Karen Zacarías was recently named by American Theatre magazine as one of the most produced playwrights in the United States. She is one of the inaugural resident playwrights at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, a core founder of the Latinx Theatre Commons, and founder of the award-winning Young Playwrights’ Theater (YPT), one of the best arts education programs in the nation.

Named a “Broadway 2023 Industry Woman to Watch” by Broadway Women's Fund, Tatyana-Marie Carlo (ella/she) is a Latiné director from Miami. Her work is focused on joyful bilingual theater making, including Off-Broadway production of Vámonos at Intar Theatre. She is currently the Resident Director of Trinity Repertory Company, and has collaborated with many theaters across the United States, including Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Everyman Theatre, Children’s Theater Company, Intar Theatre, WAM Theatre, and more. 2019 Matt Harris Directing Fellow at Williamstown Theater Festival.2021 Drama League Public Works Fellow.Tatyana is an alumni and Adjunct Professor of Brown University’s Directing MFA program as well as a proud member of SDC. More info at: tatyanamariecarlo.com

Rachel Ropella (she/her) is a Midwestern director and the Artistic Director of Minneapolis-based theater company, Melancholics Anonymous. She has spent the past five years creating award-winning new works for the Minnesota Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe, with remounts in London and Sibiu, Romania. She has previously assistant directed at Hartford Stage, Portland Stage, and starts her directing residency at Milwaukee Rep this summer. Rachel is an alumni of St. Olaf College, DirectorWorks, and the National Theatre Institute Directing program. Proud associate member of SDC. @rachel_ropella

Rodrigo Escalante is originally from El Salvador and based in New York City. Select work includes: Once (Syracuse Stage) ; Vámonos (INTAR) Hola Award Outstanding Design Winner ; El Otro Oz (Atlantic Theater) New York Times Critic's Pick ; La Gringa (American Stage) BroadwayWorld Tampa Best Scenic Design Winner ; Queen of Basel (Theaterworks Hartford) ; Hunts Point Ensemble’s Romeo and Juliet (Public Theater and Hunts Point Alliance for Children) Featured in the 2023 PBS Documentary ‘The First Folio’ ; The African Company Presents Richard III (Great River Shakespeare Festival) , Romeo and Juliet (The New School) ;  Fedra -Queen of Haiti (Barnard College), Our Town (University of Rochester) ; Always Patsy Cline (Great River Shakespeare Festival) and Cinderella (Cape Fear Regional Theater) for more info visit: www.rodrigoescalante.com

Dorset Theatre Festival: Debut. Trinity Rep: La Broa’, The Inferior Sex, Tiny Beautiful Things, Fade, An Iliad. Brown/Trinity Rep: Death and the Maiden, References to Salvadore Dali Make Me Hot. Trinity/RILA: Tanta Bulla/Much Ado, La Tempestad, Romeo y Juliet. Other: The Gamm Theatre, Nantucket's White Heron Theatre, Wilbury Theatre Group, Contemporary Theatre Co. Education: BFA in technical theater, costume design, from the University of Rhode Island. Amanda has travelled nationally and internationally as a wardrobe supervisor for multiple national tours before returning home to Rhode Island and has spent eighteen years on staff at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence. She has been the Costume Director at Trinity Rep for nine years, but when she’s not neck deep in theater projects, she’s a crafty mom to two rascally middle schoolers. She lives in beachy suburbia with her boys, husband, and pup Pebbles.

CAROLINA ORTIZ HERRERA is a Mexican-born and New York-based Lighting Designer for theater, opera, and dance. Broadway: Good Night, Oscar (Belasco & Goodman Theatre); Regional: American Mariachi (Alley Theatre & Arizona Theatre Company); Born with Teeth (Guthrie, OSF & Alley Theatre); Native Gardens (Dallas Theatre Center); Everything Rises (BAM & Royce Hall); 4000 Miles, & Doubt, A Parable (Westport Country Playhouse); I & You (Bristol Riverside Theatre); Macbeth (Merrimack Theatre Repertory); The Railroad Children (Northern Stage); Seven Guitars (Yale Repertory Theatre). Other theatre: Hedda Gabler & Winter’s Tale (Bedlam Theatre Company); Yellowman, an Audelco Awards Best Lighting Design Nominee (Billie Holiday Theatre); Sweeney Todd (Yale Drama) and The Skin of Our Teeth (Yale University Theatre). Dance & Opera: Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (Minneapolis Opera); I as Another (BAC); Florencia en el Amazonas (Shubert Theatre); and The Silent Lyre (Lighten Theatre). Carolina is the Lighting Director for Calpulli Mexican Dance Company. Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama. www.carolinaeortiz.com

A proud son of immigrant parents, Germán Martínez is a Honduran-American based in NYC/NJ. Germán is a Montclair State University alum (2018), holding a degree in theatrical production and design with a concentration in sound. He has worked at: Lincoln Center Theater, Perlman PACNYC, Atlantic Theatre Company, Northern Stages, Ogunquit Playhouse, American Stages, Northern Stages, Intar Theatre, 59E59, TheaterWorks Hartford, Women's Project, Williamstown Theatre Festival, MCC, American Repertory Theatre, Repertorio Español, GALA Hispanic, George Street Playhouse, Two River Theater, and Trinity Rep. Associate Broadway credits include: Into The Woods (St. James Theatre); The Piano Lesson (Barrymore Theatre); and Ohio State Murders (James Earl Jones Theatre). Instagram: A proud son of immigrant parents, Germán Martínez is a Honduran-American based in NYC/NJ. Germán is a Montclair State University alum (2018), holding a degree in theatrical production and design with a concentration in sound. He has worked at: Lincoln Center Theater, Perlman PACNYC, Atlantic Theatre Company, Northern Stages, Ogunquit Playhouse, American Stages, Northern Stages, Intar Theatre, 59E59, TheaterWorks Hartford, Women's Project, Williamstown Theatre Festival, MCC, American Repertory Theatre, Repertorio Español, GALA Hispanic, George Street Playhouse, Two River Theater, and Trinity Rep. Associate Broadway credits include: Into The Woods (St. James Theatre); The Piano Lesson (Barrymore Theatre); and Ohio State Murders (James Earl Jones Theatre). Instagram: @GermanTheSoundDesigner.

Judy Bowman has been casting with DTF since 2009. RECENT THEATER: Incendiary (Woolly Mammoth), Madeline Sayet’s Where We Belong (NY, PCS & tours), A Christmas Carol (McCarter), No Child (Kitchen Theatre Co), The Great Leap (Cleveland Play House), Sharon Playhouse, Palm Beach Dramaworks, etc. TV/FILM: Hallmark’s Redemption in Cherry Springs, Big

Dogs (Amazon), One Moment with Danny Aiello, Separation, Hurricane Bianca, Lost Cat Corona, Gold Star. Artios Award nominee for Best Webseries Casting, PT Barnum Award recipient. judybowmancasting.com

Broadway: Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Off-Broadway: Ibsen’s Ghost, Dig, The Confession of Lily Dare (Primary Stages); Belfast Girls (Irish Repertory Theater); Hangmen, On the Shore of the Wide World (Atlantic Theater Company); Privacy, Julius Caesar (Public Theater); This Space Between Us, Molly Sweeney (Keen Company); By the Way Meet Vera Stark (Signature Theatre); Eureka Day (Colt Coeur); Superstitions, The Ding Dongs, Is Edward Snowden Single? (The Pool Plays) Select Regional: Hartford Stage Company, Dorset Theatre Festival, Oklahoma City Rep, George Street Playhouse, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Yale Repertory Theatre; Avery holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama, and a BFA from Hofstra University.