Graham McLaren established Theatre Babel, Scotland's touring classical theatre company in 1994 and oversaw the revitalisation of Perth Theatre in Scotland from 2004 to 2008. His international career includes serving as Associate at Necessary Angel in Canada (2008–2011), Associate Director at the National Theatre of Scotland (2011–2016), and Artistic Director and CEO of Ireland’s National Theatre, The Abbey, Dublin (2016–2021). He has created over 70 productions across four continents. In 2024, he became the founding Executive Director of Creative Glasgow, a membership organisation that serves the city’s creative industries. In 2025, he will return to the stage to collaborate with Scott Silven on ‘The Lost Things’, which will premiere at the Sydney Opera House.

Jamie Vartan has designed extensively for theatre & opera. Highlights include, at St Ann's Warehouse NYC, & for Galway International Arts Festival, Arlington; Grief is the Thing with Feathers (& Barbican, London); Misterman (& National Theatre, London), Ballyturk (& National Theatre, London); Medicine (& Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh) and Woyzeck in Winter (Gaiety, Dublin / Barbican, London). Recent designs include Krapp's Last Tape (Project Arts Centre, Dublin/ Adelaide Arts Festival/Barbican, London/Skirball Center, NYC). Opera designs include productions at La Scala Milan, Malmo Opera, Scottish Opera, Royal Opera House London, Parma, Valencia, Strasbourg, Salzburg, Lisbon & currently Rigoletto (Irish National Opera & Santa Fe Opera).

Awards include Best Set Design for Irish Times Awards 2011, 2012 & 2016, & World Stage Design 2013.

Film production design includes The Last Hotel (Sky Arts).

Mark designs and builds things that shouldn’t exist. With a background in magic, mechanics, and misdirection, he works behind the scenes to make impossible moments feel effortless. His work has appeared in stage shows, television, film, and strange little projects all over the world. His illusions hide in plain sight. Blink and you’ll miss them. Or maybe you already did. His contribution to The Lost Things is exactly what you wouldn’t expect—and probably didn’t see.

Lighting designs include Darwin, Nevada (Piccolo Teatro di Milano / Vanishing Point), Macbeth (Royal Shakespeare Company), Red Ellen (Northern Stage), Museum of Dreams, Othello (Citizens Theatre Glasgow), The 306: Dusk, Eve, The Tin Forest, Pink Mist (National Theatre of Scotland), The Demon Barber (Perth Theatre), Die Zauberflöte (RCS Glasgow), Life is a Dream, Twelfth Night, Cockpit, Blood and Ice (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh), Oresteia (SummerScape, NY) Gut, How to Disappear (Traverse Edinburgh), Tabula Rasa, Tomorrow (Vanishing Point) and The Indian Wants The Bronx (Young Vic London).

Set and lighting designs include The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff (Northern Stage / Harbourfront Center Toronto), Somersaults, Mancub, Little Otik (National Theatre of Scotland), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Beggar’s Opera (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh), Inés de Castro, The 8th Door / Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Scottish Opera), Mouthpiece (Traverse) Mister Holgado (Unicorn London), Interiors, The Destroyed Room, Wonderland and Saturday Night (Vanishing Point). 

Own projects include Last Dream (On Earth) with National Theatre of Scotland and Tron Theatre, as well as Entartet with Vanishing Point and CCA Glasgow. 
 

Michael Mushalla is a producer, artist manager and agent based in the United States Virgin Islands.    He works on behalf of the Mark Morris Dance Group, Scott Silven, and Vox Motus.  He also produces theatre projects in partnership with Neil Murray including recent tours of David Greig’s play The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, and Roddy Doyle’s Two Pints. In a classic Mail Room to the Board Room trajectory, Michael Mushalla started at Columbia Artists Management Inc., in 1981.  He was a Vice President of the company and a member of the Board of Directors for more than a decade.  In 1999 he founded Double M Arts & Events, LLC and continues to lead the company today.