Jason Jacobs has been named as a NYTheatre.com ‘‘Person of the Year.’’ He was formerly the co-artistic director of Theatre Askew, where he co-created and directed Bald Diva! and devised numerous projects with LGBTQA youth. He directed Lavender Songs (TOSOS II, Backstage Bistro Award), After the Chairs (2014 Fresh Fruit Festival, Best Direction Award) and Richard Sheinmel’s Modern Living series (LaMama Club). His play Another Horatio Alger Story was recently seen at Chicago’s Pride Film and Players Gay Play Fest. Regional productions at Vermont Stage Company and Kitchen Theatre. Member of Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab.

Gisela Cardenas has directed, performed and written in the UK, Germany, Peru, Romania, Brasil, The Netherlands, Norway and USA. Awards: Princes Grace Theater Fellowship, Women’s Project Director’s Lab, TCG/ NEA Career Development Program.  She has an MA in Performance Studies (NYU) and an MFA in Directing (Columbia University). Recent credits: Aeschylus’ Agamemnon (Drama Desk Nomination); Antigone (Sibiu International Theater Festival—Romania), Euripides’ Medea, Brecht’s In The Jungle of Cities, Richard III in Norway, Weskler’s The Kitchen, Peter Asmussen’s Nobody Meets Anyone in Brazil.

Matthew C. Pritchard & Isam Rum began their musical partnership more than 16 years ago and together they have provided original music and/or sound design for Bianca Leigh’s BUSTED: The Musical, I, Claudius Live and the GLAAD Award-nominated productions of Bald Diva! & I Google Myself (all for Theatre Askew), The Abduction of Becky Morris & Coyote Katie (NY Fringe Festival), Home/Away & The F On My Chest (Theatre Askew Youth Performance Experience), Tim Cusack’s WHAT DID HE SEE? (ForemanFest) and Jason Jacobs’ Another Horatio Alger Story (The Cell). Isam is also lead guitarist for the band The Production.