Kate Douglas (playwright) is a writer, composer, performer, and horticulturist. Recent work includes The Apiary (Judith Royer Award); The Ninth Hour at The Met Cloisters (starring opposite her co-writer Shayfer James); Against Women & Music! with Grace McLean (The Civilians); and The Lucky Few (starring opposite her co-writer Todd Almond). She has been awarded residencies at SPACE on Ryder Farm, Swale House on Governors Island, New York Stage & Film, Rhinebeck Musicals, Millay Arts, Goodspeed Musicals, and the New Musicals Lab at Ferguson Center, among others. Alum of the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program, Colt Coeur, The Civilian R&D Group, GTG Speakers Corner, and The Orchard Project Greenhouse. Previous performance credits include Punchdrunk's Sleep No More (where she also held the title of Associate Artist), Fernando Rubio's Everything by my side, Third Rail's The Grand Paradise, and Kansas City Choir Boy starring Todd Almond and Courtney Love. Upcoming: featured performer in Liz Phair's 30th Anniversary Tour of her seminal album Exile in Guyville. BFA: New York University. Certificate in Sustainable Garden Design, New York Botanical Garden.

Kate Whoriskey (director) On Broadway she directed Clyde's, Sweat and The Miracle Worker. Some off-Broadway credits include Letters from Max at Signature, All the Natalie Portmans at MCC, Songs for a New World at Encores Off Center, How I Learned to Drive at Second Stage, Ruined at Manhattan Theatre Club & Fabulation and Inked Baby at Playwrights Horizons among others. She has directed acclaimed productions at theatres nationally including the Goodman, the Geffen, South Coast Rep, Sundance Theatre Lab, Shakespeare Theatre, the A.R.T., the Huntington, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, and Arena Stage. Her opera direction has been seen at the Chatelet in Paris and Teatro Municipal in Brazil.

Ross Golan (playwright) is a multi-platinum songwriter, artist and composer. He studied music at the University of Southern California and has since released songs with many of the biggest artists in the world. He's written a number of Top 10 songs including 4 that reached #1. In 2016, he was awarded BMI Songwriter of the Year. As an artist, his concept album The Wrong Man was released on Interscope Records in July 2019 and opened as a musical Off-Broadway in October 2019, garnering 9 Drama Desk nominations including Outstanding Musical. As an advocate, he coauthored the proposal to get songwriters added to the Album of the Year award at The Grammys. He has also been a leading voice in passing the Music Modernization Act alongside NSAI, SONA, NMPA and RIAA. He is now the first songwriter added to the NMPA board in its 106-year history.

Michael Mayer (Director). Currently Off-Broadway: revival Little Shop of Horrors. Broadway: revival of Funny Girl, starring Lea Michele. Other Broadway highlights: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Spring Awakening, American Idiot (also co-author), Thoroughly Modern Millie, Side Man, A View from the Bridge, Everyday Rapture, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and Triumph of Love. National Tours: Angels in America, Millie, Spring Awakening, Idiot, Hedwig, Charlie Brown. London: a record-breaking West End run of Funny Girl and UK tour, Spring Awakening, Millie, Idiot, Side Man, Marnie at the ENO. Film: Single All the Way, The Seagull, Flicka, A Home at the End of the World.

D.A. Mindell (playwright) (he/him) is a Manhattan-based playwright and educator, currently in the second year of his MFA at Columbia University. His work centers queer, transgender, and Jewish identity across genre and era. Most recently, he's been commissioned by Florida Atlantic University's Fair Play Initiative. Other recognition includes the 48th Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Plays Festival, the 2021 Georgia Theatre Conference, and the 2022 Powerstories Voices of Truth Theatre Festival.

Sarah Mantell is the recipient of the 2023 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot. Their other plays include Everything That Never Happened, Tiny, and Fight Call. They have worked with Playwrights Horizons, Boston Court Pasadena, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Playwrights Realm, and Artists Repertory Theatre. Sarah has been awarded a Toulmin grant, Edgerton Foundation grant, and fellowships with MacDowell, Playwrights Realm, Sewanee, Yaddo, and SPACE on Ryder Farm.  MFA Yale School of Drama.  

Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin (playwright) is a writer, educator, and new work advocate. Plays include Call Out Culture (2022 O'Neill NPC Finalist, 2019 Ars Nova?s ANTFest), High School Coven (2023 Strand Theatre production), and Harpers Ferry 2019 (2022 Know Theatre of Cincinnati production).They've received six Kennedy Center awards, developed work with Breaking the Binary, Yangtze Rep, EST/Sloan, Alliance Theater, Pipeline Theater Company, & Montana Repertory Theater. Kaela taught playwriting at Indiana University and Cornish; they currently work at the Tank. [kaelameishinggarvin.com]