Sandra is a mother and grandmother. She works for the Pestalozzi village supporting international students. Sandra has an MA in creative writing and is currently working on a comic, Trina, the Cleaner. Trina is Sandra's alter ego, who evolved from the cleaning jobs she did to support her years of study.
Twitter: @SandraElkins5
Melissa is a scribbler of poetry and flash fiction. Quite to her surprise, a number of these untidy glimpses into her mind have been published. She's passionate about inclusion and mental health and often draws on her own awkward relationship with anxiety, insomnia and depression as she strings words together.
Twitter: @sarsaparilla191
Website: sarsaparilla72.wordpress.com
Jane is a playwright, health and wellbeing coach. She explores where mindset, taking ownership, and showing up to evolve better health, energy and longevity meets putting our health into 'the-system's' hands and/or deciding that 'rock-bottom' really is the only place to start.
Twitter & LinkedIn @JaneUnsworth
www.facebook.com/groups/whatisefttapping
Brian Lobel is co-director of The Sick of the Fringe with Tracy Gentles. Brian is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre at University of Chichester, a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Fellow, a Core Artist for Forest Fringe and an Associate Artist with Performing Medicine. His performance work has been shown extensively in a variety of contexts internationally, and his publications include both academic journals, chapters and reviews, as well as creative texts, scripts and artist DVDs.
@blobelwarming
Alexandrina Hemsley’s performance and choreographic practices are collaborative and frequently interdisciplinary, which she sees as a way of keeping knowing active and open. The work she make aims to reclaim and celebrate her identities as a mixed-race woman & tries to engage with the various cultural frameworks that mark her body on her own terms. Alexandrina is one part of duo Project O with Jamila Johnson-Small and she is currently working with Seke Chimutengwende on ‘afrofuturist’ duet Black Holes.
Blog: http://feministshakedown.tumblr.com/
Twitter: @AlexandrinaHem
Image courtesy of artist.
Dr. Kate Porcheret is a postdoctoral researcher at the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research is focused on sleep and circadian rhythms in relation to mental health. In particular she is interested in understand the role sleep plays in the response to psychological trauma.
Michael is a science writer at the Wellcome Trust and Associate Editor of its longform publication, Mosaic. Before writing about medical research for a living, Michael wrote plays, the best of which was Time Out's Critics' Choice when it was performed in London in 2002. In his student days, he performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe twice - winning a Fringe First Award in 1996 remains one of his proudest achievements.
WEBSITE: CERTAINCONFUSION.WORDPRESS.COM
TWITTER: @MPR2020
Alistair Lax trained as a biochemist and has moved around the biological sciences, taking in microbiology, cancer and cell biology. He’s been at King’s College London for the past 20 years.
Alistair is enthusiastic about most science, and in particular the history of science and medicine. He is also interested in public attitudes to science. His book, Toxin, is partly a history of microbiology.
Lynn Ruth Miller has been remodeling facts since her mother first asked, “Who ate that Hershey Bar?” She began writing the moment she realized that anything on paper is accepted as truth. She became a professional writer the year she won a silver dollar for her thumbnail biography of newspaper columnist, Dorothy Thompson, the Blue-Eyed Tornado of journalism in the forties and fifties. From that moment forward, Miller determined to be even more blunt, outspoken and outrageous than her role model.
Lynn started doing comedy on stage aged 71, and was dubbed 'the new Joan Rivers of Fringe Comedy' at the Edinburgh Fringe 2015. Now 83, she has accumulated numerous awards and is the oldest performing female stand up comedian in the UK.
Lewis Church is lead writer for The Sick Of The Fringe. He has co-ordinated writers at the Edinburgh Fringe from 2017-2019, at Folkestone's Normal? Festival of the Brain 2017 and 2018, Strike A Light 2018, Manchester International Festival 2017 and at Women and Children First in Ghent (Belgium).
He is a writer and academic based in London, whose work has also been published in PAJ, Exeunt, Loose Lips, East End Review, The Art Story and Something Other. Lewis has also produced commissioned pieces for SPILL Festival of Performance, ]performancespace[ and the Live Art Development Agency, and teaches at Birkbeck University of London. He has previously taught at Queen Mary University of London, the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. As an artist and producer he has worked with Ron Athey, Vaginal Davis, Franko B, Bobby Baker, Split Britches, Shabnam Shabazi, Sh!t Theatre and others.
WEBSITE: LEWISCHURCH.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
TWITTER: @LEWISACHURCH
