P. Carl is a Senior Distinguished Artist in Residence, Department of Performing Arts, at Emerson College, Boston and the author of the memoir, Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition (Simon & Schuster, 2020). He was the Spring 2020 Anschutz Fellow at Princeton University, awarded a 2017 Art of Change Fellowship from the Ford Foundation, the Berlin Prize fellowship from the American Academy, and the Andrew W. Mellon Creative Research Residency at the University of Washington.

(she/her) Diane Paulus is the Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University. A.R.T.: 1776, WILD: A Musical Becoming, Gloria: A Life, Jagged Little Pill, ExtraOrdinary, The White Card, In the Body of the World, Waitress (film available online, French-language production in Quebec summer 2024), Crossing, Finding Neverland, Witness Uganda, Pippin (Tony Award, Best Revival and Best Director), The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony Award, Best Revival; NAACP Award, Best Direction), Prometheus Bound, Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera, Best of Both Worlds, The Donkey Show. Other work includes Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna, Invisible Thread at Second Stage, and the Public Theater’s Tony Award-winning revival of HAIR on Broadway and London’s West End. As an opera director, her credits include The Magic Flute, the complete Monteverdi cycle, and the trio of Mozart-Da Ponte operas, as well as the upcoming Carmen (2024 Glydenbourne Festival). Paulus is Professor of the Practice of Theater in Harvard University’s English Department and Department of Theater, Dance & Media. She was selected for Boston magazine’s 2023, 2022, 2020, and 2018 lists of Boston’s most influential people, the 2014 Time 100, Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and as one of Variety’s “Trailblazing Women in Entertainment for 2014.”

P. Carl is a Senior Distinguished Artist in Residence, Department of Performing Arts, at Emerson College, Boston and the author of the memoir, Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition (Simon & Schuster, 2020). He was the Spring 2020 Anschutz Fellow at Princeton University, awarded a 2017 Art of Change Fellowship from the Ford Foundation, the Berlin Prize fellowship from the American Academy, and the Andrew W. Mellon Creative Research Residency at the University of Washington.

(they/them) A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: Comedy of Errors, Public Theater Mobile Unit; As You Like It, La Jolla Playhouse; 53% Of, 2nd Stage; In the Southern Breeze, Rattlestick Theater; The Watering Hole, Signature Theatre; In the Penal Colony, NYTW Next Door. Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama. Faculty of the Playwrights Horizons Theater School at NYU. www.efinckel.com.

Qween Jean founded Black Trans Liberation, an organization that aims to provide access and employment resources for the TGNC community. She organizes community events, protests, and weekly mutual aid drives. In 2022 Qween wrote Revolution Is Love. In 2023 she joined the Board of TCG and received an Obie Award for Excellence in Costume Design. This year Qween was a finalist for The David Prize, which awards $200,000 to transform the city of New York. She has an MFA degree from NYU Tisch.

A.R.T.: What to Send Up When It Goes Down. Off-Broadway: You Will Get Sick, Roundabout Theatre Company; The Seagull/Woodstock, NY, one in two, The New Group; Wet Brain, Playwrights Horizons; The Fever and Lucy at Audible Theater; Exception to the Rule, Roundabout Underground; What to Send Up When It Goes Down, Playwrights Horizons/Brooklyn Academy of Music; soft, MCC; As You Like It, Babbitt, La Jolla Playhouse. Education: MFA, NYU Tisch. Awards: Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award nominee, Obie Award winner. Seelightingdesign.com.

A.R.T.: All the Way. Broadway: All The Way, The Great Society. Off-Broadway: Manahatta, Julius Caesar. Selected Regional: Guthrie, Taper, Seattle Rep, Arena Stage, Long Wharf, McCarter, Geffen, Hartford Stage, Berkeley Rep, A.C.T., La Jolla Playhouse, Alley, Oregon Shakespeare, Kennedy Center. Extensive theme park and museum credits. Awards: Grammy and Drama Desk nominations; BroadwayWorld, Ovation, Drama-Logue, Garland, Gregory, Footlight, and Gypsy Rose Lee awards. Paul’s work as a singer/songwriter has appeared in films, on recordings, and in music venues nationwide.

A.R.T.: Debut. New York: Westerly Breath, Met Museum’s Temple of Dendur; Amani, Rattlestick Theater; A Raisin in the Sun, Public Theater; Seize the King, Classical Theatre of Harlem; Twelfth Night, NYU Skirball; A Dozen Dreams immersive installation, Brookfield Place. Regional: Goddess, Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Education: MFA Yale School of Drama. Awards: 1/52 Project grant recipient, New York Stage and Film NEXUS cohort. bcbmediadesign.com

A.R.T.: Life of Pi, Charlotte’s Web, The Pirate Princess. Broadway: Shōgun, Marquis Theater. Off-Broadway: Bill W. and Dr. Bob, New World Stages. Regional: Huntington Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, Syracuse Stage, SITI Company, Lyric Stage. Film: Hook, Army of Darkness. Faculty: Emerson College; Shakespeare & Company.

A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: The Band’s Visit, Huntington Theatre; Summer Stock, Goodspeed Musicals; Angels in America, Pt. 2: Perestroika, Central Square Theatre/Bedlam; Lizzie, Rent, Umbrella Arts; Dracula: A feminist revenge fantasy, really, Umbrella Arts. Educational: Cells, Harvard University; Machinal, Trinity College; Kingdom City, Babson College; The Interrobangers, Tufts University. Training: Certification in Intimacy Direction for Theatre and Live Performance, Intimacy Directors & Coordinators, Inc.

(he/him) A.R.T.: Real Women Have Curves, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. Victor Vazquez, CSA, is the founder and lead Casting Director of X Casting. He has cast projects for Broadway (upcoming: Hippest Trip – The Soul Train Musical), London’s West End, TV (upcoming: “Genius: MLK/X” for 20th Television, Nat Geo, and Disney+), and film. He is the proud son of Mexican immigrants.

(they/he) A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: Storm, Still, The Sheen Center; The House of Telescopes (upcoming), Pipeline Theatre. Regional: Amm(i)gone, The Theater Offensive, Kelly Strayhorn Theater; the dance floor, the hospital room, and the kitchen table, New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, Kelly Strayhorn Theater; Alleged Lesbian Activities, The Theater Offensive. Awards: Drama League Fellow 2018, Drama League Resident 2024, National Theatre Project grantee. Education: MFA Directing, Carnegie Mellon; Assistant Professor, Lehigh. www.lyambgabel.com

A.R.T.: 1776, Waitress, Finding Neverland. Broadway: Shucked, 1776, Finding Neverland; Noises Off, Roundabout. Off-Broadway: Superhero (world premiere), 2nd Stage; Eve’s Song (world premiere), Runaways, Public Theater. First National Tours: 1776, Finding Neverland, Cinderella, Blithe Spirit, Sister Act, Anything Goes. Regional: Flamingo Kid (world premiere), Hartford Stage. Other noteworthy credits: Boston Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Proud graduate of Ithaca College and Member of Actor’s Equity.

(he/him) A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: Seven Deadly Sins, Tectonic Theatre Project. Regional: As You Like It, Pick Me Last, La Jolla Playhouse; Tales of the Trancestors, Celebration Theatre; Men on Boats, Speakeasy Stage; Nurse Play (IRNE Award nomination), Exiled Theatre; Amadeus, Moonbox Productions; Extraordinary Fall of the Four-Legged Woman, FringeNYC. Film: Selah and the Spades, Birder. Education: MFA in Acting, University of California San Diego.

(he/him) A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Einstein), Terra Nova (Birdie Bowers), Capital Rep; A Raisin in the Sun (Karl Lindner), Indiana Repertory; Stones in His Pockets (Jake, et al.), Hippodrome State Theatre; Alabama Story (Garth Williams), Actors Theatre of Indiana; Bright Star, Phoenix Theatre, Indianapolis; And Then There Were None, Drury Lane Theatre. TV/Film: “Chicago P.D.,” “Dark Matter,” “Kidnap & Rescue,” Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders. Education: MFA, Brandeis University.

(she/her) A.R.T.: Debut. Theater: Hoi Polloi’s White on White (New York Times Critic’s Pick), JACK in Brooklyn. Regional: Mark Taper Forum, Antaeus, Pasadena Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Ensemble Theatre Company, South Coast Repertory. World Premieres: The Parisian Woman, Going to a Place Where You Already Are, Emilie…, Five Mile Lake. TV/Film: Here’s Yianni, Zerophilia, The Waterhole, Headless Horseman, “Grey’s Anatomy,” “9-1-1,” “Cold Case,” “Modern Family.”

(they/she) A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: Valor, Guthrie; Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, To Kill a Mockingbird, Syracuse Stage; Romeo & Juliet, Smith Street Stage; Brave Smiles…Another Lesbian Tragedy, Rattlestick Pride Plays. TV: “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU.” Education: Acting MFA, NYU.

(he/him) A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: The Cripple of Inishmaan (Billy), Spring Awakening (Moritz), Blood Brothers (Mickey), Sweeney Todd (Jonas Fogg), The Drowsy Chaperone (Gangster 1), Matilda (Ensemble). TV/Film: “The Summer I Turned Pretty” (Recurring co-star), Order for Ben (Lead), Super Smash (Lead), Family Meal (Lead). Education/Training: BA, Elon University.

A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: Something Moving, Ford’s Theatre; Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Indecent, The Great Society, All the Way, Arena Stage; Our Town, Folks at Home, Indecent, After the Revolution, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Mud Blue Sky, An Enemy of the People, Baltimore Center Stage; If I Forget, Hand to God, Studio Theatre.

(they/them) A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: SIX, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, The Prom, True West, Pretty Woman, Farinelli and the King, Indecent. Select Off-Broadway: JOB, Connelly Theater, SoHo Playhouse; Scene Partners, Lessons in Survival: 1971, Vineyard Theatre; Kinky Boots, Stage 42; Misty, HELP, The Shed; Hamlet, Othello, Tiny Beautiful Things, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Plenty, Southern Comfort, Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline, Grounded, Public Theater; Lazarus, New York Theatre Workshop. Education: MFA in Stage Management, Columbia University.

A.R.T.: Gatsby; Becoming a Man; Life of Pi; 1776; WILD: A Musical Becoming; Jack and the Beanstalk; Gloria: A Life; Moby-Dick; We Live in Cairo; Endlings; Othello; ExtraOrdinary; The Black Clown; Jagged Little Pill; WARHOLCAPOTE; Burn All Night; The Night of the Iguana; Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women; Fingersmith; In the Body of the World; Waitress; O.P.C. Broadway: Mary Stuart. Regional: Vanity Fair, Central Square Theater; New Electric Ballroom, Gloucester Stage Company; Arms and the Man, Guthrie Theatre; The Foreigner, Cabaret, To Kill a Mockingbird, Kansas City Repertory Theatre. As Head of Voice and Speech at A.R.T., Erika also teaches in the Theater, Dance & Media concentration at Harvard as well as coaching public speaking skills across the university. Education: MA, Voice Studies, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; MFA, Acting, Brandeis University.