Andrew Watring (Andrew) is a Black trans Object-theatre-creator, director, award-winning playwright, producer, performer, and Anarkata-in-training from sweet home Huntsville, Alabama. Andrew’s career has been dedicated to the creation and continued cultivation of Shakespeare is a White Supremacist, a theatrical ritual grounded in Shakespeare’s colonizing effect on the American theatre; most recently staged with Main Street Players (Miami-Dade, FL). Select directing credits include: RENT, Angels in America, The Henriad, Richard III, White Noise, Hamletmachine, Passing: A Stage Play, Coriolanus. Andrew holds an MFA from Brown University / Trinity Repertory Company and a BA in Theatre Arts from American University.
Dhari Noel (he/him) is a Queer Black-Caribbean playwright, performer, and educator born and raised in Harlem. Dhari’s writing often explores the incoherence of race, the failures of gender, and inherited ways of being. Recent plays include: Man Made, Spirit Junkie (Cherry Picking, The Wild Project), Exorcism for The DEI Practitioner (Cherry Picking), Keep The Orange (ECFS). Recent performances include: Black Exhibition (Bushwick Starr), In The Penal Colony (Next Door at NYTW, The Tank), Floater, Ride (Cherry Picking). Dhari has a BA in Sociology from Columbia and is currently pursuing an MFA in Playwriting at Brown.
Ayla Taffel is an interdisciplinary theatre artist with a passion for lighting, stage management, producing, props, and theatre finance. Humanity is at the core of Ayla’s artistic process. Select credits include: All Fall Down (People’s Light – Stage Manager), the book of lucy (Brown/Trinity Rep – Props Artisan), RENT (Yale University – Lighting Designer), Sueño (Trinity Rep – Programmer/Light Board Operator), and The Henriad (Brown/Trinity Rep – Stage Manager/Production Designer). Ayla graduated from American University with a BA in Theatre Arts (Focus: Theatrical Design).
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