Rich Bradford is an award-winning playwright and actor from Philadelphia. He has worked in the theatre community for 15 plus years and has performed on stages in the tri state area, New York, Ohio and up and the east coast. He is a founding Company Member with Theater In The X and Assistant Artistic Director for Iron Age Theatre. His award winning one man show To My Unborn Child: A Love Letter From Fred Hampton has been produced in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Trenton at Passage Theatre. He is a co-creator with David Lee White on The OK Trenton Project and Janet Wide Awake. He is also a teaching artist for Passage Theatre.

Anthony Martinez-Briggs has a crush on fashionable sneakers, well cultivated herbs, and science fiction novels written by black femme authors. They wear many hats in the theatre including but not limited to writing, teaching, facilitating, and music-making, and have performed as a member of The Wilma's HotHouse company, and additionally performed with Theatre Exile, Arden Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre, Bearded Ladies Cabaret, and Applied Mechanics, among others. They have designed sound for several regional theaters including Theater Horizon, Passage Theatre, Simpatico Theatre, Drexel University and the University of the Arts. They are also known as “Us”: emcee and original member of the band ILL DOOTS; their song “Heartbeat” was the recipient of the 2021 Lennon Award for R&B, it is featured on their double album “The Mess/Age”; available everywhere. Follow @ILLDOOTS on all socials. Much love to my family, ancestors, creator and especially, my wife, Tess.

Ozzie Jones is the Founder and Artistic director of the Rhythm One Company and the Artistic director and cofounder of The Well Productions. He is also the director of The Shipley School Middle School Performing Arts program. He has been a writer, director of stage and film, composer, and performer throughout the United States and Europe since 1992. Mr. Jones was a member of the first Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab of America’s top one hundred young American stage directors. He co-wrote and performed in the Bessie Award winning, Olivier award nominated Rome and Jewels for Rennie Harris Pure Movement. Currently, Mr. Jones is working on staged readings of his new plays, Chasin’ the Bird at Penumbra Theater in Saint Paul Minnesota and an African Continuum production of Kind of Blue at Arena Stage in DC. Both of these new works are a part of a larger series of plays on Jazz called The Real Book.

Sanchel Brown is a mother, performer, and choreographer originally from Baltimore, MD. Her choreography highlights include Theatre Horizon's "The Color Purple" regional premiere and Yale Dramat's and Theatre in the X’s production of "Dreamgirls". She is a 2022 receipient of the Broadway World outstanding Choreography Award. Sanchel has recently founded Nubienne Productions, a production company catered to aligning the performing and energy healing arts. Sanchel currently teaches an array of movement and fitness classes including her original “AfroClub '' dance class fusing Baltimore House and West African Dance Forms inspired by her frequent travels to Senegal, West Africa.