Madeline Boughton has worked with a range of arts organisations including the National Theatre (Abbey and Peacock theatres), Project Arts Centre, Dublin Theatre Festival and Dance Council of Ireland.
She was a board member and former joint artistic director of Dublin Youth Theatre and chairperson of Pan Pan Theatre Company from 2001 to 2003 and sits on the editorial board of the National Association of Youth Drama's publication, Youth Drama Ireland.
John Fairleigh is honorary director of the Stewart Parker Trust for the encouragement of new playwrights in Ireland, and honorary director of the Ireland Romania Cultural Foundation. He is editor of two Methuen anthologies of Irish plays, Far From the Land (1998) and The Tiger in Winter (2006). He is a former member of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and a former shareholder of the Abbey Theatre.
Christopher Fitz-Simon was artistic director of the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, the Irish Theatre Company, and the National Theatre (Abbey and Peacock) where he has also been script editor and literary manager. For over 12 years he worked in RTÉ as a TV drama director. He is the author of many broadcast plays as well as a biography of Micheál MacLiammoir and Hilton Edwards and The Abbey Theatre: the first hundred years.