Gil Mitchell (he/him) is a multi-hyphenate artist and educator currently based out of Washington, DC. He has a BA in Performing Arts and an MLitt in Shakespeare and Performance from Mary Baldwin University, an MFA from the George Washington University and the Academy at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, and a certificate in Contemporary Circus Arts from the Musik og Teaterhøjskolen in Toftlund, Denmark. He is an award-winning director, actor, and choreographer, and has collaborated with institutions such as The Shakespeare Theatre Company, The American Shakespeare Center, and Harvard University. He works as a freelance educator, and is a faculty member at NewU University, where he teaches rhetoric. In his free time, he plays amateur chess, and excellent gin rummy. He takes his coffee black and frequently.

Laura Artesi (she/her) is an actor, director, and educator born and raised in NYC with an MFA from STC’s Academy for Classical Acting at George Washington University. As an actor, local credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Theatre Company - DC & Macau Arts Festival Tour productions), Julius Caesar (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company), Laughs in Spanish, Lobby Hero, Well, The Farnsworth Invention, How the Light Gets In (1st Stage) Timon of Athens, As You Like It (Folger Theatre), 10 Seconds (Imagination Stage), Hamlet, Women Beware Women (STC Academy), As You Like It, Three Musketeers, Sleeping Beauty (Synetic Theater). Laura directed The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the STC Summer Intensive, and assistant directed Our Town for Imagination Stage’s Conservatory. Locally she has taught with Imagination Stage, Round House Theatre, and has been an Affiliated Teaching Artist at Shakespeare Theatre Company since 2016. Laura single handedly founded and runs the Theatre Program at German International School of Washington D.C. She is thrilled to be a founding member of this company and is dedicated to making the classics feel accessible and relevant in a modern world. 

Emily (Emi) Erickson (she/her) is an actor, arts educator, music director, and composer. She currently splits her time between New York City and Washington, DC. Emily serves on the faculty of NYU Tisch in the Theatre Studies department and has worked as an educator with the National Theater Institute, Atlantic Acting School, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, and Educational Theatre Company. Recent acting credits include Apropos of Nothing (Keegan Theatre), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina), Muffed (Prologue Theatre), People, Places & Things (Studio Theatre), Noises Off (Keegan Theatre - HHA), Man Covets Bird (Spooky Action), Richard II  (Her Majesty & Sons), and  The Honey Trap (Solas Nua - HHN). Emily is a company member with Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, where she has worked on Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, The Oresteia, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar. Emi’s musical adaptation of The Tempest (co-written with collaborator Séamus Miller) had its world premiere in 2024. She has also composed music for plays and musicals at New Ohio Theatre, Arts on the Horizon, the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, and KCTYA. Emi is beyond thrilled and eager to be founding this company amongst artists who invigorate and inspire her. Proud MFA alumnus of The Academy at STC/GWU. BFA: NYU Tisch. 

www.emilynerickson.com

Gabriel Alejandro (he/him) is a Puerto Rican actor, and educator. He currently works as a Teaching Artist with Shakespeare Theater Company and Imagination Stage. He is a proud Company Member at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company where he just performed as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar. Other CSC credits include The Oresteia and As You Like It. You may have seen him as Paris in Folger’s Romeo & Juliet, Walter in Prologue’s Marjorie Prime, Pablo in Next Stop’s Native Gardens, Udo in Keegan’s The Wilting Point, or King Phillip II in Washington Stage Guild’s Sofonisba. Internationally, Gabriel has trained and performed with Odin Teatret in Denmark, Sine Qua Non Art in Greece, and Teatro R-101 in Colombia. In his native Puerto Rico he did plays such as: Mujeres del Alba, Sueños de Colores, Drácula, and Unmerciful Good Fortune. Education: (MFA) Shakespeare Theater Company Academy, (MAT) New York University. INSTAGRAM: @galejandro

Savina Barini (they/them)is a theatre maker and educator based in Washington DC. A graduate of Howard University, they have studied, directed, and performed across genres in New York, DC/Baltimore, London, and Idaho. Savina was a featured playwright in Theater Alliance's A Protest in Eight, a series of eight newly commissioned plays directed by artistic director Raymond O. Caldwell. In October 2022, they co-directed the Idaho regional premiere of Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu with Roney Jones. 

Offstage Savina is a teaching artist, and has worked with St. Thomas Playhouse, Sage School, The Spot, the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Howard University, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, and Arena Stage directing, choreographing, and teaching dance and acting to K-12 and undergraduate students. They previously served as social media manager for Theater Alliance from 2021-2024 and as an artistic advisor for Monumental Theatre Company.

savinabarini.com

Creative: Folger Theatre: Romeo & Juliet (AD); Theater Alliance: What Happens There (Playwright); The Spot: Pass Over (Co-director), Drowsy Chaperone (Dramaturg), Macbeth (ASM); With Good Co.: Small Victories (Script Consultant); St. Thomas Playhouse: Frozen (Director), Newsies (Choreographer). Howard University: All Black Everything (Playwright/Director), Mephistopheles (Playwright), Eclipsed (Dramaturg), Urinetown (Dramaturg)