Benjamin Benne (he/him) is a Page 73 2026 Writer Group member, Playwrights' Center '23-26 Core Writer, and was named part of "LA Vanguardia: The Latino innovators, instigators, and power players breaking through barriers" by the Los Angeles Times. His produced plays include Alma (Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre, American Blues Theater, ArtsWest Playhouse, Curious Theatre Company, Central Square Theater, The Spot, Chance Theater, Passage Theatre Company), In His Hands (Mosaic Theater Company, First Floor Theater), Manning (Portland Stage), Wave After Wave (Actors Theatre of Louisville), and What / Washed Ashore / Astray (Pillsbury House Theatre). Forthcoming productions in 2026 include Manning (Crowded Fire) and at the very bottom of a body of water (Boston Court Pasadena, LA New Play Project Winner). Additionally, his work has been developed by by the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Great Plains Theatre Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Public, Roundabout Theatre Company, The New Group, Primary Stages, Playwrights Realm, Colorado New Play Festival, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, The Old Globe, Two River Theater, New Harmony Project, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and The Lark, among many others. He has been awarded Ojai Playwrights Conference's Dr. Kerry English Award, Portland Stage's Clauder Competition Grand Prize, American Blues Theater's Blue Ink Playwriting Award, Arizona Theatre Company's National Latinx Playwriting Award, and KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award, among others. He has been commissioned by South Coast Repertory and Seattle Repertory Theatre. MFA: David Geffen/Yale School of Drama. 
 
Cat Rodriguez (she/ella) is an Obie Award-winning Nicaraguan American multihyphenate performance maker. Cat works across media with a creative practice that spans directing, acting, dramaturgy and translation (Spanish/English). A "people person" with a politic and a love for the Ridiculous, Cat brings discernment, rigor and laughter to process. Black / Latinx feminisms as well as collectivist organizing experiences fundamentally inform her artmaking and pathtaking. Cat is co-founder of Fake Friends, a two-time Sundance Institute Fellow and NYTW Usual Suspect. An artist-scholar, she has served as guest faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, Carnegie Mellon University and Catholic University of America; her writings have been published by Northwestern University Press (forthcoming), Cambridge University Press, MIT Press, TDR/The Drama Review and DGSD Alumni Magazine. Cat lives and labors in english y español, talks with her hands and also anda con ganas; she names New York, New Orleans and Nicaragua home.