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Sheena Lambert left the glamour of a career in industrial waste management behind when her first novel The Lake was published by HarperCollins in 2015. She is now a fulltime screenwriter, playwright and novelist, writing in both the Irish and English languages. Sheena’s debut feature film, Báite, an adaptation of The Lake, is due for release in 2025. Sheena’s romantic comedy feature Who Do You Think You Are? is in pre-production and her comedy drama feature The Blue Girl is in development with Bend It Films (UK) and Port Pictures (Irl) with Gurinder Chadha attached to direct. Following a hugely successful, sold-out and extended run in 2024, Sheena’s stage play Cosima, based on her Screen Ireland supported feature screenplay of the same name, is scheduled for a 2025 Irish tour with Breda Cashe Productions.

Mary's stage performances have toured Europe, China and the United States. She received Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards with MAMCA, The First Irish Theatre Festival in New York. She has over 60 screen credits. She was nominated for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress at the Irish Film and Television Awards for her role as Janet in Love Hate. Other notable productions include Valhalla, Penny Dreadful, Adam and Paul, The Magdalene Sisters, Dead Still and Let the Wrong One In. She voiced numerous animations and radio plays and she’s the recipient of the Best Actress Award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2023 for her performance in the Pride of Parnell Street, produced by Fishamble Theatre Company. Mary is the director of Visions Drama School in Dublin.

Amy is an established Irish Actress and Writer. She plays the lead role of Aoife Regan in TV series BORDERLINE (Shinawil / MGM+). Other notable TV/Film roles include Sanctuary: A Witches Tale (AMC), Blackshore (RTE/BBC), Apocalypse Clown (Fastnet Films), Line of Duty (BBC) and Small Things Like These (Big Things Films). She has written and performed six different one woman shows internationally and to critical acclaim. Her last theatre show “I See You” was based on the life of a forgotten woman of Irish history, Lady Mary Heath and was inspired by the Herstory Ireland movement.