(UK, 1978), is a singer/songwriter, theatre professional, chansonnière, actor, performer, producer and house artist at the Royal Carré Theatre. Wende uses her position to create challenging and groundbreaking projects in which language, technology and genre play different and surprising roles. Her project MENS, for example, is a raw and controversial snapshot of an era featuring electro beats and frank, fragile songs. She has performed at festivals including Down the Rabbit Hole and Into the Great Wide Open. In 2018 she won awards including the Annie M.G. Schmidt Prize and the BUMA NL Award. She and Ramsey Nasr will play the leads in the film verson of Connie Palmen's novel I.M., which will be aired in the spring of 2020. She's currently collaborating with the London Royal Court Theatre on her new show, The Song Project (working title), premiering in 2020.

(South Africa, 1952) is a poet, writer, academic and a cherished reciter. Her book Country of My Skull (2000, adapted for film in 2004) is a personal account of the proceedings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She published her autobiographical memoirs as A Change of Tongue (2003). Krog has won many prizes, including the Hertzog prize in South Africa and the 2018 Gouden Ganzenveer in the Netherlands. An anthology of her poetry was published in Dutch in 2010, titled Hoe zeg je dat (How Do You Say That), and Begging to be Black, the sequel to Country of My Skull and A Change of Tongue.

(South Africa, 1974) is the son of the writer and poet Antjie Krog. He studied architecture at the University of Cape Town and has worked in Tel Aviv and New York. He writes poems in which architecture plays an important role. Both the design and the construction of buildings fascinate him in his debut Wanpraktyk (Bad Practice). Samuel looks at human beings with the eye of the architect. In short: we have to work at ourselves constantly in order to survive in a world full of cruelty. Samuel's debut was praised in South Africa and shortlisted for the Ingrid Jonker Booker Prize for best poetry debut. In addition to working as an architect he also writes and translates. Andries Samuel is divorced with his ex-wife and daughter living in Tel Aviv. The first part of his book of poetry is dedicated to missing his daughter, who is growing up elsewhere.

(Amsterdam, 1981) - writer, poet, and journalist – gained attention in 2009 with her first poetry collection Als Mozes had doorgevraagd. In 2012, her debut novel De laatste Aedema was published. In her work, she explores how we can think differently about ourselves and the world. Since 2019, she has written about how space can help us see the Earth from a new perspective, in a.o. her essay Wat is ruimte waard. The theatre play based on this book, Maankoorts, premiered in June 2024. Since 2019, Van Heemstra has been a space correspondent at De Correspondent. She creates podcasts (including Sør, Stadsastronaut en Als geschiedenis in je opstaat) and recently conducted research on the value of the night. In 2025 she performs her stage play Observaties van een theaterrat.