Jordan Tannahill is a playwright, novelist, and director of film and theatre. His novels and plays have been translated into twelve languages, and honoured with a number of prizes including two Governor General’s Literary Awards, Canada’s highest state honour for literature. His plays, like Botticelli in the Fire, Concord Floral, and Is My Microphone On?, are in repertory at several European state theatres, and his work has been presented at venues including: The Young Vic Theatre (London), Sadler's Wells (London), Festival d'Avignon (Avignon), The Kitchen (NYC), The Lincoln Centre (NYC), The Deutsches Theater (Berlin), Residenz Theater (Munich), The Volkstheater (Vienna), Juliusz Słowacki Theatre (Krakow), Canadian Stage (Toronto), and on London's West End. His debut novel, Liminal, was honoured with France's 2021 Prix des Jeunes Libraires. His second novel, The Listeners, was shortlisted for the 2021 Giller Prize, and was originally written as a story for an opera by composer Missy Mazzoli, which premiered at the National Opera of Norway in 2022. Tannahill has recently adapted The Listeners into a limited series for the BBC, directed by Janicza Bravo (Zola) and starring Rebecca Hall, and is writing and directing his debut feature film, Rapture, for 2AM. Tannahill's book of essays on theatre, Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama, was listed by Playbill in 2022 as one of fourteen essential books for theatre students alongside seminal works by Constantin Stanislavsky and Peter Brook. Jordan's virtual reality performance Draw Me Close, produced by the National Theatre (UK) and the National Film Board of Canada, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017, played the Venice Film Festival, and ran at London's Young Vic Theatre in 2019. As a writer, he has worked collaboratively with a number of artists in different fields including Akram Khan, Miles Greenberg, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nina Arsenault, Sheila Heti, and Jenkin Van Zyl. From 2012 - 2016, in collaboration with William Ellis, Jordan ran the alternative art space Videofag out of their home in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood. Over the four years of its operation, Videofag became an influential hub for queer and avant-garde work in the city.

Shayok Misha Chowdhury is a many-tentacled writer and director, born in India, based in Brooklyn. He recently received an Obie Award for directing the world premiere of his playwriting debut, Public Obscenities, at Soho Rep, a co-production with the National Asian American Theatre Company. The “extraordinary bilingual drama” was a New York Times Critic's Pick and hailed as a “literary marvel” and “complexly layered masterwork” by The New Yorker.

Misha is the creator of VICHITRA, a series of sound-driven, cinematic experiments, including Englandbashi (Ann Arbor Film Festival); The Other Other (Ars Nova); An Anthology of Queer Dreams (Audio Unbound Award finalist); and In Order to Become (The Bushwick Starr). Misha is also an alumnus of New York Theatre Workshop’s 2050 Fellowship, The Public Theater’s Devised Theater Working Group, Ars Nova’s Makers Lab, New York Stage and Film Nexus, the Sundance Art of Practice Fellowship, BRIClab, Drama League’s Next Stage Residency, and Soho Rep’s Project Number One and Writer Director Lab.

A NYSCA/NYFA, Fulbright, and Kundiman fellow in poetry, Misha has been published in The Cincinnati Review, TriQuarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Portland Review, Asian American Literary Review, Lantern Review and elsewhere.  Residencies: Macdowell, Hermitage Artist Retreat, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, Ucross, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Mercury Store.

Misha received his Bachelors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity under the mentorship of Maestra Cherríe Moraga at Stanford University, his Master of Fine Arts in Directing Theater at Columbia University under Anne Bogart, Brian Kulick, and Greg Mosher, and studied Lecoq-based physical theater at the London International School of Performing Arts. He has taught and directed at Stanford, Brown, NYU, CalArts, Fordham, Syracuse, UArts, Hunter College, CMU, and Williams.