Dash Perry (he/him) is a New York–based actor and teaching artist who loves helping students discover their voice and confidence on stage. Dash has performed on Netflix (Halston), Hulu (Not Okay), Peacock (Girls5Eva), and Off-Broadway in Love + Science and Patience. His stage work includes The Cher Show at Ogunquit Playhouse, Marry Me A Little at Yale Cabaret, and was a featured performer at the Met Gala directed by Tony Award-winner Rachel Chavkin.

Malia’Kekia Nicolini (‘O ia/she/they) is kanaka maoli (Native Hawaiian), they received their inoa (name) traditionally from an inoa po (mothers dream) that held both an inoa ho’ailona (symbol) and their inoa ulaleo (ancestors voice). Malia’Kekia is an artistic director, speaker, arts curriculum designer, and gratitude enthusiast. ‘Oia is the Co-Founder of Play Pathways Initiative specializing in teaching play-based strategies for the realms of education and business. Malia’Kekia is the BOLD (Building Opportunity for Leadership and Development) Co-Chair for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Region 1. Training includes: artEquity’s BIPOC Leadership Circle, Arts & Cultural Organization Management (American Repertory Theater), BFA (Music Theater). 'Oia has collaborated with Penumbra Theatre, Company One, Indigenous Direction and more. Malia’Kekia weaves all of their experience together to empower dreams and create sustainability towards a play-integrated world. BFA (Music Theater), MBA (Mindfulness in Business). www.playpathways.com

Christopher Beaulieu (he/him) is known as “The Game Changer” and “The Playmaker” across the globe but at home he is simply known as “Dad”. He is an educator and artist with over 25 years of experience facilitating Community Building, Play Exploration rural retreats and educational residencies. Christopher is the Co-Founder of Play Pathways Initiative specializing in teaching Pedagogy of Play through professional and community development (online and in-person). Play Pathways travels throughout the US and internationally offering professional and community development and to adults and youth alike. Christopher is the Devising Chair for the board of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Region 1. Training includes: Shakespeare & Company, Dell Arte International (Graduate), Movement Chair of SETC, Society of American Fight Directors, Pilobolus. Awards: Paddy Crean SAFD, Recognized Advanced Actor Combatant with Society of American Fight Directors. www.playpathways.com

Justyn is a Boston-based artist, currently freelancing in New England. With a Technical Theater degree from Georgia Southern University Justyn focuses on sound design. You can see his work at Wellesley Theatre Project.

Jenni Jordan is a veteran theater educator and director with over 30 years of experience in acting, movement, mask, mime, and physical storytelling. She currently leads the Theater and Dance program at Miss Hall’s School, where she has directed and choreographed an extensive range of productions and empowers students to create bold, high-quality work. Jenni’s teaching blends rigor, play, and compassion to help performers unlock their fullest expressive selves.

Sandi Carroll is an actor, educator, director, and producer. As an actor, she has appeared on Broadway in Irena’s Vow, and in major motion pictures and independent films. Sandi is co-founder of and performer in the comedy group Logic Limited, LTD., where she has created and performed Famous!, Schaden, Freude, & You, TiVo La Resistance!, Philip & Karen’s Wedding Party, and most recently, Mission: Implausible! As the Artistic Director of the Mud/Bone Collective she created, performed and produced many productions including Impossible Country, a multi-media exploration of life as a refugee in NYC based on interviews with refugees from Iraq, Rwanda, Pakistan, Egypt and Russia. As an educator she has taught Acting for the Stage and Camera, Improvisation, Audition Techniques, Clown, Movement, Devising, Shakespeare, Playwriting, Storytelling, and Dialects at NYU, American University, Penn State, Emerson College, University of Virginia, Brown University, The Shakespeare Lab at The Public Theater, The Moth, Theatre for A New Audience, Theatre Development Fund, and Theatre Lab in DC. Boston University (BFA), University of Virginia (MFA).

Bart Roccoberton has been a professional Puppet Artist for nearly fifty years. He holds a B.A. in Speech and Technical Theatre from Montclair State College in New Jersey and an M.F.A. in Puppet Arts, which he earned at The University of Connecticut studying under Professors Frank Ballard and Albrecht Roser. Since 1975 he has toured popular puppet performances to schools, libraries, colleges, theaters and museums with his own troupe, The Pandemonium Puppet Company, and with the students of The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Institute of Professional Puppetry Arts and The University of Connecticut’s Puppet Arts Program. He has created and performed characters for television programs, Broadway productions and special commissions; his workshops, which have been presented for elementary, secondary and college students and teachers are in demand across the United States and have been published in national magazines; exhibits he has mounted of his own work and the work of others have been presented in both extended and permanent runs; as Founder and Director of The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Institute of Professional Puppetry Arts (1984-1990), he became recognized, internationally, as a leading advocate for the Puppet Arts in the U.S. He currently serves as Director of Production for the annual National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, which has just celebrated its 33rd Anniversary this year.