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Julián Mesri is a New York-based Argentinean-American playwright and composer who makes multilingual plays and musicals in the US and around the world. He is the co-adaptor and composer/lyricist for the Mobile Unit bilingual production of the Drama Desk nominated and LATA award winning Comedy of Errors at the Public, as well as Much Ado About Nothing, premiering this summer. His play, The Irrepressible Magic of the Tropics premiered as part of Intar’s 2025 season. He is currently the Judith Champion Musical Theater Launchpad Resident at Signature Theater and a Core Writer at the Playwrights Center. Other work includes composing the live score of Henry 6 at The Old Globe, directing/arranging Songs About Trains with Radical Evolution, music directing and co-orchestrating Brian Quijada’s Somewhere Over the Border (Syracuse Stage, Geva Theater). He has been a member of the Public Theater Emerging Writer’s Group, a Dramatist Guild Fellow, an Emerging Artist of Color Fellow and Usual Suspect at NYTW, a member of Lark’s Playwright’s Workshop at Second Stage, and a Van Lier fellow at Repertorio Español. He received his MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University.

Estefanía Fadul is a Brooklyn-based Colombian-American director. She is the co-Artistic Director of Ensemble Studio Theatre where she’ll be directing A Bodega Princess Remembers La Fiesta de los Reyes Magos, 1998 by Iraisa Ann Reilly this fall. Recent projects include the world premieres of Hotel Happy by Camilo Almonacid (Houses on the Moon), Eva Luna by Caridad Svich (Repertorio Español), The Garbologists by Lindsay Joelle (Philadelphia Theater Company), and Carla’s Quince created with The Voting Project Ensemble (Drama League Award nomination). Estefanía has developed new plays and musicals off-Broadway and regionally at the Public Theater, INTAR, Playwrights’ Realm, NYTW, Chautauqua, Audible, Juilliard, and more. She is the inaugural recipient of NYSAF’s Pfaelzer Award. Affiliations: Drama League Board of Directors, Latinx Theatre Commons advisory committee, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, New Georges Affiliated Artist, SDC. estefaniafadul.com

Mitch Weiss is currently the Producing Artistic Director of The Farm (We Grow Theater!) which commissions and develops new, original plays and musicals with a team of Broadway professionals. His previous career history includes Off-Broadway directing and musical directing, managing Broadway shows (A Chorus Line, The Grapes of Wrath, and more), senior management at the NY Shakespeare Festival, Disney Theatricals International, Barrington Stage Company and Carnegie Hall and personal management for disco icons Village People. He taught at NYU and SUNY-Plattsburgh and is the author of 2 nonfiction books including The Business of Broadway (Allworth Press).  Website: MWEntGroup.com

The Farm (We Grow Theater!) is a project of MW Entertainment Group, dedicated to developing the work and careers of playwrights and theater composers since 2019 with a team of theater professionals. Website: WeGrowTheater.com.