Grandiloquence to Emojis

Hal Cazalet is a British tenor opera singer trained at the Juilliard School in New York. He has created leading roles in World Premieres for composers Philip Glass (Les Enfants Terribles), Roxanna Panufnik (The Music Programme) and Tod Machover (Death and the Powers). He has worked much of his life in the USA performing at various prestigious venues including the Santa Fe Opera and the Lincoln Centre. As a composer/lyricist, his musical of Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince was presented at The Place Theatre, London. His Play of Words is a musical celebration of his step great-grandfather PG Wodehouse on Broadway.

Atri Bhattacharya is a senior bureaucrat with the West Bengal government. A quizzer of great repute and voracious reader, he won his round of the Mastermind quiz by choosing PG Wodehouse as his subject of specialisation. He lives in Kolkata with his wife and daughter.

Ahon Gooptu is a playwright-actor, theatre producer, and performance studies scholar. He is drawn to interdisciplinary collaborations that tell queer, brown, and im/migrant narratives, often playing with memory in non-linear ways. He has worked with Steppenwolf in Chicago, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Taproot Theatre in Seattle, Treasure Trunk Theatre in New York, Farmers Alley Theatre in Kalamazoo, and Ranan, The Red Curtain, and Pickle Factory Dance Foundation in Kolkata, among other notable companies. He is a founding collective member of Curl, co-founder and former Managing Producer of Side B Society, and a former Artistic Associate of Make/Shift Theatre Company. His publications include Labor Day Reunion (Writers Workshop, forthcoming in 2026) and All That Glistens (Grinnell College Press, 2021). Recent theatre credits include Seasons of Love, Item, Looking For, Taramandal! Ek Naya Safar, and Subject for a Short Story, among others.