Adrienne Mackey is a multidisciplinary artist who explores performance and play. With Swim Pony, she’s created and directed works like SURVIVE!  - a 22,000 sq-ft science installation; THE BALLAD OF JOE HILL at Eastern State Penitentiary; WAR OF THE WORLDS, with Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio; and THE END – a month-long ARG exploring mortality. Most recently she developed TRAILOFF – a mobile app embedding immersive audio onto nature trails and AQUA MAROONED!, a wildlife card game. Mackey is also a former chemist and teaches acting, directing and devising at UW. Catch her new interactive comedy about escaping workaholism, THE STUPIDEST, SCARIEST TIME at 12th Avenue Arts November 2024.

Blaire is a theatre artist, K-12 educator, Founder of Beyond the Stage Youth, Owner of Social Emotional Theatre, and the current Education Manager at Village Theatre. Blaire champions new voices in theatre and playwriting to foster creativity, unity, and personal growth. She has most recently worked with Village Theatre, Missoula Children’s Theatre, ACT, Double Shot Play Festival, Ancient Lake Theatre Festival and has presented at organizations such as UW, National University, Michigan Afterschool Association Conference, Washington State Bridge Conference, and Girl Scouts conferences. Blaire is a certified Social Emotional Learning Specialist and holds a BA in Theatre Arts and MA in Social Emotional Learning.

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brooklyn (she/her) is a trans poet and artist living in New York City. She holds an MFA from Goddard College and her work has appeared in Yellow Arrow Journal, Samfiftyfour, Impossible Archetype, The Pitkin Review, Big Muddy, and River Styx, among others. Her chapbook, we cast shadows & other true stories, is from Bottlecap Press. She has taught at Washington University St. Louis and St. Louis Community College, and worked as Editor in Chief at The Pitkin Review and Associate Editor for River Styx Magazine. brooklyn is also the founder and managing editor of new words {press} - a trans and gender-expansive poetry journal and press.

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Kathryn Jean Keller is a playwright, director, actor and itinerant theater artist based in Seattle. She co-founded Café Delirium, a collective of anti-racist queers responding to public affairs with original site-specific theater. Keller serves the The 14/48 Projects, “producers of the World’s Quickest Theater Festival & other feats of impossible theater, spanning the globe.” She holds a BFA in theater and a PhD in American Studies. Keller has studied theater with Eduardo Machado, Jill Dolan, Sue-Ellen Case, Andrea Stolowitz, Elizabeth Heffron and Miriam Tobin.

Kimberly is the Founder of Protagonist Events, producing entertaining corporate events. Trained as a theatre producer and story editor, she is also the Associate Artistic Director of the South Carolina New PlayFestival. Previously, she was the Literary Director of South Coast Rep, where she co-directed the Pacific Playwrights Festival and led the CrossRoads commissioning program. She has worked with companies including Los Angeles Opera, Denver Center Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Mixed Blood Theatre, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Artists at Play, The Playwrights Center, the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Musical Stage Company, and Native Voices at the Autry.

Mathew (he/him) is the Founder & CEO of 10kCreators.com, a social enterprise whose mission is to help 10,000 creators discover financial wellness through mentorship, training, community, and access to critical resources. As both an artist and entrepreneur, this work is personal. After having survived the life of an NYC starving artist and navigating his way through the world of small business, he created 10kCreators.com to help other artists avoid the mistakes he’s made.

• Rachael is passionate about community-based creativity, healing and transformation. With more than 20 years of experience, she brings a dynamic style to her work as a consultant, facilitator, mediator and applied theatre practitioner. She is a co-founder of Creative Strategies for Change, presented at TEDx, and holds an MA from the Gallatin School at NYU, where she received the Nia award for outstanding creative work, and taught courses through the commission on Gender, Race and Social Justice. Rachael finds magic in the mess and endless joy romping in the wild with Ruthie the pup.

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Sofia Molimbi (Dubrawsky) is a playwright who recently graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing (focus: Playwriting) from Goddard College; under the advisement of Rogelio Martinez, Darrah Cloud, and Susan Kim. She has been published by Smith & Kraus, Applause Acting Series, Meriwhether Publishing, Pioneer Drama Service, and The Pitkin Review. She was recently awarded a scholarship from The Finlandia Foundation for playwriting, The Spirit of Goddard Award, and a scholarship from the Pearl Foundation. Her play The Eclipse recently had its first reading as a part of The Dramatists Guild Footlight series.  Sofia has worked as a theatre artist in NYC, Dublin, Helsinki, and Portland. She is a proud member of The Dramatist Guild, Sagaftra, and Actors Equity Assoc. She currently lives in a bilingual household of French and English in Portland, Oregon, with her husband Landry, and their three young sons.