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Priyanka Shetty is an award-winning actor, director, and playwright based in Philadelphia, PA. As a creator of original works, Priyanka is focused on making art that is a reflection of our times. With humor, insight, and raw energy, her plays pose critical questions about contemporary issues, engender dialogue, and call for solidarity and collective action. Her critically acclaimed one-woman show The Elephant in the Room has been performed at numerous venues across the country including The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and was recently staged at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe as part of the Assembly Festival which was followed by a Scotland Tour. Priyanka made her Off-Broadway debut with a sold-out run at the Drama Desk award-winning 59E59 Theaters’ “East to Edinburgh” Festival in 2022. She was also handpicked for the prestigious Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive in 2021 and was a semi-finalist for the 2022 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Priyanka earned a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Virginia and has served on the faculty of the University of Virginia’s Department of Drama. www.priyankashetty.com

Aarti Tiwari (she/her) is a multi-lingual actor, writer based in Seattle. Regional stage credits: Hedda Gabler (General Gabler’s Theatre), The Pericles Project (Freehold Engaged Theatre), Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale (Seattle Rep), This and That (Baltimore WhiteFlag Performance Group). She has travelled countrywide in India to various national and international theatre festivals with her solo performance, Mansha's Wedding. International stage credits: Three Sisters, Parting with Words, Sultan, Kiss & Tell, Children of Hiroshima, Ismat Manto. Aarti is obsessed with cherry blossoms, poetry, orcas and Nina Simone. IG: @itinerantink

Divya is a creative warrior and a performance artiste. Her work is strongly driven by intuition and inspired by storytelling, rituals, healing & spirituality. Divya holds an MFA in Theatre Arts from Towson University, Maryland. She is a student of the Margolis Method and is in the cohort of emerging directors at The Shattered Glass Project’s 2023-2024 Incubator/Mentor program. She is also a TAT Lab graduate and teaches storytelling, theatre and arts-integrated curriculum to youth in schools and communities. Divya has a penchant for creating non-traditional performances. Salt for the Soul & Tales of Thresholds are two such ritual performances she offers through Epiphany Sutra. She co-devised an interactive piece for Finding Trails in 2022 that was site-specific to a Seattle public park. Her past one-woman performances include adaptations of Tagore’s Kabuliwallah and Kingdom of Cards; and Manto’s Ten Rupees. She has worked with Theatre Nisha on several multi-lingual productions as a lighting designer and actor. She was the festival director and co-producer of Short + Sweet Theatre Manila (Philippines) for four years. She is also a trained cinematographer, a certified Scuba diver and a Reiki healer. A Labyrinth and its Myriad Mirages is a new solo-work. It is a wholly devised and experimental psychological myth and her second collaboration with Pratidhwani after Two-Minutes of your Time. Breaking the fourth wall is her signature performance style.