Peaces

Helen Oyeyemi is the author of six novels including White is for Witching (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award) and Mr Fox, and the short-story collection What is Not Yours is Not Yours. In 2013, Helen was included in Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.

Born and bred in Somerset, Ben has worked predominantly in theatre since graduating from drama school, including a number one tour with ATG as well as All's Well That Ends Well and The History Boys at the National Theatre. He has worked on a number of projects, including a podcast for David Nicholls's One Day, Learning English as a Foreign Language for Dummies, It’s a Guy Thing, Afternoon Reading for BBC Radio 4 and CAE for Cambridge Esol.

Rosa Escoda is an actress and writer, known for Line of Duty (2012), Boiling Point (2021) and Justice League (2017).

Fluent in Hindi, Urdu, and English, Deepti Gupta has an international career spread across India, Singapore, Pakistan, and the United States. As a narrator she brings an open and curious perspective to the author's work. Her natural global/international accent makes her a great choice for an author who is writing to appeal to a global readership/listenership. As an actress she has earned praise from the New York Times for her performance in the feature film Walkaway, and also stars in Record/Play (a sci-fi love story) which was an official selection at Sundance 2013. She earned her MFA in acting from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA in theater studies from the National University of Singapore, and BA in English literature from Delhi University. Besides working as an actress and voice talent, she also works as a consultant with corporate firms and businesses to help expand and deepen their diversity and inclusion strategies.

Born and raised in the Boston area, Intae moved to California to attend college at UC Berkeley, where he would graduate with dual degrees in English and Theater. Near the end of his college career, Intae's award-winning performance in Philip Kan Gotanda's "After the War Blues" caught the attention of Presidential Medal of the Arts recipient Luis Valdez, who subsequently invited the actor aboard "Valley of the Heart" - the celebrated writer/director's first new play in over a decade. Soon after the play finished its run, Intae moved to Los Angeles, where he lives now and continues to work on stage and screen, in projects ranging from Jordan Peele and Charlie Sanders' wacky "Weird City" to the gritty inaugural HBO Visionaries competition winner, "Monday."

Deana is an English-Iranian actress based in New York City, and is represented by British American Talent. She recently graduated with a BFA in Drama from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. Deana's most recent credits include narration for the NYT acclaimed novel Peaces with Penguin Random House, and Victoria's Highway with Audible; as well as her short film TRANSPLANT, and BLITZ with Space Fish Productions LLC. She is also the co-founder of Bad Behavior Lab: dedicated to creating original works by multi-hyphenate artists.

Jade Wheeler is an actress, known for Talk (2019), Scenes from Our Young Marriage (2017) and What About Will (2011).