GUADALÍS DEL CARMEN (Playwright, she/her/ella) is a playwright, performer and screenwriter from Chicago, based in NYC. She’s an Ars Nova Resident Artist, a 2020 Steinberg Playwriting Award recipient, and Artistic Associate of Black Lives, Black Words. She is the Founder and Co-Artistic Director of the Latinx Playwrights Circle NYC. Her plays include Not For Sale, My Father’s Keeper, Daughters of the Rebellion, A Shero’s Journey or What Anacaona and Yemayá Taught Me, Blowout. She was a Co-Producer of Atlantic Theater Company’s African Caribbean MixFest 2021. She’s worked on projects with HBO, FX, and Amazon. Guadalís has performed as an actor in Chicago, NYC, and St. Louis. Bees and Honey had its first staged reading with SOL Project’s SOLFest 2018.

MELISSA CRESPO (Director, she/her/hers) is a director of new plays, musicals, and opera. Upcoming: Yoga Play by Dipika Guha (Geva Theatre Center), and Sheepdog by Kevin Artigue at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival. As a playwright, her play Egress, co-written with Sarah Saltwick, recently had a rolling world premiere at Salt Lake Acting Company and Amphibian Stage. Melissa received her M.F.A. in Directing from The New School for Drama. She is a Founding Editor of 3Views on Theater and is the Associate Artistic Director of Syracuse Stage. https://www.melissacrespo.com