CELIA MANDELA RIVERA (She/Her) Celia Mandela Rivera is a Black Latinx/Caribbean director, actor, and creative disruptor. Her work often centers and amplifies Black & Brown, femme, queer voices and experiences. Select Directing collabs: Deaf West, AMMO Theatre, Coin & Ghost, Boston Court Pasadena, Echo Theatre, IAMA Theatre, Ensemble Studio/LA, Skylight Theatre, Art of Acting Studio. Select Acting: Latino Theater Co., Coin & Ghost, IAMA Theatre Co., Antaeus Theatre, The Vagrancy, Rogue Artists Ensemble, La Jolla Playhouse, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (Regional). Celia is also IAMA’s Theatre Company’s Literary Manager and a company member. Creator & Co-Founder of BLKLST. Co-Author of the L.A. Anti-Racist Theatre Standards (LA ARTS). Both aim to hold Los Angeles-based theatre companies accountable to the larger BIPOC theatre community and to create a systemic shift that centers equitable practices and norms. B.A. USC’s School of Dramatic Arts. IG: @CeliaMandela @BLKLST_LA

ESPERANZA ROSALES BALCÁRCEL (She/Her) Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel (she/her) is a trans Guatemalan playwright, born in Guatemala and raised in Norwalk, CT. She enjoys writing spiritual, hyper theatrical plays that give Queer + Trans artists from the global majority great journeys towards healing. She is the recipient of the Paul Green Award from the National Theater Conference, the Kennedy Center’s Latinx Playwriting Award, and has received distinctions and development opportunities from theaters including NYTW, Breaking the Binary Theater, Syracuse Stage, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, the Relentless Award, and more. She currently teaches playwriting at the Public Theater and the Yale School of Drama. BA: Princeton MFA: Yale

HANNAH WOLF (She/Her) Hannah Wolf is a director for theatre, film, and TV. She was raised in Juneau, Alaska, and lives in Los Angeles. Hannah has directed and developed work at the Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla’s WOW Festival, The Playwrights’ Center, Perseverance Theatre, Fusebox Festival, IAMA Theater Company, The Fountain Theatre,  and many others. She’s taught and led workshops at UCLA, Louisiana State University, the University of California Riverside, Pomona College, the University of Texas at Austin, and The Kennedy Center, among others. Hannah’s a National Directors Fellow (O’Neill, NNPN, SDC, and the Kennedy Center), a Fulbright Research Fellow (Bucharest Romania), and a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. She’s currently the senior artistic producer at the Ojai Playwrights Conference. She received her M.F.A. in Directing from the University of Texas at Austin, her B.A. from Western Washington University, and is a member of SDC. https://www.hannahjwolf.com/

JASMINE SHARMA (She/Her) Jasmine Sharma is a South Asian-American performer/writer/activist. Full lengths include PIGEONHOLE (in development, Center Theatre Group commission) PEACHY: a sorta chekhovian traumedy (developed with IAMA Theatre Company, taught/produced at Yale University, NPC Finalist), THE JAZMINES: a rage play – and for legal reasons, a parody (NPC Finalist), RADIAL GRADIENT (World Premiere at Shattered Globe Theatre, Kilroys Web), among others. Recent acting includes TWELFTH NIGHT (The Public Theater)  LOVE YOU MORE (Tank Core Production), you don’t have to do anything (HERE Arts, u/s perf.), WIVES (Aurora Theatre) CALVIN BERGER: A Musical (Colony Theatre), THE WOLVES (McCarter Theater), and a lot of new work development (PWC, NYTW, Prospect Musicals, Ojai Playwrights Conference, New Harmony Project, DCPA Colorado New Play Summit, ASCAP, Hypokrit, CTG, Ma-Yi, Musical Theatre West, etc). Film: REIMAGINED (dir. Mateo Messina). Playwrights’ Center Core Writer 2024-2027. Northwestern University. jasminesharma.org | @jasminesharmaa

KARRON KARR (She/Her) Karron Karr is a NYC based theater artist and administrator from Germany and Bahrain.  She has worked on more than 75 Off-Broadway productions in various capacities including producer, director, general manager, company manager, and box office.  Her most meaningful theatrical experiences have been creating work with neurodivergent populations.  She is the co-creator of More Than Memory, a technique that allows people with dementia to playbuild from their original stories.  Producing credits include BOOK OF DAYS by Lanford Wilson.  Management credits include FUERZA BRUTA, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. and LASCIVIOUS SOMETHING by Sheila Callaghan, among others. MA in Applied Theatre from CUNY; BA from NYU.

MELISSA MICKENS (She/Her) Melissa Mickens is a producer and multi-hyphenate artist based in Brooklyn. A champion for inclusion and diversity in the non-profit entertainment industry, she is passionate about producing works across all mediums that focus on inclusion, transformation and community empowerment. Her last project Neck Down, written by Nic Adams and directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps had a sold out run during the 2025 Exponential Festival in Brooklyn. Melissa is the award-winning creator and producer of the web series, Shampagne, where she received the award for best web series at the Hip Hop Film Festival NY in 2016 and best original sitcom screenplay at the Miami Web Fest 2016.

MINITA GANDHI (She/They) Minita Gandhi is a Los Angeles based multi-hyphenate born in Mumbai, India. Gandhi is a NYSAF Pfaelzer Award finalist and was a featured playwright at the NNPN National Showcase.Gandhi’s work has been featured by NBC News, and The Atlantic. They are currently working an opera commission with Minnesota Opera Company adapting, The Many Deaths of Laila Starr. Gandhi’s work has been developed at Theatreworks Silicon Valley, The Ground Floor, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Ignition Festival, NNPN’s Women in Playwrighting Festival, Florida Studio Theater, Ashland New Play Festival, The Anne Frank Social Justice Festival. Gandhi’s solo-show Muthaland, was Jeff Recommended for best new work and solo-performance and has toured nationally. Minita has performed at regional theatres including Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Arena Stage, and Lookingglass Theatre.TV: Deli Boys, Swimming with Sharks, Chicago Fire,Disney’s Mixed-Up Adventures,The Bold and the Beautiful. Proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, The Dramatists Guild, The Playwrights Union. www.minitagandhi.com

NIKKI DiLORETO (She/Her) Nikki DiLoreto is a creative leader and director with a passion for cultivating form defying stories with uniquely voiced artists. As a director and associate director, Nikki has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, The West End, and on regional theater productions across North America, including the global hit SIX: The Musical, Soft Power, The Magnificent Seven, and the recent Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate. She has collaborated with Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public Theatre, Rattlestick Theatre, WP Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, IAMA Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, among others. While Nikki works on a great variety of genres in theaters across the nation, she is particularly dedicated to the continued development of new work and the new play & musical development process. She received her BFA from Boston University and Master’s from USC in Arts Leadership. nikkidiloreto.com

O’MALLEY STEUERMAN (They/He/Thons) is a Baltimore born, raised, and based actor, DRAGster, playwright, and producer. O’Malley graduated from Towson University with their BFA in Acting in May of 2020 and have since solo-traveled the U.S. to complete their research-based performance project entitled, “so, what are you gonna do next?”. Upon returning home to Baltimore they’ve appeared in productions across the DMV: Sofonisba (Washington Stage Guild), Romeo + Juliet (The Folger), Quilters (1st Stage), R/J (Strand Theater Company), Life is a Dream (Baltimore Center Stage), Tiny Beautiful Things (Baltimore Center Stage), and Our Town (Baltimore Center Stage). They made their producing debut in 2023 with “R/J” at the Strand Theater Company and this July they co-produced Baltimore’s first Trans Theater Festival, #T4T4T, in residence at the Voxel. When O’Malley is not working the theatrical boards he can be found performing and producing in drag as MANiC! IG: @omalleysteuerman and @man_ick_drag.

ROSIE GLEN-LAMBERT (She/Her) Rosie Glen-Lambert is a bicoastal theatre director originally from Los Angeles and currently based in Brooklyn. She is the Artistic Director and Founder of The Attic Collective, an award-winning Los Angeles based theatre company. Rosie was recently the associate director of Babbitt, written by Joe DiPietro, directed by Christopher Ashley, and starring Matthew Broderick (La Jolla Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre Company). Recent directing work includes Swallows (La Mama), The Robots: A New Chamber Opera (Project [BLANK]), नेहा & Neel (Wagner New Play Festival), and a benefit performance of Love Letters (La Jolla Playhouse, Featuring Matthew Broderick and Ellie Kemper). Rosie was a 2025 Director for Moxie Arts NYC’s Incubator Lab. She was recently awarded Top of Fringe at the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival for and her Children, her adaptation of Brecht’s Mother Courage. The show will transfer to SoHo Playhouse in early 2026. Rosie received her MFA in directing from UC San Diego. rosieglenlambert.com

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SANTIAGO IACINTI (they/them) is a Director, Producer, Writer and Educator. They were born in Mexico, raised in San Diego and live full time in New York. Over the past four seasons they have served as Associate Artistic Director, and Director of Education at PlayPenn— where they have helped develop 29+ new plays. Iacinti was the inaugural Artistic/Literary Intern at The Old Globe, an inaugural member of the Roundabout Directors Group, an Emerging Directing Resident at Milwaukee Rep, and an alumnus of Directors Lab West. As a Director, they have also worked nationally at Yale Rep, Primary Stages, Playwrights Center, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Wilma Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Sol Project and Moxie Theatre— to name a few. Their expertise is in New Play Development, 85% of their work has been with a living playwright in the room. They think visually and integrate video art, photography, puppetry, movement and technology into their work. Prior to becoming a full fledged member of The Kilroys, they were a two time Kilroy honoree. As a human being, their personhood is intersectional. Iacinti immigrated to the U.S. at age 2 and was undocumented until age 19, before becoming a DACA recipient. They identify as gay, trans/nonbinary and are bilingual. They stand firm in the belief that their body, spirit and mind are not illegal or unnatural, but rather divine.                                                     www.santiagoiacinti.com | @santiago.iacinti

SCARLETT KIM (She/Her) Scarlett Kim is a director, producer and innovation leader making unclassifiable experiences at the intersection of live performance and immersive technology. A polymath, Scarlett creates participatory experiences that reimagine liveness, drawing upon theatre, XR, game and ritual. Scarlett is an international leader in the experience economy, bridging artists, cultural organizations, and entrepreneurial initiatives. Scarlett is Co-Founder/Executive Creative Producer of Center for Unclassifiable Technologies & Experiences (C.U.T.E.); Interdisciplinary Fellow at Royal Shakespeare Company; Visiting Artist at Stanford Arts; Co-Founder of Independent XR Distribution Coalition (MIT Open Doc Lab) and Co-Founder/Producer of Worlds in Play, a gathering of game and theatre practitioners. Scarlett serves on the board of Los Angeles Performance Practice and produced its 10th Live Arts Exchange [LAX] Festival. Previously, as Director of Innovation & Strategy of Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Scarlett led the transmedia department of the largest repertory theater in the US. scarlett.kim

T. TARA TURK-HAYNES (She/Her) is a writer and producer whose work spans stage, screen, and page. Her plays have been developed and produced by Lower Depth Ensemble, Rogue Machine, Company of Angels, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Hip Hop Theater Festival, the Actor’s Studio, the Schomburg Center, and the Kennedy Center. A graduate of Lang College and Sarah Lawrence College, where she received the Lipkin Playwriting Award, t.tara has been recognized with fellowships and labs including the Cycle of Violence Fellowship (Lower Depth Ensemble), the Van Lier Fellowship (New York Theatre Workshop), the Cosby Screenwriting Program, the Producers Guild Diversity Workshop, Company of Angels Writers Group, and the Underwood Theatre Writers Group, where she worked alongside Julia Cho, Rinne Groff, and Theresa Rebeck. t.tara was a founding member of The Temblors, a producing playwrights’ collective. She was also a 2021 Geffen Playhouse Writers’ Room member, a Not A Moment But A Movement Fellow (CTG, Watts Theatre, Fire Next Time Theatre), and a member of the 2023 IAMA Playwrights Lab. Her work has been featured on several podcasts and platforms discussing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the arts.

TANYA EVERETT (She/Her) Tanya Everett moved from Quincy, MA to Brooklyn to pursue her career as an actor and writer. Her plays have been performed in many Off and Off-off Broadway venues: including the Public, Cherry Lane, HERE Arts Center, TheaterLab, Kraine, Cherry Pit and the Tank. Her play And The Gods Walk Among Us was named Semi-Finalist for the Princess Grace Award and Finalist for the Lark Development Week. Her play, A Dead Black Man, was a Finalist for the Dramatist Guild Fellowship in 2019. She earned her MFA from Brooklyn College, under Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney. She won the AAUW Career Development Grant, the Truman Capote Scholarship, and the 2018 MFA in Playwriting Awards to support her academic pursuits. Some of her teachers and mentors include: Stephen Adley Guirgis, Ellen McLaughlin, Maggie Flanigan, and Julia Jordan. She currently teaches at LMU and Brooklyn College. She is represented by Tim Phillips and Luke Murphy at UTA.