Writer/Performer

Mollie Semple

Mollie Semple (she/hers) is a writer and an actress. She took her debut show ‘Loneliness and Other Adventures’ to the Edinburgh fringe in 2018 and took a co-written modern adaptation of ‘Persephone' to the Brighton fringe last year. More recently she completed a writing course at the NFTS and her short film script ‘Birthday Regret’ was shortlisted for a competition run by Rianne Pictures. She’s also written a blog for 12 years, ‘The Fully Intended’, which you can find on Substack. 

Writer/Performer

Kayla Stokes

Kayla Stokes (she/hers) is a Black American storyteller based in London. She is a playwright, director, actor and producer. Kayla makes work that lives in that in-between space where you're neither fully awake or fully dreaming. Most recently she produced a new scratch night at Battersea Arts Centre called See If It Sticks. Playwriting credits include SELFISH, Two Sisters Lie on the Beach and Six Left Feet (The Black Box Project). Directing credits include Dutchman (Carnegie Mellon), pato, pato, maricón (Ars Nova) and See If It Sticks (Battersea Arts Centre). Kayla is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University where she earned her BFA in Directing. 

Logline: Two sisters try to figure out how to send off their eldest sister who had the audacity to die so inconveniently. In this first scene, the two sisters drop off clothes for their dead sister at the funeral home. 

Performer

Latoya Markson

Latoya Markson studied Film, Television, and Theatre at Brunel University for three years, where she gained confidence and ensemble experience with Frantic Assembly, Physical Theatre, Applied Theatre, and TV & Film, both on and off screen. She joined the African and Caribbean Society (ACS) for Drama in 2017 and performed in a theatre production called 'Men Are Trash.' Recently, she performed at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre for the Tottenham Literature Festival.

Performer

Nic Harvey

Nic trained at The Television Workshop in Nottingham, and as a child actor appeared in Peak Practice, Bernard's Watch, Paradise Heights and Shane Meadows' film A Room For Romeo Brass. He moved into teaching, directing and writing as a teenager, and eventually became lead director of the Workshop from 2015-2021, coaching talent including Bella Ramsey, Tom Blyth, Harriet Cains and Erin Kellyman. 

As artistic director of Sheep Soup theatre company, Nic has created musicals Mrs Green, The Leftovers and Nel's Place. Latest show House Of Life plays SOHO Theatre in June/July before returning to Edinburgh Fringe in August. 

Nic runs a script and improvisation workshop in Peckham, Grounder, for professional actors, and recently coached young actors on Andrea Arnold's latest feature. 

Writer

Tasmin Pinder

Tasmin Pinder is a writer for stage and audio whose work has been produced at venues including the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, the South London Theatre, and the Ludlow Fringe Festival. 

Perfomer

James Jip

James graduated from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

His recent theatre credits include 'Banging Denmark' at the Finborough Theatre and 'The Three Seagulls' at the Bristol Old Vic. He can also be seen in the final season of Netflix's Sex Education. 

Writer

Charlotte Churcher

Charlotte is an Australian playwright who grew up in Spain and is now based in London. Her full-length play ‘The Beat of the Bronzewing’ was showcased at the Old Red Lion Theatre as part of their FreshFest festival and was selected for dramaturgical support as part of a scheme with the King’s Head Theatre. She is part of the Marylebone Theatre’s Emerging Playwrights Group and her work was longlisted for the 2023 Reboot Festival at Baron’s Court Theatre. Her writing has explored topics such as toxic femininity, relationship abuse, life in rural communities, and the impossibility of escaping traps of our own making.

Performer

Mike Parr

Michael Parr is a British actor best known for his role as Ross Barton on the ITV soap "Emmerdale." Parr's portrayal earned him accolades, including Best Actor, Best Bad Boy, and Sexiest Male at the 2015 Inside Soap Awards. He left "Emmerdale" in 2018 to pursue other opportunities, expressing interest in working in the U.S.
 

Parr's previous TV work includes roles in "Good Cop," "Inside Men," and "Hollyoaks." His film credits include "Queensbury Rules," "No Way Through," and "Territory." He has also performed on stage, notably in "Studies for A Portrait" and "Twothousandandsex." In September 2023, Parr appeared as Paul Hughes in the ITV1 drama "The Long Shadow," alongside Katherine Kelly.

Performer

Misha Domadia

Misha Domadia is a British Indian actor who has completed her training at LAMDA. She most recently performed in a sold out run of ‘Brown Girl Noise’ at The Hope Theatre for Camden Fringe, which was nominated for a London Pub Theatres Standing Ovation Award.

Theatre credits include: 'Ama-gi' (Hounslow Arts Centre), ‘Postcoital’ (Lion & Unicorn Theatre), ‘In The Name Of’ (LAMDA Mish Mash Festival), & ‘Hildegard’ (Barons Court Theatre).

Short film credits include: 'Burns Night' (Why Productions)

Writer

Rishi Vaja

Rishi Vaja (he/him)  is a scriptwriter living in Essex. He's had 4 short films produced including Ella and the Blind Witch, The Vlogger and Gym Patriot. His TV spec scripts have been longlisted in call-outs such as BBC Studio, Thousand Films and All3Media New Writers Collective.  A production company called his latest script "the Indian Stranger Things!". Rishi was also selected to be part of FrightFest's New Blood class where he's currently writing a horror feature script. He was also a finalist in B3 Media's TalentLab where he developed a sci-fi short film. This is his first foray into playwriting as a new way to channel his horror ideas into a more immersive experience. 

Performer

Dixita Pandya

Dixita is an actress and writer based in London.

Her credits include performing at live Theatre in Newcastle, The Vlogger, a short film which she co-wrote and played the lead in, was screened at the British Urban Film Festival- on Apple TV, Bollywood film Jawaani Jaaneman (Amazon Prime), I Walk In Your Words at Tamasha Rich Mix Theatre, London Confidential on Zee5.

Performer

Verônica Sarno

Verônica Sarno is a Brazilian classically trained actress at Drama Centre London, Escola Superior de Artes Célia Helena (Brazil) and Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute (Russia). Since her graduation in 2014, she has worked in Film and Theatre productions in Brazil and England, including the award winning two-year national tour Brazilian version of Spur of the Moment by Anya Reiss, Before the Sun Rises at Theatre 503, Rumble at the Drayton Arms, various short and corporate films and the features Insanity, Haraam and Anonymous, which are currently available on Amazon Prime (UK).  As well as an actress, Verônica also works as a Voice Over artist, Director, Acting and Voice coach.

Writer

Serena Coady

Serena Coady (she/hers) is a Malaysian-Australian writer based in London. She's currently studying an MA in Writing for Performance and Dramaturgy at Goldsmiths. As a journalist, Serena has written for The Independent, CNN, Dazed, i-D, ELLE, Vox, Harper’s Bazaar, Refinery29, and more.

Writer

Jonny Kemp

Jonny Kemp (he/him) used to work as an English teacher, but has quit that to take a Fine Art Foundation and pursue a career as a portrait artist. He has written several plays and reviews productions for the London Pub Theatres website

Writer

Alison Viña

Alison Viña has worked as a writer for many years, writing everything from comic strips to biographies. In 2023, she wrote her first full-length play, EMU, a dark fairy tale about a lonely scientist. Since then, Alison has written several shorts, including a monologue called The Beat, which was performed in February with Pathway Theatre. Alison enjoys writing small stories with big themes and, like her character in EMU, tries not to be too Earth-centric.

Writers/Performers

Girls on Fire Theatre Company

Girls on Fire Theatre Company is made up of Ellie Grace (She/Her), Lily Sitzia (She/Her), and Emma Graveling (She/Her). 

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Ellie, Lily and Emma met whilst studying at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where they began to develop a short film Ellie had made, into a staged production. Girls on Fire is a culmination of the girls' interests, skills and acting styles, alongside their desire to produce historical biopics that challenge and highlight the bravery and resilience of women in history.

Writer

Joyce Mulvey

Joyce Mulvey is very pleased to be working with the New Work at the Ritzy team at this event. Her one act play, Bertha and Hal, had its debut at the Tower Theatre, Stoke Newington, in March this year,  and is available at Lazybeescripts.co.uk.

Producer/Emcee

Zoë Maltby

Zoë is a writer, director, and actor based in London and NYC. Most recently, her podcast Bear Lake debuted on all streaming platforms. Her screenwriting work has also been recognized by the HamptonsFilm Screenwriters Lab, Cinequest, The Chain Film Festival, FilmQuest, and the Inroads Fellowship. 

Playwriting credits include The Factory (The Ugly Radio), my parents are here tonight (Access Theatre), Reunion (Off With Her Head Productions), and Oh Dracula, My Dracula (Hatchlings NYC). Acting credits include Innocent or Otherwise (LA Comedy Film Festival, Lighthouse Independent Film Festival), Cross Country (New York Short Film Festival), Romeo and Juliet (Rabid Bat Theatre Company),  The Great Parade of Upper Kennington (dir. Madeline Foster Bersin), and Mum, Mummy, Mother (Camden Fringe). ​