Dougie Robbins (AEA) is a Director, choreographer, actor and educator. He has a deep love for theater and dance in all of its forms and has been fortunate to perform and direct many different kinds of musicals and plays. When not working on theatrical productions he creates dance through his company DPRdance, a theatrical jazz company born out of his time reviving and preserving the Jack Cole technique and repertoire with Chet Walker. As an educator he has taught at Broadway Dance Center, as a faculty member in the SUNY Cortland BFA Musical Theater program, and internationally in Taipei, Taiwan. Guiding Flight Risk onto the tarmac has been an incredible privilege, thank you to Dakota, the cast, and the design team for your generosity.

Dakota Silvey is a playwright, EMT, wildland firefighter, and Air Force veteran. Dakota’s work has been supported by Daisy Theatricals, Village Playwrights, GrannyCart, Broadway Bookclub, 24 Bond Arts, The Gene Frankel Theatre and VetRep Theater. Awards include: Winner NYC Short Play Festival, Winner 15 Minutes of Frame, Semi-Finalist for AITAF Bridge Award, 2nd place VetRep 1 Act Competition and selection to the William Inge Festival’s New Play Lab 2024. He is a Cut Edge Experimental Theatre Writing Collective member and a 2024 Sewannee Writers’ Conference Fellow. Dakota made his New York Full-Length debut with Flight Risk in 2024 and is delighted to return for his second full-length collaboration with Dougie Robbins and a new collective of talented artists! Dakota is a proud member of Actor’s Equity and the Dramatists’ Guild.

Sameen is a New York-based director, artist, filmmaker, and graphic designer. Upon completing her bachelor's degree at Parsons, The New School for Design, she went on to design for brands such as BMW, Disney, the NBA, NBC, NFL, and SKKN by Kim K. Since then Sameen has expanded her creative practice to include film and theatre. Her film credits include her work in the upcoming shorts, Laminations (directed by Nuala Vizard) and Aspirations (directed by Kathi Kennedy).

Lily Taggart is a designer of sets and environments for theater and culinary events. Her work often focuses on the interaction between audience, environment, and performers, through the exploration of all sensory cues. Her recent work includes The Skin of our Teeth (Lake Highland Preparatory School), Nourishment (Arts Letters & Numbers), and The Marriage (La Mama Experimental Theater). She is entering her final semester at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School where she will receive her BA in Theater. She plans on pursuing a Masters Degree in Culinary Arts.