• Read more about Hope and Faith ♡

Through vibrant hues, Black ritual, and spiritual imagery, twins Eleisha Faith and Tonisha Hope McCorkle utilize storytelling and collage to conflate the ideas of reconstruction and resilience within the Black experience. Their work serves as testaments to healing by example, honoring the Black mother, spirit, food, and childlike wonder in the stories told through their scrolls, installations, and other creations.

• Read more about Imraan Peerzada

Imraan Peerzada is an artist of Asian decent, writing, producing and acting in plays for both children and adults. His specialty is puppetry, and he writes in English, Urdu and Punjabi.  

• Read more about Patti Ross ~ EC Poetry and Prose

Patti (Spady) Ross graduated from Washington, DC’s Duke Ellington School for the Performing Arts, The American University and The Keller Graduate School of Management. As a lifetime learner, Patti holds a certificate in Writing for Social Justice from the University of California, Berkeley. After high-school graduation, she performed with several local theatre companies in the Washington region.

• Read more about Jonathan

  Born and raised in Prince Georges County, Maryland, Jonathan has returned home after receiving a BA in Film and Media Studies with a minor in theater from Lafayette College, to create projects that bring awareness to the DMV, highlighting all of its talents and raising it to the same standard as Los Angeles, Atlanta, and New York as media meccas. Although a multi-media artist, Jonathan’s concentration is in both screenwriting and playwrighting, along with filmmaking, acting, and directing for both screen and stage.

• Read more about Carolyn Black-Sotir, DMA

As a leading ambassador of the American theatre song, Dr. Carolyn Black-Sotir has written and performed a repertoire of 13 original theatrical concerts. Programs include tributes to the Gershwins, Sondheim, Weill, Rodgers & Hart & Hammerstein, Porter, Bernstein, Kern, Arlen, Berlin, as well as performances focusing on the music of specific historical events or eras, such as the American Civil War and The Gilded Age.

• Read more about Pete Danelski

Pete Danelski is a director and producer, based in Washington, DC, making work all over. Pete creates theatre and performance through a variety of means and forms. Directing, associate and assisting credits include Folger Theatre, Theatre J, Gallery Players, Rorschach, The Performance Interface Lab, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival Round House Theatre and DeSales University. Original projects include The Lower Depths Project, woolgatherings, as well as Every Hour/Chekhov in 8—developed with support of the Drama League of New York City.