She has performed with Pacific Opera Victoria, Musique 3 femmes, Tapestry Opera, OperaQ, Esprit Orchestra, Highlands Opera, and Code D’accès among others. Highlights include premiering the lead in Pomegranate (2019) with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and appearing as a finalist at the Eckhardt-Gramatté Contemporary Music Competition. Her opera video Jess for Pacific Opera Victoria won an Opera America Award for Excellence in Digital Opera.

Rebecca’s compositional talent is appreciated by audiences and musicians alike for its marriage of tunefulness and experimental music-making. A recipient of an Opera America Discovery Grant and Canada Council support, she developed BUS Opera, an absurdist fantasy about millennial alienation on public transit. Her choral work Heaven is not Home, inspired by Wuthering Heights won first prize at the 2024 SOCAN Awards for Young Composers.

As a graduate of the University of Toronto Opera School, Rebecca performed roles such as Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) and Diane (Orphee aux enfers). She collaborates frequently with ensembles such as FAWN Chamber Creative and has composed narrative-driven works for Pro Coro, Soundstreams, and others. Her innovative Raccoon Opera, created with writer Rachel Gray, explores the housing crisis and premiered in Montreal and Banff in 2024.

As the Artistic Director and later Executive Director of BEING Studio, a studio space for artists with developmental disabilities, she advocated for accessibility in the arts sector.

Rachel has collaborated with academic and medical researchers in interdisciplinary projects that seek to mobilize accessible ways to disseminate knowledge. This included working with the Isenberg Lab to create an animated film to share stories from a palliative care unit, with the aim of fighting stigma and amplifying underrepresented voices.

Rachel is also a founding member of Ghost Rooster, a disability arts collective dedicated to creative approaches to access at the intersection of dance and film. The collective’s first short film will be toured across Canada in 2025. As a director, Rachel uses puppetry, visual art, dance, and collaborative filming techniques to create stories that center disability experiences and non-human consciousness. She continues to seek opportunities to collaborate and explore art as a site for community connection. She has a BA in English from King’s College and Dalhousie University and a BFA in Visual Arts from the University of Ottawa.

Mo is the recipient of the Next Wave Initiative Lorraine Hansberry Award, a Jane Chambers Playwriting Award finalist, and a two-time O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist.

Her writing has been produced and developed at esteemed institutions, including the Sam French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, the Playwrights’ Center, Vertigo Theatre, and Minnesota Opera. Mo’s plays are celebrated for their sharp wit, emotional depth, and ability to challenge conventional narratives through innovative storytelling.

As a dramaturg, Mo has supported new play development at Good Apples Collective, the Playwrights’ Center, the Guthrie Theater, Jungle Theater, and Columbia University School for the Arts. She brings a meticulous and collaborative approach to helping artists refine their work, emphasizing authenticity and clarity of vision.

Currently, Mo is an MFA candidate in Playwriting and an Undergraduate Writing Program Teaching Fellow at Columbia University School of the Arts. Beyond her theater work, she is passionate about arts accessibility and mentorship, believing in storytelling’s power to foster empathy and social change.

With a commitment to crafting stories that resonate deeply and inspire transformation, Mo Holmes continues to make her mark as a playwright and dramaturg who amplifies the voices and stories of marginalized communities.

His music has been commissioned and presented by organizations including the New York Youth Symphony, JACK Quartet, Ensemble Proton Bern, Alarm Will Sound, National Sawdust, the International Contemporary Ensemble, the American Composers Orchestra, TAK Ensemble, loadbang, and the Duisburg Philharmonic. Additional collaborations include the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Beth Morrison Projects, bassist Robert Black, Contemporaneous, Guerilla Opera, Chorus Austin, the Young New Yorkers Chorus, Pro Coro Canada, The Esoterics, OPERA America, and Vocal Essence and others. His works have been presented at prominent festivals and venues such as the Intimacy of Creativity Festival, the New York Festival of Song, the Moab Music Festival, the Banff Centre, among others. Daniel holds a doctorate from Cornell University and is currently a GATES Postdoctoral Fellow at Université Grenoble Alpes. Beyond his musical and interdisciplinary projects, he also translates Persian poetry, blending his creative and cultural passions into his artistry.

Known for bringing poetry to unexpected spaces, Ashlee has collaborated with brands and organizations like New York Fashion Week, Atlanta United Soccer, The Atlanta Dream, H&M, and NPR’s Tiny Desk series, where she performed alongside Blood Orange. Her viral poem, For Colored Girls who Don’t Need Katy Perry when Missy Elliott is Enough, even inspired a visit from Missy Elliott herself.

Ashlee is the host of Moderne Renaissance, an educational podcast for creatives, and the author of SMOKE, released in 2020 with a 2nd edition in 2023. She began writing at ten and became a Grand Prize Winner of V-103’s “Got Word” Youth Poetry Slam at 15. A Georgia State University graduate with a degree in Philosophy, Ashlee transitioned to a full-time artist in 2016.

In 2020, she founded Philosophy Media Group, a boutique production agency that creates film and audio stories rooted in her lived experiences. Her collaborations span genres and include artists such as Devonté Hynes, Andrea Gibson, and Ensemble Vim. Ashlee has competed and coached in National Poetry Slam competitions and continues to share stories that amplify unheard voices. In her downtime, she enjoys cooking competition shows and connecting through her art.

… that “bring forth the liveliest playing” from the performers (The New York Times), Dina enjoys a diverse international career. Her creative output ranges from classical concert music to cabaret songs, and from liturgical works to musical theater. As composer-performer, she has been featured in many of New York’s renowned music venues, such as Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Bargemusic, Symphony Space, The 92nd Street Y, numerous international festivals, as well as broadcasts, including WQXR-FM. Her opera-film Heroes of New York, (libretto by Briana Hunter), was officially selected for the Opera on Film Opera Philadelphia Festival O22. Following the successful premiere of her opera SHULAMIT, written and premiered in NYC, 2014, an additional production by popular demand was presented at the JCC of Manhattan Auditorium and shown, in part, at the Aspen Music Festival 2019. An alumna of the Tony-awarded BMI Advanced Musical Theater Workshop, Pruzhansky was named a finalist for the Fred Ebb Award for Excellence in Musical Theater writing (with librettist Matt Schatz), and for the NYMF 2019 (musical Central Park). Dina is a postgraduate alumna from the Mannes School of Music. She also holds an MA in piano performance summa cum laude, and a bachelor’s degree in art history. A passionate educator and an arts advocate, she is the author of the piano arrangements book for beginners ‘I Can Play Chopin’, and sought-after in music talk programs.

… in the most recent revival of Einstein on the Beach, and in several monodramas written for her, as well as more standard operatic, oratorio, and concert repertoire. In recent years, Hai-Ting has become known as a champion of science communication through song, especially focusing on the work of women in STEM. As such, she is the creator and librettist of Science Fair: An Opera With Experiments, a staged show of science set to music; Astronautica: Voices of Women in Space, a visual album of songs based on the words of women astronauts, created with vocal trio Triumphatrix; and Meltdown, (in which a glaciologist loses her cool), a collaboration with librettist David Cote and composer Stefan Weisman.

Of mixed Chinese and Jewish ancestry, Hai-Ting is a native of Northern California and currently resides in New York City. She holds degrees from the Eastman and Yale Schools of Music.

His works, praised for their lyricism, drama, and emotional depth, have been performed across the Americas and Europe in renowned venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Harpa in Iceland, and Jordan Hall in Boston.

Rodríguez’s compositions have garnered numerous awards, including the ASCAP Leonard Bernstein Award (2019) and ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize (2023). International recognition includes prizes at Italy’s Rimini International Choral Competition (2014) and the Maurice Ravel Composition Competition (2015). His orchestral work A Metaphor for Power, exploring themes of Latinx identity and equality, premiered with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra during the prestigious Edward T. Cone Composition Institute.

Committed to social justice and activism, Rodríguez has collaborated with the Vision Collective to bring music to refugee communities and champions Puerto Rican heritage in works like Concerto for Puerto Rican Cuatro and Strings Orchestra. His music has been recorded by prominent artists such as Laura Downes and soprano Stephanie Lamprea.

Rodríguez holds a bachelor’s degree from the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico and both Master’s and Doctoral degrees from The Juilliard School, where he studied under Melinda Wagner. His achievements at Juilliard include the Gretchaninoff Memorial Prize and C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellowship. Rodríguez’s music continues to reflect his dedication to human rights, cultural heritage, and the power of storytelling.

She delights in pushing the limits of traditional genres and picking apart the messy intersections of gender, race, and sexuality through a critical but joyful lens. Current commissions include The Interaction Effect with composer Pamela Stein Lynde for Fresh Squeezed Opera’s 2027 season. Her opera Caravana de mujeres with composer Nicolas Lell Benavides is in development with MassOpera’s New Opera Workshop. Other upcoming works include the opera Inside Out with composer-performer IVA.

Her works include the operas 75 Miles with composer Matt Boehler, Henna Leaves and Uprising with composer Aleksandra Weil, Thirst with composer TJ Rubin, The Cost of Healing with Edward Shilts, the musicals How To Create A Young Girl with composer TJ Rubin, Miss Havisham’s Wedding with lyricist David Gomez and composer Jude Obermüller, and The Electric Brain’s We Regret To Inform You That Reza Is Dead.

Her writing has been performed in New York City at the American Opera Project, Opera America, The Tank, Prospect Theater Company, NYMF, The Duplex, and Don’t Tell Mama; and regionally at Washington National Opera, The Atlanta Opera, Lowbrow Opera Collective, Barrington Stage Company, Two River Theater, Stage Femmes, and Music Theatre Kansas City. She is currently a resident artist in American Lyric Theater’s Composer Librettist Development Program.

She is a founding member of the Chicago-based devising collective The Electric Brain. She received her M.F.A. in Graduate Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch.