Helen Cespedes is a New York based actor, writer, and teacher. Acting credits include Broadway: The Cripple of Inishmaan (dir. Michael Grandage). Off-Broadway: Spain (Second Stage, dir. Tyne Rafaeli), Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA, dir. Lileana Blain-Cruz), Timon of Athens (TFANA, dir. Simon Godwin), Paul Swan is Dead and Gone (Civilians, dir. Steve Cosson), The School For Scandal (Red Bull, dir. Marc Vietor). Selected Regional: Williamstown, The Guthrie, The Old Globe, Two River, Hartford Stage, The Goodman. Selected Film/TV: Law & Order; The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; Search Party; The Knick. Helen wrote and starred in the short film The Decision, which recently screened at the Big Apple Film Festival. After graduating magna cum laude from Barnard College with a BA in Comparative Literature, Helen trained at The Juilliard School where she received the John Houseman Prize.

Kate Eastman is an actor. She's appeared in the gone too soon Netflix series Archive 81 and in the recent Oscar nominated film Maestro. Other TV credits include Leverage: Redemption and several entries in the Dick Wolf Cinematic Universe. She is currently appearing in the Apple+ TV series Dark Matter. She will also appear in an upcoming episode of the anthology series American Horror Stories and in the film ‘Nonnas’, with Susan Sarandon, Lorraine Bracco, Brenda Vaccaro and Talia Shire. Kate also writes, mostly about nuns, queerness and life after societal collapse. She is a loving father to two cats, and dreams of paying work that allows her to have whatever haircut she wants. Insta: @k8beastman

Ashton Heyl is an actor and writer. Recent TV/film credits include: WeCrashed (Apple TV+) and Egg Party as an actor and co-writer (Cinequest Film Festival Audience Award and other film festivals). Recent theatre credits: Spring Awakening (Northern Stage), The Norman Conquests (Northern Stage, Dorset Theatre Festival, & Weston Playhouse), Pride & Prejudice (Pittsburgh Public Theater); Curious Incident of the Dog… (Florida Studio Theatre); Gretchen in Boeing Boeing (New Theatre and Gulfshore Playhouse); Emma in After the Revolution (Baltimore Center Stage). Other favorite credits include: A Little Night Music and The Cat and The Canary (Berkshire Theatre Group); Belles (Off-Broadway). MFA: Yale School of Drama. Proud AEA union member.

Born and raised in the East Village, Elia is a professional actor, writer and educator.

Elia is an NPC O’Neill Finalist (2024), Juilliard Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program Finalist (2024), Terrance McNally Incubator Finalist (2024) and a Playwrights Realm Fellowship Finalist (2022).

As an actor, she has worked at New York Theatre Workshop, Theatre for a New Audience, The Guthrie, Shakespeare Theatre of DC, The Huntington, ACT, The Williamstown Theatre Festival and The Humana Festival among others. Elia has worked on over twenty Film and Television productions. Credits include but are not limited to “FBI”, "New Amsterdam", “Search Party”, “The Deuce" and “The Savant” (Apple TV, 2024).

Elia is a certified teacher with over nineteen years of teaching experience. She currently teaches theatre through a social justice lens at Lincoln Center Theatre, BAM, and The Manhattan Theatre Club. She also leads playwriting workshops on Rikers Island men’s facilities via MTC’s Write on the Edge Program. Elia is also on faculty in The Experimental Theatre Wing, NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she teaches Advanced Scene Study, Chekhov Lab, Finding Freedom in Challenging Text and proudly devised and directed the 2021 Spring Show, Rituals for a New Future.

MFA from The Yale School of Drama (Acting), an MS in Childhood Education from Pace University and a BA in Cultural Anthropology and Peace and Conflict Studies from University of Southern California.

Claire Siebers is a writer, actor, and filmmaker from Michigan and France. Her fiction has been published in Story | Houston, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and the UK-based Signal House Edition. Her plays Chinese Food Delivery Shoe and Something About Burning were selected as finalists for the Leah Ryan Fund and her screenplay Drinking Games was a finalist for the Almanack Screenwriters October Colony. In 2016, she co-founded the production company, Jughead Films, through which she co-created Power Lunch: the web series, and the short films, Genius in a Small Town, and Conference. She has a BA from Yale and studied acting at Juilliard. She can occasionally be seen in Off-Broadway plays where she specializes in developing new theatrical work. New Georges Affiliated Artist. clairesiebers.com

Carmen Zilles is a queer actor and writer. She can be seen in Bel Canto, the film based on the award-winning novel by Ann Patchett, starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe; and Pimp, starring Keke Palmer, Aunjanue Ellis, and rapper DMX. She’s been a villain on FBI and made several appearances in the Dick Wolf Cinematic Universe. She has appeared in over twenty Off-Broadway productions, including Epiphany (Lincoln Center Theater, dir. Tyne Rafaeli), Fefu and her Friends (TFANA, dir. Lileana Blain-Cruz), Small Mouth Sounds (Signature Theater, dir. Rachel Chavkin), and Scenes from a Marriage (NYTW, dir. Ivo van Hove). She has workshopped over 200 plays with institutions including The Public, Clubbed Thumb, Page 73, Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, and more. Training: Yale School of Drama. Insta: @carmen.zilles. www.carmenzilles.com