Chris O’Neill
Chris O’Neill is currently the executive director of the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, a multidisciplinary arts creation and education facility in Nova Scotia. She continues her active involvement in the theatre, both as a playwright and as an actress, by touring across Canada and Ireland as an apprentice with various theatres, most often with Two Planks and a Passion Theatre Company since 1992. She lives in rural Nova Scotia with her husband, three children, and their menagerie of animals.

Ken Schwartz
Ken Schwartz is the co-author, with Chris O’Neill, of The Butterbox Babies, Westray: The Long Way Home and Cypher. A graduate from both the technical production and directing programmes at the National Theatre School of Canada, Schwartz is Co-Artistic Director of Two Planks and a Passion Theatre in Canning, Nova Scotia, and is an executive on the Board of Directors of Theatre Nova Scotia.