Anya Pearson is an award-winning actress, playwright, poet, producer, and activist. She was the inaugural winner of the $10,000 Voice is a Muscle Grant from the Corporeal Voices Foundation, for her choreopoem, Made to Dance in Burning Buildings. Made to Dance in...
Ash (they/she) is an active composer, choral arranger, songwriter, sound designer, and music director for choir and theatre. As a queer, non-binary, Persian, and hard-of-hearing artist, she values storytelling as a means of connection, revelation, and celebration....
Diana Burbano (she/Ella) honored by the Los Angeles Times as part of “La Vanguardia,” is a Colombian immigrant playwright, actor, and resident artist with Center Theatre Group, The Latino Theatre Company, and Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble. Known for her...
E. M. Lewis is an award-winning playwright, teacher, and opera librettist. Her work has been produced around the world, and published by Samuel French. Lewis received the Steinberg Award for both How the Light Gets In and Song of Extinction, and the Primus Prize for...
Jacklyn has appeared Off Broadway and regionally (Joseph Papp’s Public Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, Kennedy Center, Thirteenth Street Theatre, etc.) She is an Artistic Member of the Ensemble Studio...
Lava Alapai (She/Her) is a playwright and director, born in Okinawa, Japan, and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her recent directing credits include School Girls, or; the African Mean Girls Play for Portland Center Stage, The Chinese Lady, The Revolutionists, and An...
Lolly Ward came west to attend Stanford University, where she received her Bachelor's and Master's in English and Creative Writing. As a member of The Actors’ Gang, she originated roles in Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando, toured nationally and internationally, and acted in the...