Tian Glasgow (he/him) is a queer cis Black man who grew up in London and has been based in Manchester since 2019. He founded the theatre company New Slang Productions in 2011. The thread running through Tian's work is social concerns such as race and class and how it affects communities.

Most recently, Tian has been awarded the STUN x Lowry Associate Artist award to create his new piece Tomorrow is Not Promised in 2021 and secured Arts Council support for its R&D process. This was fully staged with support of The Lowry and Arts Council in 2022 in the Aldridge studio.

Outside this, Tian is a Senior Creative Producer of theatre, arts and music events. Previously working on Fertility Fest, Walthamstow Garden Party, The Sick of the Fringe: Care and Destruction Festival, Love Supreme and London Jazz Festival. Also, since 2020 he has taught MA Acting at ALRA and LIPA.

For 4 years, he has been the Manchester Programme Coordinator for Arts Emergency - a youth mentoring charity.

Bid has been working as a Producer with New Slang Productions since 2019 where he supported the production of Race Today. He has been a freelance Audience Development for the arts since 2008. His aim is to help develop and build relationships between arts organisations and their local communities. Bid has successfully worked with a number of arts organisations, such as Sadler’s Wells Theatre,National Theatre, finger smiths, 20 Stories High, Theatre Royal Stratford East,Eclipse Theatre, Kiln Theatre, DerbyTheatre, Live Theatre Newcastle, Shakespeare Globe, Tiata Fahodzi, AdverseCamber, Hip Hop Shakespeare Company, Mojisola Adebayo, Nottingham LakesideArts, Royal Court Theatre, The Place and Watford Palace Theatre.

His speciality is grassroots audience development, researching, collating database, making contact and meeting with the targeted local groups and organisations; then working with arts organisation to implement a marketing strategy to develop the engagement of those groups and organisations.

In 2017 Ajjaz won The RTYDS placement award to work with tiata fahodzi for the year. Previous to this, she had assisted on Cat Shoobridge on Parallel: Yerma and Melly Still on The Introduction to Directing Course at The Young Vic Theatre. At the 40th anniversary of The Feminist Library she had her piece ‘Coffee?Cake?’ performed and has had a puppetry piece developed at The Little Angel theatre called ‘Bimwili and The Zimwi’. She has also recently joined writers courses with Tamasha Theatre and The Royal Court Theatre. She’s very happy to be a part of The Race Today development.

Rydian Cook has been working with New Slang Productions since 2021 overseeing the creation of promotional materials for Tomorrow is not Promised. He managed the marketing strategy for the 2022 performances at The Lowry. He is also an actor & filmmaker. He is a multi-award winning Writer/Director of fiction and documentary films. His portfolio includes Voice Actor, Twitch Streamer & Social Media Manager for Projekts MCR.