Christopher Hampton was born in the Azores in 1946. He wrote his first play, When Did You Last See My Mother? at the age of eighteen. Since then, his plays have included The Philanthropist, Savages, Tales from Hollywood, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, White Chameleon and The Talking Cure. He has translated plays by Ibsen, Molière, von Horváth, Chekhov and Yasmina Reza (including Art and Life x 3).

Florian Zeller (b. 1979) is a French novelist and playwright. His works include The Fascination of Evil (Prix Interallié 2004), Artifical Snow, Lovers or Something Like it and Julien Parme. His plays include The Father and The Mother.