Marcello Fidelis is a writer and director from João Pessoa, Brazil. He holds a Master’s degree in Film and Creative Media (DBS). In 2025, he wrote, directed, and produced americaNO as his final project — an immersive theatre experience exploring identity, immigration, rights, language, sovereignty, and nationalism.

In theatre, he has worked on The One of Many for the 2024 Five Lamps Festival; as he and Romi Beyroa Rei created a short play about the experiences, emotions, and realities faced by immigrants after moving to a new place; and he performed and collaborated with Rô Cruañas (RatherGather) and Romi Beyroa Rey on Fusion Murga (since 2023), an ever-evolving project addressing the housing crisis, vulture funds, and belonging as an immigrant.

In film, his short works — Go Home (GORM Close-Up Residency Winner 2025), sete, CAFUNÉ, and The Painting (or How to Deal with Your Dog’s Death) — have been shown to audiences in Dublin and beyond, bringing representation and attention to topics not much addressed in Irish media.

M. M. Coelho is a Brazilian–Irish writer working across theatre, fiction, and film. Her work explores grief, migration, and spirituality in women’s interior lives. She holds a BA in History and an MA in Creative Writing, and her work has been presented and published internationally.

Tierra Porter is a Black American multidisciplined artist based in Ireland, with professional credits including The Gate’s Peter Pan, the Abbey’s The Sugar Wife, The Jesus Trilogy at Dublin Theatre Festival, LemonSoap’s Beards and The Lesbian Revue of World History, THISISPOPBABY’s Octopus Children, and Bucking Fastard. A First Class Honours graduate of The Lir Academy, her training credits include Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Winter’s Tale, Bulrusher, Untitled, and The Sugar Wife. She previously toured internationally with Missoula Children’s Theatre and performed in Little Shop of Horrors, Footloose, and Sister Act. She is now developing new work across stage and screen.

Dafe Orugbo is an award-winning artist and board member of the Performing Arts Forum. This year, he was selected for the Abbey’s prestigious Box of Tricks program. His was one of the 10 scripts selected out of 250 applicants. That same script (Am I The A**hole?) premiered at this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival, supported by Fishamble, where it was met with a sold-out run in Smock Alley’s main space.

Additionally, Dafe has gained international recognition as part of the hip-hop duo Tebi Rex, with whom he has toured Ireland, the UK, and Europe. He is particularly interested in art that centres on the audience’s experience. He writes on topics ranging from modern-day Ireland to Greek mythology and is an experienced public speaker, live performer, writer, spoken word artist and theatre maker. He holds an MA in Critical &a Creative Media, which saw him create a groundbreaking documentary on Irish subcultures and has since become a leading cultural commentator and a respected mentor to young people.