Sandra Guzmán is an award-winning feminist writer and documentary filmmaker. She was a producer of The Pieces I am, a critically acclaimed film about the art and life of her literary mentor Toni Morrison. She is the author of the non-fiction book, The New Latina’s Bible. Her work explores identity, land, memory, race, sexuality, spirituality, culture, and gender. She was editor of Latina and Heart & Soul magazines. Her work has appeared on HBO, NBC News, CNN, Audubon, Univision, Telemundo, El Diario-La Prensa, and PBS among other media outlets.

Nailah Randall-Bellinger (she/her) is a dance educator and scholar. For over thirty-five years, she has taught modern and contemporary classes throughout the United States and abroad at national conventions and universities. She has studied, performed, and lectured in Brazil, Ghana, Haiti, the Czech Republic, and Senegal. She has worked with film director and poet S. Pearl, and performed as a member of Karen McDonald’s New Age Dance Workshop dance company and Jamie Nichols Fast Feet, Inc. After receiving a Masters degree from Lesley University with a concentration in Interdisciplinary Studies: Dance, and African American literature, she began to focus and develop the concept of the “dancing text” as a means to explore the corporeality of dance. In 2015, Randall-Bellinger collaborated with a group of artists in Cambridge to give voice to the voiceless in the production of Stories Without Roofs: Transitions, featuring essays, monologues, poetry, songs, dance, and general musings of residents of shelters in the city of Cambridge. She has created original work for Boston-based contemporary dance company Urbanity and was choreographer for the Boston production Ragtime at Wheelock Family Theater. In 2020, she was awarded the Alorie Parkhill Learning and Travel Grant to study expressions of dance in South East Asia. Randall-Bellinger currently serves as the Chair of the Dance Department at The Cambridge School of Weston. She has been a teaching artist at Harvard Dance Center for over a decade. In Spring 2021, Randall-Bellinger facilitated the first of a series of virtual artist-led discussions around artistry, identity, and advocacy, where she presented her film works #shesstillbreathing and Women’s Work, both inspired and constructed within the constraints of the Covid-19 pandemic. She most recently was a co-choreographer for the A.R.T. Arboretum project. She is also one of seven artists commissioned by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA) in 2021 to create a new work on campus. The work, titled Initiation– In Love Solidarity, explores the resilience and evolving identity of women of the African diaspora.

Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019) was the winner of the Pamet River Prize and a 2020 Whiting Award. She received her BA in English from the University of Massachusetts Lowell where she won the Jack Kerouac Creative Writing Scholarship; and received her MFA at NYU where she was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship to Florence, Italy. She is the recipient of additional fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program, and was a finalist for the 2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and chosen for the Best of the Net Anthology. Her poems can be found in Poem-a-Day, Poetry Magazine, The American Poetry Review, Washington Square Review, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. Her heart is in Brooklyn.

So thrilled and grateful to be apart of this project. Born and raised in Ohio and now residing in New Hampshire teaching and performing on the Seacoast. Recently finished filming We are the Dream in Atlanta for OMA productions as Joseph McNeil, costume designer and PA Previously seen on The Rep Stage in Pippin, Cabaret, Godspell, The Fantastiks, Next to Normal and Stokely & Martin and Neveah's Brother. Off and Off-Off Broadway credits: A Christmas Carol, Lysisarah. Regional credits: The Full Monty (Stageworks Fresno), Sister Act, South Pacific, Hands on a Hardbody (Arizona Broadway), Ghost, Mary Poppins, Rock Of Ages, Will Rogers Follies, American Idiot (The Barn Theatre) Westside Story (Chrysalis Stage) Beauty and the Beast (Winnepesauke Playhouse) Ragtime (Seacoast Rep). Nyc Festival Credits: Zuccotti Park (Fringe Festival). Previous offstage credits include. Fun Home (assistant dir.)Hairspray ( director/choreographer), The Producers (asst. Director/ choreographer), Godspell (choreographer), The wizard of Oz (assistant choreographer), Dog Sees God ( Director). Get your Healing. #staymoisturized #hydrated #findclarity #love

Scott Kiefner is an active bass player in the seacoast. He plays with a number of groups including the Soggy Po Boys and Sojoy and is a highly sought after side man. He has long had a passion for analog synthesizers and creating textures.

Rob Gerry is jazz bass player and composer. He writes original material for his trio as well as writing arrangements and playing in Ourbigband. He actively plays and composes in the seacoast and has a particular affinity for the album Abandoned Luncheonette by Hall and Oates.