Playwright and Lyricist Dana Leslie Goldstein has won the New England New Play Competition, Harold and Mimi Steinberg Playwriting Prize, Different Voices New Play Award, ACTF New Play Award, Henry Hoyns Poetry Fellowship, AWP Intro Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize and numerous development grants. Her work has been seen at Manhattan Theatre Club, Cherry Lane, Culture Project, Women’s Project, The York, Theatre80, Theater for the New City, New Dramatists, Center Stage, BMI, Vineyard Playhouse, Pulse, Theater Row Theatre, Gene Frankel Theatre, The Barrow Group, Acorn Theatre, The Lark, Beckett Theatre, Neighborhood Playhouse, The Workshop Theater, Torn Page, Nuyorican Poets Café, Estrogenius Festival, Brave New World Rep, Players Club of Swarthmore (PA), Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga (TN), Clamour Theatre (FL), American Stage Company (FL), Left Edge Theatre (CA), Spooky Action Theatre (DC), Pacific Theatre (Vancouver, Canada), TischAsia (Singapore), Baggage Productions (Melbourne, Australia), Red Brick Theatre (Manchester, U.K.), at the Columbus Black Theatre Festival (OH), the New York Musical Theatre Festival, on Ellis and Liberty Islands, at the U.N. and on Equity TYA tours. Next Stage Press has published Dana’s full-length play “Daughters of the Sexual Revolution” after previously publishing “Birth, Death & Bourbon: 3 Short Plays by Dana Leslie Goldstein”. Dana’s play “The God Part” is published in “Best Short Plays of 2021” (Smith & Kraus). Monologues from several of Dana’s plays appear in the 2022 and 2023 editions of “Best Men’s Stage Monologues” and “Best Women’s Stage Monologues” (Smith & Kraus), as well as in previous years’ editions. Dana’s monologues also appear in the anthology “She Persisted”, published by Applause Books in 2021. Dana is a librettist in the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, a playwright member of PlayGround-NY, Brave New World Rep and The Workshop Theater, as well as an alum of the Playwrights Lab at Women’s Project, NewShoe and DVRF. Dana holds MFA degrees in Playwriting and Poetry, both funded by full writing fellowships. Dana is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. For more information, visit www.danalesliegoldstein.com.

Rima Fand is a Brooklyn-based composer, musician and vocalist with a passion for multi-disciplinary performance. She has created music for performances ranging from experimental puppet theater to chamber opera to large-scale tableau vivant to contemporary musical theater to clown shows. She has also played in numerous creative musical ensembles, including the raucous string band Luminescent Orchestrii, with whom she toured internationally for a decade, Sherita, a Balkan-inspired acoustic quartet, Hydra, a women's a cappella trio, and currently Timbila, an mbira-driven ensemble. Rima is an inventor and very interested in that which is innovative, but is also strongly drawn to old traditions. She loves the vibrant, earthy sounds of folk music, and but also loves exploring sounds that are strange and new. Her favorite place from which to create is on that edge where the traditional meets the experimental. She is excited by the moment of intersection- when the poetry and archetypal stories of the past speak to the present, and are translated anew into our contemporary context. Rima is also a devoted teacher who is very inspired by creating music and theater with young people. She has worked for many years as a teaching artist in NYC public schools, specializing in exploring story and poetry through music and puppetry, and creating original musical/theatrical productions with students. She also teaches numerous private lessons in violin and piano.

17 years and close to 150 productions all with ETC...and counting

Appeared in the very first ETC produciton in 2007, ANGELS IN AMERICA. Since, Brenda has served as an actress, a director, a costume designer, a board member and our board president. Brenda works as the staff costumer and costume arts instructor at Chattanooga State Community College and has more than 40 years as a professional theatre artist performing all over the country.