Sasha Wilson is an LAMDA-trained actor, musician and writer. She founded Out Of The Forest Theatre in 2017 and has been creating historically driven feminist work that sometimes ventures in to the macabre. She served as a judge at the London Horror Festival’s 10th Anniversary Playwriting Competition and as a panelist on Creating Dread at Bloomsbury Publishing. She has won numerous awards including an Offie in 2019 for Best Ensemble in Bury The Hatchet and the Broadway World Best Actress Award in 2018 for her performance as Juliet in Southwest Shakespeare Company’s Romeo and Juliet. She teaches workshop series in taking a historical idea from inspiration to draft both online through Parts of the Main and in person at Rose Bruford.

David Leopold trained at LAMDA. Upon graduating, he was selected for the Graduate Actors Scheme at the Leeds Playhouse. Theatre credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in the Squares), Late Company (Trafalgar Studios/ Finborough Theatre); Soho Young Playwrights (Soho Theatre); Muted (The Bunker Theatre); Burnt Part Boys (Park Theatre); Little Sure Shot (The Egg Theatre, Bath); Uncle Vanya (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Polar Bears (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and The Crucible (West Yorkshire Playhouse). For the company; Louisa, Jo (& Me) (Golden Goose) The Brief Life and Mysterious Death Of Boris III; King of Bulgaria (VAULT Festival) Off West End Award Winner for Best Ensemble Bury The Hatchet (Hope Theatre)

He is also a singer/songwriter who has recently played the 02 Academy Islington, London. Listen to his EP Lost on Abbotswood on Spotify

Joseph Cullen is a freelance writer-performer and producer based in Somerset. He works freelance as Producer for Wassail Theatre and Somerset Youth Theatre CIC. Joseph sits on the board of Theatre Orchard based in Weston-super-Mare. He is currently working on reopening The Town Tree Nature Reserve in Martock, Somerset.

As an actor Joseph recently won Best Actor for short film 'Bath' at the Revolution Film Festival in America. Joseph has worked regularly with companies including Myriad & Co., Teatro Vivo and Les Enfants Terribles. Joseph has also led workshops on behalf of Les Enfants for the Pauline Quirke Academy, and is running Producing workshops for Somerset People's Theatre. He is a proud advocate of the West Country and a champion of people who hail from working class backgrounds in rural communities.

As well as writing for Out of The Forest Theatre, Joseph has written two other plays; 'Gentle Tim' and 'The Lock In', both of which have won Festival Spirit Awards at VAULT Festival in London. Joseph's one-man comedy show 'You Having Olaf?' won him a Best Newcomer Award at VAULT Festival 2017.

Claire Gilbert is an international theatre producer based in Essex. Alongside Out of The Forest Theatre she produces for:

British Romanian political collective BEZNA Theatre

Women & Homelessness project In Her Strength
Bulgarian activist & theatre maker Lora Krasteva

as well as having worked for Cardboard Citizens, Good Chance Theatre, Deafinitely Theatre & Complicite amongs others.

She is supported by Stage One Producers scheme.