Jing Dong
Jing Dong (Director) is a theatre maker based in New York City. She directs, writes, and facilitates devising processes. She makes theatre that creates space for people to gather, connect, and reflect on life experiences and the world’s current issues. Her theatre projects take various forms such as play, ethnotheatre, participatory performance, audio theatre, and object theatre. Her works have been presented in theaters and non-theater spaces in the US and China. Recent projects include What a shame I became verbal, an interdisciplinary performance on language and colonialism, and Slow Dance, a devised piece about living with chronic illnesses in a capitalist society. Her projects have been supported by Mercury Store, LMCC, The Laundromat Project, NYSCA, Performance Project, and Korean Art Forum.
Lyam B. Gabel
Lyam B. Gabel (Director) is a trans director, writer, and performance-maker whose work builds expansive queer and trans worlds through performance, archival practice, and immersive media. Recent directing includes Amm(i)gone (Woolly Mammoth, PlayCo, The Flea and national tour); The House of Telescopes (Pipeline Theatre), Becoming a Man (Z Space), Into the Woods (Lehigh University), My Cousin Nelu is Not Gay (The Brick), and The Christine Jorgenson Show (Cleveland Playhouse, Associate). Lyam’s original touring works include DADDY, a two-person play about trans-masculine pregnancy, the dance floor, the hospital room, and the kitchen table, created from 40+ oral-history interviews about queer care in the 1980s, and Alleged Lesbian Activities about the history of New Orleans lesbian bars. They are Co-Artistic Director of Future Ghost, Assistant Professor at Lehigh University, a former Drama League Fellow and Resident Artist, and a member of SDC. www.lyambgabel.com
Maya Quetzali Gonzalez
Maya Quetzali Gonzalez (Director) is a Texas-grown, Brooklyn-based artist. Her recent movement work includes Gooey’s Toxic Aquatic Adventure at the Bushwick Starr and A Woman Among Women at LCT3. She has also developed, directed, and choreographed work at/with The Village, NY Fringe, La MaMa, SheNYC, OOB Festival, The Tank, Judson Arts, and The Brick. As an associate/assistant, she has worked at Playwrights, Signature, MCC, Roundabout, and on Broadway. Maya is an Associate Member of SDC and has been a FORGE Fellow, a member of Roundabout Directors Group, an artist at UCLA’s’ Dancing Disability Lab, and an Access. Movement. Play. (AMP) Residency Artist at Movement Research. She is also a reproductive justice advocate. BFA: NYU.
Lily Kanter Riopelle
Lily Kanter Riopelle (Director) is a new play director who has directed or developed work with Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, 59E59, The Tank, Portland Stage, Urbanite Theatre, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, The Flea, Dixon Place, The Brick, NYMF, and more. She is an alumna of Clubbed Thumb’s and Manhattan Theatre Club’s Directing Fellowships and the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Directing Corps, a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and a New Georges Affiliated Artist. She has served as an assistant or associate director on Broadway, and at Encores!, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, among others. She is an alumna of Williams College, where she studied Theatre and Computer Science, and the National Theater Institute. lilyriopelle.com
Jerrica D. White
Jerrica D. White (Director) is a Brooklyn-based director and writer who examines the spectrum of Blackness, focusing on love, relationships, adventure, family dynamics, mental health, and faith. Her work has been developed with the Classical Theatre of Harlem, Primary Stages, Workshop Theater, Ensemble Theater, and Cincinnati Black Theatre Artist Collective. As an author, she has been in Residence with Liberation Theatre Company and Soho House. As a director, she has worked on productions with New York Theatre Workshop (Saturday Church – dir Whitney White), Baltimore Center Stage (Akeelah and the Bee), Urbanite Theatre (From 145th to 98th Street), The Public Theater (JORDANS – dir Whitney White), WP Theater (The Waterfall – dir Taylor Reynolds), Arena Stage (CrazySexyCool – The TLC Musical – dir Kwame Kwei-Armah). She is a 2025-2026 Directing Fellow at NYU Tisch Department of Design for Stage and Film.