Annie Wiegand she/her OFF-BROADWAY: Playwrights Horizons: I Was Most Alive With You. REGIONAL: Signature Theater Company: The Upstairs Department; Milwaukee Repertory Theatre: Eclipsed; Alabama Shakespeare Festival: Steel Magnolias and Under the Breeches; Dallas Theater Center: Steel Magnolias; Huntington Theatre Company: The Who and The What; Kitchen Theatre Company: The Children, Matt and Ben, Brahman/I; and Small Mouth Sounds,  Speakeasy Stage Company: The Bridges of Madison County (IRNE Nominee for Best Lighting Design), and Tribes. OFF-OFF-BROADWAY: Select: Astoria Performing Arts Center: Follies (NYIT Nominee for Best Lighting Design). TEACHING: Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance, Gallaudet University. Annie Wiegand is the first and only professional Deaf lighting designer in the US theater industry. www.anniewiegand.com

Amelia Hensley - Broadway: Spring Awakening (Deaf West). Off Broadway: I Was Most Alive with You (Playwrights Horizons). NYC: Into the Woods (Lincoln Center), Sylvia (NYDT), Dancing Girl (She NYC Arts), Stepchild (IRT Theater), Rape of Lucretia (New Camerata Opera). MD: Music Man (Olney Theatre Company) Seattle: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (12th Ave Arts), Skin (Deaf Spotlight). LA: Fidelio (LA Phil), Spring Awakening (Deaf West), Our Town (Pasadena Playhouse) Romeo and Juliet (Sontag Greek Theatre). DC: The Lady Becomes Him, (Faction of Fools), Peepshow (Dog & Pony DC), Noises Off (Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival).

Dickie Hearts is a Deaf, gay, multiracial actor and three-time national film contest winner. His 2015 short film, Passengers, won the Best Filmmaker Award in Easterseals’ Disability Film Challenge and mentorship with director Peter Farrelly. In 2016, he won Project Greenlight’s LGBTQ+ "See Yourself" contest with his two-minute Deaf gay superhero pitch Save the World, landing a developmental deal with Adaptive Studios in partnership with GLAAD. In 2017, he won first place in the AT&T Create-a-Thon, taking home the grand prize of $20,000 with the seven-minute short he wrote, directed, and co-starred in, The Deaf vs The Dead. Hearts is fluent in American Sign Language (ASL). His TV credits include a recurring role on Tales of the City (2019), a guest star on High Maintenance (2020), and co-star on Grace & Frankie (2017). Stage credits include New York Deaf Theater’s Maple & Vine and IRT’s Stepchild, Please Untranslate Me and Trash. In 2020, he wrote and remotely directed an ASL musical short film, Disconnected: The Musical, now available for online viewing. He continues to push for more Deaf, LGBTQ+, and BIPOC visibility and representation onscreen. Hearts is repped by Rossi Talent Management and Nicolosi & Co.

Profoundly Deaf theatre and film artist Garrett Zuercher holds an MFA in playwriting from Hunter College, Class of 2022. Among other recognitions, he has been honored with multiple awards from the Kennedy Center for two of his plays, QUID PRO QUO and HARD PLACES. His latest film, Flirting (With Possibilities), made its world premiere in Paris in March and continues to receive awards and honors on the festival circuit. It is the only American film selected by the Clin d’Oeil International Deaf Festival in France this year where it was nominated for Best Picture, as well as individual nods for Garrett as Best Director and Best Actor. During the height of the pandemic in 2020, he co-founded Deaf Broadway to provide native American Sign Language access to theatre for the Deaf community. This summer, he will direct a new staging of SWEENEY TODD at Lincoln Center with an entirely Deaf cast. Dedicated to bringing authentic Deaf voices to the mainstream, he continues to advocate for awareness and representation within the theatre and film industries. For more, please visit garrettzuercher.com.

JONATHAN MESICH (SCENIC DESIGN) He was born and raised in Portage, Indiana. Jonathan received his BA in Theater Design Production from Purdue University in 2014 and his MFA in Theater Design & Production from Temple University in 2019. He has Philadelphia working on productions that included A Midsummer Night's Dream, NYDT’s Sylvia, NYDT’s Romantic Fools, and Hit the Wall.  He recently designed RIT’s ASL and spoken language production of In The Heights with Deaf and Hearing cast.

With 10+ years of experience in marketing and video production, Julian Moiwai is a true video nerd. Prior to his career, Julian graduated RIT/NTID with a Bachelor’s degree in Advertising and Public Relations in 2012. He had multiple years of experience in Marketing at ZVRS with focus on promoting access for deaf and hard of hearing people nationwide through social media and video. He currently works as Outreach Studio Manager at Statewide Outreach Center within Texas School for the Deaf, serving students, parents and professionals across the state of Texas. Julian proudly comes from parents that met in Peace Corps and is known for his love of Chubbies shorts. During his leisure time, he enjoys flying his drone, playing soccer and exploring new places to hike. He also films weddings, acts in commercials, and takes on impromptu creative projects. Julian resides in Austin, Texas. 

Kailyn Aaron-Lozano is a multi-talented Afro-Latine (Black/Mexican) deaf artist/educator with a wide range of interests. This South Central Los Angeles native holds a History degree from California State University, Northridge, and two Masters from Gallaudet University in Deaf Studies and Sign Language Education.  ASL translation with music is her love, and she has worked on DPAN's "Reverse Polarity," ATT's "Different Colors," Sesame Street's compilation of ASL music videos, and many others. She has co-authored a chapter entitled "Sign Language Music Videos: Language Preservation or Appropriation?" in The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability. There are many ways that Kailyn can assist in building a multilingual and multicultural community in the Arts. Her ambition is to see language inclusion in everyday life.

An accomplished Cirque du Soleil clown, internationally known, professional Mime and Actor, Maxim has a MFA Degree in Acting & over 30 years of teaching experience. Maxim currently provides workshops in Mime & Drama, Visual - Gestural Communication & ASL for beginners. With experience acting in TV series, Feature Films, Comedy DVDs, or Independent Films, Maxim brings a unique and impressive quality to his performing roles. As a teacher he is focused, results-oriented, and a lot of fun.

Monique ‘MoMo’ Holt got her BFA in Acting from New York University and MFA in Theater from Towson University. Her first director debut was directing-choreographing a petite ballet show for France History in French Culture for the parents’ matinee in 1^st Grade. Then she directed folklore: “Turtle Who Wanted to Fly” in her first high school year. She has directed several plays, two films, and some musicals. Her next directing gig will be co-directing with Kevin Newberry and Brandon Kazen-Maddon for the WILD PARTY by Andrew Lippa for Little Island, New York, in August 2022.

Morgan was heavily involved in stage management as part of their theatre study and career development at Gallaudet University. With the experience of several student-run productions and professional productions, Morgan has gone to incorporate skills from stage management into other aspects of their life. Morgan currently works at Gallaudet as a sustainability coordinator for different events, technical production of sustainability initiatives, and dabbles in theatre production here and there.

Nikolya Sereda from Boston, Massachusetts, has a BA in English and Theatre from Gallaudet University. She has had a lifelong exposure to theatre and the arts with her mother being a dance teacher, her father an architect, and her sister a singer. She studied English and Theatre Arts at Gallaudet University and while she was there, she was the makeup artist for Cloud 9 and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Gallaudet U), and was the costume and prop assistant for Candide. She wrote and directed Baggage (Gallaudet U) as her Honors capstone project.

She went on to work at Williamstown Theatre Festival as a Costume Design Intern, working on Selling Kabul as a Second Assistant and Before the Meeting as a First Assistant. She also worked at Shakespeare Theatre Company in their 2019-2020 year as their Graphic Design Fellow, designing program books, graphics, and materials for their season.

Later in 2020, she worked with National Theatre of the Deaf as Theatre Producing Director to mount three iterations of Deafenstein, the third being an in-person bubble workshop at Gallaudet University filmed and streamed. She now works as the Managing Director at Connecticut Deaf Theatre, and keeps aiming to make more Deaf art happen!

Sandra Mae Frank is a trained stage and film actor. Ever since she made her mark in Deaf West's Spring Awakening on Broadway, she has been doing various projects from music videos, theatre productions, films, and TV. 

She is also the Production Manager of Deaf Austin Theatre, a nonprofit theatre company in Austin, Texas. She is currently a series regular on NBC's New Amsterdam as Dr. Wilder. Season 5 airing on September 20, 2022, on NBC, next day on Hulu and PeacockTV.

‍TELEVISION: NBC's Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, Netflix's Daybreak, and Freeform’s Switched at Birth. 

‍FILM:  Season of Love, Entangled, Soul to Keep, and The Sound of Fear. 

‍REGIONAL THEATRE:  Next to Normal and Fun Home at Ground Floor Theatre; Fun Home and Fiddler on the Roof at Lyric Theatre; The Solid Life of Sugar Water, Our Town, At Home at the Zoo (Assistant Director) at Deaf West Theatre; Richard III at NextStop Theatre Company. She is also currently co-directing THE MUSIC MAN at Olney Theatre Center.

‍MUSIC VIDEOS: Kelly Clarkson's I Dare You and American Authors' Pride. 

Warren “Wawa” Snipe: Actor and professional recording artists, hails from Philadelphia, PA now resides in the DMV (DC, MD, VA area).  Wawa has performed, worldwide, for theatre and TV/FILM. Performed for the Super Bowl (LV & LVI), Fear The Walking Dead (AMC), Black Lightning (CW Network). He’s also released 4 music albums.

Zain is a Deaf Gay Pakistani-American. He is currently working as a Theater Actor and Educator of Sunshine 2.0 at Rochester Institute of Technology. He has graduated in Marketing with a minor in Psychology at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is involved with a variety of works, focusing on theater, film, education, and business. In his free time. he enjoys watching TV, workout, traveling, and socialization.