Mayra Stergiou (She/her) is a Greek queer Performer, Director and Dramatherapist. Her performance practice is strongly movement based, scenography led and experimental. She trained in Lecoq Devised Theatre and Performance at London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA) and in Dramatherapy at University of Derby (MA). Over the years she has performed and directed Physical Theatre plays, opera and new music pieces in various theatres and festivals across UK and internationally. In 2013 she co founded Visual and Physical Theatre company, Vertebra Theatre, where she is the Artistic Director since. She has trained in a variety of Physical and Ritualistic Theatre Practices such as Theodoros Terzopoulos Method, Voice Coordination with Grzegorz Bral (Song of the Goat), in Martial Arts and Contact Improvisation. She is currently an Associate Lecturer at MSc Creative Computing at University of the Arts and she has taught workshops on Puppetry, Embodiment and Mask Work at various institutions such as MFA Scenography at RCSSD and University of Roehampton. She is currently undertaking an Mphil in Performance Practice at Guildhall School of Music and Drama researching staging trauma through embodied materiality.

Nela Fortunato (she-they) is an Argentine performer-director-writer-producer-facilitator. Member of the company UEA (immersive, site-specific performance). A graduate of Andamio90, she specialized in physical theatre and masks at LISPA: London International School of Performing Arts, with a full course scholarship. Also trained in dance & clown, Nela researches movement dynamics and stages them in various formats: plays, installations, festivals; as well as she teaches and tutors creative processes. In 2023 she performed A curious voyage, with the Canadian company Talk is free; El Partidito and Usted Está Aquí 10 años, in Buenos Aires. She ran a second season of their play SOPA (author/director/producer), which toured whithin Argentina, where she taught their intensive course Dramaturgia de los cuerpos. They produced the play Diosa, by transgender artist Ambar Vega and Paula Baró; was part of FIBA, Buenos Aires International Theatre Festival, in many editions: producing Desvío Este (Germany), assisting Chilean play Reminiscencias, and Scottish artist Claire Cunningham with Give me a reason to live. In 2021 she presented Curandera at the Mucho Gustok Festival, in Villa Meliquina and taught multidisciplinary workshops in Villa La Angostura. In 2020, she created the online-theatre piece Latitude Solitude (author/performer) selected by the AFO theater in New York, for AFO Solo Shorts, nominated for the Drama League Awards 2021. In 2019, she created the performance Syris for Luna de Cortos short film festival (Spain) and presented their interactive piece A la Carte at Casa Brandon Bs As & Post, London, UK. Right now they are about to lead an Exploration on SOPA, in Lalaspiti, Athens, and will be teaching in Timbre4 Madrid in March 2024.