Maxine Peake - Director

Karen Bryson is an actress and producer, known for Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021), Black Narcissus (2020) and White Wall (2020). Karen performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

She was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to Drama. She is an actress in London, England. She has been married to Chris McMahon since April 29, 2011.

Hayley Standing - Writer / Lead Actress

Hayley grew up in Burnley and has since returned to the North. She trained at Manchester Met and began her career in the theatre working in the West End with Sir Ian McKellen, Shakespeare’s Globe and extensively in regional theatre. Hayley then began writing and performing character stand up on the comedy circuit which led onto many TV roles, highlights include a series regular in BBC 2’s HOMETIME and Mrs Patmore’s niece in the final series of DOWNTON ABBEY. Hayley was also a part of Mike Leigh’s film PETERLOO. Hayley took her much anticipated character comedy show ‘Britain’s Youngest Grandma’ to the Edinburgh Festival and was also a semi-finalist in the Funny Women Awards. Hayley has scripts in development with the BBC and CBBC and most recently worked on Katherine Parkinson’s debut play SITTING.

Shakyra Dowling CSA - Producer / Casting Director

Moving into film producing, Shakyra has been working as an Independent Casting Director for over two decades on Sundance, BAFTA, Berlinale and Oscar nominated films.

Shakyra has developed and produced several new writing theatre pieces which showed at Edinburgh Festival, Riverside Studios and Battersea Arts Centre.

She is a voting member of BAFTA, BIFA and Casting Society of America.

Jessica Levick - Producer

Jessica Levick is an independent producer working across fiction & documentary. Her first feature, the critically acclaimed BFI & adidas funded documentary PERSONAL BEST directed by Sam Blair was theatrically released by Verve Pictures in 2012.

A graduate of the NFTS Producing MA, Jessica has worked as an Associate Producer on the low budget feature film LEGACY starring Idris Elba and directed by Thomas Ikimi; and through her production company MAGNIFIED PICTURES, she has produced various award winning music videos and short films, including SATURDAY which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Current development projects include the feature documentary THE WILD ONES for Modern Films directed by Eva Weber & co-produced with Aconite Productions; and a fiction feature entitled THE DIRECTOR directed by Kim Albright and written by Maria Hummer. Jessica is a co-founder of the parents and carers organisation RAISING FILMS.