Joseph Reese Anderson has created projects around the globe using poetic language to promote the ideas of awareness, tolerance, and empathy in ways that combine beauty with accessibility. After attending East Carolina University (double BFA Programs: Professional Acting and Musical Theatre), he moved to New York and was introduced to the world of spoken word and performance poetry.

Joseph is an advocate, ally, and activist and enjoys embracing the themes of inclusion in his work. As an outreach coordinator for St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in NYC, he was able to spread awareness and information to others in concrete and meaningful ways, and even more so when he founded Social Socials: Social Events for Social Causes, which was a direct microfinancing event planning organization that benefited many lives, both domestic and international. Most recently he has founded an artist collective in Raleigh, NC called Capital Moments, where artists are offered a space for workshopping and honing their work, and the opportunity to present their work on stage.
His greatest hope is to raise his twin daughters, Jolie and Everly, to be joyful and empathetic humans with a desire to better the world with their many talents. 

Mexican composer, playwright, producer, and arts executive Christian De Gré Cárdenas has overseen the opening of more than 1,000 new theatrical productions in New York City. He served for 15 years as Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer of the critically acclaimed Mind The Art Entertainment, and was the General Manager of The New York International Fringe Festival, the largest multi-arts festival in North America

He is the co-creator of 30 award-winning, multi-disciplinary works, and is the creator of the popular musical series Twisted Operelas and A Drink with Death at Joe’s Pub and Broadway’s 54 Below. A former activist and theatermaker in Eastern Europe, Northern Africa, and the Americas, he served as the Global Outreach Partner for Theater for Social Change with the United Nations Y-Peer Network. Most recently, he served as Director of The National Opera Center in New York City and subsequently guided OPERA America through the pandemic as its Chief Operating Officer.

He currently splits his time between New York City, where he serves as Executive Director of the world-renowned Heartbeat Opera, and San Miguel de Allende, México, where he is developing new works for opera, theater, cabaret, film, and television—while quietly obsessing over the bugambilias in his garden.

Roxanne (she/her) has had a fascination with theatre since 4th grace when she was Wendy in her elementary school’s production of Peter Pan. This continued through high school but she had to take a break in college when her genetics major kept me her Brown’s bio lab till all hours, most nights…

Roxanne went back to community theatre after school and her work in public relations also gave her an outlet for creativity as she wrote, cast, and directed tv and radio commercials and wrote environmental documentaries.

Through her friendship with the Founding Director of Intersections International, she was brought into the world of using Insight methods and the arts to turn a spotlight on social justice issues in a deeply penetrating way. Working with Chuk, Fred, and Vieve to promote this engaging approach in theatre and in school workshops will always be one of her life’s most defining experiences.

Now Roxanne works to assist families with children who are currently homeless or looking to provide greater and lasting economic stability through two wonderful organizations- Family Promise and Circles USA.

In these three areas of life now, she draws hope - a most sustaining force!

Kathryn Newbrough Osborne is a New York-based actor/director/teacher with deep Texas roots. She started her career in Houston with Houston’s Shakespeare, Shaw, Jewish Theatre Festivals, and The Alley Theatre. Kathryn has been an AEA and SAG/AFTRA performer for over 35 years, working in the arts and entertainment industry in the New York area, off Broadway, as well as regionally in theatre. She has worked in film, TV, cable, industrial films, commercials, voice-overs, audio books, and print venues.

Kathryn received her BFA in acting from the University of Texas and graduated Summa Cum Laude with her MA from Caldwell University in New Jersey. Kathryn has studied with Eli Wallah, Jeff Corey, Joan Vail Thorne, Avra Petrides, John Basil, E. Katherine Kerr, Arethra Sills, and Tommy Tune. Kathryn is also a dynamic theatre director. She has directed and/or produced over 50 productions for children aged 5 to 90 in various venues, including local theatres, school settings, community theaters, regional theaters, and off-off-Broadway. Kathryn has written two plays that have been produced off-off-Broadway in New York. She currently teaches in Austin at Zach Theatre, The Actor’s School at Austin Community College, The Palace Theatre in Georgetown, CYT, and coaches acting privately for children and adults. She is currently a part of Circle of Sparks Playback Theatre Company and a board member of TÉA Artistry theatre company.

Adriana (she/her) is a multi-hyphenated theatremaker. She was born in Mexico from Brazilian parents and grew up in Italy, but she lived a significant part of my adult life in the United States (1 year in Dallas -Texas, 7 years in New York City!). She is a Junior Development Executive at DUDE Originals, a production house based in Milan, focusing on the development of film, tv, documentaries and podcasts. Adriana has a Bachelor in International Economics, Management and Finance from Bocconi University (Milan) and has trained in theatre at The Stella Adler Studio conservatory program in New York. She has served as a managing member for The Private Theatre (NYC), a production coordinator for Teatro Out Off (Milan), a senior consultant for Benvenuti Arts (US).