Art Center in Lviv as well as a movement researcher and participant of the physical theatre studio in Lviv. Working also as an audio-description writer and having years of experience in teaching the Ukrainian language, Mariia is also a writer and researcher of Hutsul literature and is also involved in various art projects as well as inclusive projects in Ukraine.  Zov Vélez Zov Vélez is a UK based creative whose work focuses on radical existence and fictioning experiences of social inequity using layered performance styles and unconventional movement. Their practice explores how the body can shape-shift and transform, offering choppy non-narratives that reflect experiences of the outcasted including gender non-conformity, queer and class based struggles. Zov is also currently a part of dance theatre company Dust Ensemble in Bristol, whose works centre eerie explorations and abstract-expressionistic styles that invigorate imagination. Jan Sedláček Jan Sedláček is a sound designer, audio engineer and musician. After completing BA (Hons) Music Technology at the University of Bedfordshire, and MA in Audio Production at the University of Westminster in London. In 2014, Jan has returned to Prague to pursue his career in audio engineering and sound design. Since then, Jan has been collaborating with numerous respectable Czech cultural institutions, including Archa Theatre, Czech National Theatre, Barrandov Film Studios, Forum Karlin, Jatka78, besides many independent theatres, as well as dance, audio-visual arts, and music groups. Since 2018, Jan is a co-owner of Studio Mr. Wombat, a recording studio located at the heart of Prague. Pavel Kotlík Pavel Kotlík is a light designer and light technician. Since 2011 he has collaborated with Archa Theatre on several projects directed by Jana Svobodová for instance, Lost and found. Pavel has also worked on shows for Min Tanaka and has won an award for his lighting design for VerTeDance in 2012. He has been dedicated to lighting since his youth, he passed smoothly from school to theatre, first as a theatre technician, therefore he refers to himself as a theatre maker rather than a light designer. In the professional community, he is known as a tireless creator of visual compositions on stage – only few can paint surfaces and accentuate details as he does.