DAVID ZHENG is a first-generation Chinese American playwright and visual artist from the Bronx. He is the recipient of The Lark’s 2018 Van Lier New Voices Playwriting Fellowship, The 2017 Playwriting Observer Fellowship at Labyrinth Theater Company, and the 2017 inaugural Greenhouse Residency at SPACE on Ryder Farm. Plays include The Years That Went Wrong (“Ching Chong Maka Hiya”), KINGSBRIDGE (Semi-finalist for O’neill NPC), Boogie Down Bastards, Ghetto Baptism, Kidnapping Jane Doe, and What’s In The Tent? His work has been developed at The Public Theater, MCC Theater, The Labyrinth Theater Company, Cherry Lane Theater Company, The Lark, and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. He is a member of the 2018-2019 Public Theater Emerging Writers Group, Ma-Yi Writers Lab and the Gingold Theatrical Group’s Speakers’ Corner. Zheng is also a founding member of the Middle Voice at Rattlestick.

Zhailon Levingston is a writer, director, performing artist, and activist. He co-founded #WORDSONWHITE, an arts and activism campaign and is an artist in resident for Columbia Law School. He recently directed”Neptune” at Dixon Place and the Brooklyn Museum, and “The Years That Went Wrong” (“Ching Chong Maka Hiya”) by David Zheng at The Lark. Other credits include “The Exonerated” at Columbia Law School and “Chariot part 2” at SoHo Rep for The Movement Theatre Company. He is the associate director “Primer for a Failed Super Power” with Tony nominee Rachel Chavkin and “Runaways” at The Public with Sam Pinkleton.  He was associate director for the Genesis plays at the 14th street Y! Most recently he directed “Mother of Pearl” at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center and “Chicken and Buiscuits” at Queens Theatre.