Kamala Sankaram writes music that straddles the boundaries between opera, musical theater, Hindustani music and jazz. She has received commissions from Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Beth Morrison Projects, the PROTOTYPE Festival, Opera Memphis and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, among others. She is the recipient of a Jonathan Larson Award from the American Theatre Wing, and has received grants from OPERA America, the National Endowment for the Arts and the MAP Fund. Residencies and fellowships include the MacDowell Colony, the Watermill Center, the Civilians, HERE, CAP21, the Hermitage and American Lyric Theater. As a resident artist at HERE, Kamala created MIRANDA, winner of the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical. Her opera THUMBPRINT, with librettist Susan Yankowitz, premiered at the 2014 PROTOTYPE Festival and has since been produced by LA Opera and Opera Ithaca. With librettist Jerre Dye she created THE PARKSVILLE MURDERS, the first opera written for virtual reality. Dr. Sankaram holds a PhD from the New School and is a member of the composition faculty at SUNY Purchase. kamalasankaram.com

Rob Handel is a librettist and playwright. Collaborations with composer Kamala Sankaram include THE INFINITE ENERGY OF ADA LOVELACE (American Lyric Theater, Opera Ithaca), BOMBAY RICKEY (PROTOTYPE Festival at HERE, Tête à Tête in London) and LOOKING AT YOU (developed at OPERA America and BRIC). THE ARTWORK OF THE FUTURE, with composer Eric Moe, was developed at New Dramatists, where Handel was a resident playwright from 2008 to 2015. His plays include MILLICENT SCOWLWORTHY, APHRODISIAC, A MAZE and I WANT TO DESTROY YOU, produced by New York Stage and Film, Long Wharf, Target Margin, Shotgun Players, Curious Theatre and many others. Residencies include the Civilians R&D Group, the Royal Court, the Donmar Warehouse, the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Soho Rep and the MacDowell Colony. Handel heads the dramatic writing program at Carnegie Mellon University and was a founding member of 13P.

Kristin Marting is a director of hybrid work based in New York City. She has constructed more than 28 stage works, including original hybrid works, opera-theatre and music-theatre works, reimaginings of novels and short stories, and classic plays. Kristin has directed 19 works at HERE, where she is Founding Artistic Director, and has also premiered work at BAM, 3LD, the Ohio Theatre and Soho Rep. Her work has toured nationally and to Moscow Art Theatre, London and Oslo. She has directed readings and workshops for Clubbed Thumb, EST, New Georges, Playwrights Horizons, the Public Theater and Target Margin. Kristin was named a nytheatre.com Person of the Decade, a Woman to Watch by ArtTable and honored with a BAX10 Award. She co-founded and co-directs the PROTOTYPE opera-theatre festival. kristinmarting.com