Zoe (she/her) is a New York based writer and director. As an artist, Zoe is attracted to intimate relationships but grand stories. Much of her work are multi-hour epics revolving around historic subject matter ranging in time periods from Jacobean England to the near future. Themes are often around Jewish identity and diaspora, queerness, gender, coming of age, and human sexuality. She is fascinated by what turns people on and pulls them apart. Recent work includes: BOY MY GREATNESS (world premiere March 2024, regional tour September 2024), if i live until i be a man (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2024), Bedfellows (Finalist for the Rootstock Reading Series), and Frankenstein (world premiere March 2025). Her play Lay The Bent To The Bonny Broom is a current finalist for the National Jewish Play Project. Zoe is the current associate artistic director of the Firebird Project. Her playwriting has received recognition from organizations such as the Eugene O’Neill Center, Penguin Random House, Good Apples Collective, WP Theater, and YoungArts. She is also a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. (zoesenesegrossberg.com)

Leo (they/he/she) is a director, teaching artist, and producer from Brooklyn, and the founding Artistic Director of The Firebird Project. Leo also serves as the Associate Artistic Director of Phoenix Theatre Ensemble and heads their PlayCoop New Works Incubator, a home for new storytelling forms like ARG and RPG. Recent directing credits include METAMORPHOSIS, Wind in the Willows and Scandalton: LIVE with Phoenix. Trouble Feature, Rossum's Universal Robots and The Snow Queen with Firebird, and Midsummer DICE Dream with Dacha Theatre in Seattle. As a teaching artist, Leo leads workshops in improv, playwriting, and RPG storytelling. As a genderqueer first-gen immigrant, Leo seeks to create work that explores nebulous identities, placelessness, and unconventional methods of meaning-making. (leolion.com / @whosleolion)

JB (she/her) is a NYC-based stage manager and theatre artist from upstate New York, and is thrilled to be joining Firebird for her first season as Production Manager. She received her B.A. in Theatre Studies from SUNY New Paltz in 2021. Recent credits include JANUARY with Multistages/The Femme Collective (ASM), BOY MY GREATNESS with The Firebird Project (SM), The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Delivery Boy with Kitchen Sink Theatre Company (SM), The Woodlands and Clara & Carmilla at NYTF (SM), (t)RUST at The Tank (SM), and BLOOM BLOOM POW at A.R.T./NY (ASM). Jenna has amassed over 5 million likes across Youtube and TikTok, and is ⅓ of the podcast Feminine Features where she discusses a different "chick flick" each week. (linktr.ee/jbmorrissey)

Katie (they/them) is a New York-based artist originally from upstate South Carolina. They graduated from Oberlin College in 2022 with a B.A. in Creative Writing and Cinema studies. They have written, directed, and art-directed two twenty-five minute short-films (Boys Who Fly on Gilded Wings & Wolf Girl), and designed multiple sets for the Oberlin College theater department (Warsaw Melody, Orlando, Next to Normal, Hamlet, & Shayna Punim). Previous credits with Firebird include makeup and costume design for R.U.R., and makeup and set design for The Seagull, Boy My Greatness, and If I Live Until I Be A Man.

Maximillian (he/him) is an NYC born and based multimedia artist doing props and costumes. He has a BA in Film from Bard College and is a frequent collaborator with Phoenix and Firebird productions.

Alex is thrilled to be working on her second production with the Firebird team after working as the lighting designer of Boy My Greatness. Currently she is designing Matilda Jr. with the British International School of New York. Recent credits include multiple designs with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre’s Extension Program and ALD of Glow Holiday Light Show. She holds a dual BA in Theatrical Design and Technology and Anthropology.

niqo torrez (they/them) is a movement-driven director/dramaturg currently based in brooklyn, ny. recent credits include Town Hall [director, suny new paltz], The Woodlands, Clara & Carmilla [director, nytf], And a Child Shall Lead [director, waterwell @ ppas], The Spitfire Grill [ad, vanguard theatre company], House of Bernarda Alba [dramaturg, gallery players]. currently, they are very excited to be a part of the inaugural ‘chick magnet’ play incubator with dyke theatre company, and to continue creating deliciously queer productions. join them at torreztheatre.com.