Carly is a singer, songwriter, and dreamer of other worlds based in Durham, NC. Her background in community organizing, popular education, and play-based teaching informs her art-making. Carly loves fantasy and sci-fi, musical theater cast recordings, and other creative expressions of collective liberation. She is interested in community-based mental health and is currently pursuing a master's in Occupational Therapy at UNC Chapel Hill. She is inspired by the call from the Disability Rights movement to write about her experiences with altered mental states: NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US!

Caitlin brings 25 years of experience as a film and theater producer, director, and performer, creative consultant, and educator. Her work has been seen in venues like The High Line, West Side Fest, El Barrio Artspace PS109, BRIC, Littlefield, The Tank, PBS North Carolina, and NPR, and her theater company Delta Boys produced southeastern theatrical regional premieres of plays by Caridad Svich, Caryl Churchill, and Sarah Ruhl. She's acted under directors T. Ryder Smith, Christopher McElroen, Em Cole, and Dash Barber; performed at Yale, Lincoln Center, The Actors’ Temple, Triskelion Arts, INTAR, and The New Ohio; and interned with The Wooster Group. Caitlin has also designed and taught arts and social justice-oriented curricula for educational institutions across the United States, Spain, and China.

She currently works as managing director of Queens-based The Motor Company and associate director of Brooklyn's DreamStreet Theatre Company, and is repped by U-Shin Kim of UGA Talent. She has been awarded creative residencies with The High Line’s Call for Ideas, Drop Forge & Tool, Turkey Land Cove Foundation, Spark Box Studio, and The Tank, as well as grants for the development of new works from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Manbites Dog Theater Fund, and City Artist Corps. She seeks out original work that centers belonging, the unpredictable, rigorous physicality, exposed plumbing, courage, and raucous play. Caitlin is based in Brooklyn.

www.caitlinjwells.com

Aden is a writer, director, producer, and educator. He is the co-creator and writer of the forthcoming Coach T show and co-host of the 2 Ls 1 W Podcast. He conceived, wrote, cast, and directed the show Nosebleeds.

Jessica is an actor, singer, stage manager, and theatre educator. She received her BFA in Theatre Performance from the University of Michigan-Flint and has over 15 years of professional acting and stage management experience. Over the last year, she performed with Curious Theatre Collective and Aggregate Theatre to present theater for young audiences. Jessica is currently involved with local creatives to foster play and exploration through performance.

Marie (she/they) is elated to join this ensemble of moxie-makers taking risks to do what we love — co-imagining embodied, collective, courageously nonlinear ways to more just & healthful shared worlds. Marie comes most alive in overlaps of performance — dance/movement, theater/story, installation/ceremony — & health justice — centering affected communities’ lived knowing/being/dreaming amidst illness, injury & bodily difference to shift culture/policy/homeplaces for more livable futures instead.

Marie is honored to listen, learn, co-design & facilitate performance initiatives with partners including Medical Schools & AHECs, universities & nonprofits, Theater Delta & the NIH, the US Commission on Civil Rights, Malawian CHRR, & beloved community-based organizations creatively devising healthcare & environmental justice in the global south & US south.

Jessica Hudson currently lives and works in NC but spent most of her adult-life in Chicago working as an actor, independent performing artist, and teaching artist. Jessica’s solo work pulls from the vocabularies of dance, performance art, and physical theatre. However, she is happiest and most alive in collaboration with others, both on the stage and in the classroom. Jessica shared the stage with such gems as Mucca Pazza, DoubleDJ, Jyldo, 500Clown, and The Chicago Kings.
She also worked with some amazing performers and makers here in Durham under the now defunct Little Green Pig.

Jessica was a teaching artist for over a decade with Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Currently, Jessica is pushing into film as an actor, mover and maker. She is represented by Artists Resource Agency for film/TV in the Southeast market.

Keith Lewis is a composer, arranger, audio engineer, and multi-instrumentalist with nearly 20 years of professional experience in the music industry. A veteran of dozens of pit orchestras and hundreds of performances with ensembles of various makeup, Keith brings a wide range of influences from his experience playing and writing classical, jazz, rock, pop, electronic, progressive, metal, zydeco/cumbia/forro/blues/americana fusion, and just about every musical genre in between. When he is not working in musical theatre, he can be found performing with one of his bands: The Pseudo Cowboys, a rock/funk/electronic band, Echonest, an instrumental jazz/metal fusion project, or The Warren Sharp Duo, a more traditional acoustic jazz duo.

www.KeithLewisMusic.com

Adam is a composer, songwriter, and producer. His music has been featured in TV shows, feature films, and commercials worldwide. Influenced by Americana as well as world music like Cuban and North African Blues, Adam creates a diverse range of music which is mirrored by his collection of second-hand instruments. His music for media can be found under the name River Lume. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, Diana, and their children, Lucia and Oliver.

Tori Grace Nichols (they/them) is as a prismatic performance artist and writer. They can be seen at various venues around The Triangle performing standup, sketch, singing or poetry. In 2022 they were selected as part of the inaugural Transfire Artist Residency for Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom. That same year they also wrote and directed the pilot episode for an audio drama called Crocodile Twins via a writing cohort with Artist Soapbox. Recent acting credits include Dreaming (assistant puppeteer) with Duke Performances and Freakshow (Mr. Flip) with The Women's Theatre Festival. They are currently studying screenwriting at Antioch University Los Angeles.

Patience does performity things for performity reasons. You may have seen them or their work in some stuff before. If so, cool. If not, see more stuff. Ok thanks!

Bryce Nasir Preston is a multifaceted touring performer, educator, creative consultant, director, and nonprofit leader from Greensboro, North Carolina. With over 10 years of experience, Bryce is beyond thankful to grace the stages of Playmakers Repertory Company, The University of Chapel Hill, Duke University, Raleigh Little Theater, The Peoples Improv Theatre, and many more. Credits Include: In the Heights (Benny), By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Leroy/Herb), Godspell (George), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Ken), etc. He thanks his friends, family, and God.

Rajeev Rajendran is a performer and writer. He is from Carrboro, trained at UNC School of the Arts, and has performed with Manbites Dog Theater Company, Delta Boys, Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, Burning Coal, Deep Dish Theater, and Theater Delta.

Kevin “Rowdy” Rowsey was a national recording artist, writer, actor, and educator based in North Carolina. The Executive Director of Blackspace and co-founder of Only Us, Rowdy was featured on BET, TEDx, NPR and was an actor/host on PBS Kids. Additionally, he was a U.S. Hip Hop Ambassador through the U.S. Department of State and rocked stages and classrooms from Mexico to the Cherokee Nation. Rowdy was nominated three times for a Carolina Music Award and spoke at Harvard, Oxford, Columbia, and various other higher education institutions. Rowdy was part of the national collective No9to5 Music, and played with live jazz band The Night Shift. He was the founder of two Triangle-area cyphers – The UNC Cypher (UNC-CH) and the Med City Cypher (Downtown Durham). Rowdy earned his BA from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his Master’s of Arts in Teaching from UNC Greensboro. Rowdy lived his mission to spread southern hip hop at a national and international level through performance, writing, and educational workshops that inspired the culture through the craft.

Leah is a choreographer, dancer, and teacher currently based out of Brooklyn, originally hailing from North Carolina. At times, she is also a gardener, an elder-care companion, a writer, a facilitator, and a sound designer. Leah has taught and shared her work in a variety of locations nationally and internationally, and holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she received awards for teaching and choreography. As a performer and collaborator she has worked with artists such as Kendra Portier, Alexis Blake, Tommy DeFrantz, Okwui Okpokwasili, Renay Aumiller, Kristin Clotfelter, Anna Barker, and Nicola Bullock. Recently, Leah has been an Artist in Residence at MOtiVE Brooklyn, and was the recipient of a 2023 MacDowell Fellowship.