MIRANDA HAYMON (she/they) is a Princess Grace Award/Honoraria-winning writer, director, and deviser of performance. Recent projects include Everybody (Sarah Lawrence College), In the Penal Colony (Next Door @ NYTW, The Tank) and Mondo Tragic (National Black Theater). They are an Associate Artist at Roundabout Theatre Company, a Resident Director at The Tank, a New Georges Affiliate Artist and 2019 Audrey Resident, a Space on Ryder Farm 2019 Creative Resident, member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and the Wingspace Mentorship Program. Miranda is a 2019/20 New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Directing Fellow, a Manhattan Theatre Club Directing Fellow, and a former Allen Lee Hughes Directing Fellow at Arena Stage. BA Wesleyan University.
www.mirandahaymon.com

ALISHA BHOWMIK (she/her) is a multi-racial, multi-hyphenate artist who’s passions lie in storytelling. She fell in love with design when she was a teenager making posters for theater shows. That eventually lead her into doing identity branding and web design. She has worked in digital media and marketing for the past four years at arts institutions like BAM and Carriageworks. Outside of design she is also a filmmaker. A graduate of NYU Tisch, she directs, produces, edits and acts in film and video works. Her short documentary on her identity “Dot & a Feather” was the first Sundance Co//ab Challenge winner. She recently directed a music video for singer/songwriter beccs that premiered on Huffington Post and featured in NYLON and Refinery29. She is a member of Kalakars, a South-Asian actor/filmmaker collective and Filmshop, an NYC based film collective.
www.alishabhowmik.com

Synead Cidney Nichols (she/hers) is a multidisciplinary performance artist born and raised in New York City. "You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time." —Angela Davis. Her work revolves around movement, sonic exploration and healing, as well as her personal, historical and spiritual connections to the human condition and experience. She explores what it means to identify as a black womxn/femme/female identifying individual and the experience through these varying lenses. “Our bodies do not just store the information from our experiences, but hold a wealth of history passed down through our DNA. The complete lives of our ancestors before us,” says Synead. This is what inspires her to create.

Santiago Iacinti (they/them) is a Mexican born queer femme nonbinary director, writer, choreographer. Their work is that of resistance, activism, and liberation; they want to dismantle the culture of elitism and inaccessibility in the theatre perpetuated by institutions that operate as primarily white, heteronormative, male spaces. They seek to end systematic erasure, decolonize the American canon, and develop original work that stages new futures for people of color and the LGBT community. Their interdisciplinary approach disrupts the safe, commercial, hyper-realistic landscape in the American theatre through the use of film, dance, and shadow puppetry. Lastly, as a bilingual artist, Santiago is determined to bring work in Spanish to the forefront. Their directing credits: The Great Gatsby (Milwaukee Rep), To Saints & Stars, Bees & Honey, Heridas Graves En El Parque De Juegos (San Diego Repertory Theatre). Iacinti has assisted May Adrales, Gaye Taylor Upchurch, and Jackson Gay. Assistant director credits include: In The Heights (Milwaukee Rep, Seattle Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse), Things I Know To Be True (Milwaukee Rep, Arizona Theatre Company), Kill Local (La Jolla Playhouse), The Blameless, tokyo fish story (Old Globe). Santiago Iacinti is an inaugural member of the Roundabout Directors Group, a former Directing Emerging Professional Resident at Milwaukee Rep, the first Artistic Literary Intern at the Old Globe, and an alumnus of Directors Lab West.
www.santiagoiacinti.com

Non Kuramoto (she/her) is an iconic feminist-art-queer. She is a fool for this world, speaking truth wrapped in beautiful, colorful, glittery wrapping paper that is fun for everyone to open. Non sucks you into Non-world as soon as she starts talking. Her rainbow pop aesthetic colors even the most dark and dirty jokes into a celebration of life. Her infectious laughter creates, holds, shares, nurtures, expands, breaks down, and takes up space. She is a slut for all art-forms, dipping toes and mixing-and-matching in any way that she sees fit; Stand up, playwriting, music, sketch comedy, visual art, whatever works. She will hold your hand as we escape together from the land of should and run towards lands of would and could. She wants our hearts to beat in sync. If you want to know more about what she’s talking about, check out her website www.nonkuramoto.com IG: @nyanchatte Twitter: NonOfYourBizness

Aizzah Fatima (she/hers) has been featured on NPR, The Guardian, Women’s Hour (BBC), The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time Out, The New York Times, and The Huffington Post. Her comedy solo play Dirty Paki Lingerie has been produced in NYC, London, Toronto, Italy (four city tour), Turkmenistan, Pakistan (US State Dept. sponsored four city tour), The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a 15 city tour in the United Kingdom in 2016, and at colleges and universities around the U.S. She was nominated for an Outstanding Solo Performance award (NYIT 2014), and for a Broadway World award for Best Play in 2016. Select theatre credits: Acquittal (Pan Asian Rep), Romeo & Juliet (Hypokrit Theatre), Half Hearted (Cherry Lane Theatre), #serials@theflea (The Flea Theater). TV credits: High Maintenance (HBO), The Code (CBS), Mr. Robot (USA Network), The Good Wife (CBS), Mata-e-jaan (HUMTV, Pakistan). She has performed at Upright Citizen's Brigade, and in sketches for collegehumor.com. She is the recipient of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art grant with Brooklyn Children's Theatre. Her play The Scholar was commissioned and published by the Religion & Diversity Project (Canada). She co-produced the feature film titled Horror Time executive produced by James Franco, and is in post production on her feature film American.ish with Emmy award winning director Iman Zawahry. She is a Yes, And...Laughter Lab finalist, and winner of the Roddenbery Impact award for her series Muslim Girls DTF: Discuss Their Faith.
www.AizzahFatima.com @aizzahfatima

Julie Piñero (she/hers) is a multimedia Latinx creator. By day, she's a documentarian and producer. By night, she does standup and sketch comedy around Brooklyn, encouraging audiences to laugh at emotions about which they would otherwise feel shame. She's currently producing original audiobooks and podcasts at Audible. Previously, she produced short documentaries at Huffington Post, where she also worked as an on-air correspondent for the Roku-streamed show "ICYMI". She produced a handful of short travel and food documentaries for Thrillist, and prior to that she spent a couple years working in late-night comedy TV at both NBC and CBS. These days, she plays lead guitar in the band Boys Drool, which just released their first demo. If you ask her, she'll tell you about the time she once walked 500 miles across the north of Spain. Check out her Instagram stories, which is her favorite medium these days.
www.juliepinero.com @Shmoooolie

Amara Brady (she/hers) is a generative artist & cultural dramaturg from Chicago. At the crux of her artistry is uplifting Black women and connecting underserved communities to theatrical experiences. As an actor she’s been on stage at The Lark, Joe’s Pub, NYU Skirball, The Duplex, Barrington Stage Co., NYTW, 54 Below, & others. She is a member of Joe Iconis’ wonderful family as a writer she has been been a semi-finalist for Space on Ryder Farm, an inaugural member of the Showdogs playwriting collective, The Parsnip Ship’s Radio Roots Writers Group, and a member of SHECreates NYC’s Myths and Legends program. Her work has been staged at The Drama League, The Dramatists Guild, Joe’s Pub, and The Wow Cafe Theatre. As a producer she’s helped put on Theatre Communications Groups National Conference (2019) and was the Associate Producer of the NYT’s Critic Pick, SKiNFoLK by Jillian Walker. Check out her YouTube Series, ‘Skinny & White’ Aren’t Character Traits. In This Paper I’ll Explain. She wants to remind you to resist, check your privilege, & then give some space to Women of Color & Trans Folx. Ashé to the ancestors. All Power to all people.
www.amarajanaebrady.com @bradynotthebunch