Purva Bedi is a multi-lingual actress of film, television and stage and a deviser of new work. A 2019 Drama Desk Award winner for her performance in Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons), Purva is an Associate Artist of Target Margin Theater and a member of the Actors Center. Select New York theater credits include Wives (Playwrights Horizons), Passage (Soho Rep), India Pale Ale (Manhattan Theater Club), An Ordinary Muslim (New York Theatre Workshop), Uncommon Sense (Tectonic Theater Project), The Idiot (Here Arts Center), Veil'd (Women's Project) and East is East (Manhattan Theater Club & New Group). Film credits include The Assistant, The Surrogate, Sully, Equity, A Walk Among The Tombstones, Adjustment Bureau, Kumare, Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn, Green Card Fever, The Emperor's Club and American Desi.  Purva will be recurring in the upcoming NBC Peacock series "One Of Us Is Lying".  Additional TV credits include "Billions", "High Maintenance", "She's Gotta Have It", "Madam Secretary", "Person of Interest", "Law & Order: SVU", "Nurse Jackie", "The Blacklist", "The Good Wife", "Gossip Girl", "The Drew Carey Show" and "The West Wing".  Purva is the co-creator and star of the comedy series "Shrinkage".

Coley Campany is an actress, writer, dancer, director, and choreographer. Coley began her career as a professional ballet dancer with Ballet Memphis and then New Ballet Ensemble in Memphis, TN, where she danced, taught, and choreographed for 11 years. After several dance injuries, Coley decided to switch creative pursuits and moved to New York City. She literally found her voice as an actress, writer, and movement artist while training with the Labyrinth Intensive Ensemble, where she discovered her artistic family and home, and it's where she met Dipti!
Coley moved to Atlanta, GA, to pursue film and television, but she continues to write and act for both stage and screen. She is a member of the sketch comedy group Meekus in Atlanta, Ga., and Coley can be seen in film, and television shows like Creepshow, NCIS: NOLA, The Resident, Loving, Watchmen, and the upcoming movie The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Coley is thrilled to be a cast member of Islands of Contentment. It feels good to be back home.

Nina Davuluri is an acclaimed filmmaker, actor, activist & entrepreneur. She first gained international recognition by becoming the first Indian American and South Asian to become Miss America 2014. Her most recent venture combines the network she has cultivated, her love for advocacy, and disrupting global beauty standards by producing her new documentary, #COMPLEXion. Raised in a culture sensitive to skin tones, Nina was hyper-aware of the skin lightening industry and how it dramatically influences beauty standards. As a global leader in redefining beauty standards, she spearheaded a campaign against colorism, #SeeMyComplexion. Through advocating for diversity and encouraging others to embrace their identity, she knew it was important to create a platform where people can share experiences on colorism around the world. Nina was also the host & producer of the reality show, “Made In America,” which made its series premiere on ZeeTV Americas in North America. The premise of the show is to help young women break their own perceptions of beauty and stereotypes as they embark on a new journey to fulfill their dreams in America. Through her experiences as Miss America & beyond she realized how much of a need there was for more diverse stories in the entertainment industry. She went on to complete her conservatory training at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, and is excited to continue her career in the television, film, & theatre space to bring true representation to South Asians around the globe. Nina is humbled by her experiences and excited to continue her trailblazing journey. In her spare time, she enjoys walks in the West Village with her rescue pup, Dobby and moonlighting as #SousChefNina experimenting, creating, and tasting fusion recipes!

Maanvi Gagroo credits include Film : No one killed Jessica, Ujda Chaman, Shubh Mangal zyada savdhaan,?-Question mark, Aamras, 377-Ab normal. Series : Four more shots please, Tripling, Pitchers, The good vibes, Dhoom Machao Dhoom (Disney) Cineplay - The guy in the sky Short films - Tamashree, Her, Every Mumbai girl in the world, Sperm girl

Laura Gómez is an actress and storyteller best known for her role as Blanca Flores on the Netflix hit series Orange Is the New Black. On television she has also been featured in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, HBO’s Show Me a Hero. In the theater, Gómez has participated in critically acclaimed plays, like Doña Flor and her Two Husbands and The House of the Spirits at Spanish Repertory Theater and as director of one act plays at Pregones and Intar. She is currently a member of Dorset Theater Festival’s “Women Artists Writing,” a creative collective giving voices to female voices. She is also an established voiceover actor and has lent her voice for the audiobooks Of How the García Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz.An aspiring filmmaker, she has studied film courses at the prestigious New York University and screenwriting at the Jacob Krueger Studio, and has starred in several short films including To Kill a Roach -winner of the NYU Fall 2012 Technisphere Award for Outstanding Achievement- and Hallelujah, both of which she also wrote, directed and produced. Gómez also directed and co-produced the short film The Iron Warehouse, written by playwright and Juilliard alumni, Hilary Bettis, and she's currently writing the script for her first feature film.

Mahira Kakkar is a multi lingual Theatre, Film and TV actress based in NYC. Her stage credits include The Headlands with Lincoln Center Theatre, the premiere of Monsoon Wedding with Mira Nair, Clive with Ethan Hawke, Ms. Witherspoon with Christopher Durang, Jesus in India with Lloyd Suh, When January Feels Like Summer, The Winters Tale and Five Mile Lake. Most recently, she appeared as a lead in the cast of A Suitable Boy (BBC, Netflix India) and recurring on Manifest (NBC). Her additional TV work includes  The Blacklist, Law and Order:CI, Odd Mom Out, Blue Bloods, The Big C and Louie. Her film work includes the award winning Hank and Asha, Hechki and Bite Me . She has worked extensively in regional theater. Training: Juilliard, Harold Guskin and Ted Sluberski.

Kalki Koechlin doesn’t need any introduction in the field of films & entertainment, she has proved her versatility by performing in films of diverse genres.

She started her career in Dev D for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress and later continued giving some brilliant performances in movies like Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, Margarita with a Straw, Shanghai, Gully Boy with Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt & latest Sacred Games Season 2. Her latest release was Zee 5’s original titled, Bhram where she was the main protagonist & successfully completed the BBC podcast, My Indian Life Season 2 

Kalki has carved a niche for herself in the Indian film industry.  She will soon start shooting  for Made in heaven season 2 by Zoya Akhtar.

Florencia Lozano, LAByrinth (Devil of Choice, Dirty Story), Public (Macbeth), Playwrights' Horizons (Placebo), Movement Theatre Co (And She Would Stand Like This..), Ensemble Studio Theatre (Winners), MTC (Where's My Money?), MCC (Last Easter), Second Stage (Privilege), the 52nd Street Project. Member at EST and LAByrinth, Usual Suspect. Film: THE MINSTERS, PERFECT STRANGER, FARAWAY EYES and LIFE AFTER YOU, which she also co-wrote and produced. TV: GOSSIP GIRL, KEVIN CAN WAIT, UGLY BETTY, LAW & ORDER: SVU&CI, series regular on NARCOS and ONE LIFE TO LIVE. The play she wrote underneathmybed was produced at the Rattlestick and won HOLA's Best New Play award. Florencia recently starred as 'Capulet' in the radio play, Romeo y Julieta for The Public Theater.  

AJAY NAIDU. Theatre includes The Kid Stays In The Picture (Royal Court), Hamlet (Waterwell), Indian Ink (Roundabout), Master and Margarita and Measure for Measure (Theatre Complicite), Little Flower of East Orange directed by Phillp Seymour Hoffman (Public Theatre), The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (National Actors Theatre), Darwaza (solo performance, Labrynth). Title role Everyman (Steppenwolf). Numerous film credits include The Kindergarten Teacher, cult classic Office Space, SubUrbia (independent Spirit Award nomination) directed by Richard Linklater and Ashes (Best Actor, London Asian Film Festival). Television include the upcoming "Dr. Death", "Social Distance", “Blindspot”, "The Blacklist", "Billions", "God Friended Me", “Friends From College” “Odd Mom Out”, “Deadbeat,” “Bored to Death,” “30 Rock,” “West Wing,” “Lateline”,“The Sopranos” and MTV India’s “The Ajay Show”. As an emcee vocals include Talvin Singhs Mercury award winner "OK.”

Vinay Pathak is an Indian theater and film actor. He has starred in many films including Khosla Ka Ghosla, Bheja Fry, Island City, Johnny Gaddaar and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.

Danny Pudi is an actor with a wide range of experience in film, television and on stage. He currently stars in AppleTV+'s Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet. Other notable tv credits include Disney's DuckTales (Huey) DC Comics’ Powerless for Warner Brothers/NBC, TBS’ The Guest Book, TruTV’s Misfits and Monsters and FX’s Better Things. Danny’s break-out role was on the critically acclaimed series Community on NBC and Yahoo, which earned him a “Best Supporting Actor in a comedy” nomination at the Critic’s Choice Awards. In film, Pudi can be seen in Walt Disney Pictures’ Flora and Ulysses, The Tiger Hunter, Warner Brothers' Good Girls Get High, Babysplitters and the upcoming features American Dreamer and Corner Office. On stage, Danny's credits include Shabash an evening of South Asian Theatre at The Lincoln Center (2018), the Off-Broadway musical Found (Atlantic Theatre), and Huck & Holden (LA’s, Black Dahlia Theatre).

Sidney Williams is a life time member the Actors Studio and member of LAByrinth Theatre Company. With LAByrinth: Stephen Adley Guirgis’ “Little Flower of East Orange”, Craig muMs Grant’s “Paradox of the Urban Cliche”, Andrea Ciannevei’s “Pretty Chin Up”, and David Bar Katz’ “Atmosphere of Memory”. At the Actors Studio: W.B. Yeats’ translation of Sophocles’ “Oedipus, the King”, and the Weinstein/Bolcolm Opera, “Dynamite Tonite!”. Off-Broadway and New York Theatre: (OB) Robert Glaudini’s “The Identical Same Temptation”, (OB) Michael Puzo’s “The Dirty Talk”, Ibsen’s “The Wild Duck”, Horvath’s “Judgement Day”, the Rabinowitz/Weisman Opera “Darkling” at Classic Stage. (Film) Jack Goes Boating, Handsome Harry, Up to the Roof, Fear of Falling, and Eye Contact. (TV) Royal Pains, Sopranos, Louie, Law & Order, and Ghost Stories.

Bobby Daniel Rodriguez is an actor and lifetime member of The Actors Studio. He made his feature debut in Screen Media Films' Bel Canto, opposite Julianne Moore. His most recent television credits include Ava Duvernay's When They See Us (Netflix) and a recurring role on Seal Team (CBS). He holds an MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School.

Daphne Rubin-Vega can next be seen in the upcoming Warner Bros feature IN THE HEIGHTS, directed by Jon Chu, playing ‘Daniela.’ During the early months of the pandemic, she shot the Netflix series SOCIAL DISTANCE, produced by Jenji Kohan and Tara Hermann, and SAME STORM, the newest Peter Hedges film. Additional TV credits include KATY KEENE (CW) and TALES OF THE CITY (Netflix). A staple of the New York theatre community, Daphne earned a Tony nomination for her portrayal of ‘Mimi’ in the original cast of RENT, and another for ANNA IN THE TROPICS.

She recently starred in the musical, MISS YOU LIKE HELL at The Public Theatre, and in the one-woman show EMPANADA LOCA, which was written for her. She helped adapt the play into the scripted podcast, THE HORROR OF DOLORES ROACH, which is currently in pre-production for Amazon TV. Additional theater credits include Broadway revivals of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, and LES MIS; TWO SISTERS AND A PIANO and F*CKING A at The Public; ROMEO & JULIET at Classic Stage; and JACK GOES BOATING opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Lipica Shah (she/her) is an NYC-based actor, voice actor, and singer who thrives on collaboration, with a passion for new play development. She has originated roles at Manhattan Theatre Club, Mixed Blood Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theater, California Shakespeare Theater, and The New Group, among many others. Her screen work includes roles on television shows for ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, USA, HBO, Showtime, and Comedy Central. Hear her in the English dubs of Pokémon, A Silent Voice, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, Great Pretender, and more. In her spare time, she enjoys solving crosswords in pen, lighting one-match campfires, and running for inordinate amounts of time outdoors. Lipica 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), is in the co-host cohort of The Collective Perspective: Reclaiming and Reshaping Theater podcast, and serves as a National Volunteer Partner for Girl Scouts of the USA. www.LipicaShah.com

Suraj Sharma will next be seen starring in the Netflix romantic comedy feature WEDDING SEASON, directed by Tom Dey. His television credits include the series premiere episode of the Apple Original Series LITTLE AMERICA, directed by Deepa Mehta, and created by Kumail Nanjiani, Alan Yang, and Emily Gordon. He previously starred as "Rakesh" in the hit CBS series GOD FRIENDED ME, from executive producer Greg Berlanti. He made his film debut as the title role in Ang Lee's 2012 Oscar-winning film LIFE OF PI. His other credits include starring opposite Claire Danes in season 4 of the Emmy-winning Showtime series HOMELAND and the 2014 Disney feature MILLION DOLLAR ARM, opposite Jon Hamm, and directed by Craig Gillespie.

IMRAN SHEIKH Theatre: Off-Broadway: American Dreams (Working Theatre), Confidence and the Speech (Charlotte's). Regional and NYC: Disgraced (Milwaukee Rep, Florida Rep), The Invisible Hand (ACT/ Artists Rep), American Dreams (Cleveland Public Theatre), I Like to Be Here (New Ohio), The Myth Project (Noor Theatre), Carousel of Progress (Queens Theatre), Brahman/i (Crowded Fire), Disconnect (San Jose Rep), The Girl with Her Hands in the Sand & Radio Mara Mara (FringeNYC), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New York Shakespeare Exchange), Why We Left Brooklyn (Blue Coyote). Television: Guy Code (MTV, Comedy Central), Blue Bloods (CBS), Big Dogs (Amazon). Film: R & J, Origin of Fantasy. www.imransheikh.info

SATHYA SRIDHARAN Off- Broadway: Wives (Playwrights Horizons), India Pale Ale (MTC), An Ordinary Muslim (NYTW), Two Mile Hollow (WP Theater), The Winter’s Tale (The Public Shakespeare Mobile Unit), Hamlet (Sheen Center), This Is It How It Ends (59E59 Summer Shorts). NY Theater: (Ultimate Beauty Bible (Page 73), Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Bushwick Starr), Mechanics of Love (ToByFor Productions). Regional: Our Town (Portland Center Stage), Hapgood (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Philadelphia Story, As You Like It (Chautauqua Theatre Company). Film: The Whale, Minor Premise, Missy, Black & White & Red All Over, The Big Ask, Thirdy, All The Little Things We Kill, Bikini Moon, Dastaar (SXSW, IndyFest), Tourists (Nantucket, CAAM, NJFF), Open Roads (Nantucket). Television: "Prodigal Son", "Bonding", "Murderville", "Two Sentence Horror Stories", "Succession", "Night Time", "Elementary", “The Tick”, “Blindspot”, “The Blacklist”, “Madam Secretary”, and “Younger”. Sathya was the 2013 Princess Grace Award Winner. MFA: NYU

DIPTI BRAMHANDKAR

PLAYWRIGHT

Dipti Bramhandkar is a Mumbai born, NYC based writer who is exploring the meeting points between prose and dramatic performance in her work. 2020 has been a busy year so far: she kicked off with a sold-out run of her solo show American Rookie, about being an immigrant in rural New York State, at Luna Stage, and a presentation of her play Islands of Contentment at LAByrinth Theater’s Barn Series.

She is writing episodes for Quarantheater, her collection of audio stories inspired by the pandemic, which was showcased on WNYC, and in post-production of a short film called The Choice. She recently presented a new collection of pandemic inspired stories A Land Without Weather at Guild Hall, where she was the playwright in residence. Her monologues have been performed by Laura Gómez, David Zayas, Ajay Naidu, and many other wonderful actors in the past year. 

Rahul V. Chittella is an independent writer, producer and director. He was the director and executive producer of the Global Lives Project, India in 2009, after which he worked with the United Nations Documentary Program at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. Since 2010, Rahul has collaborated with prolific filmmaker, Mira Nair, as her creative and producing partner on projects like The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Words with God, Nafas, Queen of Katwe, and A Suitable Boy. He is also one of the producers of the upcoming Monsoon Wedding musical. 

Rahul has recently written and directed Azaad, a thirty-minutes film featuring the Indian National Award-winning actor Atul Kulkarni and Sakshi Tanwar. It was India’s first film to be screened by UNESCO at the prestigious World Press Freedom Day forum in Jakarta, Indonesia and was also picked up by the Cinema for Peace Foundation, Berlin for various screenings across Europe. Azaad won awards at film festivals across the globe, including the International Film Festivals of Zanzibar and Stuttgart. 

Rahul has received the Global Media Makers Fellowship by Film Independent and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Sloan Science and Film grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 

Rahul is the founder of Autonomous Works, an independent film, tv and podcast creative studio and is currently mounting his directorial feature film titled Gulmohar.

RAHUL CHITTELLA

DIRECTOR OF SELECTED FILMED MONOLOGUES

Kate Ducey is a multimedia artist focused on storytelling through moving imagery. Kate has created a wide variety of work in various disciplines, including projection & lighting design for theater, video editing and animation. Recent projects include Common’s performance of “Say Peace” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (Editor), Beetlejuice Broadway (Associate Projection Designer & Editor), & Never Sleep Alone – an interactive cabaret created for Virgin Voyages’ premiere cruise ship, The Scarlet Lady (Projection Designer).

Kate holds a BA from Northwestern University & her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. Before moving to Brooklyn she worked on television shows in Los Angeles, including It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia & Community. In her spare time she enjoys hanging from trapezes and doing handstands in empty theater lobbies.

DINA EL-AZIZ Off-Broadway: I Thought I Would Die But I Didn’t (The Tank) Eh Dah? Questions for My Father (Hypokrit Theatre/NYTW Next Door) The Russian and The Jew (Anna & Kitty Inc/The Tank), Dead Are My People (Noor Theater/NYTW's Next Door); Field Awakening (Corkscrew Festival); Alternating Currents (The Working Theater); Other theatre: P*ssyC*ck Know Nothing, News Of The Strange, Marjana and the Forty Thieves, Pay No Attention To The Girl (Target Margin Theater). Regional: This is Who I Am (Wooly Mammoth); 9 Parts of Desire (Portland Center Stage); King Lear (Nothern Stage); Noura (The Guthrie); Noura (The Old Globe); Yasmina’s Necklace (Premiere Stages); Selling Kabul (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Pay No Attention To The Girl (Target Margin Theater/Spoleto Festival); We’ve Come to Believe, The Corpse Washer, How to Defend Yourself (Actors Theatre of Louisville/43rd Humana Festival), Heartland (Geva Theatre Center).

Recent credits include Eh Dah? Questions for My Father which premiered at Next Door @ NYTW, Aunt Jack, and Dean Haspiel's The War of Woo, which closed a week before opening last March but will be remounted in 2022. Proud member of Actors' Equity Association.

Chen-Wei Liao is a New York City based scenic designer originating from Taipei, Taiwan. She has diverse experiences in theater, film and exhibition both in Asia and the United States. Growing up in a bilingual and a multicultural environment, she is interested in observing and creating the connection between people, stories and space. One of her recent meditation topics is the relativity between Freedom - Rights - Responsibility. And she is obsessed with psychology, neuron science and animal behavior studies.

Her New York City theatre credits include the world premiere of THREE MUSKETEERS 1941, produced by Project Y Theatre and was featured by the Woman in Theatre Festival (WIT); LIGHTS OUT ! with A.N.D. Theatre Company; THE GLASS MENAGERIE with Pigeonholed Company. Regional credits include world premiere of RIDE SALLY RIDE, with the B Street Theatre; CHARLOTTE’S WEB with B Street Theatre, and the upcoming productions of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM and THE ODYSSEY with Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Film Production Design credits include FREEDOM SHADOW, Directed by Ria Tobaccowala, selected by Tribeca Film Festival 2020, and will be streaming on HOB MAX in 2021-2023; USER ZERO, Directed by Ria Tobaccowala; and THE EXCHANGED, directed by Thais Vitorelli, selected and produced by Coca-Cola & Regal in 2019.

She is a proud alumni of National Taiwan University and Carnegie Mellon University.

Arpita Mukherjee (she/her/hers) is the Artistic Director and co-founder of Congressional Award–winning Hypokrit Productions and the Festival Chair for Tamasha for South Asian performing artists. Upcoming: Running by Danny Pudi (East West Players/Enacte/Hypokrit), Islands of Contentment by Dipti Bramhandkar (Hypokrit/The Tank). Recent:. Jump by Charly Evon Simpson (APAC), House of Joy by Madhuri Shekar (San Diego Rep), Eh Dah? Questions For My Father by Aya Aziz (Next Door at NYTW), Elements of Change by Divya Mangwani (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, UNICEF). Development: American Hunger by Nikhil Mahapatra (Dramatists Guild Foundation), One Way by Ben Bonnema and Christopher Staskel (NAMT), Maya by Cheeyang Ng and Eric Sorrels (Live & In Color), Citizen Scientist by CQ (Barrington Stage Company Playworks Weekend), Reclaiming Our Time: A Concert (MTF at Joe’s Pub). Arpita has developed work at WP Theater, the Public Theater, The New Group and Ma-Yi Theatre amongst others. She is a 2020-2021 Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow, 2019 SDC Denham Fellow, a 2018-2020 Womens Project Lab Member and a 2018 Eugene O’Neill National Directing Fellow. She is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Arpita was selected as a 2019 Mabou Mines Resident Artist, a 2019-2020 LMCC Governors Island Artist-in-Residence, and the 2019 Iowa State University Artist-in-Residence. Arpita is currently the book writer for Monsoon Wedding musical and is developing several film and TV projects in India and USA.

Based out of Mumbai, India, a 2014 graduate of the Film & Television Institute of India (Pune), over the years, Eeshit has worked on several collaborative and international projects from short films to commercials, documentaries to feature films. His films have traveled to festivals across the globe and won many accolades, including the Open Doors, Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland), Student Emmys (USA) and National Film Awards (India). His first Bollywood feature release - 'Qarib Qarib Singlle' (2017) has got rave reviews for its cinematography. 'Once Again' (2018) - An Indo German co production film, released theatrically in Europe and then on Netflix globally has been critically acclaimed and received a lot of praise for its 'atmospheric' cinematography. His latest feature film work includes a Netflix original, 'Maska' (2020); a sports drama 'Chhalaang' (2020) - released as an Amazon original, second unit work on 'Shantaram' - an Apple TV+ original and Dev Patel's directorial debut - 'Monkey Man'. Website: www.eeshitnarain.info

Michelle Navis stage manages and makes theater and art in New York. Some SM credits: Compagnia De Colombari's More or Less I Am NYC tour, La Tragédie de Carmen at West End Theatre, City of No Illusions at La Mama, Honors Students at Wild Project, "Filament" with NY Philharmonic at Lincoln Center, Sehnsucht & Rady&Bloom's Ding Dong It's the Ocean at JACK. Some performance credits: Falsettos (Cordelia) & Uncommon Women and Others (Leilah) at Princeton Summer Theater. She is the venue manager at West End Theatre. She earned a BA in French and a certificate in theater from Princeton University.

Heather Schulte is ecstatic to be working with such a wonderful company. Most recently, she has done creative production work for a production of Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea in her last semester at college. Previously, she has dabbled in acting/dancing in productions such as Tarzan the Musical, Mary Poppins, and High School Musical Jr. She is a recent graduate from Iowa State University and is eager to contribute to an amazing virtual experience.

Alexandra Vásquez Dheming is a Lighting Designer from El Salvador based in NYC. Alex specializes in lighting design for dance, but has also lit musical theater, straight plays, live music, live events, and festivals. She is known for her collaborations with companies such as New York Theatre Ballet and Vanaver Caravan, and her work on festivals like DanceFest, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Junior Theater Festival, and Savannah Stopover Music Festival. She was recently featured in San Diego Repertory Theater's New Latinx Play Festival. Alex has lit original work by renowned choreographers like Pam Tanowitz, Richard Alston, and Chase Brock; her lighting is regularly seen at Lincoln Center's Clark Studio, Center for Performance Research, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, FIAF Florence Gould Hall, Greenspace Studio Theater, Kumble Theater, and the former Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center. She has been a guest artist at the University of Miami, BMCC, The Tank NYC, and The Gnome Haus among others. Her multidisciplinary work has been shown around the United States, Spain (Museo Guggenheim Bilbao), France (Cannes Film Festival), and El Salvador.

Alex’s favorite moment in performance is the involuntary gasp of an audience member during an impeccably timed blackout. She enjoys being the person in the room offering a different perspective and opening up a bigger conversation. Rhythm is intrinsic to her work, as she experiences lighting design as choreographing light. Alex holds a BFA in Production Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) with minors in Dance and Design for Sustainability. She is a proud alumna of the Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas (SILV), and of the Jacob’s Pillow Internship program, to which she returns yearly in different capacities. She is also the 2020/2021 Lighting mentee at Wingspace Professional Mentorship Program by Wingspace Theatrical Design.

For more information, please visit her website:www.alexvasquezdheming.com

Hannah Wolf (Co-Director) (she/her/hers) is a Los Angeles based director originally from Juneau Alaska. She makes “subversively shiny” work for the stage that experiments with form, content, and the role of the audience.

Recent projects include: Ride Sally Ride by Tara Sissom and Katerina Pruitt (B Street Theatre), She Buried the Pistol by Lydia Blaisdell (La Jolla’s WOW Festival), Instructions for a Séance by Katie Bender (MoHA), Franklin by Samantha Noble (Perseverance Theatre), TITLE LOADING (Fusebox Festival), The Bigot by William Glick, Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spigel, ENRON by Lucy Prebble (UT Austin), and The Sky Game by Kimberly Belflower (Peppercorn Theatre).  She’s directed and developed new plays and musicals with the Geffen Playhouse, Perseverance Theatre, Chance Theater, Boston Court Pasadena, Echo Theater Company, and IAMA Theatre Company, amongst others.

She co-founded the community building organization Meet Cute in LA and is an SDC Associate. She's a 2018 National Directors Fellow, a 2013 Fulbright Research Fellow (Bucharest Romania), and an alumna of Lincoln Center Directors Lab and Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. MFA: UT Austin.

Ran Xia is a Shanghai-born, Brooklyn-based playwright, director, and sound designer. She's a Resident Director at the Tank, where she received the inaugural Artist of the Year award in 2019 and directed the world premiere of Independent Study by Ben Gassman, US premiere of The Tallest Man in the World by Ailís Ní Ríain, and most recently her own play In Blue. Her works have been seen on stages around NYC, including DIxon Place, IRT, HERE Arts Center, The Brick, The Wild Project, and more. Alumnus of Pipeline Theater's PlayLab 2020, and Mabou Mines' Makers Club. Upcoming Orlando at Barnard College. ranxia.info