Anna Ouyang Moench
Anna Ouyang Moench is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include Mothers, Man of God, Birds of North America, and Sin Eaters. Anna has received fellowships and residencies from The Playwrights Realm, New York Foundation of the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, and the Van Lier Foundation among many others.
Her awards include the Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center, Boulder Ensemble Theater Company’s Generations Award, and East West Players’ 2042: See Change Award. She is an alum of UCSD’s Playwriting M.F.A. program, the Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater, Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Jam at New Georges, and writers groups at East West Players and the Echo Theater Company.
In television and film, Anna has worked with HBO, Netflix, and Universal, and currently writes for Severance (Apple TV+). Anna has productions this season at the Public Theater and Geffen Playhouse, and she is the recipient of a Gerbode Special Award in the Arts commission for a new play that will be produced at the Magic Theatre in 2023. She lives with her family in Los Angeles.
Serge Seiden
Serge Seiden is the Managing Director and Producer at Mosaic Theater Company of DC, which he helped found in 2015. He is also a freelance director and acting teacher at the Studio Acting Conservatory. From 1990 to 2015, Serge held many positions at the Studio Theatre including Producing Director, Stage Manager, Literary Manager, and Casting Director.
Regina Aquino
Regina Aquino (she/her) is a Filipinx actor, creative, and activist. Born and raised in MD, she has performed on many of DC’s stages since 2002. She has been nominated for multiple Helen Hayes Awards and in 2019 she was the recipient of the Outstanding Lead Performer in a Play Award for her work in THE EVENTS at Theater Alliance. She is the first Filipino to have earned the distinction. Washingtonian Magazine proclaimed her one of "DC's 10 Biggest Theater Stars.” She lives in Arlington with her two children and two dogs, across the street from her mother like a good Filipinx daughter. Regina dedicates all her work to her mother, Rosalinda, and to her two daughters, Riana and Mal. www.reginaaquino.com SELECTED DC CREDITS: Mosaic Theatre: Eureka Day; Round House Theatre: We’re Gonna Die; Theater Alliance: The Events [Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actress], Brownsville Song (B-side for Trey); Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Describe The Night, The Arsonists; Studio Theatre: Vietgone, Red Light Winter, Dog Sees God [Helen Hayes Award nomination], Polaroid Stories; Folger Theatre: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Nell Gwynn [two Helen Hayes Award nominations]; Olney Theatre Center: Tiger Style! BROADWAY: Lincoln Center & Kennedy Center TYA: Where Words Once Were
David Bryan Jackson
David Bryan Jackson has acted at many Washington, D.C., and other theatres over the last 30 years, including at the Shakespeare, Studio, Folger, Signature, Hub, Spooky Action, Scena, and Woolly Mammoth Theatres, as well as Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, the Kennedy Center, Washington Shakespeare Company, Rep Stage, Actors' Theatre of Washington, Potomac Theatre Project and Olney Theatre, where he was Literary Manager for many years. He received a Theatre Lobby award for his performances in Intimate Exchanges at Source Theatre and Via Dolorosa at Theater J (the latter of which he reprised in Los Angeles and Boston, as well as more recently as part of Mosaic Theater’s Voices From a Changing Middle East tour). He has also directed plays at various area theatres, and worked as a sound designer and composer for several productions (most recently for Mosaic’s Inherit the Windbag). His Song for the Earth can be heard on Zoe Ravenwood’s album The Problem Might Be Me, and he wrote the title track on her forthcoming Welcome to the World.