Hannah is a director, theatre maker and producer. In 2019 she directed Pinocchio by Sarah Middleton for Nottingham Playhouse. In 2021 Hannah directed Aidy the Awesome commissioned by Curve Leicester which did a digital tour. "Fastmoving & feisty – a comic heroine for girls to emulate"(The Stage) and recently toured across the UK.  In 2021 Hannah was Assistant Director on Beauty and the Beast at Nottingham Playhouse and 2022 was assistant on the 50th anniversary show, 71 Coltman Street at Hull Truck. In 2022 Hannah directed SHEWOLVES by Sarah Middleton which was chosen as one of the Stage's top shows at Edinburgh Fringe. She also directed a new version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Anna Wheatley at the Nottingham Playhouse where she is also an Associate Artist. She is so excited that SHEWOLVES is getting another life!

JOP Arts is a Midlands based producing company supporting Midlands artists in their work. Founded by Nottingham-based producer Jake Orr in 2023 the company’s mission is to: – Elevate Midlands based artists – Give priority to marginalised voices. – Be bold. Be brave. Be brilliantly queer. – Place community and place within all the art we undertake. – Always be transparent, always to be kind and always to have fun whilst making great art happen. JOP Arts has recently produced the national tour of SHEWOLVES (Apr-May ’23) and Welcome To You (R&D) by Nottingham based Modern Ritual Theatre. JOP Arts currently supports Nottingham based fringe venue Nonsuch Studios to programme their studio space and to fundraise for their core activity. Other fundraising includes Hereford based 2Faced Theatre Company. www.jop-arts.co.uk

Charlotte is a London-based set and costume designer, she is a graduate of the design course at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia. Recent design credits include: The Marriage of Figaro (Waterperry Opera Festival), Girl on the Train (Barn Theatre), The Cunning Little Vixen (Hampstead Garden Opera), 4 Walls (Derby Theatre), SHEWOLVES (Touring production), The Seagull (Dramaten - Royal Dramatic Theatre Sweden), MAGDALENE (Arcola Theatre), The Moors (LAMDA), Three Sisters (LAMDA), Silk Moth (Arcola Theatre), What Fatima Did... (Derby Theatre), The Shy Manifesto (UK Studio Tour). Associate credits include: Rockets and Blue Lights (National Theatre), Jenufa (Royal Opera House), Sweeney Todd (Zurich Opera House), Madama Butterfly (Bregenzer Festspiele), Wings (The Young Vic).

Anna is thrilled to be working as Lighting Designer on SHEWOLVES. As a native Midlander, she is beyond happy to be involved with a tour where the tea is made properly, none of that weak southern nonsense!

Previous Lighting Design credits include; A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Avondale Theatre; VESSEL UK Tour; COPACABANA Avondale Theatre; THE STRANGE CASE OF JEKYLL & HYDE UK Tour; A STRANGE BIT OF HISTORY UK Tour; GIVING UP MARTY Vaults; FANNY A NEW MUSICHALL Vaults; SNOW WHITE Leicester Square Theatre; SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS Bradford Alhambra (Associate LD to Matt Clutterham); ALBION IN FLAMES Union Theatre; THE LION, THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE Garrick; THE RE-BIRTH OF MEADOW RAIN Edinburgh; POPS Edinburgh; FLINCH The Old Red Lion; EMILIA Vaudeville (Associate LD to Zoe Spurr); HEART The Vaults; TIM VINE: SUNSET MILK IDIOT Hammersmith Apollo; SARA PASCOE: LADS LADS LADS Wyndham’s; ONE MAN TWO GUVNORS Lichfield Garrick; ONCE UPON A MATTRESS Lichfield Garrick.

Ellie Isherwood is a sound designer, composer, actor/musician and synth-pop artist (BYFYN). Her "quietly ground breaking" work spans a vast array of forms, from site specific theatre, to binaural audio experiences. Recent work includes composition for the stage adaptation of Lemony Snickett's The Dark. Recent theatre includes Lemony Snickett’s The Dark (composer and performed the role of “The Dark”, Southbank Centre followed by U.K. Tour); Rapture(composer and sound designer, The Pleasance and Vault Festival); Savage Heart, (sound designer, The Pleasance followed by U.K. Tour) and Heroin to Hero (composer and sound designer, Army at The Edinburgh Fringe).  As associate sound designer: A Dead Body In Taos (Wilton’s Musical Hall and Bristol Old Vic); We're All Doomed (London Palladium) and Listen To The Great Hall (Two Temple Place). Other: Audiomoves at London Zoo (composer and sound designer, ZSL podcast series) and Thorpe Park Survival Games Maze (composer).

Tilly Branson is a director, dramaturg, theatre-maker and creative producer with a particular interest in new writing and women's voices. Directing includes GAZE by S. L. Page (Northern Stage); PEPPER AND HONEY by Kristina Gavran (Notnow Collective), THINK OF ENGLAND AND IT IS NOW by Madeline Gould (Anonymous is a Woman); MAN TO MAN by Manfred Karge (Mercury Theatre Colchester/Park Theatre London); ENTERTAINING ANGELS by Brendan Murray (New Perspectives); and END TO END (The Gramophones). Tilly has worked on scripts in development with writers and theatre-makers including Madeline Gould, Jane Upton, The Gramophones, Ava Hunt, and Kieran Spiers. She has been a judge for playwriting competitions for New Perspectives, Fifth Word and Nottingham Playhouse, and is a script reader for Fifth Word.

Credits include: Cinderella (Harrow Arts Centre), Upswing Aerial, Seasons, Happy’s Circus, Don Giovanni (The Merry Opera Company), Aladdin (Castle Theatre), Reasons to Stay Alive (ETT), Grange International Opera Festival, AniMalcolm (Story Pocket Theatre), The Big Enormous Present (Pied Piper Theatre Company), Pot (Rua Arts), Tiddler and Other Terrific Tales (Freckle Productions), Little Red Riding Hood (Moon on a Stick Theatre Company), Madame Butterfly, Carmen (Broadway Theatre, Peterborough), The Pirates of Penzance (Heritage Opera).

Led by director Hannah Stone and writer Sarah Middleton, SHEWOLVES Productions are based in the Midlands and make new writing that centres women. We work with professionals and communities to create funny, uplifting plays and projects that tell stories about complex women who have agency within their lives.

Hannah Brown is new in the industry after studying and performing in Chapter 4 Youth Theatre until 2017. During this time she appeared in shows such as A Letter to Lacey by Catherine Johnson (2014) as Kara 1, performed at Mansfield Palace Theatre and Sheffield Crucible. Hannah also starred in The Boy Preference by Elinor Cook (2015), I’m Spilling My Heart Out Here by Stacey Gregg (2016), and Zero for the Young Dudes! by Alistair McDowall (2017), all of which performed at Mansfield Palace Theatre and Derby Theatre as a participant of National Connections. Hannah studied Performing Arts at West Nottinghamshire College where she played Lulu in Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and F*cking, Jocasta in Steven Berkoff’s adaptation of Oedipus, and Rudenko in The Grain Store, a hard hitting play about the Holodomor in Ukraine written by Natal'ia Vorozhbit. Since completing her studies, Hannah has worked as stage crew at Mansfield Palace Theatre since 2017 and has recently started an apprenticeship as a Creative Venue Technician within her home theatre. Most recently she has acted as the Trainee Assistant Director on the reboot of SHEWOLVES by Sarah Middleton, directed by Hannah Stone; a new play for teenagers developed with and for young women in 2020 supported by Mansfield Palace Theatre, Derby Theatre and New Art Exchange. She hopes for this to just be the start of a bright future in directing and creating new theatre.

Keeley is a theatre and screen director and performer with a passion for storytelling, new writing, classics reimagined and creating theatrical experiences that can stretch beyond the traditional stage. Her enthusiasm lies with stories with female protagonists or where women have a key role in the story.

Recent credits include, as Director: GLOW Buglight Theatre 2022, SCRIPTWORKS Cast Doncaster. As Associate Director: THE MIAMI SHOWBAND STORY Grand Opera House/ Gaiety Theatre, GBL Productions. As Assistant Director: FAIRY POPPINS & THE NAUGHTY WINTER GHOST Leeds Playhouse.

Octavia is a performance artist and maker, with a First Class Drama Degree from De Montfort University. She has notably performed in QUEER UPSTAIRS at the Royal Court and starred in Travis Alabanza’s film BURGERZ AND CHIPS. She is Artistic Director of the queer, feminist company Category: Peach. Currently developing POL-SPIRACY, an urgent, roaring new play about Poland, previously performed as part of Barrel Organ’s LIVE Programme and Curve Theatre’s New Work Festival. Her leadership skills are recognised at Nottingham Playhouse, where she is a Lead Practitioner facilitating workshops, Chairing their Youth Board and setting up their Queer Arts Collective.