Rachel Lynett is a queer Afro-Latinx playwright. All of her plays are dark comedies that center on queer people of color and how they attempt to navigate through the various complexities of their existence. Her plays have been featured at Mirrorbox Theatre, Laboratory Theatre of Florida, Barrington Stage Company, Theatre Lab, Theatre Prometheus, Florida Studio Theatre, Laughing Pig Theatre Company, Capital Repertory Theatre, Teatro Espejo, the Kennedy Center Page to Stage festival, Theatresquared, Equity Library Theatre, Chicago, Talk Back Theatre, American Stage Theatre Company, and Orlando Shakespeare Theatre. In 2017, her play Well-Intentioned White People was honorable mention for The Kilroy’s, and in 2020, Last Night and HE DID IT made the Kilroy’s List. Rachel Lynett is also the Artistic Director of Rachel Lynett Theatre Company.

Maria Caprile-Director-is the co-artistic director of Winding Road Theater Ensemble. She has directed their productions of THE BIG MEAL, THE WRONG PEOPLE HAVE MONEY, and CHOSEN CHILD. Maria was nominated for Arizona Star’s MAC award for her direction of last season’s STUPID F#!*ING BIRD as well as THE FANTASTICKS, which also received a nomination for Best Musical of 2018. She is a part time resident of Spokane, Washington, where she was a resident artist of Interplayers Theatre. She directed Interplayers' productions THE RECEPTIONIST, PRIVILEGE, ELEEMOSYNARY and THE GRADUATE, as well as Stage Left's YANKEE TAVERN and Pend Orielle Players' NEXT TO NORMAL.