Lia Romeo's play The Forest was selected for the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, and was scheduled to receive a National New Play Network rolling world premiere in the upcoming season (cancelled due to the coronavirus). This and three of her other plays have been recognized by the Kilroys List. Her plays have been produced at 59E59, Unicorn Theatre, Project Y Theatre Company, Dreamcatcher Rep, HotCity Theatre, and many other companies. She was the winner of City Theatre’s 2019 National Short Playwriting Award, and was a 2018 Individual Artist Fellowship winner in playwriting from the New Jersey State Council for the Arts. Her plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing, Playscripts, Dramatists Play Service, and Smith & Kraus.

James Glossman most recently directed the East Coast premiere of Jeff Daniels’s Flint at Shadowland Stages (NY), and DW Gregory’s Memoirs of a Forgotten Man at NJRep, where he has also directed (among other projects) Circumference of a Squirrel, Two Jews Walk Into a War, and Tour De Farce. Other recent: American premiere of Bang Bang!, new farce by John Cleese; co-wrote & directed the music-theatre piece Shostakovich and the Black Monk: A Russian Fantasy, with multiple-Grammy-winning Emerson String Quartet and a rotating cast including Sean Astin, David Strathairn, Len Cariou, Jay O. Sanders, Jeffrey DeMunn, and Richard Thomas, in concert and festival halls around the world including Tanglewood, Ravinia, Wolf Trap, Los Angeles, and Seoul, South Korea. Adapted/Directed world premieres of Raymond Chandler’s Trouble Is My Business (Portland Stage), Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum (Luna Stage), and Jim Lehrer’s Kick the Can, The Special Prisoner (with William Schallert), and Flying Crows (available from Dramatic Publishing). Directed East Coast premieres of Jeff Daniels’s Guest Artist and Jeffrey Sweet’s Bluff (both with John Astin), Los Angeles premiere of Noël Coward’s A Song at Twilight (with Orson Bean & Alley Mills), first NYC revival of Sheldon Harnick’s Smiling, the Boy Fell Dead (w/ Judy Kaye & Tony Roberts–York Theatre), and productions around the country of The Value of Names with Jack Klugman (opposite Dan Lauria & Liz Larsen, and earlier Louis Zorich & Megan Muckelmann). Earlier this year, James directed a workshop reading of his stage adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s science fiction classic, The Door Into Summer (w/ Jeff DeMunn, Evelyn McGee Colbert & Stephen Colbert), and completed his adaptation of three short stories by Tom Hanks. Graduate of Northwestern University, ACT, BADA-Oxford, and Yale School of Drama. Lecturer in Directing, Voice/Speech, and Shakespeare, Johns Hopkins University. Associate Artist, Shadowland Stages.

Dan Lauria has appeared as a guest star in over seventy television episodic programs and more than twenty Movie of the Week productions, plus a score of motion picture credits. Dan is a very familiar face to the off-off, off, and regional theatre scene, having performed, written, or directed over 50 professional stage productions. In 2010/2011, Dan was seen on Broadways as the legendary coach Vince Lombardi in the long-running production of Lombardi, with the beautiful and talented Judith Light, directed by Thomas Kail of Hamilton fame. Dan returned to Broadway in the 2013 and 2014 productions of the Tony nominated A Christmas Story: The Musical directed by John Rando. However, Dan is most recognized as the Dad on the highly acclaimed Emmy-winning ABC television show, “The Wonder Years.” Dan and his dear friend, the lovely and talented Ms. Wendie Malick, have performed the play The Guys by Anne Nelson (about our first responders) for numerous theatres and fire departments around the country. Wendie and Dan also perform Love Letters as a fundraiser for regional theatres, for the development of new plays. Dan was recently on the TBS show “Sullivan & Son” for three seasons. Dan also played manager Al Loungo on “Pitch” about the first woman pitcher in Major League Baseball and has recently joined the family on “This is Us,” both shows written by Dan Fogelman. Two years ago, Dan wrote and starred in the Off-Broadway production of Dinner with the Boys, produced by the one and only Pat Addis and the NJ Rep. This was followed by an Off-Broadway production of The Stone Witch by Shem Bitterman and upcoming regional production of Lee Blessing’s new play, Tea with the Boss, with Gwenn and Wendie Malcik. Dan and Ms. Malick are the co-creators of the Durango Play Festival for the development of new plays. Dan and his Godson Julian Farnsworth also write children’s books--go online and check them out: The Godfather Tales.

Wendie Malick gained prominence on the small screen as Nina Van Horn in “Just Shoot Me” which earned her 1 Golden Globe and 2 Emmy nominations. Wendie also starred in “Hot in Cleveland,” earning a People’s Choice Award and SAG nomination for Best Ensemble as well as “Dream On,” earning 4 Cable Ace Awards. Other television credits include, “Frasier,” “Big Day,” “Good Company,” “Rush Hour,” with recurring arcs on “This Is Us,” “The Ranch,” “American Housewife,” “Pitch,” “Darrow and Darrow,” and “NYPD Blue.” Wendie’s television guest appearances include “Seinfeld,” “Grace and Frankie,” “Mom,” “CSI,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “LA Law,” and “The X-Files.” Animated television credits include appearances on “Jimmy Neutron,” Spongebob Squarepants,” and “Bojack Horseman” which received an Annie Nomination. Her career on the big screen includes credits such as “Adventureland,” “Fifty-Nothing,” “Jerome,” “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” “Waiting,” “Racing Stripes,” “The American President,” “On Edge,” “Trojan Wars,” “Raising Genius,” “Mr. Mikes Mondo Video,” “A Little Sex,” “The Goods,” “Bugsy,” “Funny About Love,” “The Emperor’s New Groove” and “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.” Wendie’s theatre credits include Off-Broadway renditions of Burleigh Grimes, North Shore Fish, and Big Night at the Kirk Douglas Theater; The Underpants at the Geffen; Don’t Blame Me, I Voted For Helen Gahagan Douglas at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; The Santaland Diaries at the Coast Playhouse; Love Letters at the Laguna Playhouse; The Guys at the Studio Arena and Columbia University; Blithe Spirit and What Is The Cause Of Thunder at the Williamstown Theatre Festival; as well as Closure at the New Jersey Repertory Theatre. Malick’s passion for animal and humanitarian efforts is shown through her work on the Board of The Environmental Media Association, as well as being a spokesperson for The Humane Society of the United States and Return to Freedom, a wild horse sanctuary and advocacy group.

Nandita Shenoy is a New York-based writer-actor. Her Rage Play was recently named to the Kilroys List 2020. Her play Washer/Dryer has been produced multiple times nationally after its world premier at LA’s East West Players and an Off-Broadway production in which she also starred. Her first full-length, Lyme Park: An Austonian Romance of an Indian Nature, was produced by the Hegira in Washington, DC. Her one-acts have been produced in New York City and regionally. Nandita won the 2014 Father Hamblin Award in Playwriting and a 2018 Mellon Creative Research Fellowship at the University of Washington School of Drama in partnership with Ma-Yi Theater Company. She is a proud member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, the Dorset Theatre Festival’s Women Artists Working Group, and the Dramatists Guild. As an actor, Nandita frequently works on new plays by living writers such as Madhuri Shekar, Adam Szymkowicz, Chelsea Marcentel, Eric Pfeffinger, and Richard Dresser though she has also been a repertory company member at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Nandita holds a BA in English literature from Yale University. www.nanditashenoy.com

Melissa Firlit was last seen at Mile Square Theatre this spring when she directed Five Times in One Night and 2016 when she directed Dracula. She recently directed Marrow by Brian Quirk at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival and the Ireland National Tour of Misterman by Enda Walsh. Her work has been across the US at 59E59, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, New Light Theatre Project, The Princeton Festival, Creede Repertory Theatre, Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts and various other festivals and organizations. She holds an MFA in directing from Rutgers University and a BA from The University of Hartford and the O’Neill National Theater Institute. She is a member SDC. www.melissafirlit.com

Sheilagh Weymouth, NYC multiple-award-winning actress and writer, 1986 graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse School for the Theatre studying with the renowned Sanford Meisner, works in film, TV, theatre, voiceover and print and she’s in development with SOME OF US, ALL OF US, her first solo show in 20 years. Much fun to be working with Mile Square Theatre again! Sheilagh’s ridden camels, danced with Maasai, driven a convertible from LA to SF on the PCH, swum with sea turtles and manta rays, sat with mountain gorillas and men with guns, laughs with shamans, makes good medicine, has driven cross-country in a 20’ truck, has fallen from a 30’ waterfall, has been hugged by Oprah, has a very green thumb, is grateful for every breath, and loves videographer/filmmaker Cayce Crown since 1987, whom she married at City Hall on New Year’s Eve 2015, because she finally could. SheilaghWeymouth.com

Lipica Shah is a New York City-based actor, singer, and voice actor who thrives on collaboration and has a passion for new play development. She has originated roles at American Conservatory Theater (Testmatch), California Shakespeare Theater (House of Joy), Manhattan Theatre Club (India Pale Ale, Cost of Living u/s), The New Group (Bunty Berman Presents…), and Mixed Blood Theatre Company (Orange, The Chronicles of Kalki, Shiv), among many others. Hear her in the English dubs of Pokémon, A Silent Voice, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms, and more. In her spare time, she enjoys solving crosswords in pen, lighting one-match campfires, and running for inordinate amounts of time outdoors. She recently co-founded 1497, an initiative to support and uplift talent of South Asian descent and challenge their underrepresentation in the American film and television industry (1497 is the year before colonization began in the area now known as South Asia). She is also a National Volunteer Partner for Girl Scouts of the USA and proud AEA and SAG-AFTRA union member. More info: www.LipicaShah.com.

Rita Wolf was born in Kolkata, India and grew up in London, England. A member of the Royal Court Youth Theatre in London, she graduated to work with Joint Stock Theatre Group in Hanif Kureishi's "Borderline". She later worked with Hanif again on his film "My Beautiful Laundrette" directed by Stephen Frears.TV and film work in the UK includes the beloved Soap "Coronation Street". In NYC she debuted Off-Broadway in the World Premiere of Tony Kushner's "Homebody/Kabul" at NYTW (also Mark Taper Forum and BAM). Other Off Broadway work includes David Greig's "The American Pilot" at MTC (Drama Desk nomination) and last Fall Richard Nelson's "The Michaels" at The Public in which she played Sally Michael. She recorded the play "Evil Eye" by Madhuri Shekar for Audible last year which took home the Best Original Work AUDIE in March of 2020.

Cary Gitter is a playwright and screenwriter. His play The Sabbath Girl ran Off Broadway at 59E59 Theaters in 2020, following its premiere at Penguin Rep Theatre in Stony Point, NY, in 2019. His play How My Grandparents Fell in Love was a New York Times Critic’s Pick as part of the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s 36th Marathon of One-Act Plays and aired on public radio's Playing on Air. His plays have also been developed at the Berkshire Playwrights Lab, the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the Jewish Ensemble Theatre, and New Jersey Repertory Company. He has received commissions from the EST/Sloan Project and West of 10th. He is a two-time O’Neill semifinalist and Jewish Plays Project finalist, and an alumnus of the Obie Award-winning EST/Youngblood playwrights’ group. His dramatic work has been published in anthologies from Smith & Kraus and Applause Books, and his fiction has appeared in JewishFiction.Net, Newtown Literary, and the Jewish Literary Journal. BFA, MA: NYU. carygitter.com

Barbara Pitts McAdams is co-author of Moment Work: Tectonic Theater Project’s Process of Devising Theater. An original company member of Tectonic’s The Laramie Project, she has performed the play at BAM, off-Broadway, LaJolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep and the Denver Center. Barb also appears in the HBO film version of The Laramie Project (shared Emmy Nomination, best adapted screenplay). Barb is co-creator of #HereToo: stories of gun violence, stories of youth activism www.heretooproject.com. #HereToo-WWU recently received the Kennedy Center-American College Theater Festival’s 2020 Citizen Artist Award as well as Best Lead Devisers for Barb and Western Washington University colleague Rich Brown. Barb has directed and mentored numerous original plays with college and high school students, often centered around social justice themes. Barb teaches acting for camera at Drew University and mentors Drew’s NYC/Tectonic devising semester. Barb’s acting credits at MST include Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, last summer’s Stretch play The Gentleman from Philly, and past Stretch plays Baseball It Is by Mona Pinot and Foul Territory by Craig Wright (with her late, beloved husband John McAdams). TV credits include: Person of Interest, Forever, Kidnapped, 30 Rock, One Life to Live, As The World Turns, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, and Comedy Central’s Pulp Comics.

Ellen is very happy to be working again with the excellent people at MST. A New York area actor and Theater Maker for many years, Ellen has appeared On and Off Broadway and in T.V. and Film here and around the country. She is currently on Faculty at Montclair State University where she teaches Acting in the BFA program.

Adam Maggio is a theatre person hailing from San Francisco, CA. As an actor, he has performed regionally with organizations like Berkeley Rep, Connecticut Rep, and Mile Square Theatre, and a handful of off-off-Broadway companies in NYC. Adam has worked as a teacher in high schools and middle schools in San Francisco, has directed a few plays, and is a founding company member of BATCO in SF. Currently pursuing his MFA in Theatre Management and Producing at Columbia University.

Kevin R. Free Multi-Disciplinary Artist. Actor in over 100 professional productions. Most recently for MST: Director of Pipeline. Former Education Director at Queens Theatre in the Park; Former Artistic Director of the Obie Award-Winning Fire This Time Festival. NYTheatre.com Person of the Year, 2010; SemiFinalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2013; Doric A. Wilson Independent Playwright Award, 2014; Flux Forward Commission 2015; Project Y Writers Group 2016; FringeNYC Overall Excellence in Playwriting Award, 2016; Current, Curator of the QUEERLY Festival. Narrator of over 350 Audiobooks; voice of Kevin on “Welcome To Night Vale”; Co-Creator of Award-winning webseries “Gemma & The Bear!” & “Beckys Through History,” and currently, producer of “The Reparations Show.” www.kevinrfree.com; @kevinrfree

Bianca LaVerne Jones is a New York based multi-hyphenated artist. During quarantine 2020 Bianca has directed via Zoom: CHOICES by Chanel Carroll, SERMON I WISH I’D HEARD by Lakhiyia Hicks, OLDEST TOWN IN TEXAS by Kristen Adele produced by BOLD; THE GAZE (a film quilt) by Larry Powel; WHILE WE BREATHE produced by Brian Moreland (SEA WALL/A LIFE) and Arvind Ethan David (JAGGED LITTLE PILL): TAKE YO SHIT by Bianca Sams and DO YOU REALLY WANNA KNOW by Liza Jessie Peterson; OTHELLO (Opera): 5 Aspects for Bass and Chamber Orchestra produced and performed by Kevin Maynor and composed by Richard Thompson, UHURU by Gloria Majule (Yale MFA ’21) produced by AYE DEFY; DON’T CALL ME BROTHER by Jeanette Hill. Bianca has directed at HERE Arts, Dream Center Harlem, Amoralist Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts showcase). London: Carne Theater, Ambassador Theater (West End) ). Associate Director: THOUGHTS OF A COLORED MAN by Keenan Scott II dir. Steve Broadnax (Syracuse Stages; Baltimore Center Stage); A SMALL OAK TREE RUNS RED by LaKeithia Dalcoe (Billie Holiday Theater) dir. Harry Lennix Assistant Director: BLKS by Aziza Barnes dir. Robert O’Hara (MCC); THE FIRST NOEL co-written by Jason Michael Webb and Lelund Durond dir. Steve Broadnax III (Classical Theater of Harlem, Apollo Theater). Film: MOTHER’S MILK by Larry Powell; UNDERCOVER SIDECHICK by Cherie Danielle, STORKERS by Cyril Nri Training: NCSA (diploma), SUNY Purchase (BFA-Acting), Yale, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (MA-Directing). Awards: Best Direction by DC Black Theater Festival for Best One Act Play, 2019 Best Actress Broadway World, AUDELCO for Best Ensemble 2018

Eric Berryman is NYC based actor originally from Baltimore, MD. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. He is a recent Elliot Norton Award winner for Best Actor, for the world premiere of Detroit Red by Will Power and directed by Lee Sunday Evans. He spent much of his time in lockdown studying and practicing saxophone, two years ago he inherited one of his grandfathers horns a Conn 10m. He hopes to play in low budget socially distanced weddings in the fall.

Miss Kennedy Davenport is one of the hottest entertainers to come out of the state of Texas. As an entertainer who takes female impersonation as a true art form and means of expression, Kennedy has spent years training in different forms of dance. Those of which include ballet, jazz, modern and African dance. Miss Davenport also graced the stage with a co-star role in the play "Sometimes it Snows in Atlanta", directed by Laurinda D Brown-Johnson. And most importantly in her career, she has utilized her abilities and talents to amass a mountain of titles at a very young age. Kennedy's club titles include: Miss Metro (Dallas), Miss Brick (Dallas), Miss Azucar 2005, Mr. Azucar 2007. After capturing her first major title, Miss Texas Newcomer of The Year, she went on to bigger and better challenges in her female impersonation career by capturing Miss Southwest Universe 2001, a preliminary to Miss Black Universe, and Miss Black Texas 2000, a preliminary to Miss Black America. After relocating to the sunshine state of Florida, by way of the United States Navy, Kennedy's career took off all the while serving her country! With her high energy dance numbers she began to perform and tour all over the United States, Jamaica, and the Bahamas. While residing in Florida, Kennedy was inspired to capture the titles of Miss Black Florida USofA 2006, Miss Queen of Illusion New York 2007, Miss Marde Gras 2010, Miss Gaybor City (Tampa) 2010, Miss Tampa Bay International 2010, Miss Black Pearl 2010, Miss Glamorous 2010, Miss Parliament House 2010, Miss Revolutions 2010, Miss Female Impersonator of The Year 2010, and Miss Treasure Coast 2010. In November of 2011 Kennedy decided it was time for her to return to her roots in Dallas, Texas. Since her return she has gone on to win Miss Top of Texas 2012, Miss Detroit Firecracker 2012, Miss Georgia USofA 2012, Miss Queen of Queens 2012, Miss Havanas 2012, Miss Texas FFI 2012-2013, Miss D'Elegance International 2013-2014 and Miss Mid-American All American Goddess 2013-2014. Kennedy appeared on America's Got Talent and season 3 of Skin VVars. She went on to capture the title of Miss Goddess Texas 2015/16. In 2018 Kennedy placed as the runner up in Ru Paul's Drag Race All Stars Season 3. She kept that momentum going in to 2019 by becoming Miss Oklahoma Bold and Beautiful and Miss Pride South Florida. She also obtained a career-long dream of earning the title Miss Gay USofA 2019/2020. Despite 2020 trying to throw setbacks at everybody, Kennedy also appeared in the Netflix limited series AJ and the Queen. But Kennedy still feels that her greatest accomplishments include capturing her first national title, Miss Gay Black USofA back in 2008, making it through as a finalist on Ru Paul's Drag Race Season 7 and All Star's Season 3 AND fighting the long and hard battle to become Miss Gay USofA. She currently stays busy with online shows and cameos and traveling (when Covid restrictions don't interfere) and meeting and interacting with all of her beloved fans in the U.S. and world-wide. Kennedy has always had a level head, a humble spirit, and believes in reaching her goals as a female impersonator and as an African American. She is a graduate from the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Magnet with a major in vocal performance and dance; the same school of Erika Badu and Nora Jones just to name a few. She was a student of North Carolina School of The Arts, and has earned several awards for her talent and choreography, but what she treasures most are the recognitions for her dedication to her community. Miss Kennedy Davenport, the Fast and the Furious!

Russan Jordan recently earned a Helen Hayes Awards Outstanding Performer - Visiting Production nomination for his work in Vivian's Music, 1969, presented in 2019 at Washington, DC’s The Essential Theatre. He is reprising his Vivian's Music, 1969 role for upcoming virtual performances of the play. Follow Russell on Twitter and Instagram at @russjordan for updates on this and his other goings-on. He would like to thank Kevin R. Free and Bianca LaVerne Jones for the opportunity to work on this piece. Off-Broadway: Vivian's Music, 1969 (59E59 Theaters). Planet Connections: Dash (Outstanding Actor in a Staged Reading), Dig Infinity! (Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical or Play with Music). Other theater: Street Theater [The Other Side of Silence] (New York Innovative Theatre Awards Nomination for Outstanding Ensemble). TV: “FBI,” “The Blacklist,” “Dietland,” “Dangerous Book for Boys.” Member: New York Madness Acting Company. Owner: The Harlem Camerata. Training: The City University of New York and life.

TL Thompson credits include: Broadway: Straight White Men(Person In Charge u/s),Second Stage Theater. Theater: Is This A Room?(Agent Taylor), Vineyard Theater. You Were Mine(Noah),Kane Repertory Theatre. Waafrika 123(Aweeno), Criminal Queerness Festival. NERVOUS/SYSTEM(Pollster), BAM Next Wave. AFTER (Company)Public Theater. Podcasts: Meet Cute Podcast. Adventures in New America. Welcome to Nightvale. Webseries: THESE/THEMS (TI), Dir. Jett Garrison. THE HUNTED(Nic), Dir. Crystal Arnette. Films: While We Breathe (Miles) NAACP fundraiser for BLM. Flu$h (Wrex), Dir. Heather Acs. Friday Afternoon Dir. Paige Campbell. TL is also NY Neo Futurist, who performs frequently in The Infinite Wrench, an ongoing attempt to perform 30 plays in one hour. TLThompsonactor.com.

Audley Puglisi is a playwright and poet. Audley has been a 2015 VONA/Voices Playwriting Fellow as well as a 2016 Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow. Audley has been a resident artist at Blue Mountain Center and has worked with St. Paul's Penumbra Theatre. Plays include The Salt Women (Carlotta Festival of New Plays),The Two Sisters (SipFest @ The Wild Project), blues for miss lucille (Lorraine Hansberry Award, finalist), and Home on High (Yale School of Drama). Audley is a recent M.F.A. graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

Ti Ames (they/them/theirs pronouns) is an actor, director, and theater educator from Charlottesville, Virginia. Ti attended Oberlin College where they received a double degree in Theater and Africana Studies with High Honors. After moving back to Charlottesville and working as a freelance vocal and acting consultant, they began working at The Front Porch, a music school, where they offer private and group vocal coaching. Ti is also on faculty at Renaissance High School teaching theater and a year-long independent study course. As a Black, non-binary, and queer person, Ti’s approach to theater aims to uplift, unearth, and remember the work and lives of those who are disenfranchised and underrepresented in today’s world. Seeking to legitimize and support the work of Black and Brown artists, Ti has derived an Africana-based theater technique rooted in self care, community building, and call and response that they implement daily as a theater maker. Many thanks to Chris O’Connor for promoting virtual theater in such uncertain times and to Chris Puglisi, Nani Borges, and Gregory Georges for their beautiful work onscreen and off in LIGHTS OUT! Recent directing credits: RENT, Gettin’ Ready, Lost Home, Win Home (Live Arts); The Brothers Size (Oberlin College); BLACK MAC: A Macbeth Adaptation(Jefferson School AAHC).

Nani Borges recently received her B.A. in Theater from Oberlin College. Her recent appearances include Anika in Faking It! with Depaul Cinespace Productions and Mistress Overdone in Measire for Measure with Oberlin Summer Theater Festival. She is so excited to be a member of a wonderful cast and team.

Gregory Saint Georges is a New York based actor: born in Brooklyn, schooled in Queens and later New Haven. They are a recent graduate of Yale School of Drama, where you may have seen them in Yale Repertory Theater productions such as GIRLS; Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins or in productions on the main stage like SHOOT HER, SHOOTER; Margaret Douglas, TROUBLE IN MIND; Alice Childress, HENRY V PART III, or IN HIS HANDS OR THE GAY CHRISTIAN PLAY; Ben Benne and many others.

Dustin H. Chinn is a Seattle native whose plays include the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Commission HERSCHEL: PORTRAIT OF A KILLER, COLONIALISM IS TERRIBLE, BUT PHO IS DELICIOUS and SNOWFLAKES, OR RARE WHITE PEOPLE. He’s worked with the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, Ars Nova Play Group, Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep Summer Residency Lab, A.C.T.’s New Strands Festival, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the University of Washington via a Mellon Creative Fellowship, UC Berkeley, SPACE on Ryder Farm, UMass at Amherst New Play Lab and Vampire Cowboys.

Peter J. Kuo (he/him/his) is bi-coastal LA native, and the Associate Conservatory Director at American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.), where he serves as the Chair of the Staff EDI Committee. He is a theatre director, producer, writer, and educator focusing on raising the visibility of marginalized communities. Achievements include being part of TCG's Rising Leaders of Color cohort, a directing residency at The Drama League, directing assistantships at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, South Coast Repertory, and Geffen Playhouse. He has directed for A.C.T., Weston Playhouse, East West Players, and Playground. He is a co-founder of Artists at Play, an Asian American theatre collective that produces Los Angeles premieres of works for Asian Americans. Following the success of his Live Video Theatre production of Madhuri Shekar's In Love and Warcraft for A.C.T.'s MFA program, he is now teaching several workshops over the summer on Live Video Theatre Techniques at Perseverance Theatre Company.

Nelson Lee was born in Taiwan and moved to New Brunswick, Canada at the age of 5. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a double major in Business and Philosophy and continued his studies at The University of Wales. After two years in Europe, he returned to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, where he lived for 10 years. Recently, Lee played the role of The Chancellor in Disney’s live-action adaptation of Mulan opposite Jet Li, Liu Yifei, Donnie Yen, and Gong Li. He also had a strong supporting role in the indie film I Was a Simple Man and a lead role in the Steve Pink directed indie film The Wheel. He has worked with Geoff Johns as Dragon King on DC’s Stargirl and as Shen in Spike TV’s Blade: The Series. He has had memorable turns on tv including his recurring roles on HBO’s award-winning drama Oz, Amazon’s Giovanni Ribisi led-series Sneaky Pete, and on ABC’s Ten Days in the Valley opposite Kyra Sedgwick and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. Additionally, Lee has been seen in Madame Secretary, Lethal Weapon, Shooter, Superior Donuts, The Night Shift, Stitchers, Hawaii Five-O, NCIS: New Orleans, Bones, and Law and Order. His additional film credits include All Saints, Vacancy 2: Ring of Death and the HBO film Strip Search. On stage he has appeared Off Broadway as “David” in Zayd Dorn’s World Premiere of Outside People. He has also appeared in world premieres of Carla Ching’s Nomad Motel, The Two Kids That Blow Shit Up, and Fast Company, as well as Heidi Schreck’s The Consultant, and as Ryu in Maple and Vine at both ACT and City Theatre.