Ian Rickson was the artistic director of the Royal Court from 1998 to 2006, where he directed The River (also Broadway), Jerusalem (also West End and Broadway), The Winterling, The Night Heron, and Mojo (also Chicago), all by Jez Butterworth; Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen and This Is a Chair by Caryl Churchill; Dublin Carol and The Weir by Conor McPherson (also Dublin, Chicago, West End and Broadway); The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (also Broadway); Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett; Alice Trilogy by Tom Murphy; The Sweetest Swing in Baseball and Boy Gets Girl by Rebecca Gilman; Fallout by Roy Williams; Mouth to Mouth by Kevin Elyot; The Lights by Howard Korder; Pale Horse and Some Voices by Joe Penhall; Ashes and Sand by Judy Upton; and Killers by Adam Pernak.

In the West End, Rickson has directed Uncle Vanya, The Birthday Party, Old Times, Betrayal, and The Children’s Hour (all at the Harold Pinter Theatre); Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Rosmersholm (Duke of York’s Theatre); and at the National Theatre, Translations by Brian Friel, Evening at the Talk House by Wallace Shawn, The Red Lion by Patrick Marber, The Hothouse by Harold Pinter, and The Day I Stood Still by Kevin Elyot. Productions at the Old Vic include Electra by Sophocles. Productions at the Young Vic include The Nest, Now We Are Here, and Hamlet. Productions at the Almeida Theatre include Against by Christopher Shinn and Parlour Song by Jez Butterworth.

Work on-screen includes Fallout (Company Pictures for Channel 4) and Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett (BBC4). Rickson also works with PJ Harvey and Kate Tempest on their music and poetry shows. Rickson has his own podcast, What I Love, for Storyglass.

Michelle Fairley was most recently seen playing the lead roles of Marion Wallace in Gangs of London for HBO/Sky Atlantic and Kerry Stephens in the BAFTA-nominated Responsible Child for the BBC, as well as starring in the BAFTA-nominated short film The Trap, directed by Lena Headey. She began her career in theater with stand-out performances in David Mamet’s Oleanna for the Royal Court, The Weir for the Royal Court and Broadway, and most recently Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre in London, for which she won the Clarence Derwent Award for her performance as Cassius. She was cast in HBO’s Game of Thrones as Catelyn Stark, a role for which she won an IFTA, after the writers saw her play Iago’s wife, Emilia, in Michael Grandage’s production of Othello at the Donmar Warehouse, and she received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Performance in a Supporting Role. Fairley has received critical acclaim for her diverse range of television appearances, including her portrayal of George Best’s mother, Ann, in the BBC drama Best: His Mother’s Son, her role as Dr. Ava Hessington in USA Network’s Suits, and her part as terrorist Margo Al-Harazi in Fox’s 24: Live Another Day. More recently, she has starred opposite Jodie Comer as the formidable Lady Margaret Beaufort in the BBC/Starz adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s The White Princess. Fairley has also appeared in numerous films, including Heart of the Sea and Philomena, and has just finished filming the lead role in the feature Wise Blood, due for release next year.

BAFTA Award-winning actor Toby Jones OBE is known for his roles both in theater and on-screen. He will soon return to BBC Two in the forthcoming compelling new factual drama, Danny Boy, directed by Sam Miller. He returned to the big screen in the critically acclaimed feature film First Cow, directed by Kelly Reichardt, from a screenplay by Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond based on Raymond's novel The Half Life. Additionally, Jones wrote and narrated Marcovaldo for BBC Radio 4.

In 2020, he returned to the stage at The Harold Pinter Theatre in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, to high acclaim. His further notable roles and projects include Don’t Forget The Driver (2019), a series he cowrote for BBC 2, alongside Tim Crouch; Lionsgate’s World War I drama Journey’s End (2017); and ‎Infamous (2006), in which Jones played Truman Capote, for which he won Best British Actor at the London Film Critics Circle Awards. In 2011, he starred in the Oscar-nominated adaptation of John le Carre’s classic crime novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and the year after, he garnered huge critical acclaim for his performance as Alfred Hitchcock in the HBO/BBC television movie The Girl, for which he received BAFTA, Golden Globe and Emmy nominations. That year also saw Jones play the lead in Peter Strickland’s multi-award-winning film Berberian Sound Studio. In 2014, he starred as the lead in the BBC Two BAFTA-winning drama Marvellous, and the following year in Matteo Garrone’s fantasy horror, Tale of Tales.