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is a playwright and occasional actress hailing from South Jersey. She is (proudly) a transgender woman of Brazilian descent, both of which are core to her work. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA Playwriting program and has assisted many playwrights in the development of their work. Most recently she worked for writers Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel on their late-night television shows, and assisted Amber Ruffin in the development of Broadway’s Some Like it Hot!, and the Broadway-bound The Wiz. She enjoys writing about mythologies, rumors, the end of the world, stolen dresses, parallel lives, witches, and neighbors dropping by unexpectedly. Find her on Instagram, @eevee4evr.

is an asexual theatre artist from central Kentucky; he is a theatre director and playwright with a passion for new plays and interdisciplinary collaborations. Jacob received his Masters of Fine Arts at Columbia University, where he studied with Anne Bogart, David Henry Hwang, Katie Mitchell and Charles L Mee, among others, and staged Hamlet, The Seagull, Gregory Moss’s Indian Summer (mfa thesis), new plays by Evie Mason and Tré Calhoun, and his own full-length, Hurricane. He has directed new work at Actors Theatre, La MaMa ETC, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Youngblood, Primary Stages, the Brick, the Tank, the New Ohio, Theaterlab, and the Arkansas New Play Festival at TheatreSquared. Jacob has assisted Anne Bogart, Les Waters, Jon Jory, Leigh Silverman, Lila Neugebauer, and most recently Michael Mayer on John Logan's Swept Away (music + lyrics by The Avett Brothers) at Berkeley Rep. Jacob was the 2022-23 Artistic Apprentice with Page 73 Productions; he is also a former SuperLab Assistant with Clubbed Thumb / Playwrights Horizons; and Directing Intern at Actors Theatre of Louisville. BA: Fordham. jacobmsexton.com @basedonnothing

is a queer actor and teaching artist originally from South Salem, NY. Max has trained at the Stella Adler Studio in both NYC and LA, Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Brown University’s TheatreBridge program in collaboration with Trinity Repertory Theatre, and received his Master of Fine Arts in Acting from University of California San Diego. They made their professional debut at the La Jolla Playhouse in the world premiere of The Squirrels directed by Tony Award winner Christopher Ashley. Additional theatre credits include The Lion in Winter and The Refugees at Gulfshore Playhouse, Hamlet at Theatrelab NYC, This Hair I Tear Is Mine and Echo in a Diner at Lenfest Center For the Arts, And Then You Wait at La Jolla Playhouse's WoW Festival, (w)holeness, Joshua, and The Clitorish at the Wagner New Play Festival, and Wandering Feast and For Honor at San Diego Repertory Theatre.