Lempicka

is a playwright, lyricist, librettist and a recent Guggenheim, MacDowell and McKnight Fellow. Current projects include CAPITAL CRIME!, a play with songs set in Gilded Age New York, and a series of plays about the climate crisis: GREEN, TIMEBOMB and a third play inspired by her time on a ship in the Arctic, exploring the Svalbard Archipelago as part of The Arctic Circle Artist and Scientist Residency Program. Her plays include THE LOVE SONG OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER (Rosenthal New Play Prize, Steinberg New Play Citation and Stavis Award), THE SLOW DRAG (New York and London) and LASSO OF TRUTH (NNPN Rolling World Premiere). She is a Core Writer with The Playwrights’ Center, an alumna of New Dramatists and was the first Playwrights of New York (PoNY) Fellow at the Lark. Her collection SELF DEFENSE and other plays is available from No Passport Press.

is a choreographer, director, and the artistic director of the feath3r theory and New Brooklyn Theatre. A three-time winner of the Princess Grace Award, Kelly is a current fellow of HERE Arts, and a Creative Associate at The Juilliard School. Over the past decade, he has created 15 evening-length premieres with his company the feath3r theory, as well as choreographing extensively for Off-Broadway theatre. In 2019 he was nominated for the Lucille Lortel and Chita Rivera Awards for Outstanding Choreography. He also garnered a 2018 Breakout Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, DANCE MAGAZINE's inaugural Harkness Promise Award (2018), and the Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography (2016). Kelly was born in Fort Hood, Texas and holds a B.A. in Dance and English from Connecticut College.

received the 2019 Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Director of a Musical for HADESTOWN. She is a director, writer and dramaturg, as well as the founding Artistic Director of Brooklyn-based ensemble the TEAM. Selected freelance work: NATASHA, PIERRE, & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (Ars Nova, A.R.T., Broadway); THE ROYALE (Old Globe, Lincoln Center); SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS (Ars Nova, Off-Broadway, national tour) and multiple collaborations with Taylor Mac. In addition to her awards for HADESTOWN, Chavkin is a recipient of a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Musical, three Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, multiple Lortel Award nominations, two Doris Duke Impact Award nominations and the 2017 Smithsonian Award for Ingenuity along with Dave Malloy, with whom she is working on an upcoming adaptation of MOBY DICK (A.R.T., Dec 2019.)