Jessica Frey is an actor/singer/writer/comedian/teacher located in NYC. She has had the pleasure of teaching with the Atlantic Acting School, with Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festivals teaching artist program, and as private acting and on camera coach. Some favorite acting credits include: Sense & Sensibility, BEDLAM (in both the Off-Broadway and ART productions); Clown Bar and Giant Killer Slugs with Pipeline Theatre Co; Pride & Prejudice (Lizzy Bennet) with Dorset Theatre Festival; All’s Well That Ends Well (Helena) and King Lear (Cordelia) with Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; Twelfth Night (Viola), Esperance Theater Company. Film/TV: “The Characters” (NETFLIX); “BASIC WITCH” (star and co-creator). (NYT Critic’s Pick). She’s also a proud member of Partial Comfort Productions, Pipeline Theatre Co, and the award winning sketch group, Uncle Function. She got her BFA from NYU / Atlantic Acting School. www.jessicafrey.com

Lanxing Fu is a Chinese-American theater artist and co-director of Superhero Clubhouse, an interdisciplinary community engaged in theater-making to shift culture towards climate and environmental justice. With SHC: she is the playwright and co-creator of Mammelephant (The New Ohio / HERE Arts Center / Theatre Row) the program director of The Living Stage NYC (University Settlement / LES Meltzer Senior Center), and a co-creator of PLUTO (no longer a play), (The Brick) and JUPITER (a play about power), (La MaMa). She is also a lead teaching artist with Big Green Theater, an after-school eco-playwriting program in Bushwick (SHC/Bushwick Starr). Recent performances: The Space Between The Letters (dir: Eva von Schweinitz, UTR at The Public), A Climate Clown Opera? (dir: Sarah Hughes, LPAC), 36 Peaks (dir: Sarah Cameron Sunde, Baryshnikov Arts Center). Her writings are published on HowlRound and in American Theatre Magazine. She has taught acting at Peridance Capezio Center, and has been a workshop facilitator and speaker with The New School, Asian American Arts Alliance, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, CESTEMER, and more. She was a member of TCG’s 2019 Conference Committee on Climate and is part of TCG’s Rising Leaders of Color 2020 cohort. www.superheroclubhouse.org

Quentin Lee Moore attended Atlantic Acting School’s Evening Conservatory and made his NYC stage debut in the production of Do You Roll Over in the Night at the Linda Gross Theater at the completion of his training. He has since appeared in the original short play Woman Illusion (Theater for the New City) and Stepping Through Blood (New Perspectives Theater). He is currently deepening his Atlantic roots through training as a voice coach under Katie Bull and teaching in the high school program, Staging Success. Quentin graduated from the University of South Carolina where he majored in biology/pre-med and minored in psychology where he also earned several All-American honors as a standout track and field athlete. He is a NYC transplant from Chesapeake, VA. He is exceedingly grateful to be a part of the Atlantic Theater team.

Francisco Augusto Morandi Zerpa (any pronouns) is a Queer Latinx actor, dramaturg, verbatim theater maker, and teaching artist from Caracas, Venezuela. Francisco is a 2022 graduate of NYU Tisch.

Karsten Otto is an actor living in Brooklyn (and Manhattan given the hours hustling in that borough). He was most recently seen as Mr. Smiles in Kapow-i GoGo at the PIT, which drew rave reviews. He is currently working on developing a number of plays as an actor and producer, one based on the amazing life of Nancy Wake and one that is a mythical journey filled with puns, just to name a couple. BFA: NYU, Atlantic Acting School. karstenotto.com

Jem Pickard founded and co-directs Superhero Clubhouse, an interdisciplinary community engaged in shifting culture toward climate and environmental justice using the tools of theater. Jem is the lead playwright of The Planet Plays, a series of nine interconnected stories about the Anthropocene, and co-creator of dozens of other eco-theater works including Core of Me: A Hike-Play, Flying Ace and the Storm of the Century!, and Salty Folk: An Oyster Musical. Jem is the director of the annual Big Green Theater eco-playwriting program with The Bushwick Starr, celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. Jem co-authored the feature article “A Climate of Change” in the February 2020 climate issue of American Theatre Magazine, and their essays “On Eco-Theater” and “Temporary Communities in the Era of Climate Change” are published by TCG and No Passport. As an educator, Jem has taught original theater-making to a wide range of students for the past decade, in public elementary, middle, and high schools, Stony Brook University, NYU, The New School, NYCDA, and the Atlantic Theatre Company. Jem holds a drama degree from Ithaca College, is an alumnus of the O’Neill National Theater Institute, and trained for eight years in Suzuki/Viewpoints with SITI Company. superheroclubhouse.org.

Todd Thaler  is a prolific Film & Television Casting Director, teacher, (NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Atlantic Acting School), and private acting coach. Among many others, he served as Casting Director on Sidney Lumet’s Running On Empty, Luc Besson’s The Professional, Todd Field’s Little Children, Ed Harris’ directorial debut, Pollock, Barbra Streisand’s The Mirror Has Two Faces, James Foley’s Perfect Strangers, Stacy Cochran’s My New Gun and Boys, Irwin Winkler’s Night And The City, John McNaughton’s Mad Dog & Glory, Gavin O’Connor’s Tumbleweeds, James Mangold’s Heavy and Cop Land, Wayne Wang’s Because of Winn-Dixie and Maid in Manhattan, and all the films of John Turturro: Mac, Illuminata, Romance & Cigarettes and Fading Gigolo. Television projects include: TBS’ “Are We There Yet?,” Peter Berg’s “Wonderland,” and NBC’s “Ed” for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award.