Rae Venna is a Washington DC-based actor who was most recently seen in The Hub Theatre’s productions of American Spies and Other Homegrown Fables and The Burn. Film credits include Chocolate Cake (Agastar Video & Multi Media), Prosperity Creek (Zack Walsh Productions), and Living With A Ghost (Alex Rice Productions). Outside of acting, Rae is a video game content creator, former small business owner, and published model. She is also an advocate for Pacific Cultural International as the 2018 Pacific Miss Asian American. Through all her endeavors, Rae strives to create more opportunities and representation for minorities. She hopes to inspire other minority women in pursuing leadership positions.

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Maya is a multi-hyphenate artist + cultivator of joy; living and working on the unceded land of the Lenni Lenape and Canarsie People. As an artist educator, they seek to decolonize access to artistic practice. Maya also facilitates the development of new plays and devised work in various capacities, including: Direction, Dramaturgy, Choreography, and Writing. Maya's generative work is an examination of the queer utopian ideal as it relates to the bodies + hearts of Black queer folk who grew up/out of/through trauma in Faith Communities. An excerpt of their play, How We'll Get Over was commissioned for the Poetic License Festival in March of 2020. Recent projects include: The Incomplete Collection with Linked Dance Theater, and We Are Only Dead If We Are Forgotten with Long Wharf Theatre. Maya is delighted to return to Elevate Theatre Company and journey through Nikki Brake-Sillá's poignant work with friends, old and new.

Matthew Armstead practices cultural organizing, which brings together arts and activism, just as they interweave blackness, queerness, faith, doubt, and curiosity. Matthew weaves together community organizing, popular education, and physical theatre techniques to create performances that engage audiences as active participants. Recent performance credits include: Pirate Queen & Visions (Philly Fringe); Myth Seeds (self-produced); and Inspira: The Power of the Spiritual (Theatre for Transformation). Matthew has a M.F.A. with Pig Iron Theatre Company, and a B.A. in Theater and Women's Studies from Swarthmore College.

Cassidy is a Brooklyn-based actor and writer. She holds a BA in Theatre & Dance from Dickinson College, a certificate in physical theatre from the Headlong Performance Institute in Philadelphia, and studied classical theatre at the Pearl Conservatory in New York City. She’s performed on regional stages, off-Broadway, in workshops, under circus tents and in fringe festivals throughout the Mid Atlantic. Most recently she appeared with Big Apple Circus and is a lead voice-actor for the animated TV program, Treasure Trekkers. Cassidy has authored and produced several original musicals (book and lyrics) and holds a certificate in creative writing from Wesleyan University. www.cassidydermott.com