Becca Blackwell has collaborated with Young Jean Lee, Half Straddle, Jennifer Miller's Circus Amok, Richard Maxwell, Erin Markey, Sharon Hayes, Theater of the Two Headed Calf, Lisa D'Amour, and more. Film and television credits include High Maintenance, Ramy, Marriage Story, Shameless, Deadman's Barstool, Jack in the Box, If Found, and Sort Of. Their solo shows, They, Themself and Schmerm and Schmermie's Choice, have toured across the US. Blackwell is the creator and star of the short film As Schmerm as It Gets, and was a recipient of the Doris Duke Impact Artist Award, the Franklin Furnace Award, and the Creative Capital Award. They recently made their Broadway debut in Is This a Room and can be seen in the forthcoming films She’s Clean, You Can’t Stay Here, and BROS.
Patrick Cottrell is the author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace, published by McSweeney’s. He is the winner of a Whiting Award in Fiction and a Barnes and Noble Discover Award. Most recently, he guest-edited a queer-fiction issue of McSweeney’s Quarterly. Dacey is the recipient of a 2022 Pushcart Prize and Pen America Grant and has recently completed a second novel and collection of short stories. He teaches at University of Denver.
Mia Dillon is a Tony-nominated stage actress whose Broadway credits include Our Town, The Miser, The Corn Is Green, Hay Fever, Agnes of God, Crimes of the Heart, and Da. She has worked extensively off-Broadway and regionally from San Diego to Dublin, and her work has been honored with the CT Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk nomination, the Clarence Derwent Award, a Dramalogue Award, among others. Film and TV appearances include all three Law & Orders, Brain Dead, The Jury, Mary and Rhoda, Gods and Generals, The Money Pit, Ordinary World, All Good Things, and Never Rarely Sometimes. Upcoming projects include Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
