lily gonzales (they/them) is a writer from Texas, based in NYC. Their work has been supported by The John F. Kennedy Center, Crowded Fire Theater, Shotgun Players, Colt Coeur, Echo Theater Company (LA), Latinx Playwrights Circle, Repertorio Español, Stages, San Diego REP, and Teatro Vivo. Currently, they are a resident with AlterTheater Ensemble in San Rafael. B.A UT Austin, Theater & Dance / English

Borna Barzin (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based director of Iranian heritage from the San Francisco Bay Area. Directing credits include Victor I. Cazares’ <<when we write with ashes>> (National Queer Theater/Lincoln Center) and Pinching Pennies with Penny Marshall (New York Theatre Workshop), Sam Shepard’s The Mad Dog Blues (The Hive), and Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive (Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Pace University). Borna has worked at theaters such as Lincoln Center Theater, Berkeley Rep, Atlantic Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and The TEAM with directors such as Les Waters, GT Upchurch, and Rachel Chavkin. Borna is the Associate Casting Director of Daniel Fish’s reimagined Oklahoma!, a Colt Coeur Resident Artist, and a member of the Roundabout Director’s Group and Mercury Store Director’s Lab.

Sánchez Sánchez (they/them) is a first generation Mexican American actor, director, and dramaturg from the Southside of Chicago. They are a history buff who attended NYU for Drama and Latino Studies--aspira unir el mundo del teatro con el público Latino. They focus on work by, for, and about Latinos in hopes of having their image back at them. Sánchez invites audiences into the world of the productions they work on by helping them take a deeper look at the traditional family values upheld in Latin households, y ayudándolos entender que la única manera de avanzar hacia su futuro es sanar del pasado.

Ashley Waldron (she/her) is a New Jersey based Stage Manager who specializes in both youth and adult theater productions. She graduated from Montclair State University, with a BFA in Production & Design/Stage Management. Some of her favorite Stage Management credits include: Always…Patsy Cline (Merry Go Round Playhouse), The Man in Room 306 (Luna Stage Company), What Stays (Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre), Hugo Saves Christmas in May (Roaring Epiphany Production Company). In 2020 Ashley also co-founded The Cove Writer’s Group, a collective of writers who came together to create and help each other via Zoom during the pandemic. When Ashley isn't working on a production, she spends her time working with children at a local NJ dance school as an administrator/dance instructor.

Sharlene Cruz Off-Broadway credits: The Good John Proctor (Bedlam), Martyna Majok’s Sanctuary City (New York Theater Workshop), Erica Schmidt’s Mac Beth (Red Bull Theater/Hunter Theater Project), C.A Johnson’s The Climb (The Cherry Lane Theater/under mentorship of Martyna Majok) Television credits: “Flatbush Misdemeanors”, “Chicago PD”.

b (they/them) was born and raised in Fresno, CA. They have made other queer appearances at NYTW, MTC, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Tectonic Theatre Project, and Clubbed Thumb. They can be seen onstage this summer playing Andrea in TOROS at 2ST. TV credits include: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (Showtime), WECRASHED (Apple TV+), WITCH MOUNTAIN (Disney+ Pilot). Training: Juilliard and being the youngest of six.

Daniella De Jesús (she/her) is a performer/writer falling back in love with herself. A native of Bushwick, Brooklyn, her work focuses on the history of New York City, science fiction, the entertainment industry, surrealism, absurdism, kindness, generational trauma and genre-blended epics with large ensembles that center queer Black/Latine women and femmes. As a performer, she is best known for her role as Zirconia on Netflix’s Orange is the New Black. Her plays include Get Your Pink Hands Off Me Sucka and Give Me Back, FKA Columbus Play (2022 finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2021 winner of the Burman New Play Award), Sunday in TVLand (Marsha Norman Festival, Juilliard), Mambo Sauce (The New Group Off Stage) , Pa’ Ti Tengo De Todo (The Public Theater’s Spotlight Series) and her one-woman show: The Thief Cometh (United SoloFestival). She's a member of The Public Theater’s 2018-19 Emerging Writers Group and a staff writer on the inaugural season of the upcoming narrative podcast "FLIPPED!" (produced by echoverse). More recently, she's picked up puppeteering and burlesque. De Jesús is a graduate of Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program and NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama.