Internationally produced and recognized playwright Elana Gartner has written Runtime Error, Jagged Journey, Age of Chimes, Outside, Tornado, Before Lesbians, Pilar’s Brother Because of Beth, Cortex Kin, and Ernie Evan, among others. Her work has been produced throughout the United States and in New Zealand. She has worked with the Kennedy Center Playwriting Initiative, the Great Plains Theatre Conference and has had her work recognized as a semi-finalist by the Eugene O’Neill Playwriting Conference. She has had monologues published from Because of Beth (Audition Monologues for Young Women #2: More Contemporary Auditions for Aspiring Actresses", by Gerald Ratliff, due for full publication with Next Stage Press, October, 2025) and Runtime Error in Smith & Kraus' Best Monologues for Men 2022. In addition to being a playwright, Elana is an advocate for gender parity in theatre. She was the co-founding chair of the International Centre for Women Playwrights’ 50/50 Applause Awards, recognizing those theaters who were producing women in, at least, 50% of a given season. During the pandemic, Elana founded Four Walls Theater which produced socially responsible theatre virtually. Elana received her MFA in Playwriting from Spalding University and her BA from Oberlin College.

Guillermo Reyes' plays Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown and Mother Lolita were produced as off-Broadway productions with Urban Stages, Chilean Holiday and Saints at the Rave at the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, the historical drama, Madison, at Premiere Stages, winner of the New Play Award 2008. In 2010, he published a memoir with the University of Wisconsin Press, entitled Madre and I: A Memoir of our Immigrant Lives, chronicling his immigration from Chile and growing up in the D.C. area and in Hollywood, CA. The play, That Day in Tucson, was published by Dramatic Publishing Company in 2018 and dramatizes the day when congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot along with some of her constituents, and a young intern, Daniel Hernandez, helped save her life, and has become one of his most produced plays. Another play, Bad Hombres, was recently produced at Theater Rhinoceros in San Francisco. Reyes is a professor at Arizona State University in the School of Music, Dance and Theater where he has been dramaturging MFA playwriting candidates for the last 30 years. His short stories have appeared in a variety of journals, including Chiricu, Label Me Latina/o, the New Mexico Humanities Review, Puerto del Sol, among others.

Alberto received a B.A. in Theater at Arizona State University. He also studied at The British American Dramatic Academy in Oxford, England. He continued his studies at Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts receiving an MFA in Acting under Maggie Flanagan, Lenard Petit, Loyd Richards, Hal Scott, and William Esper. Alberto has directed several shows including King Lear (featuring Austin Pendleton as Lear), Macbeth, Richard The III (winner: Queens Courier “Kudos” award for best director), Merchant of Venice, Servant of Two Masters, Raft of the Medusa, Look Back In Anger, Three Points Over the Vig, Leaving Lilly, The elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, and many more. He is an Associate member of SDC, and also a member of: SAG-AFTRA, AEA, National Association of Latino Producers. He is represented by Esquire Entertainment.