Yusra Warsama

Yusra Warsama is an actor, writer and theatre practitioner. She began her theatre career at Contact, Manchester, whilst studying Criminology and Sociology. She has collaborated on Don Letts’ Speakers’ Corner, a spoken word theatre piece. She has toured her poetry nationally and was part of a national poetry residency Incubate, which resulted in a collaborative work in progress piece Three-Way, alongside poet Malika Booker and grime artist R.T. Cora Bissett is an award-winning actor and theatre director, who trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Having worked widely as an actress for 14 years, she attained the Arches Award for Directors in 2009 and devised her debut production Amada which toured nationally. She launched her own company, Pachamama Productions in 2010, for which Roadkill was the flagship production.