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Mbene Mwambene is a Zambian-Malawian actor, journalist, poet, theatre director, storyteller and dancer currently based in Bern, Switzerland. He is the first African to be given the privilege of completing the Master in Expanded Theatre at HKB. His work focuses mainly on post-colonial topics inside and outside the theatre. Since 2007, he has directed and performed in plays such as ‘Animal Farm’, ‘Black Gravity Black Healing’, ‘Refuge’, ‘Enjoy Racism’, ‘Accidental death of Democracy’, ‘The Prophet Ngunza’ and many others in countries such as Germany, Malawi, Switzerland, Zambia, South Africa, Japan, Austria and Hong Kong. His last project was his own solo play ‘The Whispers’, which was performed in Switzerland, Germany and Canada, on the stage of the Schlachthaus Theatre. Mbene has just recently completed the international collaboration play ‘The Swamps’ at the Gessnerallee and directed ‘Warum bist du hier’ and ‘Zueritopia’ at the Maxim Theatre in Zurich. He also directed ‘Die schwarzen Brüder’ at the Basel Theatre after directing ‘Sweetsland’ at the Gessnerallee in Zurich. For the current project ‘Mawazo’, Mwambene worked together with Ivana Di Salvo. Mbene is currently starring in ‘Das Bernbuch. Meine weisse Stadt und ich’ at the Bühnen Bern. He is also co-director of a youth club at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich with a production of ‘S'Läbe’.

Judith Zagury is the director of ShanjuLab, a laboratory for theatre research on the presence of animals based in Gimel, Switzerland, where she lives with the company's animals. As a director, she questions the human-animal relationship in her works and in particular in Perspectives - Un ensemble animal, which brought together more than twenty animals of eight different species in a single show in 2021.
She is interested in the presence of animals and also collaborates with international artists such as Laetitia Dosch, Stefan Kaegi/Rimini Protokoll and Yuval Rozman and accompanies their tours in Europe. In her next work, In bocca al lupo!, she is staging a research project about wolves.

Demian Bright CH/GB was born in Ankara/Turkey in 1991. He moved to Lake Zurich when he was the age of four. He was the first drama apprentice at the Hora theatre in Zurich. After 10 years full of highlights at national and international level, he left the Hora to become an assistant teacher. At the same time, he completed a CAS at the Accademia Dimitri. In the ‘Diversity and Inclusive Practice in Performing Arts’ course, he learned about the needs of inclusive theatre. 
Bright performs his own plays. He gives workshops in schools and museums and organises training courses for the police and other public institutions. He is committed to disability issues and is a founding member and board member of the ‘Culture for All’ association in Eastern Switzerland. 
With his special identity as a disabled actor, he is not afraid to address sensitive topics. His strength is the observation of his environment and the resulting improvisation. He will be happy to pass on his wide-ranging experience and create something new.