JUSTICE HEHIR (Playwright) is a playwright and doula whose work explores sexuality and resilience. She is a Lila Acheson Playwriting Fellow at Juilliard, an alumna of Youngblood at EST, and a New Georges Affiliated Artist. Her play the dowagers was awarded a Special Commendation by The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is co-author of the wish: a manual for a last-ditch effort to save abortion in the united states through theater, a free, downloadable play about abortion rights post-Roe, released online in 2022. She graduated from Hunter College in 2018 with an MFA in Playwriting (under the tutelage of Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins) and from Rutgers University/Douglass College in 2016 with a BA in Women’s and Gender Studies and English.

JOAN SERGAY (Director) is a Brooklyn-based director of new work. Recent projects include the world premiere of Not Not Jane’s by Mara Nelson-Greenberg at Clubbed Thumb, The Galas by Justine Gelfman at Ars Nova, and Broadway’s Leading Ladies, a filmed concert now streaming on PBS. Joan has directed and developed work with Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Ars Nova, Ensemble Studio Theater, No Guarantees, The TEAM, Colt Coeur, Geffen Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Westport Country Playhouse. On Broadway, Joan has served as Associate Director to Robert Icke (Oedipus), Sam Mendes (The Hills of California) and Rachel Chavkin (Lempicka). As an audiobook director, Joan has directed over 200 titles for Penguin Random House, including Lena Dunham’s new memoir, Famesick. Joan is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a former Resident Artist at the cell theatre, Audrey Resident at New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop Adelphi Resident, and Directing Fellow at Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. BA in Theatre & Creative Writing: Northwestern University