Jacinta Yelland is an Australian theatre creator and performer of Chinese and Torres Strait Islander descent based in Philadelphia, USA. Jacinta has collaborated with David Gordon, Opera Philadelphia, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Quintessence Theatre Group, People’s Light, The Berserker Residents, Tribe of Fools, and Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists. She holds an MFA in Devised Performance from University of the Arts/Pig Iron, completed the Zen Zen Zo Company Internship, and studied at École Philippe Gaulier, Paris. Jacinta’s solo show KOAL, co-created with Trey Lyford, is the recipient of the 2023 Philadelphia Fringe Festival 5 Star Award. KOAL has been presented at Ars Nova, the 2024 Australian Theatre Festival NYC, Theatre Works, and the 2025 PhysFestNYC. Her work has been supported by Creative Australia, Arts Queensland, American Australian Association, Network of Ensemble Theaters, The Work, The Puffin Foundation Ltd., and the City of Philadelphia. www.jacintayelland.com

Linnea Bond is a Philly-based performance artist, activist, and teacher exploring apocalypse on a personal, interpersonal, and global scale. She works in the intersection of sociology and storytelling, designing communal, immersive, invitational and other live action events along a spectrum of traditional and non-traditional live performance, and direct/street and artistic activism primarily related to the climate crisis. She has been touring Heart Ripped Out Twice And So Can You! nationally and internationally since its Cannonball/Philly Fringe premiere in 2022, and will be performing it next Off-Broadway at Soho Playhouse in April/May. In addition to her devising work and stage acting, she has also worked as a director, dramaturg, and playwright, and as an actor in Todd Haynes’ films, Carol and Dark Waters. Future work, ticket links, and opportunities to join environmental justice actions at @linnea.bond on IG or https://linktr.ee/linneabond.

Cookie Diorio is a Philadelphia-based drag performer, a classically trained vocalist, a songwriter, an activist, a husband, music teacher and lover of all things sparkly. She mastered walking in 5 inch stilettos in the night clubs of Boston, achieved her hair fantasy by studying vintage videos of Grace Bumbry and founded the giving project Art of the Heel. Cookie grew up in historic Auburn, NY with gospel in her ears, civil rights in her blood and many songs in her heart. She trained at Ithaca College in the voice studio of Angus Godwin and learned the many different skills of western classical music from master teachers such as Carol McAmis in vocal pedagogy, Lawrence Doebler in choral arts, Dana Wilson in composition and Patrick Hansen in opera coaching. While Cookie has been in and out of the drag scene since 2002, she began performing regularly in the Philadelphia area as host of the Art Song Repertory Theater Company’s salon series “Saturday Afternoon Drinking Songs” in 2013. Since, she has produced the shows Fire In My Bones: A Gospel Jubilee, Beauty From Our Sorrows, Telling Herstories, Forces of Nature, Music: The Food of Love and I, Too, Sing America. She has also been soloist for events, galas, concerts and on the cabaret stage.

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