Doron JéPaul Mitchell is a writer, actor, composer and avid storyteller. Once an aspiring mathematics teacher and high school football coach, he quickly discovered a love for art while earning his B.A. from Colorado College. In a leap of faith, he forwent his doctorate scholarship and made the bold choice to move to pursue a career in the arts. Doron received an MFA in acting at New york University and recently made his Broadway Debut in Aaron Sorkin’s critically acclaimed adaptation of “To Kill A Mockingbird”, featuring Jeff Daniels and Latanya Richardson-Jackson. His play, a letter to... debuted at the National Black Theatre (2018). As a writer his works have been seen at the Guthrie Theatre, National Black Theatre, and was recently selected as a 2020 Sundance Development Semi-Finalist for his latest screenplay.

Doron helped develop and cultivate film, plays and new works with New York Stage and Film, Level Forward Company, New York Theatre Workshop, The Lark, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Wheelhouse, BMI, Less Than Rent Theatre and Playwrights Horizons to name a few. Currently Doron serves as a creative producer and arts curator. All in all, Doron strives to never be tied down to one artistic medium, constantly pushing to inspire those around him to embrace all their gifts.

Khiyon Hursey is a writer and composer based in Los Angeles and New York. He was a staff writer for Netflix’s romantic musical drama, SOUNDTRACK and is currently co-writing LOVE IN AMERICA, a movie musical to be produced by Issa Rae at Universal. He is the recipient of the ASCAP Foundation’s Irving Burgie Scholarship, Bart Howard Songwriting Scholarship, and the Lucille and Jack Yellen award, a 2016 NAMT Writers Grant, a 2016 - 2017 Dramatists Guild Musical Theater Fellow, 2017 Space on Ryder Farm Residency, 2018 Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project residency, 2019 ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop with Stephen Schwartz, 2019 Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, the 2020 Johnny Mercer Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals and the 2020 Stephen Schwartz Award. His musical, EASTBOUND (Book and Lyrics) was selected for the 2020 National Alliance of Musical Theatre Conference and he has works in development at New York Stage and Film and Ars Nova. Khiyon got his start as the music assistant on the off-Broadway and Broadway productions and the Grammy Award Winning Cast Album of HAMILTON. He's been a guest lecturer at Columbia, Yale and Berklee College of Music on Musical Theater. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music with a degree in Songwriting.

Leslie is a builder. She began her career fundraising on Barnardo’s £1M capital campaign. She then joined a startup leadership initiative within Edinburgh Napier University as a founding member, building both client-facing programs and back-end systems.

Leslie moved to NYC in 2010 and joined Teach For America’s Social Entrepreneurship Initiative. For five years, she built an ecosystem for social entrepreneurs to thrive.

Later, she joined NationSwell to build its membership community. Over four years, she helped double membership, build the community team, and create infrastructure for 900+ leaders to collaborate.

Leslie is the founder of Level Advisory and a Kentuckian.

Saila Reyes is a writer/director born and raised in Southern California. She had an early career traveling the world as a violinist, studying at LACHSA, Colburn and Juilliard, while also performing with greats such as late jazz legend Alice Coltrane. Upon seeing her first screenplay and immediately falling in love, Reyes attended NYU Tisch, where she received a BFA in Dramatic Writing. After moving to LA for good, she was selected as one of the inaugural fellows in Universal Pictures' Emerging Writers Fellowship Program. After, she moved on to work in feature writing rooms in Hong Kong, TV in Mexico City, and independent productions in both New York and LA. Most recently, Saila wrote for the BTS video game, BTS Universe. She is represented by The Gersh Agency and currently in pre-production for her first feature film.

Osh Ashruf (Ghanimah) is the Harold Prince Fellow in Creative Producing at Columbia University. Projects: actor, The Vagrant Trilogy (The Public); actor and producer, My Friend Will (TribecaFilm Fest; Roku); co-writer, Drama League-nominated American Dreams; director and producer, George Abud’s The Ruins; Broadway Co-Producer, A Strange Loop, K-Pop, Sing Street. Training: BA/BS, Loyola University Chicago; MFA, Harvard University (Presidential Fellow). A Teach For America alum, Osh is a former NYC Public school teacher where he founded theatre programs and trained other teachers in classroom management and culture. He is a TEDxBroadway speaker alum and board member. Proud son of Palestinian refugees. Osh is here today because of the radical generosity and passion of his 5-8th grade Drama Club teacher, the late Joan Deppong, who gave him his Tevye Moment.

Ruchir Khazanchi is an awarded actor, songwriter, musician, and educator originally from Omaha, Nebraska. He graduated from Northwestern University with concentrations in Theatre, Musical Theatre, Creating the Musical, and Screen Acting. His original shows and music have been performed and recognized with The Fled Collective, Persona NYC, The American Music Theatre Project, Davenport’s Piano Bar, Brooklyn Children’s Theatre, and New Musicals Inc. His original musical, A BRIDGE TO THE MOON, received 3rd prize in New Musical Inc.’s “Search for New Musicals 2021”, and was a semifinalist for the 2022 Eugene O’Neill National Music Theater Conference (NMTC), while his musical ILLEST DANCE, was a semifinalist for the 2021 National Alliance for Music Theater (NAMT) Conference. He also received the John Paynter “Outstanding Creation of Music” award in 2020 for his work on “State of The Art”. In addition to his work as an actor and musician, Ruchir is a teaching artist and music director for the Drama-Desk award-winning TADA! Youth Theatre and New York City Children’s Theatre.