Camille Simone Thomas is an associate artist with Sanguine Theatre company, and current cohort member of Moxie Arts Incubator as a producer. She is an alum of Broadway Advocacy Coalitions Artivism course, The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute’s DEAR fellowship, The Theatre Producers of Color program and a former Acting Apprentice at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her plays have been featured with The Obie Award-winning Harlem9 and Detroit Public Theatre Company, The National Women’s Theatre Festival, Lime Arts Theatre Company, American Slavery Project, Blackboard playwriting series, The Red Curtain Theatre, and published with The Playground Experiment. IG: Camille4reel

Sierra Nicole (director) is an up-and-coming theater director and filmmaker based in NYC. Their most recent projects include “Switch Seats With Me” a sketch comedy show featuring a diverse group of actors, writers, and directors, and JJ Maley’s I’m (Also) Not that girl. They have also worked with The LGBTQ Center in coalition building and The Next Generation Project for the advocacy of TGNC folks across the state of New York. They hope to use storytelling not only as a medium for creating change but also to facilitate joy and belonging.

Yazmeen Mayes is a writer and composer from Georgia. Currently, Yazmeen is trying to Benjamin Button as much as possible, which entails playground swings, movie-makeover montages, and re-learning guitar in pursuit of her 6-year old dream of becoming Hannah Montana. paRenT PlUs LOaNs is the first stage production Yazmeen has ever composed for, and she is so excited to be a part of this kick-ass team and see their vision come to life. Enjoy the show! Contact: yazmeen.mayes@gmail.com

Riel Reddick-Stevens is a multidisciplinary artist from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is a graduate of Randolph college for performing arts (Toronto) and the acting program at National Theatre School of Canada (Montreal).On top of performance Riel is also a composer, songwriter and emerging music producer. Shel is intrigued by how elements of sound design can be mixed into hiphop to elevate theatre stories to make music both fun to listen to but also an emotional journey.Riel is super excited for her music to make its American debut in Parent Plus Loan and is extremely grateful to Camille for creating such a poignant, relevant story and including that is so necessary to be told right now

Shelby Alayne Antel is an actor and writer in NYC, and is Camille Thomas’ #1 fan. Shelbyantel.com

Laura Mason is a recent graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design with her MFA in Performing Arts. A former resident of Minneapolis, MN, she has over a dozen credits from theatres in that area. Turning her focus to film and television, she has 11 short film credits and multiple sketch comedy appearances. She highly anticipates the release of her directing debut in September, a short film titled “It’s Better to Be Absolutely Ridiculous.” A leading member of sketch comedy group, Mazel Tov Cocktail Comedy, her work can be viewed on their social media platforms (Instagram: @mazeltcc). Laura is proud to be represented by Evolution Models and Talent.

Pamela Capalad is a Certified Financial Planner™ and Accredited Financial Counselor™ and has been in financial services since 2008. She founded Brunch & Budget to help people who felt ashamed or embarrassed about money have a safe place to make real financial progress. Pam has been featured in the Washington Post, Teen Vogue, Huffington Post, Vice Magazine, and was named New York Magazine’s Best financial planner of New York 2019.

Brian “Dyalekt” Kushner has been a hip-hop MC, theater maker, and educator for nearly 20 years. He’s the director of pedagogy at Pockets Change, where he uses hip-hop pedagogy to demystify personal finance and help students take control of their relationship with money. He is the recipients of Jump$tart’s 2022 Innovation in Financial Literacy award. He’s rocked (performed/taught/keynoted) everywhere from conferences like AFCPE and Prosperity Now, to stages like SXSW and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, to classrooms that range from Yale to your cousin’s living room

Pam & Dyalekt host the Brunch & Budget podcast and cofounded Brunch & Budget’s group financial planning program for POC called See Change. They regularly keynote on how art, culture, and media are used to perpetuate racial wealth inequality.

Judy Tate is a playwright, television writer, artistic director, producer and educator. Her television writing includes Another World, Days of Our Lives, and As the World Turns. She’s won four daytime Emmys and a Writers’ Guild of America award.Judy is the founding artistic director of Manhattan Theatre Club’s “theatre company within a theatre company,” Stargate Theatre, a work and social readiness theatre program for justice-involved young men. Each summer they perform their work on Manhattan Theatre Club’s Stage II at City Center. Her 14 years of work with high school inmates on Rikers Island inspired her original TV pilot, Lockdown High. She is a 25-year member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and a member of their Playwright’s Unit, where she’s developed plays for production.

Andrew T Ross is a social activist and Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. A contributor to the Guardian, the New York Times, The Nation, Artforum, Jacobin, London Review of Books, and Al Jazeera, he is the author or editor of 25 books and more than 250 articles on a wide variety of topics—labor and work, urbanism, politics, technology, environmental justice, alternative economics, music, film, TV, art, architecture, and poetry. He is the co-founder of the Debt Collective.

Cody Israel currently works for the NYS Common Retirement Fund as an Investment Officer on the Private Equity team. They have previously worked at the NYC Board of Education Retirement Systems as an Investment Strategy Analyst, at BlackRock as an Analyst, and at Merrill Lynch as a Financial Advisor. Cody has a BS in Finance from Lehigh University, where they competed in track and field.

 Sheldon Steele is an internationally recognized performance artist, musician, arts administrator, and executive leader. He is a graduate of Rider University from which he holds a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre and a M.A. in Arts Management and Executive Leadership. Credits Include: International Tour: Dreamgirls (CC White u/s), New York Theatre: Saturday Night Fever (John W. Engeman Theatre), Regional: Hairspray (Seaweed), Aida, Sister Act, and Big River (Thingamajig Theatre Company). He would like to thank God, his beautiful mother, and his incredible family and friends. Follow his journey – www.sheldonsteeleofficial.com – Instagram: @SheldonSteele

Tariq Allen is a trumpeter and music engineer. In May 2014, he studied jazz and music pedagogy at the New School with Jimmy Owens and Cecil Bridgewater. Tariq Allen has over 500,000 streams attached to his professional catalog and has appeared on Huck’s self-titled album, which is gaining traction in the bedroom pop/lo-fi genre. He draws inspiration from New Orleans funeral music, Erykah Badu, and 50s and 60s hardbop. Tariq focuses on film scoring and media scoring in New York.