Maree ReMalia (creator/performer/co-director) is a dance-maker, performer, and teaching artist. An adoptee born in South Korea and raised in Ohio, she uses her artistic practice to foster connection while welcoming and honoring diverse bodies, expressions, and lived experiences. Her projects have been presented at venues including La MaMa, Gibney, and Dance Place. She has performed with slowdanger and STAYCEE PEARL dance project and taught at Bates, Brown, and CMU.

Adil Mansoor (co-director) is a Pittsburgh-based director and educator centering queer people of color. He’s developed work with The O’Neill, Manhattan Theatre Club, Mercury Store, and others. His solo show Amm(i)gone was published in American Theatre Magazine and presented in NYC by PlayCo, The Flea, Woolly Mammoth, and Kelly Strayhorn as part of a national tour. A Sundance Fellow and 2024 Carol R. Brown Award recipient, he holds an MFA from Carnegie Mellon.

David Bernabo (sound design) is a musician, artist, and independent filmmaker. He currently performs with the bands Watererer and How Things Are Made. His film work documents western Pennsylvania food systems, the studio practices of composers and artists like “Blue” Gene Tyranny and Zoë Welsh, and the histories of iconic arts institutions like the Mattress Factory. He is currently working on an art dinner series with artist Natalia Gomez.

Kolton Cotton (media design) is a projection designer and video engineer specializing in content creation and broadcast technologies for theatre and live events. Kolton produces multichannel video systems through networks, projection mapping, and rapid prototyping. His mixed media approach to motion design and asset creation utilizes real-time, 2D, and 3D compositing workflows. His recent credits include Another Kind Of Silence at City Theatre and Enron at Quantum Theatre. 

Sasha Jin Schwartz (scenic design) is a theater scenic designer and artist inspired by family and how spaces tell stories. Selected designs: Little Amal ‘Imagination is My Playground’ (Hatch Arts & CDCP), DANCEFLOOR (Kelly Strayhorn Theater), Dragon Lady (Pittsburgh Public Theatre), Fat Ham (City Theatre), Kentucky (Pittsburgh Playhouse). Recognition: 1/52 Project Grant Recipient, Prague Quadrennial Featured Emerging Designer, Theatre Communications Group Rising Leaders of Color Cohort. 

Jenny Johnson (dramaturgy) is the author of In Full Velvet. Her poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, BOMB Magazine, and The New York Times. Her honors include a Hodder Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, and a Whiting Award. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at West Virginia University, and she is on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop. 

Iliana Tomasa Sharp (assistant director) is a Pittsburgh-based director, choreographer, and playwright who loves blending art forms. As a queer Latinx American – born and raised in Austin, TX – utilizing a devised and collaborative rehearsal process, she aims to engage in storytelling that educates, advocates, and celebrates the act of building community. Credits include: The Trees, assistant director, (Pittsburgh Playhouse); My sister’s lipstick, intimacy choreographer, (New Hazlett CSA); The Winter’s Tale, choreographer/assistant director, (Pittsburgh Playhouse). 

Nicole White (lighting design) is ecstatic to be joining the team at Hatch Arts Collective. She’s the resident lighting designer at Alumni Theater Company and Little Lake Theater, as well as a freelancer who has designed shows for companies like Resonance Works, IUP, and Bricolage. She’s also a locations assistant for movies and tv show such as “How to Rob a Bank”, “Mayor of Kingstown”, “The Gymnast”, “Cha Cha Real Smooth”, and “American Rust”. 

Hatch Arts Collective (Producer) is a Pittsburgh-based performing arts incubator centering queer and BIPOC artists, stories, and communities. We specialize in new work development and interdisciplinary artistic training. Hatch collaborates to enable the production of work that breaks with traditional expectations of participants, content, or form.

New York Live Arts, guided by the leadership of visionary artist Bill T. Jones, collaborates with boundary pushing artists, advocates for their vision, and fortifies a creative future. The annual Live Artery Festival provides a space for artists to network and share their work with the general public and presenters from around the world alike, which leads to commissions, tours and the building of long-term relationships. Visit NewYorkLiveArts.org to learn more.