Michaela Ewuraba Boakya- Collinson professionally known as Michaela Coel is best known for creating and staring in the E4 sitcom Chewing Gun (2015-17) for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance. (See list of other awards and nominations)) She has written and performed professionally since 2006. Aged 22 she enrolled in the Guildford School of Music and Drama. She was the first black woman admitted there for years. She has also written several books (See book sheet) e In 2018 she gave the MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. She showed her integrity by turning down $1 million offered by Netfix so she could retain full rights and creative control of I May Destroy You Again, which was aired on the BBC instead. The self-aware ‘misfit’ is now a show business insider, contributing to positive change in the industry while creating some of the in original programming in years. Sources Wikipedia RISE: Extraordinary Women of Colour Who Changed the World by Maliha Abidi

Therese’s second full-length play play Girls won the Alfred Fagon Award for the best new play in 2015. The play was about three girls abduction by terrorists in northern Nigeria. In 2016 she received the George Devine Award for most promising playwright. Theresa gained nationwide recognition in 2019 for Rocks - a feature length coming-of-age drama which she co-wrote with Clarie Wilson. For this she received a BAFTA Award nomination. In 2021 the film was nominated for 7 awards -including Outstanding British film and Best Actress in a leading Role won by 19 year Old Bukky Bakay. Sources Wikipedia Superheroes by Sophia Thakur

Michael, born to Ghanaian immigrants in Croydon, is best known for portraying the fictional rapper Big Shaq (also known as Roadman Shaq). His parents wanted him to become a doctor: he was more interested in acting and comedy. He studied film, acting and theatre at Brunel University and took a course from the National Youth Theatre. He began his career by collecting a social following among the British-African community with brief comedic parts in shows likeMeet the Adebanjos which deals with a Nigerian family in London. in May 2017, with Mary Brown, he launched a mockumentary series on You Tube title SW11 (Somewhere in London) which amassed 1 million views in its first series.In this series he created MC Quakez and Big Shaq. His comedic rap Man’s Not Hot developed into a viral meme. and a studio track version of the song was released on 22 September 2017. The song’s music video was released by Michael on 26th October 2017. Sources Wikipedia Superheroes by Sophia Thakur