Christy Stanlake is a Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy, where she directs the Academy's theatre program. With research interests in Native American theatre and performance, dramaturgy, and literature, Stanlake authored Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective (2009) and co-authored Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre: Indigenous Spaces (2020) with Jaye Darby and Courtney Elkin Mohler. Stanlake has applied theories of Native theatre to her direction of JudyLee Oliva's Te Ata and Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs; both productions toured to the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC.

Madeline Sayet is a Mohegan theater maker who believes the stories we pass down inform our collective possible futures. For her work as a writer and director she has been honored as a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Hollywood & Entertainment, TED Fellow, National Directing Fellow, NCAIED Native American 40 Under 40, and a recipient of The White House Champion of Change Award from President Obama. She serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Arizona State University with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) and is the Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP). Her plays include: The Neverland, Antigone or And Still She Must Rise Up, Daughters of Leda, Up and Down the River, and The Fish.