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James Clements (Playwright) (he/him) is a Scottish actor, theatermaker and educator based between New York and Scotland. Clements has performed at venues including La Mama, BRIC, HERE and MITU580, and has written and directed projects at the Public, Rattlestick, the 92nd Street Y, Culture Lab, Mercury Store, The Colony Theatre (Miami), Woolly Mammoth Theatre (Washington D.C), Centre Theatre (Los Angeles), Dundee Rep (Dundee) and the Stockwell Playhouse (London). His acting has been called "impressive...incredibly compelling...excellent" (BroadwayWorld), "deft" (TheatreMania) and "magnetic" (The Scotsman). His plays, including The Diana Tapes (2016), Four Sisters (2017), MEDEA/BRITNEY (2019), Ellis Island (2021), Brothers in Arms (2023), GUAC (2024) and The Burns Project (2025), have been described by critics as "searing" (New York Times), "magnifying" (TimeOut), "compelling" (The Guardian), "intricate" (BroadwayWorld), "affecting" (Playbill) and intellectual" (Theatre is Easy). His latest play, The Burns Project, will tour the U.S. in Spring 2026, while his documentary play GUAC was revived at The Centre Theatre in Los Angeles in October 2025 with an encore run scheduled for Spring 2026. He is a Professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Co-Artistic Director of What Will the Neighbors Say?

Danilo Gambini (Director) is a NYC-based director of Theater, Musicals and Opera. He is originally from São Paulo, Brazil, and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. As a Producer, he served as Studio Theatre’s Associate Artistic Director for three seasons. Prior to Studio he was the Associate Artistic Director at Rattlestick, as well as part of the 20/21/22 Roundabout Directors’ Group. Recent credits include: A Case for the Existence of God by Samuel Hunter at Mosaic Theater; The Heart Sellers by Lloyd Suh and Wipeout by Aurora Real de Asua, both at Studio Theatre; the operas Iolanta by Tchaikovsky and The Rake’s Progress by Stravinsky at Yale Opera/Shubert Theatre New Haven; Ni Mi Madre at Rattlestick (Obie Award Winner; Drama Desk Nom., Drama League Nom., Outer Critics Nom., NYT Critic’s Pick, TheaterMania Editor’s Pick); Agreste by Newton Moreno at Spooky Action Theater; and the new musical Sabina, by Willy Holtzman, with music by Louise Beach and lyrics by Darrah Cloud, co-directed with Daniella Topol at Portland Stage in Maine.

What Will the Neighbors Say? (Co-Producer) is an investigative theatre company that provokes questions through untold stories. Led by a collaborative cohort of international artists, the Neighbors present overlooked social, cultural and historical narratives that challenge the audience to reflect on the current moment. Through a combination of original plays, arts education workshops and dynamic community gatherings, the troupe incites rowdy and rigorous debate at the theatre and throughout the Neighborhood. Since its inception in 2016, the company has premiered 11 original plays in 6 cities in 4 countries on 2 continents, and co-presented a further 27 new works. Over the course of these projects, the Neighbors have created jobs for over 375 artists - 75% of them non cis-male identifying and 50% of them members of the global majority or immigrants. What Will the Neighbors Say? is led by Founding Co-Artistic Directors Sam Hood Adrain and James Clements. What Will the Neighbors Say? has received funding from a number of grantors including the the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, Americans for the Arts, the Howard Gilman Foundation, A.R.T./NY, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Dumbo Improvement District, Off-Broadway Angels, IndieSpace, Rhode Island Foundation, Actor’s Equity Association, the Bel Geddes Fund, the Leon Levy Foundation, the Puffin Foundation and the Network of Ensemble Theatres. The company has been selected for residencies with NYU’s Espacio de Culturas, the Goethe-Institut New York, the Brooklyn Arts Council’s Six Foot Platform, Catskill Mountain Shakespeare, IRT Theatre's 3B Development Residency, MITU580's Gowanus Affordable Arts Initiative and Artists-at-Home Program and BRIC's BRIClab Performance Residency. The Neighbors have collaborated with partners including the Brooklyn Public Library, the Queens Public Library, El Puente Presente, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, the Queens Memory Project, the Queens Historical Society, the Queerly Festival, Pregones/P.R.T.T. and THE CITY newspaper.

Mya Ison (she/her) (Playwright) is an actor/playwright based in Brooklyn currently studying as a first-year MFA playwriting candidate at Hunter! Her plays are a relentless search for Black voices in the places where they’ve been erased: in the ordinary, in the future, and in the archive. Selected Playwriting credits: crawlspace (Workshop @ The Flea, 2024), Don’t Let Me Disappear (Liberation Theatre Company Reading/Residency), Laure (Workshop @ NYTW & The Tank, 2023, BAPF Finalist 2023, O’Neill New Playwrights’ Conference Finalist 2024). Selected Acting credits: Little Shop of Horrors (Virginia Theatre Festival), According to Howard (York Theatre Co.), Mary Gets Hers (Workshop @ Playwrights’ Realm), Lorena (Workshop @ NYTW/Dartmouth). BFA, Boston University. Learn more at myaison.com

Noah Latty (Director) (they/them) is a director from Philadelphia. They develop new theater and performance art with a passionate DIY spirit. Noah recently directed their original play, Time Signatures, which premiered at Brooklyn Art Haus as part of the 2026 Exponential Festival.  Other production credits include Berlindia! by Daniel Holzman at The Tank, and the NYC premiere of  Kinderkrankenhaus by Jesi Bender. Noah served as Assistant Director for A Woman Among Women, by Julia May Jonas at The Bushwick Starr (coming soon to LTC3!) , Pre-Existing Condition by Marin Ireland at The Connelly Theater, and Figaro/F*ggots by Kevin Carillo at Baryshnikov Arts Center.  Noah is a resident stage manager at The Mercury Store. Thank you!  www.nolalatty.com 

Alexandra Palocz (Creator) is a multidisciplinary storyteller, experience designer, and creative technologist. She recently finished a masters degree at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU Tisch, where she studied interactive narrative, collaborative creativity, and learning through play. She likes speculative fiction, tangible metaphors, and thinking about new storytelling forms.