Find Your Light

Jessica Hanna (she/her) is a Los Angeles based Theater Maker and Artist in Residence at Thymele Arts. She is new member of The Kilroys, an activist artists group working for gender parity in the American Theater through guerilla actions. She has worked as an actor, director, choreographer and producer all over Los Angeles with many companies and spaces including, Open Fist, Sacred Fools, Evidence Room, John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, Greenway Court, Abundant Sugar, Occidental College, Atwater Village Theatre, Furious Theatre, Mine is Yours Theatre Co., B-Flat Productions, Center Theatre Group, Mutant Collective and Circle X. She has also had the pleasure of working with Anne Bogart and the SITI Co. as an actor at the Getty Villa twice. She has trained in Suzuki & Viewpoints since 2002. In June 2006 she co-founded Bootleg Theater and was the Producing & Managing Director through 2018. Her focus as a freelance director & producer has been on new work development. Recent directing credits include: Lisa Dring's DEATH PLAY, for the Son of Semele Solo Creation Festival and Circle X Theatre (full production). NO HOMO, at Hollywood Fringe (Winner Best Director, Ensemble Theater, World Premiere and Golden Playwright), New York Fringe and Atwater Village Theatres, FOUR CHORDS AND A GUN by John Ross Bowie at Bootleg, I CARRY YOUR HEART by Georgette Kelly at Bootleg, PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, the musical, at Celebration Theatre (Winner 2019 Ovation Award Best Production of a Musical, 7 Nominations), THE WILLOWS by Kerri-Ann McCalla and BLUE GOLD & BUTTERFLIES by Stephanie Batiste, both at Bootleg. Most recently she was at CalState University Long Beach guest directing Lauren Gunderson's THE REVOLUTIONISTS.

Find Jess on most social media @jessessa

photo credit for Jess's headshot: Peter Konerko

Host: Emily Stamets (@theemilystamets)

Original music: Jaclyn S. O'Connor

Graphics: Tiffany Spence

Julie Ouellette (they/them,@officialjulieo) is an actor, writer, director, and producer whose work focuses heavily on empowering queer artists. As the Producing Artistic Director ofThe Commons Los Angeles, they strive to create work that challenges our artists, our audiences, and our industry.

Host: Emily Stamets (@theemilystamets)

Original music by Jaclyn S. O'Connor

Graphics by Tiffany Spence

Xemiyulu Tapepechul (she/ella,@XemiNeSiwayul) is a Two-Spirit actor, playwright, author, playwright, and educator. In 2015, she foundedNelwat Ishkamewe,a Two-Spirit (Native American Transgender, Intersex, Asexual, Queer+)collectiveof artists, healers, educators, and advocates, upliftingTwo-Spirit Nation through art & land justice.She trained at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, and has been featured on various DC Theatre productions, includingNelwat Ishkamewe'sThe Cosmic Twins,Protect & Preserve, andSiwayul (Heart of a Womxn).She is the 2018 Champion of the Ask Rayceen Show Annual Poetry Slam Competition, the 2018 "Hispanic Heritage Legacy Award" from the Latino GLBT History Project, the 2019 "40 Under 40: Queer Women of Washington" by the DC Mayor's Office of LGBTQ Affairs, the DC Mayor's Office of Women's Initiatives, and the Washington Blade, and the 2019 Engendered Spirit Award from the Capitol Pride Alliance.

Host: Emily Stamets (@theemilystamets, emilystamets.com)

Original music: Jaclyn S. O'Connor

Graphics: Tiffany Spence

Chelsea Pace (SDC, @professorpace, she/her/hers) is a Baltimore-based intimacy choreographer and co-founded Theatrical Intimacy Education with Laura Rikard. She choreographs and consults on best practices for staging intimacy, nudity, and sexual violence for professional and educational theatre companies and programs across the country. In addition to theatrical intimacy, Chelsea specializes in stage combat, devised work, and physical theatre. She is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and she is currently completing her book, Staging Sex, expected this fall from Routledge Publishing.

www.facebook.com/theatricalintimacyed www.chelseapace.com www.theatricalintimacyed.com

The show I couldn't remember the company for was The Method Gun by Rude Mechs, produced at the Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theater as part ofRADAR LA,June 14-26, 2011.

Host: Emily Stamets (emilystamets.com, @theemilystamets)

Original music: Jaclyn S. O'Connor

Graphics: Tiffany Spence

Autumn Jessica Mitchell (she/her, Facebook: ajmitchell26) is a freelance stage manager and aspiring production manager hailing from the historic city of Savannah, Georgia. Autumn is currently the Assistant Stage Manager for Man of Destiny and Fences at the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Recent stage management credits include The Better Half (Lucky Plush Productions), Acis and Galatea, Face on The Barroom Floor (Central City Opera), Don Giovanni, and November Dance 2017 (University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign). Autumn holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts with a concentration in Stage Management and Technical Theatre from Alabama State University. While in Alabama, she stage managed for The ASU Dance Company and The Montgomery Ballet.

Host: Emily Stamets (@theemilystamets, emilystamets.com, [email protected])

Original Music by Jaclyn S. O'Connor

Graphics by Tiffany Spence

Rosie Glen-Lambert (@ringaroundro_z) is the Artistic Director and Founder of TheAtticCollectiveand serves as the Literary Manager at Inkwell Theater. She has collaborated as a Director and Producer with a number of different theaters in Los Angeles including Sacred Fools, Inkwell Theater, Theater Planners, Bootleg Theater, Son of Semele, Occidental College, and MutantCollective.Rosie is thrilled to return to the Hollywood Fringe Festival to direct “The Last Croissant”! Her prior fringe project, “Dead Dog’s Bone: A Birthday Play” won the 2015 Encore Producer’s Award and earned her a nomination for best direction.Rosie is passionate about new and engaging theatre and continues to be inspired by the Los Angeles Theatre Community. Veronica Tjioe (@verotjioe) received an MA in Theatre Arts from UC Santa Cruz and is an actor, sewist, and playwright. Her first work, “Dead Dog’s Bone: A Birthday Play”, won the Dharma Grace Award in 2012, the Hollywood Fringe Encore Producer’s Award in 2015, and made its East Coast debut at Nu Sass in DC this March. Her plays have had readings and full productions in Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC. Veronica is a proud member and literary manager of TheAtticCollective. https://www.theatticcollectivela.com/ Instagram: @theatticcollective_la Facebook:@theatticcollectiveLA Host: Emily Stamets (@theemilystamets) Original music: Jaclyn S. O'Connor Graphics: Tiffany Spence Updated May 21 to fix a weird 3 minute gap in space-time (aka my editing skills are getting better and better ;) )

AlanaClapp(General Stage Manager – Mystere by Cirque du Soleil)Alanabegan her career with Cirque du Soleil in 2009with the showOat the Bellagio. She joined the Stage Management team ofMystèrein 2012, and is currently the General Stage Manager for the company's longest running Las Vegas production. An advocate for arts educational programs and youth mentorship,Alanahas presented at various universities throughout the country including Chapman University, University of California – Irvine, and Carnegie Mellon University, her alma mater. In addition to her work with Cirque,Alanais a guest lecturer at the College of Southern Nevada, instructor for the USITT Elite Stage Management training program, advisory panel member for the Stage Craft Institute of Las Vegas, mentor with the USITT Stage Management Mentorship Project and has worked on a number of events for film, television, and comedy specials.

Host: Emily Stamets (@theemilystamets or emilystamets.com)

Original Music: Jaclyn S. O'Connor

Graphics: Tiffany Spence

Lucy Wang is a playwright, performance artist, professor, editor, public speaker, and comedienne... with an extraordinary laugh! We chat about writing for youth, writing for diversity, and the impact that one teacher had when he told her a Chinese girl couldn't be in Li'l Abner.

Find her on social media @sensuousgourmet, or her website:https://sites.google.com/site/chickfillet/

Host: Emily Stamets, @theemilystamets, emilystamets.com

Original music by Jaclyn S. O'Connor

KAJADUNN (@KajaDunn) is anAssistantProfessorof Theatre and teaches acting at the University of North Carolina Charlotte as well as being an actor, director, and activist. Her research targets reshaping pedagogy for theatre students of color as well as Decolonization and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion issues in theatre and their application in academic, professional and corporate settings. This year she is joining Theatrical Intimacy Education as an Associate Faculty specializing in EDI Issues. She has performed in over 40 shows and was an associate artist at both Moxie Theatre and Lamb’s Players in San Diego.She has performed or directed at Tri-Arts (Chicago), Alder Danztheatre (Chicago), Pacific Theatre (Vancouver), Lamb's Players Theatre (San Diego), Moxie Theatre (San Diego), Kaiser Educational Theatre (Los Angeles), Amigos Del Rep (San Diego), San Diego Rep., Cygnet Theatre (San Diego), Ya Tong Theatre (Taipei), Playmakers Rep. (Chapel Hill), and Black Ops (Durham).

Host: Emily Stamets @theemilystamets

Original Music by Jaclyn S. O'Connor

Carolyn Gage is a playwright, performer, director, and activist. The author of three books on lesbian theatre and seventy-five plays, musicals, and one-woman shows, she specializes in non-traditional roles for women, especially those reclaiming famous lesbians whose stories have been distorted or erased from history. She also specializes in plays about survivors of sexual violence. She is perhaps best known for her one-woman show, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, which toured for over 20 years.

cw: incest, child sexual abuse

Host: Emily Stamets

Music: Jaclyn S. O'Connor

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