Gerrad Alex Taylor is an award-winning director and multidisciplinary theatre artist based out of the Greater Baltimore region and an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His current creative work and research centers around creating space that preserves history and celebrates culture of the Global Majority. In 2021, he was named one of Baltimore's "40 Under 40" by the Washington Business Journal. In 2020, he founded Chesapeake Shakespeare's Black Classical Acting Ensemble (BCAE), an affinity space for black actors interested in training and exposure of the "classics" and what an expansion of the classical canon may look like today. In 2024, Gerrad joined colleague Lizzi Albert to take on the roles of Co-Artistic Directors of Perisphere Theater in Montgomery County, MD. He has worked with theatres and educational institutions across the country and is a member of the Actors' Equity Association and an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors.

Suzan-Lori Parks (born May 10, 1963) is an American playwright, screenwriter, musician and novelist. Parks was the first African­American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for Topdog/Underdog in 2002, and Time Magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people of 2023. She won a 1990 Obie Award for Best New American Play. Her works have been produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, The Public Theater and Yale Repertory Theatre, among many others. A member of New Dramatists, she is a two-time playwriting fellow with the National Endowment for the Arts and has received grants from the Rockefeller, Ford and Whiting Foundations, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the W. Alton Jones Foundation and the Fund for New American Plays. She wrote her first feature-length screenplay for Spike Lee and his company 40 Acres and a Mule in 1996 and has since helped write the screenplays on films including Their Eyes Were Watching God and The United States vs. Billie Holliday. She currently teaches playwriting at NYU Tisch School of the Arts in the Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing.

Tyler Brust (He/Him) is a scenic designer and technical director based out of Frederick, MD. He received his BA in Theatre Design and Production from UMBC. Credits include: Tiny Lights (Scenic Designer, Theater J); shOUT (Co-Scenic Designer, UMBC); Katalepsis (Technical Director, Submersive Productions); and Trouble in Mind (Associate Scenic Designer, UMBC). His design portfolio can be found at: tylerbrust.com

Billie Krishawn is a mom, multidisciplinary artist, activist-advocate, and two-time Helen Hayes Award winner whose performing credits include Folger Theater, Woolly Mammoth, Mosaic Theater, Arena Stage, and Everyman Theater, among others. She is so excited to be making her costume designing debut. In these times community will be how we see our way through. Stay connected to some of the community building by joining "DC Theatre Community Care" page.

Hailey LaRoe is thrilled to be back at Perisphere Theatre for this timely show. Hailey is a Lighting and Projection designer based in the DC area. Recent lighting designs include: Native Gardens, The Shawshank Redemption, and POTUS (Nextstop Theatre), Little Comedies (Synetic Theatre), Fuego Flamenco 2024, and The 22+ Weddings of Hugo (Gala Hispanic Theatre), The Pliant Girls (Theatre Prometheus), and Human Museum (Rorschach Theatre). Recent projection designs include: Dragons Love Tacos, She Persisted, and Knuffle Bunny (Adventure Theatre), A Bright Room Called Day (Nu Sass Theatre), Poetry for the People (Theatre Alliance), Nancy (Mosaic Theatre). Enjoy the show! Haileylaroedesigns.com

Paige Washington (they/them/theirs) is excited to be back with Perisphere Theatre for their second show. They are a local DMV stage and production manager. Recent credits include The Tempest with Devil's Isle Shakespeare Co., The Niceties with Perisphere Theater; Albert Herring with The Maryland Opera Studio; Alceste with INSeries; The Wilting Point with Keegan Theatre; Requiem with INSeries; and Tempered: A Cabarage with 4615 Theatre Company.They are also Associate Production Manager at Imagination Stage. They are thrilled to be doing work that puts queer, brown, and indigenous bodies and minds at the center.

Cheryl J. Williams brings an impressive background as a sound designer and theatre professor to the Perisphere Theater. With over 30 years of professional experience, she has designed more than 25 productions across the United States and internationally in countries such as Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Ghana, and Kenya. In academia, Cheryl has taught a wide range of theatre subjects, including technical theatre, at numerous institutions, including Morgan State University, UMCP, UMBC, Howard Community College, Old Dominion University, and universities in Ghana and Kenya. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, underscoring her dedication and expertise in the field. Her extensive experience and education contribute greatly to her role in the theatre community.

Sierra Young is making her Perisphere debut. REGIONAL: Arena Stage:Ja Ja's African Hair Braiding and POTUS! Studio Theatre: Downstate, The Colored Museum; STC: As You Like It, King Lear (Helen Hayes Nomination) et. al. Sierra is the resident fight and intimacy director for Mosaic Theater Company in D.C., and an active member of the SAFD, and IDC. sierrayoung.org.