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Adil Mansoor (Creator, Co-Director, Performer) (he/him) is a director centering queer folks and people of color. He has developed new work with The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, Sundance, Playwrights' Center, Mercury Store, The Playwrights Realm, Pittsburgh Public Theater, and others. Directing projects include Daddies by Paul Kruse (Audible), Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Hatch Arts Collective), and Kentucky by Leah Nanako Winkler (Pittsburgh Playhouse).

He is a founding member of Pittsburgh’s Hatch Arts Collective and the former Artistic Director of Dreams of Hope, an LGBTQA+ youth arts organization. He is an NYTW Usual Suspect and former Sundance Art of Practice Fellow. He was part of the inaugural Artist Caucus gathered by Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf, St. Louis Rep, and Woolly Mammoth. Mansoor received the Emerging Artist Carol R. Brown Award in 2024. He holds an MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University.

Lyam B. Gabel (Co-Director) (they/he) is a trans* performance-maker and community archivist. He lives between the mountains of Eastern PA and NYC. They are making DADDY, a performance and public health resource about transmasculine pregnancy. Their work, the dance floor, the hospital room, and the kitchen table made from 32 interviews exploring queer care received a NPN commission, was shown at the TCG meeting in 2022, and was exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial. They directed the premiere of The House of Telescopes by Kairos Looney for Pipeline. They developed work at Ars Nova, Judson Church, Kelly Strayhorn, The Theater Offensive, and The New Orleans CAC among others. Lyam co-created Alleged Lesbain Activities, a touring musical about the history of lesbian bars funded by the MAP fund and the NEFA National Theater Project. Drama League Resident 2023 and 2021, Drama League Fellow 2017. Assistant Professor at Lehigh University.

Joseph Amodei (Co-Media Design) (they/them) is a new media artist, theater designer, community health researcher, activist, and educator whose work explores the intersections of art, emerging technology, and community. Originally from North Carolina, Joseph earned their BFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA in Video and Media Design from Carnegie Mellon University. They currently serve as Assistant Professor of Media Design at Lehigh University, where they develop innovative curricula integrating immersive technologies, design research, and socially engaged media practices. Some recent projects include An Archive of Queer Care, a virtual reality experience exploring 3D photogrammetry archiving and embedded oral histories; Packing and Cracking, a game-based theater project addressing gerrymandering; the dance floor, the hospital room, and the kitchen table, a multimedia exploration of the HIV/AIDS crisis and queer care; and Engaging Together for Healthy Relationships, an initiative aimed at improving education around adolescent relationships.

davine byon (Co-Media Design) (she/her) is a Korean-American new media designer, performance artist, and curator of exhibits and experiences based in Pittsburgh and NYC. Her recent design and performance collaborations have been featured at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Bunker Projects, The Mercury Store, Lenfest Center for the Arts, and The Andy Warhol Museum; original performance pieces include Prophecies and Soy Sauce Shots with Caroline Yoo for Kelly Strayhorn Theater's Freshworks residency and 연결 (connection) with her mother, Jeemin Kim, at the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art. She holds a BFA in Drama for Video and Media Design from Carnegie Mellon University and currently works as the Curatorial Assistant for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

Aaron Landgraf (Sound Design) is a sound designer for theater, video games, audiobooks, and a ton of other things. Some recent past projects where he has led the audio process include: The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir by Martha S. Jones (Basic Books), Sleeping on Islands, A Life in Poetry by Andrew Motion (W.F Howes), All The Words But The One (XO Productions Inc., directed by Nava Mau). Some recent past projects where he has collaborated as member of the sound design team include: Angel Island (Produced by Beth Morrison Projects at BAM, NY, New York, Sound Design by Angela Baughman), Asgard’s Wrath 2 (Sanzaru Games, Meta Quest, 2024 D.I.C.E Awards Immersive Reality Game of the Year), and Lego 2k Drive (2k and Visual Concepts, all major consoles). He holds an MFA in sound design from Carnegie Mellon University. You can find more about him at www.adlandgraf.com.

Xotchil Musser (Set & Lighting Design) (they/she) is a multi-skilled human who enjoys designing for theatre, dance, installations, and other forms of visual + interactive art. As a child, they lived on an island south of Miami; now they live in NYC where they examine the exploration of how theater can be applied to community health and healing. Xotchil is an advocate for antiracist theatre and strives to build a community in the industry based on equitable practices and altruism. For more information, visit xotchil.com.

Jazzy Davis (Production Stage Manager) (they/she) is a DC-based theatre artist, collaborator, and aries. Select credits: Romantic Fools (New York Deaf Theatre), Heroes of the Fourth Turning (BLUEBARN Theatre), Ain’t No Mo’ (Baltimore Center Stage), Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner (The Public Theater), MONSTRESS (Flying V), The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company).