William Hand worked as the Founding Artistic Director of Do It Live in San Francisco for five years, where he worked to introduce the West Coast to contemporary international playwrights such as Jon Fosse, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Ewald Palmetshofer, and Ivan Viripaev. He is a student of Meyerhold’s Biomechanics under Gennadi Bogdanov and Alexey Levinskiy.

Polina Ionina is a Kazakh-born director. Polina aims to portray the complexities of human interactions by exploring physiology and the human brain. As part of her work in progress she combines theatrical and meditation techniques to strengthen the actor’s group dynamic to explore identity, relationship, and interpersonal connection. Polina has performed with the Grotowski-based theater group Dzieci for two years, and is a member of the immersive theater workshop PlayLab with Jeff Wirth. A major influence on Polina’s thinking and practice comes from her time spent in Kyrgyzstan studying the meditative techniques of Sufi Whirling.