Bernardo Cubría is a Mexican writer. For film, he penned the feature screenplay ‘Copa’ that Eva Longoria is set to direct for SONY and Guerrero which Gina Rodriguez is attached to direct and star in with One Community. He is also currently writing the Untitled Juan Gabriel Biopic that Gaz Alazraki is set to direct for Plan B and Maquina Vega. He was a 2023 Sundance Screenwriters Lab fellow for the screenplay Kill Yr Idols which he co-wrote. He was also a writer on Season 3 and 4 of ‘Acapulco’ on Apple +. His play Crabs in a Bucket won the 2024 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Writing. His play The Play You Want premiered at L.A.’s Road Theatre in 2022, garnering Cubría both a Stage Raw Award and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nomination for Playwriting. In 2019, Cubría was nominated for the Ovation, Stage Raw and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Best Playwright awards for his play The Giant Void In My Soul. Other playwriting awards include the Smith Prize for Political Theater. He was a chair for the 2024-2025 Dramatist Guild national playwrights fellows.

Michael John McCarthy is a composer, sound designer and theatre-maker – originally from West Cork, currently based in Glasgow – with credits on over one hundred productions. In recent years he has worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Landmark Theatre, Druid Theatre Company, Trafalgar Theatre, the Young Vic, the National Theatre of Scotland, the Citizens Theatre Glasgow and the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. He is also the musical supervisor and co-sound designer on the Olivier Award winning Pride & Prejudice Sort of, which continues to tour in the UK and internationally. His band Album Club released their debut LP on Last Night From Glasgow in 2022. It spent 6 weeks in the Scottish Albums Top 100 Chart, peaking at #2. He was a member of Zoey Van Goey and Elephant, and has also played and recorded with Air In The Lungs, Aidan Moffat, Trembling Bells & Bonnie Prince Billy, Emma Pollock, Niall Connolly and Alasdair Roberts amongst others. He is the lead artist on Turntable, a participatory arts project produced by Red Bridge Arts, and creator of The Dream Frequencies podcast, produced by the Traverse Theatre.

‘We plan to spend our two weeks at Cove Park working on a treatment – as well as initial scenes and songs – for a play with music that celebrates the overlapping aspects of our respective Mexican and Irish heritages; interrogating the ongoing legacies of political, religious and cultural colonialism through the form of a transatlantic time-travel road trip.’