Wo Chan is queer Chinese poet and drag performer with honors from Kundiman, Poets House, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and Lambda Literary. They are a standing member of the Brooklyn-based drag & burlesque alliance Switch n’ Play and have performed at venues including The Trevor Project, Brooklyn Pride, and the Architectural Digest Expo.

Maxe Crandall is a poet and playwright living between Brooklyn, NY and Berkeley, CA. They are the author of the chapbooks Emoji for Cher Heart and Together Men Make Paradigms, a play that premiered in the HOT! Festival in 2014 and was short-listed for the Leslie Scalapino Award. Last year, their art and writing about art appeared in the shows Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Art and Archives and Transgender History in 99 Objects. A recipient of the Poetry Project’s Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship and the Poets House Emerging Poets Fellowship, Maxe teaches at Stanford University.

Johnny Drago is a playwright and performer whose work has been commissioned, produced, or developed by Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Barter Theatre, 7 Stages, The Weird Sisters Theatre Project, and Actor’s Express. As Dismantle Theater (with choreographer Erik Thurmond), he has written, directed, or produced the experimental performance works Ripple, Brick by Brick I Will Tear Down These Walls Between Us, NSA, Monument, and New Moon.