Photo Credit: Jeong Park (Insta: @jeongxparkphoto)

Jenny Boissiere (she/hers)  is a New Orleans-born choreographer and movement  artist based in Washington Heights. She creates dances for  stage, screen, and unconventional spaces.  Her  work explores courageous women, BIPOC narratives, and complex human relationships through a lens of humor, tension, and emotional freedom.

Her dances have been presented at The Riverside Theater, BAM Fisher Studios, Gibney Dance Center, Peridance Center, Dixon Place, and Abrons Art Center. Jenny has created and produced three full-length performances in Upper Manhattan and was invited by Torya Beard to perform at Little Island in July 2022.  Most recently, she choreographed and produced  Red Brass Dream, a performance featuring compositions by jazz musician J.D. Sky. Jenny has received support from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation and UMEZʼs inaugural Seed Fund for Dance (2022), UMEZ Arts Engagement (2023, 2022, and 2019), LMCC Creative Engagement (2023, 2019, and 2021), and the Omomuki Foundation (2023)

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Mariana Parejo Molinares is a Colombian theater artist passionate about telling stories through a multicultural, political, and social lens. She is a director, actress, and producer currently based in Chicago, and recently graduated from the MFA in Directing program at Northwestern University. In 2020, she founded Anfibia Teatro, a theater company and cultural enterprise based in Bogotá that brings together multidisciplinary artists to create stage and audiovisual works for audiences of all ages.

Alongside her work in theater, Mariana is building a career as an opera director, exploring how the form can engage contemporary audiences through collaborative, dramaturgically driven storytelling. She is particularly interested in bringing a feminist perspective to a field that has historically been shaped by male leadership and canonical traditions. Her directing credits include Caridad Svich’s adaptation of In the Time of the Butterflies (2026), Sunday on the Rocks by Theresa Rebeck (2024), the opera Bastien und Bastienne (2023), and an adaptation of Miss Julie (2022). She also served as Assistant Director to Henry Godinez on Man of La Mancha (2025) and will join him again for Romeo y Julieta at Chicago Shakespeare Theater in December.

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Samantha Pazos is a director-choreographer from Miami, FL, whose theatre-making and choreographic practice blurs the boundaries between the real and the magical, engaging with themes of displacement, identity, language, and memory.

Samantha is a John Wells Directing Fellow and holds an MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama, where she focused on both theatre and film. Her theatre credits include: Spring Awakening, A New Brain, Godspell, Three Musketeers, Romeo & Juliet, The Frogs, The Night Governess, The Amparo Experience, A Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time, the 20th anniversary production of Anna in the Tropics (Miami New Drama), Two Sisters & a Piano (Miami New Drama), Sotto Voce (GableStage), Lorca in a Green Dress, The House of Bernarda Alba, and Death of a Salesman (Spanish adaptation). She has worked on several short films. Film Credits: Cinco y sueños (in post-production), Valentina, and I hear a sigh across the sea.

Samantha also holds an MFA in Dance Performance & Choreography from Florida State University. Her dance training stems from The Ailey School, José Mateo Ballet Theatre, American Dance Festival, Ballet Concerto, and Patricia Penenori Dance Center. Her choreographic work has been presented at the DUMBO Dance Festival, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Asolo Rep with Sarasota Contemporary Dance, Nancy Smith Fichter Theatre, Miami Light Project’s Here & Now Festival, ScreenDance Miami Film Festival, and the Jerry Herman Ring Theater.