An award-winning U.S. playwright, Elaine Romero’s plays have been presented across the U.S. and abroad; she is widely commissioned, published and anthologized (Dramatists Play Service, Samuel French, Playscripts, Simon and Schuster). Revolutions/Revoluciones was produced in Spanish translation at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, under the direction of Mexican director, Bruno Bichir, part of a tetralogy, including Graveyard of Empires (16th St. Theatre), A Work of Art (Goodman Theatre/Chicago Dramatists), and her play-in-progress, The Sleep of Reason (Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist-in-Residence). Her Arizona/Mexico border trilogy includes Wetback, Mother of Exiles (Cornell University commission) , and Title IX (O’Neill National Playwrights Conference). Romero is an Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, Film, and Television at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, and the Playwright-in-Residence at Arizona Theatre Company. In March 2021, a national festival,

Sean Daniels, Artistic Director for Arizona Theater Company, has directed at Manhattan Theatre Club (The Lion, Drama Desk Award & Theatre World Award, nominated for Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle), 59e59 (NYC, I and You, nominated for Outer Critics Circle) Lynn Redgrave (NYC) The Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), St. James (West End, London – The Lion, winner of Best New Musical), Arena Stage, A.C.T. (San Francisco), Milwaukee Rep, Old Globe, Geffen (L.A.) Actors Theatre of Louisville, Portland Center Stage, Geva Theatre, Playmakers Rep, Cleveland Play House, Alliance Theatre, California Shakespeare, Dad’s Garage Theatre Company, City Theatre, Swine Palace, Neo-Futurists, Aurora Theatre, Crowded Fire and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Sean was previously the Artistic Director of Merrimack Repertory Theatre, where he received national attention for his multiple artistic engagement programs that brought the community inside the organization.

Mike Saxon (He/Him) joined the Winding Road Theater Ensemble after stage managing The Little Foxes last season. Throughout his sordid career as an actor/stage manager/sound designer/director/teacher/enabler, Mike has been tossed around between Live Theatre Workshop, Roadrunner Theatre Company, Something Something Theatre Company, and more! His favorite personal theatrical experiences include, but are not limited to, Snoopy!, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Boeing Boeing, and Men on Boats. When Mike is not trying to teach Stella Adler to his theatre class at Tucson High School, you can find him waxing poetic about comic book history.