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 and director born and raised in NYC with an MFA from STC’s Academy for Classical Acting at George Washington University. She has been an Affiliated Teaching Artist at STC since 2016 and is also a Teaching Artist with Round House Theatre and Imagination Stage, with special focuses in physical comedy, movement, and stage combat. Laura was the director for the STC Summer Intensive productions of The Tempest in 2021, and Much Ado about Nothing in 2022, and assistant directed the Imagination Stage Conservatory production of Our Town. She has performed locally with Synetic Theater, Imagination Stage, 1st Stage, Folger Theatre, and toured with STC’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Macau Arts Festival.

Emily (Emi) Erickson (she/her) is an an actor, music director, composer, and multi-instrumentalist local to the Washington, DC and New York City markets. She holds a BFA in Drama from New York University where she studied in the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, Experimental Theatre Wing, and the Classical Studio. She holds an MFA in Classical Acting from The Academy at Shakespeare Theatre Company and George Washington University.

Recent acting credits include Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Arts Center of Coastal Caroline), People, Places & Things (Studio Theatre), Noises Off (Keegan Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Chesapeake Shakespeare), Man Covets Bird  (Spooky Action), Richard II  (Her Majesty & Sons), and  The Honey Trap (Solas Nua), for which she and her ensemble were nominated for a Helen Hayes Award.  Emily's strengths and passions lie in Shakespeare and classical work, musical theater, and new play development. (In other words: Throw her some verse, a brand-new character to create, or some strong mix/belt material and she's a happy camper.) Emily serves as the resident music director for Devil's Isle Shakespeare Co. and is a company member with Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. 

As an educator, Emi has worked at NYU, directly assisting Daniel Spector in the Classical Studio as well as serving as a Lecturer in the Department of Drama. She has also worked as an accompanist and teaching artist at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Atlantic Acting School, Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, and The Academy at STC. Currently, Emi works for Round House Theatre and Shakespeare Theatre Company in their education programming. She also runs a private voice and audition coaching business in DC and remotely.

As a music director and composer, Emily has worked in many U.S. cities including New York, Houston, Detroit, Provincetown, DC, and Los Angeles. She has composed original music for dozens of new plays and Shakespeare productions alike and has written vocal arrangements for composers the likes of Alexander Sage Oyen, Mark Hollmann, and Aviva Jaye. Emi is currently working on two new full-length musicals Pentangle and The Sandfairy with writing partners Delaney Amatrudo and Jenna Hoffmann, respectively.

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.

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Regional: Moxie Arts NY: one drop cool; Theater Alliance: Look Both Ways; The Spot: Cabaret, Pippin, The Revolutionists, Sweeney Todd; Adventure Theatre MTC: Everyone Poops, ¡Luchadora!; ArtsCentric: for colored girls...; Monumental Theatre Co.: Head Over Heels; Sun Valley Shakespeare Festival: Rapture Blister Burn; Rorschach Theatre: ¡nails! A Happy Gay Latinx Play.

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)