Caleen Sinnette Jennings (she/her) is professor of theater at American University in Washington, D.C. She teaches acting, voice and speech, acting Shakespeare, playwriting and academic courses in theater. Jennings was a 2007 finalist for the O’Neill Playwright’s Conference, and she is a two-time Helen Hayes nominee for Outstanding New Play. In 2002, she received the Heidman Award from Actor’s Theatre of Louisville for her play Classyass. In 1999 she received a $10,000 grant from the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays for her play Inns & Outs. Her play Playing Juliet/Casting Othello was produced at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre in 1998. In 2000, her children’s play Free Like Br’er Rabbit was produced for the Kennedy Center’s New Visions/New Voices festival. Her two short plays Pecos Billand The People Could Fly are featured in Walking the Winds, which premiered at the Kennedy Center and toured nationally with Kennedy Center’s Programs for Children and Youth. Jennings received her bachelor’s degree in drama from Bennington College and her M.F.A. in acting from the N.Y.U. Tisch School of the Arts. She has been a faculty member of the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Teaching Shakespeare Institute since 1994. She moderates panels, does workshops and presentations for cultural institutions such as the Smithsonian, Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Shakespeare Theatre. In 2003, she received American University’s 2003 Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award. That same year, she won the award for Outstanding Teaching of Playwriting from the Play Writing Forum of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education.

As of June 2021.

Bryn Boice (Director) is an award-winning director, educator, actor, and producer. Previously at Central Square Theater she directed Lauren Gunderson’s The Half-Life of Marie Curie starring Lee Mikeska Gardner and Debra Wise. By day, Bryn is the Associate Artistic Director and Director of Education & Training for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. For CSC, she directed the Shakespeare on the Common production of The Winter’s Tale as well as Universe Rushing Apart: Blue Kettle & Here We Go – two Caryl Churchill one-acts – which garnered her the Norton Award for Outstanding Director, Large Theatre. Other recent Boston-area credits include: The Sound Inside and The Children (SpeakEasy Stage–both Elliot Norton Award-nominated for Outstanding Production); Tall Tales from Blackburn Tavern, Gloria (Gloucester Stage); Tartuffe, Into the Breeches! (both Norton Award-nominated for Outstanding Direction and Production) and The Bald Soprano for Hub Theatre; Admissions (The Gamm Theatre); and an all-female Julius Caesar for Actors’ Shakespeare Project. Upcoming projects: Little Bear Ridge Road at SpeakEasy Stage, and next summer’s Shakespeare on the Common production for CSC. She holds an MFA in Directing from Boston University (CFA ‘16) and an MFA in Acting from the Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training (FSU). Love to Michael Poignant and Phoebe. @brynboice

Ian Hattwick is an artist, researcher, and technology developer whose work focuses on the creation and use of digital systems for professional artistic performances. With a background in music composition and performance, he is particularly interested in use of multimodal hardware systems to explore and facilitate social and embodied interaction. He received his Ph.D. from McGill University and holds degrees from the University of California, Irvine and the University of Southern California. He is a lecturer of Music Technology at MIT.www.ianhattwick.com