Michael Goulding was born Manchester and moved to Mayo in 2000. He has been involved in numerous musical productions over the years with both Claremorris and Castlebar Musical Societys. As well as acting Michael has  turned his hand to writing and has written numerous plays for radio and stage. He works for Western Care Association and also presents a programme on Midwest Radio on Monday's at 10pm.

Fiona Kelly is an award-winning radio producer and broadcaster, best known as a presenter of "It says in the papers" on RTE 's "Morning Ireland". Since 2017, she has also been writing storylines for "Fair City". She lives in Dublin with her husband, two children and a dog called Magic.

Galway native Sarah Fahy writes poetry, prose and scripts. She is also an actress and director with local groups in Loughrea.  As a playwright she has had two plays stage performed. Her play ‘Significant Loss’ was recently adapted into a short film and won The Offline Film Festival in Birr, Co Offaly. Sarah's passion truly is the arts.

Peter Gould is a writer and theatre director based in London. After a career in journalism, mainly with the BBC, he now works as a volunteer with The Questors Theatre in Ealing, where he helps to develop new work for the stage. Peter was a qualifier in last year’s Fringe and we are delighted to welcome him back again to Claremorris this year.

Moira Mahony is an actor and director from Athenry, Co. Galway.  She has worked with numerous groups including Seumas O'Kelly Players, Athenry Drama Group, BlenDiva Productions, Unspoken Word and the Dramaheads.  Moira has been involved in Claremorris Fringe for the past 5 years, acting and directing. This her first attempt at play writing.