The Upside-Down Lighthouse

Paddy Donnelly is an award-winning and bestselling Irish author and illustrator of children's books living in Belgium. His books have been published worldwide, in many languages, and include Fox & Son Tailers, The Golden Hare, The Vanishing Lake and Dodos Are Not Extinct. Donnelly has been nominated twice for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration, and in 2023 he won the Judges' Special Award at the KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards. The Golden Hare won Children's Book of the Year (Junior) at the 2024 Irish Book Awards, while Fox & Son Tailers won the Literacy Association of Ireland Biennial Children’s Book Award in 2023.

Paul Nugent is an Irish actor with over 20 years experience working on screen and stage in the US, UK and Europe. His voice-over work includes the audiobooks of The Wych Elm by Tana French, Songdogs by Colum McCann and Skippy Dies by Paul Murray. His Off-Broadway theatre credits include The Field, Ladies and Gents, McGoldrick's Thread and originating the role of Victor McGowan in The McGowan Trilogy. He is Co-Artistic Director of the Dublin-based theatre company AboutFACE.