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Diego Alejandro González is a theatermaker and Co-Creator of BORDERLANDS, a new theater collective centering  nepantla: the in-between where cultures, identities, histories, and futures collide. Working across musicals, dance, opera, devising, and experimental work, Diego aims to make interdisciplinary theater as portals for transformation, memory, prophecy, healing, sensuality, and our collective future.

In development: DAVID & THE APOCALYPSE, a new play about queer artists across timelines; ¡OKLAHOMA!, a Mexican/bilingual adaptation of the R&H classic; Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN, a film-to-stage adaptation; and TEJANX., an immersive celebration of queer borderlands communities.

Diego is an inaugural Mercury Store Directing Fellow, Roundabout Directors Group member, SDCF Abe Burrows Award Finalist, SDCF Shadow on Broadway’s Hadestown, and Drama League Assistantship Recipient.
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Lindsey Hope Pearlman is a Lecoq-trained director and playwright specializing in physical, image-driven comedic plays and musicals.  Original musicals: ROAR! (Exponential Festival), MacGyver the Musical (Co-Book Writer, World Premiere at Stages in Houston, TX).  Original plays: Lucy (EST/Sloan Commission), Viv is for Vengeance (American Playwriting Foundation Relentless Award Honorable Mention), Cassandra Complex.  Broadway: Bandstand (Assistant Director), Leap of Faith (SDCF Observer). Selected Off-Broadway: The Art Tour (Director, Theater Row), A Sign of the Times (Book writer, New World Stages). Selected Regional: SuperYou (Associate Director, Skylight, Milwaukee WI), The Rocky Horror Show Live! (Strand Theater, Rockland ME). Short films: One Woman Movie, Goat and Placemat. Drama League NY Directing Fellow. Member, Bread Arts Collective.  Graduate of London International School of Performing Arts, Hamilton College.  Adjunct Professor, Pace University.    

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Jaquita Ta’le is an LA based multi-disciplinary artist and co-artistic director of the emerging theatre company Bottle Tree Theatre. She marked her official directorial debut with I Sell Windows, a solo show with puppetry (Outside In Theatre, Assembly Festival- Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024). In Spring 2026, Jaquita was a SDCF Directing Observer of director Awoye Timpo on Tarell Alvin Mcraney’s Windfall at Steppenwolf. Acting credits include: (Theater) The Heal (The Getty Villa), Too Heavy For Your Pocket (Ovation Awards Nominated- Sacred Fools), And Then They Fell (Atwater Village Theatre), (Film/Television) Pinocchio, Good Behavior, Castle, Shameless, Criminal Minds.

Jaquita Ta’le