Mack Lawrence - Playwright
Mack Lawrence (they/them) is a playwright, interdisciplinary performance artist, and dancer from Austin, TX, currently living in Brooklyn. As a trans artist and a sixth-generation Austinite, their work tells queer stories with a specifically southern voice. They are charmed by the radical politic of allowing a queer person to inhabit a fictional arc that has both everything and nothing to do with their orientations, especially within chosen communities in the deep South.
Logan gabrielle Schulmann - Director
Logan gabrielle Schulman [they/them] is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary theatrical director and maker. Recently directed works: Stravinsky’s L'HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT (Sarasota Orchestra), Sontag’s A PARSIFAL (Hangar Theatre), DINNER (The Brick), THE CHAIRS (The People’s Forum), A CHILDREN'S CEREMONY (Flying Leap), and SUNDAY IN SODOM (Drama League). They are a Solomon R. Guggenheim Teaching Artist, a company puppeteer with the Central Park Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre, and a producer-director with Flying Leap Productions. Logan is a recipient of The Drama League’s Directing Fellowship.
Jess Barbagallo - COSMO
Jess Barbagallo is an American writer, director, educator, and performer based in New York City. He has toured internationally and domestically with Big Dance Theater, the Builders Association, Theater of a Two-Headed Calf (and its Dyke Division) and Half Straddle. Barbagallo has originated roles in plays by Joshua Conkel, Casey Llewellyn, Normandy Sherwood, Trish Harnetiaux and many others. His writing has been published by Artforum, Howlround, Bomb Blog, New York Live Arts Blog: Context Notes, Brooklyn Rail and 53rd State Press. He is a 2009 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab alum, a 2012 Queer Arts Mentorship mentee, and a 2013 MacDowell Colony Fellow. Barbagallo has taught theater and writing as a guest artist and adjunct lecturer at Duke University, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Brooklyn College, the Vermont Young Playwright’s Festival and The O’Neill Center.
Tyler Bey - Stage Directions
Tyler Bey is an actor, poet and producer based in NYC. From Atlanta, he moved to NYC to study acting at Fordham where he was awarded the Denzel Washington Scholarship for excellence in theatre. Beyond working with spaces like the New Group, The National Queer Theatre and more, he is a current assistant to Broadway intimacy director Ann James and is an assistant at Oscar nominated production company Archer Gray (20th Century Women, Mr. Holmes, Can You Ever Forgive Me). He’s also previously interned at AMC Networks (The Walking Dead, Dark Winds), Cinetic Media (Moonlight, Greenbook), Backstage Magazine and more. TV: FBI: Most Wanted (CBS), American Sports Story (FX).
Sagan Chen - Strider
Sagan Chen is a queer genderfluid Chinese American artist. They center their work on uplifting underrepresented new narratives onstage, onscreen, and on the page, and enjoy reading scripts for various reading committees. They strive for their artistry to reflect an awareness of social responsibility and intersectionality of representation, and actively pursue liberation for all. Recent onstage credits include: Isabel (NAATCO), WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY (Clubbed Thumb), Happy Life (The Hearth at Soho Rep), Fight Call (Breaking the Binary at The Public), Two Mile Hollow (Yale), Six Years Old, Stone, and delicacy of a puffin heart (Corkscrew Theater Festival), Exposed Bone (The PIT Loft). Onscreen: Survival of the Thickest (Netflix/A24), Grand Crew (NBC), High Maintenance (HBO), This Really Happened (Tribeca 2024), Girl Talk (Outfest)(dir. Erica Rose). Sagan co-created an award-winning digital series called Here We Wait that received over 30 nominations on the festival circuit, and went on to co-produce and star in Sideways Smile, both of which earned Sagan multiple acting accolades. You can hear him in the Audible Original The 126 Year Old Artist, and narrating the audiobooks: Ana On the Edge, All The Things We Don’t Talk About, and The Jump. He has directed at Dartmouth College, Samuel French OOB, Frigid, Corkscrew, and Women in Theatre Festivals. Sagan is currently seeking representation. Follow them on Instagram: @sagan.chen
Tanya/Tamás Marquardt
Tanya Marquardt is a writer and performer. Their book Stray: Memoir of a Runaway was a 2018 Best Queer & History Bio pic in The Advocate; a punk-musical version toured the US and Canada; Nocturne (an incomplete and inaccurate account of the love affair between George Sand and Frederic Chopin) was produced at Manhattan’s Dixon Place, and Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep, Tanya’s play about being a sleep talker, was the subject of an NPR Invisibila. Their performances have been presented at PuSh, VIDF, Dancing on the Edge, Summerworks, foldA, The Tank, Brooklyn Museum, BAX, and The Collapsable Hole. IG: @Tanya-Marquardt // tanyamarquardt.com
emily/BUBECK - Lead Producer
Emily (or Bubeck, whatever name is easiest for you) is a Queer, Catholic, Appalachian Theatre Practitioner and Multi-Disciplinary Artist. She’s a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective, and by day she’s the Development Associate at New Dramatists. Bubeck is SO thrilled to be wrapping up her FIFTH summer on the rooftop with this incredible team. emilybubeck.com
Michelle Chan - Line Producer
Michelle Chan (she/her) is a director, theatremaker and producer from Hong Kong. She is a first-gen Taiwanese-American whose work attempts to redefine the roles that fabricate the American culture, usually through the intersections of Gender, Class or Race. She is currently a Drama League 2023-2024 fellow and resident artist at Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective. Her recent directing work has been seen at WP Theater, The Flea, Theatre Row, Keen Company, Dixon Place, A.R.T/New York Theatres, The Tank, The Maker’s Space, Lime Arts Productions, The Fled Collective, Moxie Arts NY and Atlantic Acting School. Upcoming: FISH MEAT at The Connelly Theater (@fishmeatplay) and THE NAVEL GAZERS at Starr Street Productions! michchan.com @michellechaann
Henry Lombino - Line Producer
Henry Lombino is a producer, choreographer, and writer hailing from Western Massachusetts. A graduate of Wesleyan University and a wearer of many hats, Henry has been active in the theatre and dance world for the past five years, making new creative ventures possible through his artistic and managerial experience. Past organizations he’s worked with include Jacob’s Pillow, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Keen Company, Page 73, Dance/USA, American Ballet Theatre, and 24 Hour Plays. Currently he is the Events and Operations Manager at the Mark Morris Dance Group. Henry strongly believes in promoting accessibility in the performing arts and in breaking down barriers of entry for both artists and audiences. When he’s not producing, dancing, or making spreadsheets, Henry can be found making new flavors of homemade ice cream.