Alli Maxwell has defined herself as a multidisciplinary leader through her creative and executive producing career, which has spanned the globe for more than a decade. A look at her well-crafted portfolio reveals countless eclectic projects in music video, commercials, feature films, branded content, experiential, and virtual reality. After her last role as music EP at Pulse Films’ US division, Maxwell went on to executive producer, and produced groundbreaking work with artists like Lizzo and the Weekend, and director/photographer Quinn Wilson. As a freelance producer, she has overseen projects for Samsung, Beats By Dre, MTV Networks, VH1, L’Oréal, Netflix, and more. She has collaborated with iconic artists such as The Black Keys, Chaka Khan, Madonna, Alicia Keys, Kendrick Lamar, and many more.

Bekah Brunstetter hails from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and currently lives in Los Angeles. Her play The Cake has been produced over 100 times worldwide, as ran off Broadway at Manhattan Theater Club. Her musical A.D. 16, about teen Jesus and Mary Magdalene, written with Schmigadoon’s Cinco Paul, premiered at the Olney theater center.

Her musical adaption of the Notebook, written with Ingrid Michaelson, is currently running on Broadway. Her work has been staged and developed by The O’Neill Playwright’s conference, the Atlantic Theater, Portland Center Stage, The Old Globe, the La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, The Echo theater, Playmaker’s Rep, and Ojai Playwright’s conference.

As a TV writer and producer, she has written for Switched at Birth, American Gods, This is Us, and Maid. She’s developed pilots with Hulu, Apple, Skydance, Heyday, and Bad Robot. She won a WGA award for her work on Maid.

She is an alumni of the CTG Writers Group, Primary Stages writes group, Ars Nova Play Group, The Playwright’s Realm, and the Women’s Project Lab, and the Echo Playwright’s Group.

BA UNC Chapel Hill; MFA in Dramatic Writing from the New School for Drama.

BOBBY MORENO Selected Theatre: The Comeuppance (Signature Theater), 72 Miles to Go (Roundabout), Lazarus (NYTW) Grand Concourse (Playwrights Horizons), Fulfillment Center (MTC) Hand to God and Year of the Rooster (EST) Invasion! (Play Company). Film /TV: Living With Yourself, High Maintenance, Bull, The Hot Zone, Homeland, Braindead. Podcasts: Six Sermons, Play On: Henry V, Marvel Wastelander’s: Hawkeye. Obie Award Winner, Drama Desk Nomination, Lucille Lortel Nomination, TCG Fox Fellowship of Exceptional Merit. A prolific emcee, his band’s debut album, We Are The US Open, is available to stream, as is his solo work under his nom de plume, Ol’ Bob

Carly Hugo is an Emmy-nominated producer and the co-founder of Loveless. Her films have premiered at the Sundance, Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto and New York Film Festivals. Carly was the recipient of the Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Producers Award in 2019. She produces Showtime’s longtime hit docuseries Couples Therapy, and has produced multiple documentaries for HBO, including the Emmy-nominated Nora Ephron documentary Everything is Copy, Agnelli, and Hot Coffee. Her narrative films include Share, Mother of George, Higher Ground, and Bachelorette. She proudly sits on the boards of two New York theater institutions, The Orchard Project and The Barrow Group.

As an actor Chris has been featured in film and television roles such as Paranormal Activity 3, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mom, The Moodys and more. He also co-wrote of the upcoming feature Sacramento set to be released in early 2025. He loves being a part this community and often wishes every 24 hours could be a 24 hours plays festival.

COLETTE ROBERT is a director and playwright from Los Angeles, based in New York. She directed the world premieres of STARGAZERS (Page 73), STEW (Page 73), BEHIND THE SHEET (EST), as well as the first New York revival of CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY (Keen Company). Her play THE HARRIET HOLLAND SOCIAL CLUB PRESENTS THE 84TH ANNUAL STAR-BURST COTILLION IN THE GRAND BALLROOM OF THE RENAISSANCE HOTEL, which she also directed, premiered in 2023 (New Georges and The Movement Theatre Company). She is an adjunct lecturer at NYU and the 2023 SDCF Denham Fellow.

Devin Kawaoka appeared on Broadway in Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris. Off-Broadway: City Of (Playwrights Realm), Unnatural Acts (CSC), for which he received the Rosemarie Tichler Award. Currently you can catch him on screen as Charlie in Apple TV’s Shrinking and Dr. Kai Tanaka-Reed in NBC’s Chicago Med as well as on Lucifer, Goliath, American Housewife, Good Trouble, Criminal Minds, Runaways, The Path, The Manor, and David Robert Marshall’s Under the Silver Lake. MFA: NYU Graduate Acting.

Federico Trigo is a graduate of the New School for Drama and a Member of NPTC’s Acting Companie, for which he has performed in multiple productions and concert readings since 2010. Notable credits include the off-Broadway production of References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (dir. Pippin Parker); The Quarrel (dir. Robert Walden), as well as Millicent the Magnificent: An Origin Story; Silva Vicarro, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton; John, The One Hundred Most Beautiful Names of Todd; Demetrius, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (dir. Austin Pendleton

Harrison David Rivers is an award-winning playwright, librettist and television writer based in St. Paul, Minnesota. His work has been produced at Roundabout, Yale Rep, Transport Group, Bucks County Playhouse, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival, among others. His television credits include Peacock’s “One of Us is Lying,” HBO’s “The Nevers” and Amazon’s “Wytches.” Harrison sits on the Board of Directors of The Movement Theatre Company and Playwrights’ Center. harrisondavidrivers.com

James is a director and creative producer. For ten years until May 2023 he was Artistic Director at Royal & Derngate Theatres, where he produced more than 120 shows of which 60 toured both nationally and internationally and 42 transferred to London and were recognised with Olivier, Evening Standard, WhatsOnStage and The Stage awards. During this time the venue saw a marked development of its artistic activities, its audiences across the UK and standing within the region and sector, welcoming over two and a half million audience members in Northampton and being twice shortlisted for Regional Theatre of the Year by The Stage (2022 and 2016) and chosen as 2020 Outstanding Theatre of the Year by Michael Billington. Meanwhile, the venue engaged over 165,000 children and young people through its extensive Creative Learning Programmes and touring productions were seen by a further 1 million audience members nationwide and made over 500 venue visits across the UK and abroad, winning three UK Theatre Awards.

Jamie Klassel is best known for appearing in The Instrument (2005).

Josh Koenigsberg is a Drama Desk-nominated playwright and screenwriter. His work has been produced at Arena Stage, Ars Nova, Atlantic Theater Company, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Geffen Playhouse, Naked Angels, The Old Vic, Primary Stages, The Public Theater, Second Stage Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival and more. Josh’s plays include Al’s Business Cards, Dance Lessons, The Mnemonist of Dutchess County – all published by Samuel French – as well as Herman Kline’s Midlife Crisis, The Rise and Fall of Marcus Monroe, Charlatan and Mindplay, both starring award-winning mentalist Vinny DePonto, and VROOM VROOM, which he adapted as an Audible Original series. Josh has written for Disney, FX, Hulu, Lionsgate, Netflix, Paramount, and 20th Century among others. TV/Film credits include the Emmy-winning series Orange Is The New Black (Netflix/Lionsgate), High Fidelity (Hulu/ABC Signature), and Secret Headquarters (Paramount/Jerry Bruckheimer Films). His burrito recipe “Josh’s Famous Burritos” is published by The New York Times.

KELCIE BEENE is the Engagement Programs Manager at Court Theatre in Chicago. She has over fifteen years of experience as a freelance producer and production manager for theatre, special events, television, and film. Kelcie spent ten years as a Producing Ambassador for the 24 Hour Company, producing events in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, London, Dublin, Germany, and Mexico. Kelcie has produced over a dozen full-length theatrical productions and helmed projects for BAM Next Wave, The Play Company NYC, LifeLike Touring, GLAMOUR, Global Citizen and The BEAT Festival in Brooklyn.

Kit Williamson is an actor, filmmaker and internet person, best known for playing Ed Gifford on the final two seasons of AMC’s Mad Men. He is the creator and star of the Emmy-nominated web series EastSiders, which is now streaming worldwide on Netflix, translated into more than two dozen languages.

Laura Jacqmin is a writer for TV, video games, and the live theater. Her TV work includes ONE PIECE (Netflix), GET SHORTY (MGM+), JOE VS. CAROLE (Peacock) and more. Her feature film, WE BROKE UP (starring William Jackson Harper and Aya Cash), is available on Hulu. Plays include RESIDENCE (Actors Theater of Louisville’s Humana Festival), JANUARY JOINER (Long Wharf Theater), DENTAL SOCIETY MIDWINTER MEETING (Williamstown), and SKI DUBAI (Steppenwolf). Video game work includes projects for Telltale Games, AdHoc Studio, Sony, Fogbank, Scopely and more. She’s the winner of the Wasserstein Prize, two NEA Art Works Grants, and two MacDowell Fellowships.

Lauren Hines is an actress producer having performed on American Horror Story, FBI, Proxy on HBO and with the Atlantic Theater Company, Ma-Yi Theater Company Old Vic Theater and more! www.laurenhines.com

Some FILM & TV credits include “The Priest” opposite Patton Oswalt, Women is Losers (HBO), “House of Cards” (NETFLIX), “Boardwalk Empire” (HBO), “Perpetual Grace LTD (EPIX). Some favorite theatre credits include “New Country” (The Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC), “Different Words For The Same Thing” (CTG, The Kirk Douglas Theatre LA), “Better” (The Echo,LA) “The Mnemonist of Duchess County” (The Clurman, NYC), “Derby Day” (NYC, LA & Edinburgh), “Al’s Business Cards” (Theatre Row, NYC), “The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side” (PS 122, NYC), “Dance Lessons” (Samuel French Festival Winner.) Malcolm is now living his best mountain man life in Whitefish Montana.

Originally from New York, Mary earned her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of Drama where she studied at the Atlantic Theater Company for three years. She can be seen in indie features Lucky Them (directed by Megan Griffiths, starring Toni Colette and Thomas Haden Church) and deadCenter winner for Best Oklahona Feature, Home, James (directed by Jonathan Rossetti). Mary resides in Los Angeles.

A Peabody Nominated and PGA Award Winning creative, originally from North Carolina, Melissa Joyner holds an MFA in Acting from the New School for Drama. As a graduate of The New School for Drama, she has studied under some of the most inspiring, respected & accomplished Playwrights, Directors, Actors, and Singers in the industry.
You may see her on the FX mini-series “”Mrs. America””, CBS Networks’ Blue Bloods, FBI or Madame Secretary, and countless commercials. She is an Audelco Award Winner for “”Best Supporting Actress””. www.melissadjoyner.com

Mike Lew’s plays include tiny father (Geffen, Barrington/Chautauqua, Audible; Cape Cod and Ojai workshops); Teenage Dick (Donmar Warehouse, Ma-Yi/Public, Wooly Mammoth, Huntington, Pasadena Playhouse, O’Neill); Tiger Style! (TheatreWorks, SCR, Olney, Huntington, La Jolla Playhouse, Alliance, O’Neill); Bike America (Ma-Yi, Alliance); and microcrisis (Ma-Yi, InterAct). Alongside composer Sam Willmott he and Rehana Lew Mirza cowrote the book to Bhangra Nation (La Jolla Playhouse, Birmingham Rep; Project Springboard and Rhinebeck workshops). Awards/Fellowships: Guggenheim, Dramatists Guild Council, New Dramatists, Mellon/Howlround, Lark Venturous, EST, NYFA, PEN, Richard Rodgers, Lanford Wilson, Helen Merrill, Weissberger, Heideman, and Kendeda. Education: Juilliard, Yale.

Nick Spangler has appeared on Broadway in the original companies of It Shoulda Been You, The Book of Mormon, and Cinderella. His Off-Broadway performance as Matt in The Fantasticks garnered him the Theater Hall of Fame Elaine and Jerry Orbach Fellowship Award. Regional favorites include The Sound of Music at Carnegie Hall, the world premiere of GIANT at The Signature Theater, Saved (Kansas City Rep) Avenue X (Alliance Theater) Fantasy Football: the musical? (NYMF). In 2008, Nick was the winner of the reality series The Amazing Race on CBS. He is the author of two children’s books, The Adventure of Felix and Isabella: Volumes 1 and 2, available on Amazon.com.

Rachel Annette Helson is an award-winning filmmaker repped by Buchwald.

In May, she directed her fourth feature film: an adaptation of the Bestselling novel THE AIR HE BREATHES. Her latest short film GOOD DAUGHTER is Oscar® qualified for the 2025 Academy Awards – and is currently being developed into a feature.

As a character-driven director, Rachel is heavily influenced by her acting background. Credits include: FULL CIRCLE, THE KNICK and LAW & ORDER: SVU.

An alumna of NYU Tisch, she holds the distinction of being the Youngest Producer in Broadway history to be Nominated for a Tony Award.

Roarke Walker Satava is an LA-based realtor. Raised on the Monterey Peninsula, he attended New York University, living and working in New York City for 8 years before landing in Los Angeles.

Rory Lipede is an actress known for Meme, Cross Training and Rubber Ducky.

Satya is a director, writer, and actor. He has worked with theatres such as The Public Theatre, St Ann’s Warehouse, The Signature Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe in London, and the Center Theatre Group in LA. He trained at Yale, where he was awarded the Sudler Arts Prize, and got his start working with the Olivier Award winning immersive theatre company SHUNT. He is the artistic director of Public Assembly, a non-profit theatre company dedicated to the mission of reinventing community theatre in LA. Satya also directs television and film, having premiered projects at TIFF, SXSW, and Palm Springs. He has directed for networks such as Showtime, Apple, HBOMax, Hulu, and Amazon. As an actor he starred in films such as SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD and Deepa Mehta’s MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN, as well as TV such as THE NEW GIRL, SENSE8, and KEY & PEELE.

Sherri Eden Barber is a director, Artistic Director of Ricochet Collective, and Resident Director of Hamilton on the West Coast. Productions include: Tiny Beautiful Things with Nia Vardalos (Pasadena Playhouse), To Let Go and Fall (Theater Latté Da), Esperanza Spalding’s Emily’s D+Evolution (Development on European Tour), Happily After Ever (Ricochet Collective – 59E59, Edinburgh Fringe), good friday (The Flea Theater), Only You Can Prevent Wildfires (Ricochet Collective – Teatro Circulo), Gordy Crashes (Ricochet Collective – IRT), Mr. Landing Takes A Fall (The Flea), Herman Kline’s Midlife Crisis (The Beckett), 24 Hour Plays on Broadway with Pablo Schreiber, Laverne Cox, and Melanie Griffith (American Airlines Theatre).

Stefanie is an award-winning actress originally from Hawaii. She earned her BFA from NYU Tisch where she studied with the Atlantic Theater. Recently, she was the lead in Soft & Quiet, the critically acclaimed Blumhouse thriller, which premiered at SXSW and is currently streaming on Netflix. TV work includes recurring roles on The Consultant (Amazon) and Tales From the Loop (Amazon). Other notable appearances include Legion (FX) and Sunny Family Cult (Crypt TV). Stefanie also serves as the Theater/Film Director at The Art Of Elysium, a non-profit that brings arts programming to underserved communities in the Los Angeles Area.

Zack Robidas is set to appear in the upcoming FX show Dying for Sex. He made his debut with The 24 Hour Plays in 2007 and has since built his career in commercials, television and film. Zack is best known for his role as Mark Ravenhead on Succession, Charlie on Friends from College, and Rich in Fleishman is in Trouble. His television work also includes appearances on Sorry for Your Loss, New Amsterdam, CSI: NY, Law & Order: SVU, The Defenders, Blue Bloods, 30 Rock, and Kings. In film, Zack has starred in It’s Complicated, The Humbling, Arbitrage, Empathy, Inc., and The Golden Scallop.

Zoe Anastassiou is a Greek-Aussie-British theatre/TV/film/voiceover actress. Zoe was just seen performing as M in a Bond parody for Free the People. Zoe can next be seen workshopping a few new play development pieces, with one on the road to the Edinburgh Fringe and is currently in the process of recording her new lead role in the latest audio drama by How We Manage Stuff, where she is a regular voice. Zoe is an alum of The Acting Company and a tenured 365 Blogger. To find out more please visit www.zoeanastassiou.com

Zoe Perry is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Mary Cooper in Young Sheldon.