Lillete Dubey is a renowned award winning Indian film, television and stage actor and a theatre director. Founder and artistic director of The Primetime Theatre Company, her theatrical work has travelled all over the globe and directed 37 plays for the company so far. Her award winning production Dance Like a Man has completed nearly 700 shows worldwide and is the longest running Indian English play.
Ms Dubey has performed in over 75 films and shows, including Monsoon Wedding, Gadar, Baghban, Zubeida, Kal ho na ho, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 1& 2, Indian Summers ( Channel 4 UK), Mumbai Calling (BBC, UK) and most recently the Netflix hit Dabba Cartel, and has acted in over 50 plays from Brecht to the Bard, winning multiple Best Actress awards for her plays and films in National & International Festivals. 
She has been on the jury of several theatre and film competitions, including the Osian Film Festival, the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards, the Sultan Padamsee Playwrighting awards, the TOI AutHer book awards and has curated the theatre section of the Serendipity Arts FestivalShe is currently shooting for a feature film and is touring with her plays including her magnum opus JAYA, a rock musical of the Mahabharata.

Quasar is a theatre-holic. As the Artistic Director of Bombay–based arts management company QTP, he has directed and produced over 25 plays, including Lungs, Every Brilliant Thing, Project S.T.R.I.P. and many others about contemporary social concerns. He is a founding member of Thespo – a youth theatre movement. He is also the Co-Director of Literature Live! who run the The Mumbai International LitFest. When not in a rehearsal room, he can most often be found on the cricket field!

Sankar Venkateswaran is an Indian theatre director. Born in Calicut, Kerala, Venkateswaran studied directing at the School of Drama and Fine Arts, University of Calicut, after which he trained at the Theatre Training and Research Programme (currently Intercultural Theatre Institute) in Singapore. 
In 2007, he founded Theatre Roots & Wings, and directed Richard Murphet’s Quick Death (2007), Sahyande Makan – The Elephant Project (2008), Ohta Shogo’s Water Station (2011), 101 Lullabies (2012), and Henrik Ibsen’s When We Dead Awaken (2012). In 2013 he received the Ibsen Scholarship from Teater Ibsen, Norway, for Tribal Ibsen Project which furthered his work with the indigenous people in Attappadi, Kerala. He also built a theatre in the region, named Sahyande Theatre, and lives and works among the communities. His works have been shown at various venues and festivals including Zurich Theater Spektakel, Spielart Munich, Kyoto Experiment, Zoukak Sidewalks in Beirut, and Theater Commons Tokyo.
Anuradha Kapur is a theatre-maker and teacher. She is the founder-member of Vivadi, a cross-disciplinary group of theatre-makers, visual artists, film-makers, musicians and writers who attempt to connect practice with research in their work. 
Anuradha Kapur taught at the National School of Drama, New Delhi for more than three decades; and was Director of the School from 2007 to 2013. She has also held visiting professorships at Ambedkar University, Delhi, the University of Warwick and the University of Cape Town. She curated the performance window of the exhibit body.city: siting contemporary culture in India at the House of World Cultures, Berlin, in 2003; co-curated the theatre section of the Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa in 2015 and 2016; and was part of the curatorial team of the International Theatre Festival of Kerala (ITFoK), Thrissur in 2017 and 2023. Her book, Actors Pilgrims Kings and Gods: The Ramlila at Ramnagar, was published by Seagull Books, Calcutta (1993, 2004). For her work in the theatre, Anuradha Kapur was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Direction in 2004.  
Mahesh Dattani is a Mumbai-based playwright, stage director,  screenwriter and filmmaker. His published works include Final Solutions and Other Plays, Tara, two volumes of Collected Plays published by Penguin India and most recently Me and My Plays. In 1998, Mahesh Dattani won the prestigious Central Sahitya Akademi Award, the highest award for a literary work in the country. Mahesh is the first playwright writing in English to receive this award. His plays are produced in all the major cities of India and in UK, US, Australia, Sri Lanka, and Dubai. His plays have been translated and performed in Hindi, Gujarati, Nepali, Swedish, German, Japanese and Kannada.
Most notably, his play Dance Like a Man, directed by Lillete Dubey, received 850 performances and continues to tour. His film Mango Souffle, which he wrote and directed was shown in several international festivals, including the London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and was adjudged Best Motion Picture at the Barcelona Film Festival 2003. His film Morning Raga had its international premiere at the Cairo Film Festival and he won the award for Best Artistic Contribution. The script has been archived by The Academy of Motion Pictures, USA.