Brooke Shilling is a born and raised New Yorker with a passion for devising socially relevant theatre and for using performance as a vehicle for change. She is a graduate of Ithaca College with a BFA in Acting. She has worked with groups including One Year Lease Theatre Company, Irondale, Civic Ensemble, A Laboratory for Actor Training, The Joust Theatre Company and more. She also began to develop her solo show Ladies of the Land with the Drama League’s Fourth Friday Art+Party Residency in June of 2018. brooke-shilling.com.

Parade Stone is a director, playwright and lyricist born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BA in Theatre and Performance and Gender Studies from SUNY Purchase College in 2017. She loves collaborating with up-and-coming artists on new plays and musicals. As a playwright her recent work includes In the Same Space  (Dir. Raz Golden; 5X10 A Night of New Plays, Williamstown Theatre Festival) and Cupid’s Corner (Dir. Sadie Scott; IRT Theatre). This past summer she directed a reading of her original musical, Recipe for a Sellout (South Oxford Space), which will be produced for a workshop presentation at The Wild Project in 2019. Her recent directing work includes Loverspy (Dixon Place), Singr: An Intimate Cabaret (Sheen Center for Thought and Culture) and Ladies of the Land (Fourth Friday Art+Party, The Drama League). She has assisted for artists and companies such as Pig Iron, Ripe Time and Young Jean Lee. Recently, she co-founded an artistic collective called The Great Room Co. She and her co-founders continue to produce music and theatre that feature the works of early career artists.