Lameece Issaq is an actor and writer and co-founder/former artistic director of the Obie Award -winning company Noor Theatre. Lameece has narrated over 60 books, including The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, for which she won an Audiofile Earphones Award. She has appeared in several regional and off-Broadway productions, including The Fever Chart and Stuff Happens (Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble) at the Public Theatre, The Black Eyed at New York Theatre Workshop and Noura at The Old Globe, among several others. She’s written various short plays produced in The New York Arab-American Comedy Festival; as well Noor & Hadi Go to Hogwarts (Theater Breaking Through Barriers, Golden Thread Theater); Orb Weaver (24/6) and Nooha’s List, part of the compilation play, Motherhood Outloud (Hartford Stage, The Geffen and Primary Stages). Her full length play Food and Fadwa (2011 recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award) premiered off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop in a production she co-produced and starred in, and in which Variety magazine praised her performance as "stunning." Food and Fadwa was a part of the Arab Voices Festival in both Abu Dhabi and Beirut and was published in the anthology "Contemporary Plays By Women of Color," second edition. She co-wrote the feature film Abe, directed by Fernando Grostein Andrade, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. She starred in her most recent play, A Good Day to Me, Not to You, which premiered off-Broadway at the Connelly Theater in 2023 and was produced by Waterwell and Plate Spinner Productions. The play was developed at Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, The Cape Cod Theatre Project, Noor Theatre, and Theatre Aspen’s Solo Flights Festival. Lameece is a member of AEA and SAG AFTRA. 2016 NYFA Finalist in Playwriting/Screenwriting. www.lameeceissaq.com

Tobias Forrest is an actor, writer, singer and VO performer who is also a quadriplegic. His credits include How to Get Away With Murder, Queen Sugar, Good Trouble, Special Unit, Wisdom of the Crowd, The Sessions, Weeds, Coffee Wars, Daruma and more. Tobias has also starred onstage in Cost of Living, Colossal, Pyretown and other plays. In addition, he sang in the Oscars choir and for the band Cityzen, plus his songs have been placed in film and television. Tobias narrated the audiobook The First Thing About You and has performed audio description and voice-over for several other projects.