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Beren Tuna (*1980, grew up in Turkey and Germany) completed her acting studies at the HMT (now ZHdK) in 2006. She has been a freelancer ever since.
As an actress, she has appeared at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, Theater Basel, Neuköllner Oper Berlin, Konzert Theater Bern and Bühne Aarau amongst others. In 2016, Beren Tuna won the Swiss Film Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her appearance in the feature film ‘Köpek’ (director: Esen Işık). 
Since 2018, she has regularly realised her own theatre productions, both in the role of director and as a performer on stage herself. 
Beren Tuna is interested in taking on the positions of conceptualiser, director and/or player, depending on the context of her work. It is at this interface that she continuously moves and explores questions about the mixed relationship between these different positions and collective work processes. Important pillars of her work are, on the one hand, storytelling from a female* perspective. She is also concerned with the question of how, in a post-migrant society, the view of ‘the other’ can be countered by individual narratives. 
Beren Tuna is a co-founder and board member of the FemaleAct association, with which she is committed to equality and diversity in film and theatre. In this context, she has etworked with Switzerland’s various activist initiatives, each of which works towards less discriminatory and more sustainable theatre practice in its own way.

Alan is a Swiss performance and installation artist, theatre director and trainer. 
As of 2021 he coordinates Luminanza - a reactor for Swiss contemporary drama in the Italian language. He was co-awarded tbe Swiss Performing Arts prize in 2022 together with his fellow artists of the Ticino-is-Burning movement.  
Alan's interest is on audience-based art and how to guide it into having a specific role in the dramaturgy. He has shown work at Ural Industrial Biennial (Russia), AltoFest (Malta & Naples), Castel dei Mondi (Andria), Pro Helvetia Swiss Selection (London), FIT Festival (Lugano), Marrakech (Morocco), SonOhr Bern, and the UBU prize winning LAC’s Lingua Madre project (Before the Revolution Remix by Ahmed El Attar). He staged Jackie by Elfriede Jelinek and adapted radio plays for the stage by Dürrenmatt and Beckett. He was selected for Rencontres du Théâtre Suisse (2016).
He is bilingual Italian and English and understands German, Swiss German and French very well. 

Marius Schaffter (actor and dramaturge) and Jérôme Stünzi (stage designer and visual artist) have regularly worked together since 2014. They run the theatre collective Old Masters (together with Sarah André).
Since Old Masters sees the theatre performance as a sculptural synthesis of the arts, it creates worlds with a powerful, unusual and radical aesthetic.
Using its favourite weapons of absurdity, sincerity, benevolence, irony, beauty, sadness and gentleness, the collective invites us to experience together what freedom could be today – a freedom that is localised, changeable and always in search of itself.