ADAPTOR, PERFORMER, PRODUCER: Shelley is a Los Angeles based acting and executive coach. She encourages her clients to build performances from a holistic perspective. Some well known artists and organizations she's worked with are Tom Waits, Sam Corlett (Vikings Valhalla), Aly and AJ, The North Face, Union Bank, Standard Bots and VitalBio. Shelley trained with legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg and has been teaching for over 30 years. She's best known for her critically acclaimed stage performance of Talking with Angels, which she has performed over 400 times at festivals and salons in the USA and internationally. She can be seen on the big screen in the award winning films Sorry to Bother You and Green is Gold, both written and directed by her students.

More at www.ShelleyMitchell.org

DIRECTOR: Molly Shayna Cohen, (she/they) is a transdisciplinary theatre artist whose work centers on moments of transformation and the ephemerality in all things. Since moving to New York from Baltimore in 2022, She has worked at Mabou Mines, Theaterlab, The Public, En Garde Arts, New Victory Theatre, and more. She served as the Associate Artistic Director of Theatre of the Electric Mouth, founding member of film collective Lux Daze Media, and company member of the award-winning experimental theatre group The Acme Corporation. She was the recipient of the Best Actor of Baltimore Award in 2020, and is currently an MFA Directing Candidate (2025) at Brooklyn College. 

More at www.MollyShaynaCohen.com

DRAMATURG: Amy is an NYC-based theater director, writer, and dramaturg who has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally. She is a company member at Tectonic Theater Project, where she has developed numerous plays, including Here There Are Blueberries, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, recently extended at New York Theatre Workshop, and Seven Deadly Sins, which won the 2022 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience. She has also brought two major new musicals to Broadway as a part of team directing Paradise Square (2022) and The Great Gatsby (2024).

More at www.AmyMarieSeidel.com

SET DESIGN & PROJECTIONS: Lianne is a video & scenic designer and inter-disciplinary artist working in theater, opera, music, dance, film, art installation, & experimental performance hybrids of all kinds. A “dramaturg” designer, she prides herself on her versatility of medium and form, keeping a nimble and sensitive approach to every project’s unique structure & challenges. Her performance work has been seen in New York at The Kitchen, BAM, NYTW, HERE, La Mama, 3LD, Ars Nova, National Sawdust, Roulette, The Joyce, Baruch, 59E59, Abrons Art Center among others and in venues around the country and internationally. She was a production designer on the short film Toru premiering at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Along with Anna Rabinowitz, Kristin Marting & Matt Marks, she is the co-creator and video designer on the music-theater piece Words on the Street premiering at Baruch in October 2018. She is also a co-creator along with Zoey Martinson & Jon Martin of Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative, theater artist Brina Stinehelfer, and interactive technology artist Xinyao Wang on #HashtagProject (workshops on Governor’s Island, NYC and at Delphi Theater, Berlin). Lianne has collaborated with and designed for many groundbreaking and seminal dance, movement, new music, & opera companies, as well as composers, music groups, & visual artists including Lil Buck & Jon Boogz’ Movement Art Is, Sozo Artists, Jane Comfort & Company, Blue Man Productions, Beth Morrison Projects, American Opera Projects, Prospect Theater Company, Invisible Anatomy, Joseph Keckler, Earl Maneein of Seven Suns, Robin Cox’s Hourglass, and composer John King. Her installation and video art has been exhibited in galleries in New York and New Jersey including The Actors’ Fund and BRIC. Her collaborators in the visual arts have included Leslie Kerby (Counterpointe/Brooklyn Ballet/BRIC and more), Natalia Margolis, Fariba Alam & Urban Matter Design Firm (Bare Branches – Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi). Selections of Lianne’s many associate design credits include The Lehman Trilogy on Broadway (Luke Halls designer), My Name is Lucy Barton on Broadway (Luke Halls designer), A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Julie Taymor at Theatre For a New Audience(Sven Ortel designer), Universes’ Party People at The Public Theatre (Liesl Tommy dir./Sven Ortel designer) and Marvel Universe Live! with designer Bob Bonniol of MODE Studios. She was named a "Young Designer to Watch" by Live Design Magazine in 2015. Lianne teaches Video Design/Creative Technologies at The New School, is a member of Wingspace Design Collective, and proudly earned her MFA from CalArts.

More at www.LianneArnold.com

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Litha Ashforth, coloratura soprano, is known for her “spellbinding” presence on stage. A recipient of numerous competitive honors, she has been distinguished in competition by the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation at the Music Academy of the West, the Maestro Award from World Strides Heritage Festival, and the New England Conservatory of Music’s Entrepeneurial Musicianship Grant.

Litha has been performing since her preschool graduation. In 2024, she made her New York theatre debut as the starring role in "Order" at Here Arts, a notable off-Broadway venue. Her performances have extended to collaborations with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and appearances at venues such as the Tournament of Roses and Judson Memorial Church in NYC. This year she sang the role of Olympia in Offenbach’s "Tales of Hoffman," Adele in Strauss’ "Die Fledermaus," and Angelina in Gilbert and Sullivan’s "Trial by Jury.

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Her compositional work addresses ancestral memory, sacred dance, and the symbiosis of opera and technology. Collaborating with Jasmine Sinanan-Singh, a Ph.D. candidate at MIT's Quanta Group, she uses sensor-based technology and custom software for her stage performances.

Listen to Litha's music here.

CHOREOGRAPHER: Jana began as a dancer in NYC performing on SNL, America’s Got Talent, with The Jonas Brothers on the VMAs. Moving to LA, Jana became a regular on the hit TV show Lip Sync Battle for all 5 seasons dancing with Tom Holland, Beyoncé, and more. Most recently, she performed alongside Billie Eilish at Coachella. As an actor, Jana trained with Shelley Mitchell (Duse Studio), at the Stella Adler Academy, Ruskin Group Theatre, Stephanie Feury Studio. She is featured in the award winning short There Once Was a Woman. Jana recently premiered her one-woman show, 6 Million Jews Didn’t Die For You To…at Hollywood Fringe 2023 to rave reviews. Her first original piece was in Chrysalis at Hollywood Fringe 2019, winning the Encore Award. Her choreography credits: “Bedroom Eyes” -The Knocks, “Look at Me Now”-Kathleen Monteleone and commercial “Rise Up LA.” Jana is a multifaceted artist of TheGrit, a collective created by Jon Rua. In 2024 she founded Return To Dance.

More about Jana here.