Steven Canny is a writer, director, and producer for BBC Radio, and has worked as an Associate Director and Dramaturg for Complicite. His plays include adaptations (with John Nicholson) of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles (Peepolykus, 2007) and H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (Original Theatre, 2023). John Nicholson is a writer, director, and performer. He is Co-Artistic Director of Peepolykus, with whom he has toured throughout the UK and worldwide since 1995. As a writer, his work includes: King Arthur (Le Navet Bete, 2024); The Time Machine , co-written with Steven Canny (Original Theatre, 2023); Treasure Island (Le Navet Bete, 2019); Dracula: The Bloody Truth (Le Navet Bete, 2017); The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary , co-written with Javier Marzan for Peepolykus (Liverpool Everyman, 2016); and The Hound of the Baskervilles , co-written with Steven Canny for Peepolykus (West Yorkshire Playhouse, 2007). He has also written extensively for BBC Radio, including Richard's Rampage , and the four-part series Trespasser's Guide to the Classics (2015).

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British writer and physician, most famous for his Sherlock Holmes stories, which are milestones in the field of crime fiction.