Robert David MacDonald (1929–2004) was born in Elgin, Scotland. After originally training as a musician, he worked as a Director, Playwright and Translator. As an Assistant Director, he worked at both the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and for the Royal Opera House. In 1971, he became Co-Artistic Director of the Glasgow Citizens Theatre, where he directed fifty plays and wrote fifteen for the venue before his retirement in 2003. The plays that he wrote for the Glasgow Citz include The De Sade Show (1975), Chinchilla (1977), Summit Conference (1978), also seen in the West End with Glenda Jackson and Gary Oldman, A Waste of Time (1980), Don Juan (1980), Webster (1983), Britannicus (2002) and Cheri (2003). As a translator, MacDonald translated over seventy different plays and opera from over ten different languages including The Threepenny Opera, Tamerlano, Die Entf�hrung aus dem Serail, The Marriage of Figaro, Orpheus and The Human Voice, Conversation at Night, Shadow of Angels, The Balcony, The Government Inspector, Tasso, Faust I and II, Ibsen’s Brand and Hedda Gabler, Lermontov's Maskerade, Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, Moli�re's School for Wives and Don Juan, Pirandello's Enrico Four, Racine's Ph�dre, Schiller's Mary Stuart, The Maid of Orleans and Don Carlos, Chekhov's The Seagull, Verne's Around the World In Eighty Days, Wedekind's Lulu and Goethe’s Clavigo. His adaptation of War and Peace ran for two seasons on Broadway and received an Emmy award when shown on U.S television. The Finborough Theatre has previously presented Robert David MacDonald’s versions of Rolf Hochhuth’s Soldiers (2004) and The Representative (2006)�

Gwen MacKeith is a translator of theatre, fiction and poetry. She has acted as research associate for the AHRC-funded project, Out of the Wings: Spanish and Spanish American Theatres in Translation (www.outofthewings.org) since 2008. Alongside her translation work, she teaches in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at King’s College London.

Iain Finlay MacLeod is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist based on the Isle of Lewis. Alongside his work as a writer he also works as a director on both single and multi‐camera projects. Iain also collaborated on the multimedia opera St Kilda which was performed in English, French and Gaelic at the Edinburgh International Festival 2009. The production, for which Iain wrote the libretto and wrote and directed the filmed elements was originally performed in June 2007 in six European venues simultaneously, which were linked by live satellite connection with St Kilda. Iain has also written extensively for radio and is currently working on a new commission for the National Theatre of Scotland and writing his fourth novel.

I was a professional actor for many years before moving into theatre administration. I then set up my own theatre company Conspirators' Kitchen which is devoted to producing new writing. I am a recipient of a Stage One New Producers Award.

Mick Mahoney was born in Montreal but has spent most of his life in North London. His stage plays include, 'Friday Nights', 'When your bottle’s gone in S.E.1', 'Up for None', 'Street Trash', 'Fantasy Rounds', 'Shift', 'Swaggers', 'Sacred Heart' and 'Sharow & Yassa'. His writing for film and television includes episodes of London’s Burning (ITV) and Spender (BBC) as well as the full length scripts 'Swaggers', 'Access all areas', 'Only a Fortnight' and 'The Last Resort'.

Abhishek Majumdar is a playwright, theatre director, teacher and actorbased out of Bangalore. He holds Performing Arts Scholarships fromCharles Wallace India Trust, the Inlaks Foundation and the LondonInternational School of Performing Arts. His plays have won the HinduMetroPlus Playwright’s award and the Toto Funds the Arts award andhave been produced in India and England. He is also a part of theInternational Playwright’s residency at the Royal Court London, 2011with his play The Djinns of Eidgah. Rizwaan, his play in English andUrdu was part of the selection for the first festival of contemporaryIndian theatre in Paris. Currently he is the artistic director of the IndianEnsemble Bangalore and also works with the HeadStart Children’srepertory. He is a member of the Young Vic Directors Network, Londonand the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, New York, 2012. His latest workas a director, Gasha (Hindi/Urdu/ Kashmiri), won the best play award atthe META awards in New Delhi 2013.

David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.

Giuseppe Manfridi is one of Italy's leading playwrights, renowned for his Theatre of Excess, through which he explores mundane bourgeois reality by extreme passions and situations.

Wolf Mankowitz (1924-98) was the son of a Russian-Jewish bookseller in the East End of London, a prolific dramatist, journalist, novelist and screenwriter.

Christopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day. He greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was born in the same year as Marlowe and who rose to become the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowe's mysterious early death. Marlowe's plays are known for the use of blank verse, and their overreaching protagonists.