Ali Rashley is the executive artistic director at Television Workshop in Nottingham, which has a 40-year history of bringing amazing working class talent into the TV and film industry. She explains the challenges she has to face.

"I enjoy being around people and designing and creating artwork as it gives me energy and inspiration."

Warrington-based musician Lewis Gill has swapped performing in various prog rock groups for a solo career as a composer of classical music inspired by his hometown. He talks to Voice about his new line of work.

"Do a grocery shop on the first day, get some creature comforts at your flat, remember that we’re all going to die and nothing matters."

"The show has a few dance numbers to allow the incels to fully express their inner emotional turmoil. There is one in particular that focuses on their sexual frustration that I love."

"The resolution that we get to at the end of both shows is heart-warming and nostalgic. Although we have a lot of laughs and can be very silly and mischievous throughout the show, both of the shows come to a strong message that we believe in."

"After a preview, someone came up to me to tell me I had to change a joke because ‘kids these days don’t know about Saddam Hussein’. I have not changed the joke, but do think about that comment a lot."

"This might sound mad but I wasn’t really a massive fan of comedy growing up (other than Russ Abbott and The Dinner Ladies) which I think helped me have a unique voice as I was never going off something that I knew."

"In university I studied History because history is just drama in disguise. But people look down on you less when you say you have a history degree."

"I have in my career travelled to the four corners of the globe performing in numerous festivals and I am yet to discover anything like Edinburgh Fringe, the sheer scale and magnitude of Edinburgh fringe is mind boggling."

"Essentially, the ideas I would bring to her would be full chunks of marble and little by little, bit by bit, she would help me chisel those blocks down and find the art that always wanted to exist underneath."

"Trying to pursue an acting career in London, made me realise that, at least in the commercial side of the industry, I will never be allowed to play anyone but an East European stereotype, most likely with no words and being OK with nudity."