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Paul Bonin-Rodriguez is an acclaimed writer-performer-dancer based in San Antonio, TX, where he is a member of Jump-Start Performance Co. Since 1992, he has toured nationally and in Canada, first with the three installments of his solo trilogy, The Texas Trinity and more recently with Quinceañera, a multidisciplinary performance ritual and celebration of survival for the first 15 years of the pandemic AIDS crisis, co-created with Beto Araiza and Michael Marinez. >> more

Jackie Hoffman
Film credits: A Dirty Shame; Garden State; Kissing Jessica Stein; and Mo’ Money. Television credits: Curb your Enthusiasm; Hope & Faith; Strangers with Candy; RV Funhouse; Dilbert; Soulman; and Cosby.
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Jeffery Roberson (Varla Jean Merman) recently returned from Australia where his newest show Varla Jean Merman's Girl With A Pearl Necklace played the Sydney Opera House, the Perth International Arts Festival and the Forum Theatre in Melbourne. Jeffery shared the 2003 Outfest Film Festival "Best Actor" Award and the Aspen HBO Film Festival "Best Actress" Award for his featured performance as Varla in GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS (Sundance 2003) directed by Richard Day.
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David Valdes Greenwood’s plays have been included in the Humana Festival, the Portland Stage Little Festival of the Unexpected, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s First Light Festival, New York International Fringe Festival, and City Theatre’s Summer Shorts, along with other productions across the US and in the UK. >> more

Letta Neely is a 35 year-old Black lesbian playwright, performer, poet, mother, teacher and community activist who has been involved in progressive, anti-racist and queer liberation movements all her adult life. She was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. After a brief time in New York City, she moved to Boston, MA where she now lives with her partner, daughter and niece. She is the Director of the Boston GLASS community center for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth. >> more

Melissa Li, born in Hong Kong in 1983 and raised in Boston, started classical piano training at age 5 under the instruction of Winnie Ip at the Ip Piano School in Chinatown. At age 8, she attended the Longy School of Music in Cambridge to study violin under the instruction of Boston Pops member Clayton Hoener. In 1993, Melissa received a certificate from the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music, based in London, for passing all five grades in the Music Theory Exam. >> more

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