Lucy is an improviser, director, teacher and the mischievous creator of The Dirty Picnic Club; a social experiment meets improvised theatre show. She is a founding member of Impromptu Shakespeare and as well as improvisation, Lucy has trained in Lecoq, clowning and bouffon. She is a qualified teacher and is a qualified intimacy director with Intimacy for Stage and Screen.

A certified rehabilitation psychologist working with young adults, and entrepreneurs. Nithya offer psychotherapy for those dealing with trauma, abuse, loss, and death. They work in the spaces of self-expression, business coaching, entrepreneurship, event management, and innovation.

Anshuma Kshetrapal is a practicing Drama and Movement Psychotherapist registered with BADth (British Association of Dramatherapists). She has an MA in Drama and Movement Therapy from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK, an MA in Psychosocial Clinical Studies from Ambedkar university, Delhi and an FECAT certification from SMART, Bangalore.

She is an advisory board member for the Creative Movement Therapy Association of India (CMTAI) and is designing curriculum and teaching in their Delhi, Bangalore and Pune courses. Having over 8 years of experience as a trauma counselor, Anshuma has worked with adults and children, in the field of mental health with a range of settings such as clinics, hospitals, NGOs, schools and corporates in Delhi, Bangalore and London. In 2016, she organized and completed a three month long, pan India tour in which she gave several talks and conducted experiential workshops along with her colleagues from the UK. Her current service offerings include individual and group therapy, supervision and consultation for peers and junior creative arts therapists, facilitating workshops in various settings and teaching in various institutes.

In her endeavour to spread awareness about the use of the arts for therapy, she founded The Color of Grey Cells, to conduct workshops for students, therapists and clients alike because she is passionate about spreading the word about working with the mind and body nexus, using stories, poetry, movement, role playing and visual arts

Feisal Alkazi, founder of the 47-years-old Ruchika Theatre Group in Delhi, is an educationist, theatre director and activist, and directed over 200 plays in Hindi, English and Urdu. After his Masters in Social Work, he headed Ankur, a society for alternatives in education, taught at the Jamia Mass Communication Research Centre and is a counsellor with the Sanjivini Society for Mental Health.

Founding member of Die Gorillas. Training in drama, singing and dance at the Berlin School of Performing Arts. Additional qualification singing pedagogy Further education as a music therapist at the Institute for Music Therapy Berlin Psychotherapist according to the German law on naturopathy. Therapeutically active in the Center For Mental Health, Berlin. Social psychiatric outpatient clinic for children and adolescents »Jona«, Treuenbrietzen Fliedner Clinic, Berlin.

Kelly is the Artistic Director of Flute Theatre, for whom she has created Hamlet, Twelfth Night, The Tempest for children with autism, A Midsummer Nights Dream for young people with autism and their families and Pericles for people with autism. Flute’s productions tour internationally and Kelly travels with the shows, additionally giving lectures and seminars about her pioneering work.

She is the creator of The Hunter Heartbeat Method, a series of sensory drama games for young people with autism and their families. This methodology was the basis of a longitudinal study at Ohio State University 2011-2015 and is currently being researched by Professor Antonia Hamilton at the neuroscience lab at University College London.

Kelly is an award winning actor, she has performed with the RSC, Royal National Theatre, English Touring Theatre and Vesturport, Iceland.

She is the author of two books, Shakespeare’s Heartbeat, drama games for children with autism published by Routledge and Cracking Shakespeare; A hands-on guide for actors and directors published by Bloomsbury. She was awarded the MBE for her services to theatre in Summer 2019.

Maitri Gopalakrishna, MA, RDT is a drama therapist based in Bangalore, India. She is currently working on her Ph.D. at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. She also does clinical therapeutic work at the Parivarthan Counselling Training and Research Centre and is faculty on the Foundation Course in Expressive and Creative Arts Therapies in Bangalore. She practices feminist drama therapy and is deeply involved in the intersections of psychological suffering and socio-political oppressions. Her work often involves performative sharing including public performances.

Jennifer Kanary is the Founder of roomforthoughts, an artistic research practice that uses installation art and technology to address mental health issues. As an artist, she is best known for the project Labyrinth Psychotica. For the past 14 years, she has dedicated her life to understanding psychosis and using her abilities as an artist to find methods for others to better understand the subjective experiences of psychosis. The artistic research results of her PhD thesis, 'The Wearable' and 'The Labyrinth', were launched to the public in 2013. Her team has been on an entrepreneurial journey ever since, visiting 20 countries (and counting), training close to 18.000 stakeholders such as professional mental health care workers, police officers, and prison workers.