Lindsay Joelle (Playwright) is a Tucson-based playwright and author whose work explores the routines, rituals, jargon, and humor of insular communities across America. Published plays include TRAYF (Theater J, Geffen Playhouse, LA Drama Critics Circle nomination for Best Writing) and THE GARBOLOGISTS (Philadelphia Theatre Company, City Theatre, Northlight Theatre, among others). She is the recipient of the Goldberg Award for Graduate Playwriting, Desert Theater League Award for Best Original Writing, and commissions from Vital Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Project, and the Audible Theater’s Emerging Playwrights Fund for “The Messengers,” recorded by Audible. Lindsay is a proud National New Play Network (NNPN), Playwrights Foundation, New Georges, and American Theatre Wing affiliated artist, former Playwright-in-Residence at Curious Theatre, and an alumna of Nashville Rep’s Ingram New Works Lab, The Great Plains Theatre Conference, PlayPenn New Play Conference, the BMI Workshop (lyricist), Columbia University (BA), and Hunter College (MFA). www.Lindsayjoelle.com

Colm Summers (Director) (he/him) is an award-winning Irish director, based in Brooklyn, NY, and the Artistic Director of the Working Theater. Recent credits include Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan (Geffen Playhouse, “Theaterly’s Best of Theater 2023”) and The Comedians by Philip Dawkins (Raven Theatre). Colm has developed work with Manhattan Theater Club, Berkeley Rep, New York Stage and Film, Page 73, Clubbed Thumb, Rattlestick Theater, Irish Repertory Theater, BRIC, the Abbey Theatre and many more. He was a 2024 Drama League Next Stage Fellow, and the inaugural Resident Director at both the Geffen Playhouse and the Abbey Theatre, the National Theatre of Ireland. In 2023, he won Ireland’s most prestigious bursary for emerging artists, the Next Generation Artist Award. His play, Falls, was recognized by the Relentless Awards, and he has been commissioned by Irish Arts Center, the Irish Arts Council, and the Puffin Foundation. He is a BMI Lehman Engel Bookwriting alum and a member of Origin Theater’s inaugural writers group.

Luigi Sottile (DANNY) is thrilled to be revisiting Danny in The Garbologists. He previously performed the role at Chicago’s Northlight Theatre. Broadway: Slave Play; Chicago: Steppenwolf, The Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Court Theatre. Regional theatre: Signature Theatre (DC), Woolly Mammoth, Folger Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Walnut Street Theatre, Wilma Theater, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Arden Theatre, People’s Light and Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, among many others; TV: Chicago PD, Chicago Med (recurring as Sean Archer); Film: All Happy Families.

Akyiaa Wilson (MARLOWE) A Brooklyn native, Akyiaa is passionate about the development of new works and has done so at Ars Nova, The Lark, Clubbed Thumb, Primary Stages, Drama League, The Kitchen, New Dramatists, New Georges, off and off-off Broadway. She is a member artist at Ensemble Studio Theatre and former Bat at The Flea. Most recently as Madame President in the uncompromising The Cotillion (TMT/New Georges) and as Izzy in the world premiere of Ellen McLaughlin’s Kissing the Floor (One Year Lease) she has also been seen as Clytemnestra, These Seven Sicknesses (New York premiere) Jocasta, Wrecks, Olga, Three Sisters, and the RSC’s Julius Caesar at BAM Ensemble.  She holds a B.F.A., Syracuse University.  (Akyiaa-Wilson.com)

Chloé Lexia Worthington (Stage Directions) (she/her) is a French-American actor, singer, and filmmaker from Brooklyn, NY. Most recently, she performed as the lead singer of Hypnotique at The McKittrick Hotel for the past three years. Theater credits include: Where We Meet (Ars Nova), No Mercy (Daryl Roth Theaters), Maria Irene Fornes Marathon (The Public Theater). TV: Law & Order (NBC). Film: Free Time (2024), and an upcoming Madeleine Olnek feature. Training: Barnard College, RADA. chloelexia.com

Mary Garrigan (Stage Manager) Off-Broadway: The Black Wolfe Tone (Irish Repertory Theatre) All The World’s A Stage (Keen Company), Another Shot (The Signature Center), Fish (Keen Company & Working Theater), Dig (Primary Stages), Belfast Girls (Irish Repertory Theatre), Cell (The Drama League), Powerhouse (Manhattan Repertory Theatre); Regional: Sense & Sensibility (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey) The Brothers Size (Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre), The Orchard (Arlekin Players); Other Credits Include: Not Beckett (Irish Repertory Theatre), Follies: In Concert (Carnegie Hall), Othello (New Place Players), Christmas Time In The City (Transport Group), Messy White Gays (The Fabulous Invalid & Powerhouse Theater).

Anton Volovsek (Set Designer) (he/him) is a scenic designer, artist, and theater maker currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Recent design credits: Off Broadway: Bowl EP (Vineyard) Regional: Our Town, Life is a Dream, Everything That Never Happened, Akeelah and the Bee (Baltimore Center Stage), Little Shop of Horrors (People’s Light) Curse of the Starving Class (PTP, Williamstown Theatre Festival), Mr. Burns (Brown/Trinity), Off-off Broadway: Hype Man (The Flea Theatre), Princess Phooey (TADA! Youth Theater). Collegiate: Real Housewives of the Restoration, King Charles III (NYU Grad Acting and Design), Spring Awakening, Jesus Christ Superstar (Montclair State University), Indecent (Central Michigan University), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (City College of New York). MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. BFA from the University of Michigan. Go Blue! You can find more of his work at www.antonedward.com.

Jake Levin (Moderator)(he/they) is a community organizer based in Brooklyn, NY. He coordinates Career Programming and Coaching at CUNY’s Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice, and has worked as an organizer on issue-based and electoral campaigns for the last 8 years. Jake organizes with Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), with a SURJ-affiliated project organizing men against white supremacy and patriarchy, and with his local tenant association. In a previous life, Jake was a concert and public art producer. Jake is a proud CUNY alum and has studied with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and The School for Poetic Computation.