Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation) is a writer/choreographer, and co-founder of Indigenous Direction, the nation's leading consulting company for Indigenous arts and audiences. FastHorse is the first Native American playwright in the history of American theater to have a play on the top ten most-produced list, with The Thanksgiving Play. The Thanksgiving Playwas the first play written by an Indigenous woman ever to be produced on Broadway. Additional produced plays include What Would Crazy Horse Do?, Landless, Cow Pie Bingo, Average Family, Teaching Disco Squaredancing to Our Elders: a Class Presentation, Vanishing Point, and Cherokee Family Reunion (Mountainside Theater). FastHorse is the recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur ?Genius? Fellowship. She lives in Santa Monica with her husband, the sculptor Edd Hogan.


Michael John Garcés is the former artistic director of Cornerstone Theater Company. He is a recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, the Princess Grace Statue, the Alan Schneider Director Award, TCG/New Generations Grant, and the Non-Profit Excellence Award from the Center of Non-Profit Management. He serves as Executive Vice President of the board of the Stage Directors and Choreography Society.

His plays include 36 Yesses and Magic Fruit (Cornerstone); TOWN (Theatre Horizon); and south (Great Plains Theatre Commons). Directing credits include The Rivers Don't Know by James McManus (City Theatre Company); Highland Park is Here by Mark Valdez (Cornerstone and Latino Theatre Company's ?Re:Encuentro 2021?); The Play You Want by Bernardo Cubria (The Road Theatre); Seize the King by Will Power (The Alliance); Larissa FastHorse's The Thanksgiving Play (The Geffen Playhouse) and Urban Rez (Cornerstone); and the just and the blind by Marc Bamuthi Joseph and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain (Carnegie Hall and The Kennedy Center). He is a professor of practice in English at Arizona State University.