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Imran Sheikh             work has been presented at Primary
                (Matthew) Theatre: Off   Stages, Barrow Group, Naked Angels
                -Broadway: Confidence    Theatre Company, Uprights Citizen
                and the Speech.          Brigade Theatre, Downtown Urban
                Regional and NYC:        Theatre Festival, HERE Arts Center,
                Disgraced (Milwaukee     Passage Theatre, among others. As an
                Rep, Florida Rep), The   actor, she has performed across the
                Invisible Hand (ACT/     country at theatres including the
    Artists Rep), American Dreams        Public Theater, New York Theatre
    (Cleveland Public Theatre), I Like to   Workshop, SoHo Rep, Guthrie Theater
    Be Here (New Ohio), The Myth Project   and Centerstage. chandra’s television
    (Noor Theatre), Carousel of Progress   and film credits include LABOR DAY, 9
    (Queens Theatre), Brahman/I          -1-1, LAW & ORDER: SVU, BLUE
    (Crowded Fire), Disconnect (San Jose   BLOODS. She’s also a producer of
    Rep), The Girl with Her Hands in the   theatre, film and digital content,
    Sand & Radio Mara Mara (FringeNYC),   including her comedy short COMPLETE
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New       SENTENCES? which played at over a
    York Shakespeare Exchange), Why We   dozen film festivals. chandra earned
    Left Brooklyn (Blue Coyote).         dual BA degrees from Vanderbilt
    Television: Guy Code (MTV, Comedy    University and holds an MFA from
    Central), Blue Bloods (CBS), Big Dogs   Columbia University. She is the sole
    (Amazon). Film: R & J, Origin of     comedy writer in the 2020 CBS
    Fantasy. @imransheikhinfo            Writers’ Mentoring Program. Originally
                                         from New York, she is the proud child
                 Schneider Saintil       of immigrants, has gleefully lived all
                 (Talariq) (pronounced   over the world, and absolutely loves
                 shna-Deh sun-Teel) is   baseball.
                 a Haitian-American
                 actor from Boynton                  Marshall Jones III
                 Beach, FL. He took up               (Director) has been the
                 acting when he was 12               Producing Artistic
                 in hopes of playing                 Director for the Tony®
    Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, but fell in           Award-winning
    love with the life lessons he's learned          Crossroads Theatre
    from acting has brought him. Though              Company for the last
    he has yet to play Romeo, he patiently           13 years, producing
    awaits that opportunity by studying   Crossroads on the Road for 2 seasons,
    acting at his high school drama      and opening the New Brunswick
    program, and in his summers at       Performing Arts Center where he
    universities. Schneider has had the   directed the complex’s inaugural
    honor of being named a National      production – Paul Robeson by Phillip
    YoungArts Winner in Theater for the   Hayes Dean.  Other directing credit
    year 2020. Schneider is thrilled about   (his first love), include A Christmas
    this opportunity to be part of this   Carol – The Musical and the world
    incredible reading. Schneider would   premiere of Walter Mosley’s Lift. At
    like to thank his wonderful teachers   Crossroads, he directed Nikkole
    and community who continue to        Salter’s Repairing a Nation.  He enjoys
    support him on this road.            working with writers and has directed
                                         numerous world premieres including:
                chandra thomas           White Lilies by Walter Mosley, Beyond
                (Playwright) is an award  the Oak Trees about Harriet Tubman
                -winning writer-actor-   and the satirical political comedy Back
                producer with a passion   to the Real by Pia Wilson. Since 2002,
                for character-driven
                stories centering        Marshall has been on faculty at his
                marginalized voices. Her   alma mater as professor of Theater
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