Kay is a theatre-maker, creative producer, facilitator and activist. She has developed and staged new plays with Paines Plough, Arcola and Theatre Royal Plymouth – most recently Headlong’s tour of ‘A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction’. She has devised and performed new work with Curious Directive, and developed her own one-woman show in response to food systems collapse at Bristol Old Vic Ferment. She played key national and regional roles with Extinction Rebellion between 2018 – 2020 and as a co-founder of Culture Declares Emergency has facilitated assemblies at the Roundhouse, Southbank Centre and Central St Martins for hundreds of artists and cultural organisations, produced festivals and rallies. She is co-founding director of Letters to the Earth, an award-winning campaign and book which she is now developing for the stage.

Lucy is a creative producer of arts and culture events around the UK, based in Norwich. Her driving passion is developing opportunities for telling stories with grit and bite.

She is particularly interested in giving a voice to groups and individuals who find themselves at the margins of society and in highlighting urgent issues for society as a whole. Recent work includes MUCK at the Park Theatre, London, DIRT which toured regionally and ongoing projects: True Stories Live and A Respectful Conversation. Lucy is also an Associate Producer and artist at Norwich Arts Centre.

Rupert is Emeritus Prof. of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, a former spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion and Co-Director of the Climate Majority Project. He is the author of several books, including This Civilisation is Finished (2019) and Parents for a Future (2021). His latest book, Why Climate Breakdown Matters, was published by Bloomsbury. The three scenarios that open Dr Read's book ‘This Civilisation is Finished’ are the academic inspiration behind the three playlets formula of Phoenix, Dodo, Butterfly.

Steve is one of the UK's leading playwrights and seen as a pioneer of drama about the climate crisis, through his acclaimed double-bill of plays The Contingency Plan (revived in 2022 at Sheffield Theatres) and his pioneering four part radio drama about conservation Song of the Reed starring Mark Rylance; other plays include Temple (2015) and Limehouse (2017) both for the Donmar Warehouse.

Molly-Rose is an actor, writer and comedian. She studied scriptwriting and performance at The University of East Anglia before training at Drama Centre London. Since then, Molly-Rose has performed at The Young Vic, The Shaftesbury Theatre and most recently in the sell-out London run of Offie nominated 'My First Time Was In A Car Park' at The Hope Theatre. Molly-Rose is also a comedian, regularly appearing on the comedy YouTube show No Rolls Barred, as well as frequently touring with Make It Beautiful Theatre Company in their long-form comedy improvisational show, The Dream Machine.

Katie is an actor and playwright based in Norwich. She has appeared in Steve Waters’ Phoenix, Dodo, Butterfly and Voices From the Reeds, as well as the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Henry VI: Rebellion. Katie grew up in Swindon and settled in Norwich after studying Scriptwriting & Performance at UEA. She is currently developing a new stage play with Menagerie Young Writer's Workshop at Cambridge Junction.

A teacher of acting and directing at the University of East Anglia, Mike trained as an actor and worked from 1989 in regional and touring productions, the National Theatre and the West End. He appeared in Steve Waters’ Brexit play 48/52 in Norwich and Cambridge in 2019, and in Phoenix, Dodo, Butterfly at the Norwich Arts Centre in 2022. In London, Mike was Artistic Director of Fer’vent Theatre and in Germany founded his studio, Actors-Space Berlin. Mike has worked at Drama Schools in London, in Europe and in the US, and was Vice-Chair of the Actors Centre, where he also taught for many years.

Caroline is an actor, director and theatre maker. She has been an associate artist with Menagerie theatre company for over twenty years bringing new writing to theatrical fruition. She is passionate about exploring new methodologies around devising and playing with the parameters of engagement with an audience. As well as traditional theatre, Caroline works extensively with organisations as a communication skills trainer, exploring the ways theatrical techniques can bring about personal, team and social transformation and is an associate of The Møller Institute, Churchill College, Cambridge. Acting credits include: Splinter (Brockley Jack. Colchester Mercury), Bliss (Finborough Theatre); Phenomenon (Hotbed); The Great Austerity Debate (Menagerie, National Tour); What country friends is this (Hotbed Festival); The Summer Before Everything (Oxford Playhouse); Pictures of You (Soho Theatre); A Workhouse

Christmas (Jumped Up Theatre); Let Newton Be (Menagerie); Four for

Jericho (The Junction); Stand By Your Van (Pleasance Grand); A Sudden Visitation of Calamity (Hotbed); Frobisher’s Gold (The

Shaw); Stormin’ Jack Norman (Theatre 503); Michelle and The Landlady (Pleasance); Motherf**ker Island, In the White Highlands (Drama Centre); Blagger (Teatro Piccolo); Peer Gynt (Wakfield Opera House); White Nights (The Spot, Covent Garden).

Lucinda is a versatile theatre professional, artist and mentor based in Norwich. Since moving to freelancing in 2019 she has worked as a production manager, company stage manager and lighting designer for companies such as Face Front inclusive theatre, Norwich Puppet Theatre, Norwich Arts Centre, Limbik Theatre, Flight of the Escales, Finding Magic and Curious Directive.

Tom  presents the investigations on BBC’s Countryfile and The Climate Show on Sky News. On the radio he is the co-presenter of the new Radio 4 flagship environment and wildlife series ‘Rare Earth’. He has reported for Panorama on food, farming, energy and wildlife. For nearly 20 years he was in daily news, ending up as a Science, Environment and Rural Affairs correspondent. When not working he likes to watch films, ride bikes, chop wood and grow chillies.

Charlotte is a writer, editor and co-director of the Dark Mountain Project. She also teaches creative non-fiction and ancestral kinship with the more-than-human world. In the last decade she co-founded several collaborative writing projects to foster radical cultural change, including the grassroots newspaper, Transition Free Press and edited Playing for Time – Making Art as if the World Mattered (with author Lucy Neal), a handbook about community arts practice (Oberon Books). Her most recent book is a collection of essays on myth and memoir, After Ithaca –Journeys in Deep Time.

Patrick is an award-winning author and Natural History Writer for The Guardian. His books include The Butterfly Isles, Badgerlands, Islander and Wild Child. He has edited an anthology of British and Irish nature writing, The Wild Isles, and his latest book, The Swimmer, is a biography of the writer Roger Deakin. He is President of Norfolk Wildlife Trust, leads butterfly tours on the Norfolk Broads and lives in Norfolk with his family.

Chloe is a storyteller, a community organiser and a yurt-dweller. Her work is
fuelled by the power of stories to connect, engage and move people to make the change they want to see in the world. Her storytelling is influenced by and part of her engagement with climate and social activism. Her latest play 'Spring and Other Things' is due for production at the Norwich Arts Centre in June.

Jon is a singer, teacher, and composer who has written extensively for TV, radio, and theatre. He was a founder member of Innererklang Music Theatre with director Sean Doran and performed lead roles in UK tours of works by Peter Maxwell Davies, Hans Werner Henze, Luciano Berio and Trevor Wishart. Recently, he played the voice of the artist Egon Schiele in a collaboration with the composer Orlando Gough and the choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh for the ‘Staging Schiele’ UK tour. 

He has collaborated with artists and composers including Arve Henriksen, Jan Bang, Barbara Thompson, Jon Hassell, Andy Sheppard, Nik Bärtsch, Gwilym Simcock, Steve Beresford, Helen Chadwick, Orlando Gough, BJ Cole and Van Dyke Parks.

He is a founder member of The Neutrinos with whom he has recorded four albums, touring throughout Europe and North America and KlangHaus, an award-winning immersive performance project producing over ninety shows at London’s Royal Festival Hall.

George is a freelance creative designer based in Norwich, UK. With over 12 years industry experience working across branding, print communications editorial and packaging. She uses conceptual thinking to produce a diverse range of work, helping clients communicate and engage effectively with their audiences.Throughout her career she has predominantly worked with housing, healthcare, education, the arts, food production and third sector clients. George also lectures on the Graphic Communication BA at Norwich University of the Arts and in her spare time she is a beekeeper, ceramicist and allotment holder. 

Year 2 students on BA (Hons) Interior Design at Norwich University of the Arts worked with the producers of Phoenix Dodo Butterfly to provide design ideas – conceptually, aesthetically, and
materially – for a sustainable, scalable, and transportable theatre set. The world in these plays is on the brink of change; nothing is certain; the future remains ‘unwritten’ and these themes are captured in the design.

An award-winning photographer, Anita

specialises in working within arts and culture, education and change focused organisations and uses visual arts in her socially engaged work. Her extensive experience allow her images to capture the energy and emotions of the people that she so loves to work with. Her documentary and portrait photography is not only a record of an event but an emotive insight resulting in diverse and stunning work.

Maxine has worked as a sign language interpreter for thirty plus years in a variety of domains and in recent years has been increasingly drawn to theatre interpreting. She lives north of Norwich in the middle of not very much and is currently studying the Creative Writing MA at UEA.

An experienced local and regional journalist, Tara specialises in climate, nature and human interest issues. After leaving the Eastern Daily Press in 2014, she now works as freelance journalist and researcher. She is based in Norwich.

Born in Norwich and raised in a photography studio. For the last ten years Joe has been filming across the country with international brands from Aviva and Google to Phillips and Canon.

He heads up his own commercial and documentary video productions, from initial contact and brief, through development and production to final delivery.

Jake Fiennes is Head of Conservation for the 25,000 acre Holkham Estate in North Norfolk. With a thirty-year career in land management his advice is sought after by key players in conservation and agriculture - including the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the NFU, the Prince of Wales, the National Trust, the RSPB, Natural England, amongst others. Previously, Fiennes worked at the Raveningham and Knepp Castle Estates building up extensive experience and an understanding of hoe farming impacts our natural environments, and how with the right approach we can rebuild biodiversity while still producing food.

Sabine is the coordinator of Sustainable Food Norwich, a partnership formed in 2023 to localise our food system in a way that cares for everyone, including our planet. Through this work, Sabine is exploring how farming in harmony with nature can help restore essential Earth systems while also providing safe, nutritious food for all. Her blog posts for Norwich FarmShare highlight sessions from the Oxford Real Farming Conference, which connects people who want to transform our food and farming systems for a better world.

Sabine also helps steward the global community of Convergent Facilitation, an approach to integrative decision-making designed to build trust across differences, resulting in decisions that work for everyone.

Jessica is a Canadian interdisciplinary Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar at the University of East Anglia under the Critical Decade for Climate Change programme. She is also associated with the NERC-funded ARIES Doctoral Training Partnership and is an Early Careers member of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

Jessica holds a BA Honours in Law from Carleton University (2018) and an MSc in Climate Change, Development, and Policy from the University of Sussex / Institute of Development Studies (2020). Her PhD, titled 'Soil Salvation: The Critical Decade for Soil Carbon' centers on the barriers and opportunities Norfolk farmers face in 'carbon farming' - practices aimed at stewarding the soil in a way that enhances carbon content. She deploys mixed methods approaches (e.g., soil sampling and laboratory assessments, walk-and-talk interviewing with farmers and policy analysis) but is particularly fascinated by the social science dimensions of her project, exploring  how Norfolk farmers make soil-management decisions/choices and the myriad of factors influencing these choices as per unique farm circumstance.

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Adrienne Gordon runs Sweetpea Market Garden - a 3 acre horticulture project producing salads, microgreens, edible flowers and seasonal veg. Sweetpea focuses on quality, flavour and suitability to the local climate. They work with mainly hand tools, centering soil health and biodiversity in all practices. In 2024, Sweetpea achieved Organic certification through the Soil Association.

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