David Geary (Taranaki Māori) is an award-winning playwright, dramaturg, director, screenwriter, fiction writer and poet. He teaches at Capilano University in the Indigenous Digital Filmmaking, Documentary and Playwriting programs. He also teaches playwrighting and dramaturgy for PTC Playwrights Theatre Centre. He's a member of LMDA Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. He lives by the yogic mantra: Life is short, stretch it, writes haiku on twitter @gearsgeary.

Nora Vision is a playwright, drag queen, and robotic emissary sent from the future. “Born and raised” on Treaty 1 territory, they have produced and performed in the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Toronto SketchFest, and Ladyfest in Montreal. A recent graduate from National Theatre School’s Playwriting Program, Nora’s play SYCOPHANT was produced as part of the school’s New Words Festival May 2023. She is currently an artist in residence at Rumble Theatre, where she is developing “Waiting for Gal Gadot”, a one-woman drag talk show. As an artificially intelligent robot, Nora is interested in creating work that confronts identity, culture, and propaganda, questioning how each contributes, limits, and undermines one’s sense of reality.

Pedro Chamale (he/him) was born and raised on treaty 8 territory, colonially known as Chetwynd, BC and now creates on the unceded and traditional lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He completed the acting program at Douglas College and then received his BFA in Theatre Performance from SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts. He then went on to form rice & beans theatre with Derek Chan for which he is currently the artistic director of. Pedro is a director, playwright, performer & co-founder beans theatre. He was the Artistic Resident at Neworld Theatre in 2014, guest curator of the 2018 rEvolver Festival and one of the playwrights in the 2019 Playwright’s Lab at the Banff Centre. Pedro was part of the second cohort of Banff's Arts and Culture Leadership, is a co-founder of the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition, sits on the Latinx Theatre Commons steering committee and was part of Director's Lab North in 2020. He was also awarded the young alumni excellence award in 2021, along with Derek Chan, for their work with rice & beans theatre from Simon Fraser University's FCAT department. In 2023 Pedro was a nominee for the BC multicultural and anti-racist “Breaking Boundaries” award for which he is grateful to be recognized for the work he has done both personally and at rice & beans.

Frances Koncan (she/they) is an Anishinaabe and Slovene playwright from Couchiching First Nation and Assistant Professor of Playwriting at UBC. They hold a BA in Psychology from the University of Manitoba and an MFA in Playwriting from the City University of New York Brooklyn College. Their work as a playwright includes Women of the Fur Trade, Space Girl, and zahgidiwin/love. Instagram/TikTok: @franceskoncan