Julia Izumi is an NYC-based playwright and performer. Her plays have been performed and developed with The Habitat, The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Chain Theatre, The Barrow Group, and Primary Stages, among others. She is a current member of Freshground Pepper’s Playground Playgroup Residency, The Brewing Department’s Writer’s Group, the BMI Librettist Workshop, and the First Floor Studio Residency at HB Studio. As a performer, some of her credits include HamletGhosts (Dixon Place, HERE), Stan (Dixon Place), Washougal My Heart (Communal Spaces), and Molly Murphy and Neil DeGrasse Tyson On Our Last Day On Earth (Incubator Arts Project).

Ann Noling is a director from Brooklyn, NY. She received her Bachelors of Arts in American Studies with a focus on racial narratives in theatre from Tufts University. Recent credits include directing new work with Variations Theatre Group, Red Shirt Entertainment, The Habitat, and Summertime Re-write at the Segal Center. She has assisted for David Auburn, Robert O’Hara, Davis McCallum and Ken Rus Schmoll, and was a 2014-2015 Robert Moss directing resident at Playwrights Horizons.