Shaday is a Plymouth-based Performance Artist and Poet. An Activist with a Twist, her work explores themes such as Identity, Vulnerability, Race, Mental health, Nureo-diversity and Climate justice. Performer in Beyond Faces, ‘Roots in Nature’ as part of their collaboration with Greenminds and Most recently a Boat Poet, exploring Biodiversity in collaboration with Greenminds. In recent years She has focused on drawing from her experiences of having Alopecia Universalis, using it as inspiration to create daring, political work that spreads awareness for the community. Shaday performed a segment of her One woman show  ‘UNIVERSALIS’ Supported by Beyond Face CIC, in September 2022 at Devon with Love Festival. Later she received funding from Alopecia UK to continue working on the piece to increase visibility for bald black women in creative spaces and on Stage. Shaday has performed on a range of different projects with organizations across the UK, including Beyond Face, The Barbican Theatre Plymouth, The BBC, Spork! Green Minds, Spork!, Poet in the City, Alopecia UK and Strike a light

Kay is a theatre-maker, facilitator and activist committed to personal and collective transformation. As a director she has developed and staged new plays at theatres including Arcola, Paines Plough and Theatre Royal Plymouth, where she was Resident Assistant Director in 2017. With her company Empty Deck she directed new European writing including the UK premiere of Cosmic Fear or The Day Brad Pitt Got Paranoia by Christian Lollike (New Diorama; Bedlam Theatre), which was shortlisted for the Sustainable Fringe Award, and she wrote and performed Sequel, a one-women show in response to ecological collapse thanks to the MGC Futures Bursary (TRP Lab; Bristol Old Vic Ferment). As a co-founder of Culture Declares Emergency Kay facilitates workshops and Cultural Assemblies for artists, cultural organisations and audiences to come together and respond to the planetary crisis, such as at the Roundhouse, Central St Martins UAL and Southbank Centre, and she has curated rallys and events such as Extinction Underground at VAULTS Festival. Kay is a co-founder and director of the award-winning global participatory campaign Letters to the Earth, for which she co-edited the book Letters to the Earth, Writing to a Planet in Crisis, introduced by Emma Thompson, and which she is now developing for the stage.

Kay is excited to be working with Katie Mitchell once again, having assisted Katie on 2071 at the Royal Court in 2014 in collaboration with climate scientist Dr Chris Rapley – which initiated Kay’s ongoing creative response to the climate and ecological emergency.

Bee Jarvis is a Queer, Autistic; Musician, Writer, Theatre Maker, and Disability Advocate based in Plymouth. From learning the piano as a young child, she has embraced music throughout her life. After initially studying Geography and Ocean Science at The University of Plymouth, she now works completely in the arts. She has most recently featured as Musical Director and Composer in The Choir Musical, and Composer/Co-Lead in With Flying Colours Co-Pilots. Additionally, she is deeply engaged in community outreach in facilitating workshops with Far Flung Dance Theatre, and Theatre Royal Plymouth. She is so excited to start on this new chapter as The Artist For Change; Diversity and Inclusion, as an intersectional interracial autistic artist, she can’t wait to bring her lens of life experience into her professional work. Her current projects aim to encapsulate accessible theatre experiences and intertwine this with light, movement, and music. With her unwavering commitment to empowering voices and championing diversity, Bee is dedicated to creating a more inclusive and vibrant arts community.