Vanessa Garcia is a multidisciplinary artist working as a novelist, playwright, screenwriter and journalist. Her debut novel, White Light, was published in 2015, to critical acclaim. Named one of the Best Books of 2015 by NPR, Al Dia, Flavorwire, and numerous other publications and institutions, it also won an International Latino Book Award. Her plays have been produced in Edinburgh, Miami, Los Angeles, New York, and other cities around the world. These include the immersive hit, Amparo(“Miami’s Hottest Ticket,” according to People en Español); The Cuban Spring (a full-length Carbonell Award nominee for Best New Play, 2015), The Crocodile’s Bite (a short included in numerous anthologies such as Smith & Kraus’ Best Ten Minute Plays of 2016; the City Theatre Anthology 2015; and the Writer’s Digest Annual Award Anthology, 2015), and Freek!,a short play for Young Adults (anthologized in The Applause Acting Series’ 5 Minute Plays For Teens). As a journalist, feature writer, and essayist, her pieces have appeared in The LA Times, The Miami Herald, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Narrative.ly,and American Theatre Magazine, among numerous other publications. She’s also a Huffington Post blogger. She holds a PhD from the University of California Irvine in English (with a focus in Creative Nonfiction), an MFA from the University of Miami (in fiction), and a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University (English and Art History).  Most recently she was a Sesame Street Writer’s Room Fellow. She’s currently a WP Theatre Lab Fellow.

Cameron Dye is an actor, singer-songwriter, musician, teaching artist, poet, and humanitarian who lives in Los Angeles. Fountain Theater audiences may remember his performances in the award-winning revivals of “Orpheus Descending” and “Summer and Smoke,” both directed by Simon Levy. Also a member of The Actors Gang, he toured extensively and performed their run at the REDCAT Theater as “Winston Smith” in George Orwell’s “1984,” directed by Tim Robbins. Cameron has many years of TV episodes and films to his credit but is most often recognized for his 1983 debut film, “Valley Girl,” playing Nic Cage’s loyal sidekick “Fred.” He has entertained many around the world by playing and singing the songs he writes as a solo artist or with his band, The MatchFingers. Other than acting and music, he works rehabilitating the incarcerated in state prisons by teaching commedia-style theater with the Actors Gang Prison Project and leading songwriting workshops for Jail Guitar Doors.