Brielle Fowlkes (she/her) is an actress, singer, poet, and director whose passion resides in making transformational, powerful, and honest works that exhort black and brown stories. As a black woman in the arts, Brielle grew up with a lack of representation that would give her the empowerment she needed, so she dedicated herself to telling more stories that made little black girls know they were seen. Brielle's mission as an artist is to be a catalyst for empowerment and celebration of black bodies and black stories. 

Elaine Chen (they/them) is a writer and director from Long Beach, California. They are currently a PhD student in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and hold a B.A. in German Studies and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (2016), as well as an M.A. in German Studies (2020) from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). Elaine has completed internships at the Nationaltheater Mannheim (2015), the Schauspielhaus Salzburg (2017), and the Los Angeles Shakespeare Institute (2018), led by Louis Fantasia and sponsored by the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. In 2018, a Fulbright Combined Grant to conduct research in Salzburg, Austria enabled Elaine to complete a second internship at the Schauspielhaus Salzburg. In the summer of 2019, they worked as a dramaturgical intern for Evgeny Titov’s production of Maxim Gorky’s Summer Folk at the Salzburger Festspiele. In 2019, they directed Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s bourgeois tragedy Emilia Galotti for CSULB’s Theatre Threshold and co-adapted and -directed Georg Büchner’s Danton’s Tod with Jeffrey L. High. This summer, they are directing Heinrich von Kleist's dark comedy The Broken Jug at the German Summer School on the Pacific.

Rebecca Haley Clark (she/her) is so excited to be working with Collab24 again! Currently, she is rehearsing Just Deserts (Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Santa Cruz, CA), a story that combines Greek mythology and an exploration of our modern justice system. She most recently produced and directed a devised international collaboration entitled Hindsight 2020 (Those Women Productions, Berkeley, CA) reflecting on the past year. Her previous credits include: As You Like It (Bard in the Botanics, Glasgow, Scotland), Cycle-Logical (Tron Theatre/Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland), Suffering from Scottishness (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Shakespeare é Brasileiro (Os Ciclomáticos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Hamlet/Ghosts (HERE Arts Center/The Brewing Department/Rochester Fringe Festival). She has directed internationally in New York, Brazil, and the UK, including a residency at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. Rebecca holds an M.A. in Classical and Contemporary Text in Directing from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and a B.A. from Columbia University in Drama and Comparative Ethnic Studies. She also received a Fulbright research grant to study Shakespeare and race studies in Rio de Janeiro. www.rebeccahaleyclark.com

Sarah Tan (she/her) is currently the Learning Programs Manager at TheatreSquared in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Before relocating to Arkansas, she freelanced as an artist educator and organizer in Arizona, Minnesota, and Singapore where she grew up. Her training as a performer, educator, and administrator has brought her to several companies including Pangea World Theatre, ACT3 International, Grey Box Collective, and Wonderlust Productions where she currently serves as a board member. Her research as a scholar delves into digital creations with young people, the performance of identity, and the intersection between the performing arts and trauma. Sarah holds a BA in Theatre Arts with a concentration in Education Studies from Carleton College, and an MFA in Theatre for Youth and Community from Arizona State University. www.sarahtanhy.com