Jesse Jae Hoon is a playwright, organizer, and occasional actor. He’s developed work with The Public Theater (EWG ’23-‘25), New York Theatre Workshop, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Rattlestick Theater (‘24 Terrence McNally New Works Incubator), Ma-Yi Theater Company (’22-’24) resident playwright), The Playwrights Realm (’22-23 fellow), Theater J, Egg & Spoon Theater Collective, The Parsnip Ship (’23 Radio Roots fellow), and more. 2023 Ollie New Play Award; 2024 MacDowell Fellow; 2025 Yaddo Residency. MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College, BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch. jessejaehoon.com

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Jo Mei is an OBIE award-winning actress for her work in Yangtze Repertory’s world-premiere production of Salesman之死. Other notable New York stage appearances include Anatomy of a Suicide (Atlantic Theater), The World of Extreme Happiness (Manhattan Theatre Club) and Lunch Bunch (PlayCo/Clubbed Thumb). Regional credits: The Great Wave (Berkeley Rep), King of Hell’s Palace (The Goodman), You for Me for You (Woolly Mammoth) and Fingersmith (ART). Jo co-wrote and starred in the award-winning indie-feature A Picture of You; other feature films include No Limits, Who We Are Now, Adult World and many others. Jo has also appeared on TV in HBO’s “Crashing”, “The Good Wife”, “Bones.” She graduated from The Juilliard School’s Drama Division, where she is a Guest Director and Faculty member. Fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese, Jo is based in Los Angeles and New York City.

Jing Dong is a theatre maker based in New York City. As a generative artist, she directs, writes, and facilitates devising processes. She makes theatre that creates spaces for people to gather, connect, and reflect on life experiences and the world’s current issues. Her theatre projects take various forms such as devised theatre, ethnotheatre, participatory performance, audio theatre, and puppetry. Her works have been presented in theaters and non-theater spaces in the US and China. She founded performance collective The Square Theatre, which focuses on socially-engaged performance. Her projects have been supported by Mercury Store, LMCC, The Laundromat Project, NYSCA, Korean Art Forum, and University Settlement.

Julia Gu is a New York–based performer originally from mainland China. For her, performance is a form of life practice—a way to explore, reflect, and connect. She draws inspiration from wandering, poetry, music, movement, and spiritual inquiry. One of her favorite creative rituals is disappearing into a crowd to observe the quiet poetry of everyday life.

Selected theater credits include Salesman之死 (Connelly Theater, Obie Award–winning), Language City (Little Island), 7 Minutes (Waterwell), Day 364: The Scaled Boy (Yangtze Repertory Theatre), I Know You (Abbey Theatre of Ireland), BAb(oo)shka (St. Ann’s Warehouse). Selected film credits include Desperado (feature), Data In A Bottle (short), Illness (short) and You Under Water (short). More at: juliaguxi.com