Irene is a director and producer with expertise in theatrical and experiential programming. She has led and managed dozens of live and digital productions throughout New York City and Los Angeles. Select directing projects include: The House Our Families Built (PBS American Portraits), Take Care (The Tank), Machinal (Waterwell), and The Cult Play (Paradise Factory). She has been the associate director on several experiential projects throughout the country, including experiences for Amazon Prime, Tentrr, Facebook, CES, Pop Culture Collaborative, and Meow Wolf. Irene is the co-founder and artistic director of Make/Shift, a community that fosters makers in the shift from muse to making. She received her BFA in Drama at NYU/Tisch and is currently pursuing her MBA at Baruch College Zicklin School of Business. @ireneiscrafty | irenelazaridis.com

Monisha is a writer, actress, and director based in LA & NY. As a writer, her work was recently featured on the annual 2020 Black List. She’s an alum of Ron Howard & Brian Grazer’s Imagine Impact program and her original high school series Condoms & Cherries is currently in development at Sony. She’s also written for projects in collaboration with MRC, Boulderlight Pictures, and Apple TV+. An alum of USC’s BFA acting program and LaGuardia Performing Arts High School, as an actress she’s apprenticed with One Year Lease Theater Co and has performed with Los Angeles’ Skylight Theater, New Collective, UCB, and Theatre 68. You can also hear her voice in an upcoming Nickelodeon International Indian animated series. She’s one of the curators on Black Box Radio, an original  narrative anthology podcast. Prior to the pandemic, she led unconventional renegade tours at the Getty Museum to uphold Museum Hack’s official company motto: “Museums Are F***ing Awesome”. Her favorite “un-highlight” is a bronze statue with a removable penis (no joke).

April Soetarman is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and writer who creates installations, public art, and immersive theater. Her site-responsive works play with the language of everyday objects and speculative institutions to explore complex human emotions. Her projects have been exhibited by museums and public spaces, as well as anonymously installed in dozens of locations across the country. April is also behind WeirdSideProjects.com, her series of ongoing experiments in code, text, and street art. Notable projects include The Museum of Almost Realities (2017), The Department of Emotional Labor (2019), and The End of the Day (2020). @AprilSoetarman / AprilSoetarman.com

Attilio Rigotti is a Chilean performer, technology artist, video game designer, and teacher. His work focuses on the intersection between game design, interactive technologies, and live performance, and he has performed, trained, and developed productions in Poland, Egypt, Lebanon, India, Indonesia, Japan, Italy, Cuba, Djibouti, the UAE, and U.S. As a technologist, he headed video and technology design for the American Conservatory Theater, MIT, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Kaki King, and Juilliard School, and he taught at many of these institutions through master classes and affiliate faculty positions. His graphics and video work have been part of Broadway shows The Sound Inside, The Great Society, Company, Plaza Suite, The Minutes, American Buffalo, and Girl From the North Country. His directing has been featured at the Tank, City Lyric Opera, Harvard University, NYU Tisch, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, Seize the Show, and theatreC.

Annabel loves to breathe life into all kinds of stories. Born and raised in London. Annabel is an actor and director living in New York City. Annabel’s father brought her to New York at the age of 10. He said ‘This is New York. You’re going to love this city.’ She did. She does. Annabel has worked in theatre, TV, film and radio since graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Annabel worked as an actor for 15 years in the UK before moving to New York. John Barton, co founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, mentored Annabel for a year in 2007. Annabel facilitated and performed in Shakespeare workshops in high security prisons around the UK for 8 years. The workshops garnered much interest and acclaim culminating in several productions documented and filmed by the BBC.

 Gamal is a Writer, Actor, and Comedian. He was head writer of the TBD Sketch Comedy Show from 2015-2017, has weaseled his way into shows on Broadway and Off, and has had original plays presented by Fail Better NYC, Rascal Arts, The Bechdel Group, and more. Currently, he writes for and stars in the sci-fi sitcom web-series Wormholes (@wormholes.tv), and performs with “Only Sketches About…” Sketch Comedy.

Sajda is a born and raised NY theatre artist with a Masters in Thespianage. She is a Co-Founder and Media Producer of the theatre company Showdogs, which is committed to creating accessible art that showcases the diversity in storytelling.  She is a purveyor of black excellence and her ultimate goal in all her work is to push against the boundaries of commerciality, sexism, and white supremacy in hopes of empowering others to do the same. You can catch her acting/directing/writing in the Showdog’s web-series WORMHOLES which can be found on IGTV @wormholes.tv or on the ShowdogsNYC Youtube channel.