Arthur Roger has been an advocate and voice for local artists in New Orleans since 1978. Recognized as the city’s preeminent art dealer, he led the formation of the Arts District of New Orleans and helped create successful citywide exhibition openings which transformed the art scene in New Orleans. He is the recipient of multiple…

Diane K Baas is a Professor of Design and Theatre Program Coordinator in the School of the Arts at the University of New Orleans, and a frequent collaborator with companies regionally and nationally. She studied at the School of Drama, University of Washington in Seattle, and at Tulane University.

David Kaplan is co-founder and curator of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, now in its 21st year. The author of Tennessee Williams in Provincetown (2006) and Tenn Years (2015), he has written about Williams for Brazil’s Revista Dramaturgia em Foco, The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, and Methuen’s Modern American Drama.  Kaplan has staged plays…

Dr. Michael S.D. Hooper, the current president of the International Tennessee Williams Society (ITWS), is an independent scholar and private tutor based in the UK who has appeared on several Scholars Conference and Festival panels. He is the author of Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams: Desire over Protest (CUP, 2012) and of…

Alejandra Guzman is a cross-genre writer. Notably, her poem “Animals Named After Other Animals” is featured in the 2025 Kenyon Young Writers Summer Anthology. Some of her recent works explore themes of identity to reconnect with her Mexican American heritage.

Sloan Elle Garner is a dramaturg, director, intimacy choreographer, and theatre educator from North Mississippi. A graduate of Mississippi School of the Arts, she holds degrees in theatre from the University of Southern Mississippi and Villanova University and is currently pursuing a PhD in theatre and performance studies at the University of Georgia. Garner uses…

Pune Dracker is a researcher, mover, and maker in New York City. She teaches dance and yoga, has conducted Movement Choirs around the city, and regularly performs as a zombie in reenactments of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” Her current work at CUNY Graduate Center, where she is a PhD student in Theatre and Performance, focuses on…

Johanna Day’s Broadway credits include Call Me Izzy, How I Learned to Drive, The Nap, Sweat (Tony Nomination), You Can’t Take It With You, August: Osage County, Lombardi, Proof (Tony Nomination). Other theatre credits Scene Partners (Vineyard), Des Moines (TFANA), Middletown (Vineyard), Floyd’s (Guthrie), Peace for Mary Francis (New Group), Peter and Jerry (Second Stage…

Steven Simone-Friedland has Los Angeles theatre directing credits including Ourselves Alone, Oleanna, Betrayal, Scenes From American Life, and Imagining Rachel, which received its World Premiere at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. As an editor, Steven edited the feature documentary The Yes Men Are Revolting and Donner Pass, and the television pilots Group and Techno 3.…