Rajeev Varma graduated from Auckland’s Unitec School of Performing Arts and created New Zealand’s first Indo-Asian theatre company, The Untouchables Collective. Raj is one half of Those Indian Guys, whose shows have toured seven countries over ten years. New Zealand TV credits include 1000 Apologies, NZ’s first Prime Time Indo-Asian sketch comedy show, & The Millen Baird Show. Raj is a principal lead in The Blue Rose, the flagship show of TV3’s 2013 season. US TV credits include Xena: Warrior Princess, Young Hercules & Cleopatra 2525.  Raj’s film credits include 1nite, The Price of Milk & We’re Here to Help. Upon return to New York last year, Raj played the lead in a sitcom pilot entitled Brown Nation, with Infamous Coconuts. Most recently, Raj appeared on Broadway in the Roundabout Theater Company’s production of Indian Ink which toured to A.C.T.

Arthur Meek creates delightfully enterprising work for all kinds of stages, pages & screens. He’s based in Wellington, New Zealand & lived in New York for 18 months as the Harriet Friedlander New York Resident. This year his play On the Conditions & Possibilities of Hillary Clinton Taking Me as Her Young Lover was placed in the ‘‘lowbrow & brilliant’’ section of New York magazine after premiering at La Mama. The show is currently touring internationally.

Jonathan Council has appeared on stage as Aaron the Moor in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus at the Organic Theatre in Chicago & as Wan in Bertolt Brecht’s A Man’s a Man. He has performed the staged reading of The Emmit Till Story at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago under the direction of Rondi Reed. Jonathan was one of the founding members of New York’s Creative Arts Team, which worked with at-risk youth.  Jonathan divides his time between New York & New Zealand.