Kirby Thompson is an emerging artist and graduate from Queen’s University’s English Literary Studies Masters course in Belfast. She has previously worked on 'OCCUPIED.', a co-written production with Orla Graham which went to Smock Alley's Scene and Heard Festival in Dublin in 2020 and London's FRESH Festival in 2021. Since then, Kirby has been nominated for the Evening Standard’s Future Theatre Fund in the directing category, and has been supported by Dublin Fringe Festival (Artist at Work), The Lyric Belfast and The MAC Belfast (Hatch & Scratch) to continue to develop her skills as a writer, director and producer and support her through the writing and development of 'Float', her first full-length production, co-written with Orla Graham.

Orla is a writer and actor based in Belfast. She trained at the Lir Academy, Dublin and with Tinderbox Theatre Company in their Play Machine course. Orla's recent credits include: Re-Mix (Primecut Productions), Fallen Women (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Two Fingers Up (Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith/Cairns Lecture Theatre, Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Blue Lights (BBC One/Two Cities Television/Gallagher Productions); Heave (DUETS Programme in association with Fishamble, Irish Theatre Institute and Dublin Fringe Festival). 'OCCUPIED.' was Orla's writing debut, a co-written production with Kirby Thompson.

Caoimhe is a freelance theatre maker from Donegal and a graduate of the Drama BA and Arts Management MA at Queen's University, Belfast. She has been working professionally as a stage and production manager since 2019 with the likes of Prime Cut Productions, Terra Nova Productions, Cahoots NI, The Lyric Theatre, 19th Street Productions, Fuel Theatre, Rhiann Jeffrey and Oona Doherty. In 2022 she debuted her self-written, directed and produced show 'Freshers', in collaboration with movement artist Rosie Mullin, for the Scene and Heard Festival in Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre. 'Freshers' was presented again at Féile Bród na Gaeltachta (Gaeltacht Pride Festival) in Donegal in summer 2023, along with a rehearsed reading of a work-in-progress piece, 'Sapphic', also written and directed by Caoimhe. In 2024 she received ACNI SIAP funding to develop ‘Sapphic’ as a full length script. Caoimhe is one of Theatre and Dance NI's INVEST Artists 2023/24, researching dance dramaturgy under the mentorship of Sharon Clark at the Akram Khan Dance Company. Caoimhe co-directed and co-produced the show 'Float', written by Kirby Thompson and Orla Graham, for the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2023, and will take the show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year.