Casey Boriskie Selected credits: ZACH Theatre: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Head Over Heels, Noises Off, Cinderella, Waitress, The Thin Place, and ROE; Summer Stock Austin: Guys & Dolls, 20 Season’s Spectacular; Hangar Theatre: Dragons Love Tacos, School Girls or, The African Mean Girls Play, The FutureNow Festival; Portland Stage: Senior Living; UT Spring Commencements 2025; The Heller Awards for Young Artists; Alley All New Festival 2025: Dating Comprehension. BFA: Texas State University. Proud member of AEA.

Mextly Couzin credits include Broadway: JOB. Off-Broadway: MEXODUS, N/A, Fiasco Theatre’s Pericles, A Good Day to Me Not To You, Here We Are (ALD), Straight Line Crazy, peerless, Tambo & Bones. Regional: Berkeley Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, The Old Globe, Seattle Opera, Woolly Mammoth, Centro de Bellas Artes Puerto Rico. International: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Les Nuits de Fourvière. 2023 recipient of The 1/52 Project grant. MFA University of California, San Diego ’20. mextlycouzin.com

Cynthia Santos Decure is a bilingual voice and dialect coach and associate professor of acting at Yale. Some theatre coaching credits: Quixote Nuevo (OSF); Notes on Killing…; Wish You Were Here, Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, El Huracán, (Yale Rep); Espejos/Clean (Milwaukee Rep); La Tempestad, La Broa’ (Trinity Rep); Laughs in Spanish, Two Trains Running, The Hot Wing King (Hartford Stage); The Hot Wing King (Baltimore Center Stage); Mascogos (L.T.C.) Quixote Nuevo, Laughs in Spanish (Denver Center); Quixote Nuevo (Roundhouse, South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep, Portland Stage); Cymbeline (NY Classical); In The Heights (Marriott Theater, Phoenix Theatre). cynthiadecure.com

Josefina López is best known for authoring the 1988 play and co-authoring the 2002 Sundance Film Festival Audience and Jury Award-winning film Real Women Have Curves that were the source materials for the 2025 Broadway production of Real Women Have Curves: The Musical, which garnered critical acclaim and 12 award nominations, including two from the Tony Awards and others from The Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics’ Circle. López started her writing career at 17 years old and has had productions of her many plays throughout the country. López’s first short play, Simply Maria, or the American Dream, was filmed as a PBS special and won a Gold Award from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting and an Emmy Award. Other works include: Confessions of Women From East L.A.; Boyle Heights; Remembering Boyle Heights, parts 1 and 2; Hungry Woman in Paris; Detained in the Desert, also made into a feature film; Trío Los Machos, currently in development as a musical; A Cat Named Mercy; Piñata Dreams; Drunk Girl; Lola Goes to Roma; Hysteria; A Woman Named Gloria; An Enemy of the Pueblo; Queen of the Rumba; Electrico; and the 2025 award-winning film 20 Pounds to Happiness (Eat. Love. Joy.), which López executive produced and wrote. López has been working as a professional screenwriter for more than 30 years with many established producers like Norman Lear and Jaime Paglia to bring Latinos to television.  She has been the recipient of dozens of awards and accolades and has penned seven books as an author. López is the founding artistic director of CASA 0101 Theater in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles.

Lisa Portes is happy to make her Alley Theatre debut! Lisa has directed work for Cal Shakes, Cincinnati Playhouse, Denver Center, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, Hartford Stage, Olney Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Rep, South Coast Repertory Theatre, and Steppenwolf Theatre. In New York she has developed new work for Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, the Public, and New York Theatre Workshop. In 2016 she was honored with the SDC Zelda Fichandler Award for Directors. She is a co-founder of the Latinx Theatre Commons and serves on the the board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).

Mariana Sanchez is a Mexican-American multidisciplinary artist. Her theater credits include The Great Privation (Soho Rep), Square Dance (Miami City Ballet), Anatomy of a Suicide (Atlantic Theater), Marys Seacole (Lincoln Center LTC3), The Central Park Five (Detroit Opera), and productions at Yale Repertory Theatre and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She studied architecture, earned an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, and completed her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2024. She is based between New York and Mexico City.

X Casting / Victor Vazquez, CSA is the founder of X Casting (xcastingnyc.com). He casts in LA and NYC for Broadway, West End, TV and Film. He is the proud son of Mexican immigrants. IG: @victorvictorv @xcastingnyc