Elinor Cook is a London based playwright who was the winner of the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright 2013 and a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2018. Her plays include Out of Love (Paines Plough), Pilgrims (HighTide), Image of an Unknown Young Woman (The Gate), and a new version of Ibsen's The Lady From The Sea for the Donmar Warehouse, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah. She is currently working on a musical adaptation of a major children's novel for the stage.

Daisy Ridley is an English actress best known for her breakthrough role as Rey in the 2015 film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. She reprised her role as Rey in Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, which was released by Disney on December 15, 2017. Ridley was most recently seen in the final film in the trilogy, Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, directed by JJ Abrams. In 2019, Ridley was seen in Ophelia opposite Naomi Watts, which premiered at Sundance in 2018. The film was released by IFC Films on June 28, 2019. In 2018, Ridley lent her voice to Sony’s live action animated hybrid, Peter Rabbit starring opposite James Cordon and Rose Byrne for director Will Gluck. In 2017, Ridley was seen in Murder on the Orient Express, directed by Kenneth Branagh and featuring Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penelope Cruz, and Judi Dench. That same year, she wrapped production on the sci-fi adventure Chaos Walking opposite Tom Holland for Lionsgate. Chaos Walking is set for release in 2021. In 2016, Ridley voiced the lead role of Taeko in the 25th Anniversary re-release of Studio Ghibli’s classic animated film, Only Yesterday. She also served as an Executive Producer on the documentary The Eagle Huntress which was released by Sony Pictures Classics. Additionally, she sang the duet At the Ballet from A Chorus Line with Anne Hathaway for Barbra Streisand’s Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway Album. Daisy is the recipient of a 2016 Oscar Wilde Award. The non-profit US-Ireland Alliance created the event to recognize the contributions of the Irish in film. This is an honorary Irish award.

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