Mike Donahue's first short film, Troy, premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival and has gone on to screen at another 30 festivals internationally, including the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. It has won a handful of awards, including the Audience Award for Best Narrative Short at Outfest 2022 and the Vimeo 'Unofficial Award' for Best US Narrative Short at Sundance. Mike and writer Jen Silverman are currently working on their first feature, with Pacific Electric producing. For the past decade, Mike has worked as a theater director, primarily in New York and Los Angeles. NYC credits include: world premieres of Matthew López's The Legend of Georgia McBride (MCC, The Geffen and Denver Center, Joe A. Callaway Award, Outer Critics Circle Nomination, Ovation Award Nomination); Jen Silverman’s Collective Rage (MCC, Woolly Mammoth, Drama League Nomination), The Moors (Playwrights Realm – NYC premiere), and Phoebe in Winter (Clubbed Thumb); Ana Nogueira’s Which Way To The Stage (MCC); and Jordan Seavey’s Homos, Or Everyone In America (Labyrinth). Regionally: The LA premiere of Matthew López's The Inheritance (Geffen Playhouse); Little Shop of Horrors with MJ Rodriguez, George Salazar and Amber Riley (Pasadena Playhouse); world premieres of Jen Silverman’s The Roommate (Humana, Williamstown, Long Wharf), Wink (Marin); Rachel Bonds’ Curve of Departure (South Coast Rep, Studio Theater); Matt Schatz's A Wicked Soul In Cherry Hill (Geffen Playhouse); Kate Cortesi’s Love (Marin); the US premiere of Anne Carson’s adaptation of Euripides’ The Bakkhai with original music by Diana Oh (Baltimore Center Stage); and Shostakovich’s Moscow, Cheryomushki in a new libretto by Meg Miroshnik (Chicago Opera Theater). Mike is recipient of a Fulbright to Berlin, the Dramaleague Fall Fellowship, The Boris Sagal Fellowship at Williamstown, and was the artistic director of the Yale Summer Cabaret for two seasons. Mike is a graduate of Harvard University and the Yale School of Drama.

Stephen Daldry is an award-winning theatre, film, and television director, and producer.

He has directed many theatre productions for London's West End and New York's Broadway, including Billy Elliot, The Inheritance, and An Inspector Calls, winning multiple Olivier and Tony awards.

Stephen has directed six feature films which have all been nominated for industry awards. His 2021 film Together, for the BBC, won a BAFTA.

Netflix’s The Crown, winner of 21 Primetime Emmy Awards, which he serves as Executive Producer, is currently in production on its final season with Stephen directing the last episode.

Stephen is Chairman of a refugee arts charity Good Chance, who produced The Jungle and The Walk, which saw a 10ft tall puppet of a Syrian refugee girl, Little Amal, walk from Turkey to Glasgow.