Stephen Graham

About the Author

Stephen Graham OBE is an Emmy-winning actor, most recently known for his lead role in Adolescence, which he cocreated, cowrote, and starred in. It earned 14 Emmy nominations and went on to win 8 Emmy Awards, including Best Lead Actor, Best Writing, and Best Limited Series, Anthology, or TV Movie. Stephen also recently starred in and exec-produced BAFTA award-winning Boiling Point and A Thousand Blows. Other notable credits include This is England, Boardwalk Empire, Help, The Virtues, and Time. He can next be seen in Deliver Me from Nowhere, Peaky Blinders (film), and an untitled Apple TV+ project based on novels by Lars Kepler.

Orly Klein is a psychology lecturer and researcher, with over two decades of experience at the University of Brighton and Brighton Met. She began her career working with unhoused people in central London, which shaped her interest in marginalization and community organizations. She has published widely on reality TV, makeover culture, families with disabilities, and hunger trauma. Most recently, she spent two years conducting participant research with Room to Rant, a ground-breaking workshop that uses rap as a therapeutic tool for young men ages 16 to 25.