JANICE AMAYA is a Salvadoran-America actor, writer, and teaching artist based in New York City. She has worked domestically and internationally, using documentary theater to illuminate the human condition of marginalized communities. Her ongoing project, Seen/Unseen, focuses on Central American refugees on the migrant trail from the southern border of Mexico to her birthplace of Dallas, Texas. NYC credits include premiers at the Flea Theater (I Hate F*cking Mexicans, White Hot, and The Mysteries) where she was a member of the Bats, their resident acting company. She holds an MFA from the American Repertory Theater Institute at Harvard University.

SARAH PATON is an actor and teaching artist based in New York. Favorite credits include: Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey), Leontine in Triumph of Love (STNJ), Ruby in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (ART Institute) and Masha in Dying for It (ART Institute). She has an MFA in acting from The American Repertory Theater/ Moscow Art Theater School Institute at Harvard University and a BA in Religion from Princeton University.

ALI STONER is an actress, choreographer, and teaching artist based out of NYC.  She recently received her MFA from the ART Institute at Harvard University, where she performed as Dimitri/Vinnie in Diane Paulus’ The Donkey Show, and understudied five tracks in Rachel Chavkin’s Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812.  She has worked as a choreographer or choreographer’s assistant on shows directed by Michael Greif, Alex Timbers, and Laura Savia.  Upcoming projects include: Cancer Play with Denver’s Wormwood Theatre Collective.  For more info, visit www.ali-stoner.com.

KATHERINE WRIGHT recently graduated with an MFA from the American Repertory Theater’s Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, and holds a BA in Acting and Dramaturgy from Emerson College. At the ART Institute, she performed in A Big Mess, Dying For It, and As You Like It. She was a swing in ART’s production of Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 and played Queen Olivia in The Pirate Princess. This summer, Katherine performed in a concert reading of Ragtime on Ellis Island, starring Brian Stokes Mitchell, Laura Michelle Kelly, and Brandon Victor Dixon.

KAI-CHIEH TU is a NY-based director and dramaturg. He has an MFA in dramaturgy and theater studies from The American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater School Institute at Harvard University, and professional experience running his own theatre company TransAction in Taipei as the Artistic Director.  Recent directing credits include Things You Don’t Know About Asia/n…Or You Do (Dixon Place),  7-Eleven Project (Taipei City), Orphans (Lu-Ming Theater). Recent dramaturgy credits include They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (American Repertory Theater); Silent Rage (American Repertory Theater).

FEDOR SOKOLOV is a musician, composer, and DJ. He started working as a designer and tour manager for the internationally acclaimed theater group Engineering Theatre AKHE, based in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. For the next six years, Fedor performed with AKHE at more than 30 major theater festivals around the world, winning numerous theater awards. In 2016, Harvard University invited Fedor to compose music for the ART Institute’s production of They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?. He performed his compositions live during the run of the show. Fedor is also the founder and CEO of ELK Academy, an online language school (www.elk.today).

GRACIE TERZIAN  is originally from the Washington, DC area and now lives in NYC. She has worked in theatre and film as an actor, singer, dancer/acrobat and composer. Her past credits include The Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, the American Theatre of Actors, and many others. Saints and Poets, her EP of original music, debuted at #23 on the Billboard jazz charts and became the #3 jazz album on iTunes. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia. @GracieTerzian www.GracieTerzian.com