Marvin Carlson is anAmerican theatrologist, currently the Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and also previously the Walker-Ames Professor at University of Washington. A largely collected author, his work covers mainly the history of theatre in Europe from the 18th to the 20th century.

Kathleen Chalfant, BROADWAY: Angels in America (Tony and Drama Desk nom.), Racing Demon, Dance With Me. OFF-BROADWAY: A Woman of the World, Wit (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Connecticut Critics Circle, Obie Awards), For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday, A Walk in the Woods (Drama Desk nom.), Tales from Red Vienna, Miss Ovington & Dr. Dubois, Talking Heads (Obie Award), Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Nine Armenians (Drama Desk nomination), Henry V (Callaway Award). OTHER NY CREDITS: Pen Pals, Here There Are Blueberries, The Year of Magical Thinking, Hellzapoppin’: What About the Bees?, The Vagina Monologues, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Endgame, Sister Mary Ignatius…, The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador. FILM: Familiar Touch, Old, Isn’t it Delicious?, R.I.P.D., The Bath, In Bed With Ulysses, Lillian, Duplicity, The People Speak, Lackawanna Blues, Perfect Stranger, Dark Water, Kinsey, Laramie Project, Random Hearts, A Price Below Rubies, Murder and Murder. SELECT TELEVISION: Series Regular on “Copenhagen”, Recurring on “The Affair,” “The Strain,” “The Americans,”

Carl Hallberg is an actor from Minnesota. After arriving in New York he graduated from Juilliard while also pursuing a Bachelors in Creative Disruption with Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping. A frequent collaborator with Bread and Puppet Theater and Red Wing Blackbird Theater, Carl enjoys work that reconnects us to the land and to eachother as we develop our resistance to fascism and imagine the world to come.

Karen Malpede is a playwright, director, and essayist whose groundbreaking work
spans over six decades in New York City’s cultural avant-garde. She is the author and
director of 22 plays and the co-founder of Theater Three Collaborative, established in
1995 with her late husband and artistic partner, the OBIE-winning actor and producer
George Bartenieff. Together, they created socially and politically charged theater that
challenged conventional narratives and championed justice.

Her memoir Last Radiance (Vine Leaves Press, October 2025) marks her first work in
nonfiction, following a lifetime devoted to the stage. Earlier in her career, Malpede
published the seminal People’s Theater in Amerika (1972), a classic of theater history,
and Women in Theater: Compassion & Hope (1984), one of the first books to spotlight
women theater artists during the second wave of feminism. She also co-founded New
Cycle Theater in Brooklyn.

Her recent plays include Troy Too (HERE), Other Than We, which follows Extreme
Whether (La MaMa, New York, 2018; ArtCop21, Paris, 2015; Theater for the New City,
2014), and the short pieces Dinner During Yemen (Signature Theater, 2018) and
Hermes in the Anthropocene: A Dogologue (University of Iowa, 2019; Reed College,
2015). Her earlier work includes The Beekeeper’s Daughter (revived in 2016 at Theater
for the New City), Another Life (RADA, London; Irondale, Brooklyn; Gerald W. Lynch
Theater), Prophecy (English Theatre Berlin; New End Theatre, London; 4th Street
Theatre, NYC), and the docudrama Iraq: Speaking of War (Culture Project, CUNY).
Her play, Blue Valiant, written for Kathleen Chalfant and George Bartenieff, was staged
at Farm Arts Collective, immediately after lockdown ended, in May 2021, and filmed for
YouTube, where it is still available to view. It was Bartenieff’s final live acting appearance. He and Chalfant had earlier played a couple in a tumultuous yet loving marriage in Malpede’s Prophecy.

Malpede is the author of the recent play anthologies, 4 by Malpede Plus and
Intervention, Plays in Time: The Beekeeper’s Daughter, Prophecy, Another Life,
Extreme Whether; lead editor of Acts of War: Iraq & Afghanistan in Seven Plays; and
author of the anthology A Monster Has Stolen the Sun and Other Plays. Her essays,
fiction, and short plays—often centered on ecofeminism, climate justice, war, and
witness—have appeared in The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, Dark Matter, HowlRound,
Transformations, Torture Magazine, New Theater Quarterly, TDR, The New York Times,
and more.

She was an adjunct associate professor in the Environmental Justice and Theater
programs at John Jay College (CUNY), and a McKnight National Playwrights’, NYFA, and Vogelstein fellow. Malpede is also a member of PEN, the Dramatists Guild, the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), and Brooklyn for Peace.

Tommie J. Moore is the Founder of Dare to Be Black Corp, a company committed to educating audiences and preserving the legacies of African-American icons through theater and film. An accomplished actor, screenwriter, playwright, and director, Moore has performed in over 30 stage productions and continues to develop works that merge entertainment with history. He is a graduate of York College (CUNY), where he earned a B.A. in Theater Arts and Communications. His film credits include portraying Robinson, a rookie FBI agent, in the feature film Al Qarem; Abraham in The Lure; and most recently, Dr. Mali in Fly Angel Soul, a Cloudred/Microsoft volumetric film project. On stage, Moore’s performances include originating the role of Tenaka in Karen Malpede’s Other Than We at La MaMa Theater in New York City, where he performed alongside the late legendary actor George Bartenieff. At the 2019 National Black Theatre Festival, Mr. Moore originated the role of U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves in Cowboy, the festival’s #1-ranked play. Moore is best known for writing and starring in his regional one man play Dare to Be Black: The Jack Johnson Story, which chronicles the life of the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion. His latest work, Queen Bess, is an engaging one-woman play about pioneering aviator Bessie Coleman, the first American to earn an international pilot’s license. Dedicated to preserving history through art, Moore continues to create stage plays and screenplays with a focus on African-American history.