Amanda has been working in the field of applied and socially engaged theatre for over 25 years. She currently works at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (UK) where she is currently a Reader and previously the course leader for the BA (Hons) Writing for Performance course. Amanda’s research focuses on verbatim and testimonial practices, socially engaged theatre, and the relationship between care ethics and performance. She has published two books, Performing Care: New Perspectives on Socially Engaged Theatre (co-editor, James Thompson, (Manchester University Press 2020) and Performing the Testimonial: Rethinking Verbatim Dramaturgies (Manchester University Press 2020). Following a collaboration with Mosac and Little Fish Theatre, Amanda also wrote From the Mouths of Mothers (2013) a verbatim play that explores child sexual abuse from the non-abusing mother’s perspective.

Kate has worked in applied and socially engaged theatre since 2012, and her work focuses on refugee youth communities. In 2015, she co-founded Phosphoros, a refugee theatre company and charity that creates nationally touring and community based performance with refugees and asylum seekers aged 16-25. She remains a Co-Artistic Director and oversees the company’s community engagement work. Kate did her MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies at SOAS (UK), and recently completed her practice research PhD at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (UK), exploring how performance making with refugee young people can expose and establish interconnected care. She also regularly guest lectures on topics relating to applied theatre, facilitation and refugee theatre. Prior to starting her PhD, Kate worked at a grassroots Afghan refugee charity, managing housing and wellbeing projects for unaccompanied minors. Kate is excited to be extending her research with young people through the Credible Witnesses project.

Little Fish Theatre supports underserved young people through the transformative experience of theatre and community arts. Its work is designed to enable young people to question their aspirations and beliefs, empowering them to develop both their social and personal life skills. Participants are inspired to become cultural consumers or creators, actively shaping a new social and political landscape.

As a theatre company and charity, Little Fish is ambitious in building progressive partnerships with emerging artists and local communities to deliver a wide range of applied theatre projects and new touring productions.

Little Fish’s Artistic Co-Directors, Suha Al-Khayyat and Alex Cooke, have co-produced the project’s strategy, workshop programme, and events for professionals. They have directed and co-produced the touring performance of Credible Witnesses.

Facilitators, Aaron Cadogan and Elle De Chastelain-Delaney, designed and delivered workshops in schools in London as part of the play creation process.

Oldham Theatre Workshop is a leading theatre and performing arts organisation that nurtures creative expression, personal well-being and skills development, engaging thousands of young people (aged 6- 25) and adults from across Oldham’s communities every year.

Established in 1968 as one of the country’s first youth and community theatre organisations, Oldham Theatre Workshop seeks out, supports and champions creatives, performers, theatre technicians, and young cultural leaders. 

Oldham Theatre Workshop works closely with a range of partners to create performance experiences that change lives and inspire change in communities. 

Applied Theatre Practitioner Craig Harris has co-produced the project’s strategy, workshop programme and events for professionals. He has co-produced the Oldham leg of the tour of ‘Credible Witnesses’.

Facilitators Faz Shah, Sophie Ellicot, Megan Hickie and Kyia Kulczyzki Binall worked with Craig to design and deliver workshops in Oldham as part of the play creation process.

Farah is an award-winning playwright and alumna of BA Writing for Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (UK). She has participated in the Royal Court Writer's Group and Soho Theatre Writer's Lab, where she wrote her play, Dirty Dogs. This play won the 2020 Tony Craze Award, presented by Soho Theatre, and was longlisted for the 2022 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. Her latest play, MAGGOTS, which premiered at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre in 2024 and received a London Pub Theatres Standing Ovation Award nomination, is currently in further development. Farah wrote the script for Credible Witnesses the play.

Miranda Fricker is the Julius Silver Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the New York Institute for Philosophy (US), FBA FAAS. She previously taught at Birkbeck, University of London (UK), for many years, and at the University of Sheffield (UK), where she continues to have a treasured association as an Honorary Professor. Most relevantly to the Credible Witnesses project, she is the author of Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007). Miranda has a long-standing personal interest in the possibilities of different sorts of texts and genres that philosophy might inhabit, which has recently led her to write a play, Short Lease: A Philosophy.

David is Professor of Criminology at the University of Manchester (UK). David has over 25 years experience of conducting and analysing in-depth interview research with offenders, and has written extensively on the subjects of domestic abuse, masculinities and crime, racial harassment, and human trafficking. He has a particular interest in how the ways in which we respond to victims and perpetrators in the aftermath of violence and how responses shape our narratives. This informs his interest in the Credible Witnesses project.

Maurice Hamington is Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Faculty of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Portland State University (US). He writes about the theory and application of feminist care ethics with a particular interest in embodiment, performance, and aesthetics. His latest book, Revolutionary Care: Commitment and Ethos (Routledge, 2024), argues that we need a care revolution right now, and you can participate. He is the author of Embodied Care (2004) and co-author of Care Ethics and Poetry (2019) with Ce Rosenow.Hamington edited or co-edited Feminism and Hospitality: Care Ethics, Religion, and Spiritual Traditions (2022), Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity (2021), Care Ethics and Political Theory (2015), Applying Care Ethics to Business (2011), Socializing Care (2006), and Gender in the Host/Guest Relationship (2010).He is excited about the work of the Credible Witnesses research project because it addresses how epistemic injustice hinders our ability to connect with one another. For more information on his scholarly activities, see mhamington.com