Lauren Goldman Marshall has authored a dozen plays and musicals, including the hit Seattle revue Waiter, There's a Slug in My Latté (Cabaret de Paris), Whadda 'Bout My Legal Rights? (Empty Space Theater, published by Samuel French), Rivercide, P.I. (Seattle Public Theater; published by Baker’s Plays), The 100th Eye (West Coast Ensemble, Los Angeles), an award-winning contemporary adaptation of The Misanthrope (Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland) and Fixing Einstein (5th Avenue Theatre new works). She holds a BA and JD from Stanford and an MFA in Music Theater writing from NYU, and was Producing Artistic Director of Seattle Public Theater for five years before starting a family in 2001. She is the founding director of Theater of Possibility, which, since 2010, has taught theater to youth with autism and other (dis)abilities.

Roger Ames is a Pulitzer Prize nominated composer, author and artist-educator. He has been commissioned to compose operas and musicals for Off-Broadway, London Fringe, and the Hartford Stage: Martin Guerre, directed by Mark Lamos, Utah Opera: Illusions/Illusiones, Central City Opera: En Mis Palabras, and Lake George Opera: Amarantha.

His awards include First Prize, Boston Metro Opera, for En Mis Palabras, the Michael Mayer Director’s Choice award for How Green Was My Valley, Second Prize, the International Clarinet Society, 11 ASCAP Composer awards, and music-theater piece, No Parking, which won a $100,000 Knight Foundation production grant two years ago

Paul Linnes has over 35 years of live performance experience on multiple continents, as well as recordings with the Roger Wagner Chorale, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, motion picture soundtracks such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Jurassic Park, Ghost Rider (2007), and several video game titles including Halo and Age of Empires. He is a pianist, a cellist, and holds a M.M. in Vocal Performance (Opera) from the University of Southern California. Music Direction has taken him to theaters all over the greater Seattle area and beyond.

Kathryn Van Meter is an award winning, multi-disciplinary theatre artist, whose career encompasses work as a director, choreographer, actor and educator. A champion of large scale community theatrical adventures, Kathryn choreographed As You Like It for Seattle Repertory Theatre’s PUBLIC WORKS program, and directed and choreographed Matilda at Village Theatre where she worked with Star 101.5 to generate The Matilda Movement; a program honoring local youth making a difference in their community. Kathryn’s work as a teaching artist has taken her around the world from South Africa and Siberia. As an artist/activist, Kathryn worked with A.S.T.E.P. (Artists Striving to End Poverty) to develop One World Through Theatre, a generative theatrical conversation between students in South Africa, North Carolina, and Washington. Kathryn was the resident choreographer for the NETFLIX Original Series 13 Reasons Why, and in 2016 she worked with the US Dept. of Labor to develop the national definition for the occupation of “Choreographer.” She is a five time nominee and two time Gregory Award winner for Outstanding Choreography (Matilda, Mary Poppins). Kathryn holds a BA in Theatre and a Minor in Dance from The College of William and Mary. She serves on the National Board of Governors for AGMA, the Seattle Liaison Committee for Actors Equity and Chair’s the Seattle Steering Committee for the Society of Directors and Choreographers.

David Prahas Nafissian graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University with a double major in music and math. He spent his 20s as a composer and playwright, having four music theatre pieces produced in Seattle, WA.