Guy Ventoliere is a New York–based Actors’ Equity performer, director, and theatre artist with more than three decades of experience on stage and screen. He has appeared in more than 120 theatrical productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally, including over 37 productions of Shakespeare, as well as works by Chekhov, O’Neill, Odets, Tennessee Williams, Miller, and other major playwrights. He also played Ted O’Toole in the Disney series Cool Tool Adventures. His career has included directing, Equity stage management, virtually every aspect of technical theatre, arts administration, and theatre education, with professional work connected to Broadway, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Opera, and Saturday Night Live. Guy holds a specialized B.A. in Shakespearean Theatre as well as a master’s degree in Theatre, and has devoted much of his career to classical and American dramatic literature. - guyventoliere.com

Dan Takacs is an award-winning, non-binary, neurodivergent, Jewish playwright, screenwriter, director, and public school drama teacher from Oberlin, Ohio. Their original plays have been seen at The Riant Theatre, Cleveland Public Theatre, Boston Playwright's Theatre, the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, and the Rogue Theatre Festival, and they have directed in Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, and in Boston. They received their BA in Drama and English from Kenyon College, and earned their MFA in Theatre Education from Boston University, with a concentration in playwriting and directing. Dan won the Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language for their play "The Piteous Life and Tragical Death of Steve the Intern," the Peter Honegger Prize and the Theatre Network of Texas Production of Original Plays Award for his play "An Institution," and a won the OANO Award for directing “Know Abuse.” Favorite directing projects include "The Millennials" (CPT), "The 39 Steps" (Chagrin Valley Little Theatre), and "The Adventurous Adventuress" (Dobama). Dan lives with their wife Linda, daughter Greta, and the twins, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.