Megan Tabaque (Book/Lyrics) is a multi-ethnic Filipina-Canadian playwright, actor, director, producer, and sometimes musician. Her plays have been produced or developed by Salvage Vanguard Theater, Tofte Lake Center, Paper Chairs, InFusion, 20% Theater, and Tympanic among others. Megan has performed on storefront and AEA stages across Austin, Chicago, and north Florida. She is a James A. Michener Fellow, Kundiman Fiction Fellow, Sewanee Writers' Conference Scholar, Tofte Lake resident, Seattle Public Theater Emerald Prize finalist, Austin Critics' Table nominee, and a company member of Salvage Vanguard Theater. She has her MFA in Playwriting and Fiction from the James A. Michener Center for Writers in Austin, TX. She is currently a visiting faculty member in playwriting at Bennington College.

http://www.megantabaque.com/

Hannah Wolf (Director) is a Los Angeles based stage director, dramaturg, teacher, and creative producer originally from Juneau Alaska. She makes “subversively shiny” work for the stage that experiments with form, content, and the role of the audience. Hannah collaborates with playwrights, musicians, magicians, craft brewers, dancers, puppeteers, and many others to develop new plays and to subvert old ones. 

Recent projects include: Ride Sally Ride by Tara Sissom and Katerina Pruitt (B Street Theatre), She Buried the Pistol by Lydia Blaisdell (La Jolla’s WOW Festival), Instructions for a Séance by Katie Bender (MoHA), Fun Home by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, Franklin by Samantha Noble (Perseverance Theatre), TITLE LOADING (Fusebox Festival), The Bigot by William Glick, Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spigel, ENRON by Lucy Prebble (UT Austin), and The Sky Game by Kimberly Belflower (Peppercorn Theatre).  She’s directed and developed new plays, musicals, and plays with music with the Geffen Playhouse, Perseverance Theatre, Chance Theater, Greenway Arts, We the Women Collective, IAMA Theatre Company, The Fountain Theatre, Superhero Clubhouse, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. 

 She founded the LA event Meet Cute and is an SDC Associate. She’s a National Directors Fellow, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and Fulbright Research Fellow (Bucharest Romania) MFA: UT Austin.

http://hannahjwolf.com/

Michael Zapruder (Composer/Lyrics) is a composer, performing songwriter and interdisciplinary artist whose works freely use, mix, combine and explore contemporary composition and songwriting. 

In 2019, Zapruder was in residence at San Francisco’s Z-Space, as composer and sound designer for Maureen Whiting Dance Company’s Burden of Joy. Zapruder’s second chamber opera, a monodrama entitled In Light was premiered at the 2019 Cohen New Works Festival in Austin, Texas. In 2018, Zapruder was composer and sound designer for Texas Performing Arts’ award-winning production of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. As a creator of physical interactive sound- objects, Zapruder’s Pink Thunder in Portmanteaus were shown in art exhibits in San Francisco (Curiosity Shoppe) Chicago (Rational Park), and Washington, DC (AWP).     

His work Polysong was commissioned in 2018 by Austin’s Tetractys and was premiered at Austin’s Museum of Human Achievement in September of that year. His 2016 work entitled Understory, written for guitar trio and live electronics, was presented by Texas Performing Arts in their Sound in Sculpture series in association with the Fusebox Festival. His 2015 piece How You Found It was performed in Fairbanks, Alaska as part of the Composing in the Wilderness concert of that year.

As a performing and recording songwriter, Zapruder has made more than a dozen albums, including five solo albums and 52 Songs, a 1999 project in which he wrote, recorded, and posted online one song each week for a year. Zapruder’s records have been acclaimed by critics, with Pitchfork, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, Tiny Mixtapes, and many others lauding Zapruder’s ambition, uniqueness, and songcraft. His 2012 project Pink Thunder, for which he made twenty-two songs from poems by living American poets, was hailed by the Huffington Post as “a work of extraordinary merit and historical significance,” and was selected as the Boston Globe’s 2012 Best Poetry Project of 2012. His 2008 record Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope won an Independent Music Award for Best Singer-Songwriter Album and its song Second Sunday in Ordinary Time was nominated for Best Folk Song. 

As a visiting artist and an expert in songs and songwriting, Zapruder has given artist talks and participated in panels internationally, including at NYU’s Writers’ Program in Paris, France, at the New School in New York City, NY, at the University of Wyoming, and others. Zapruder spent many years living and working in Oakland, California, and has deep roots in the Bay Area. He now lives and works in Austin, Texas.

https://www.michaelzapruder.com/