BLAIR JOHNSON is an actor, singer, songwriter, and producer with over 25 years of experience. He has appeared in many stage and musical theater roles since 1996, including in NYC productions of Hair (30th Anniversary, as Berger), Tommy (as Hawker), and The Secret Garden (as Albert Lennox), as well as in multiple Philadelphia-area productions in the Walnut Street Theater, Media Theater, Plays & Players Theater, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and Music Mountain Theater in New Jersey. ▶︎

JARED MICHAEL DELANEY is an actor and stage/screen writer based in Philadelphia. He has appeared on stages Off-Broadway and regionally across the U.S. His theater roles include Macbeth (Macbeth), Edmund (King Lear), Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing), Mark Antony (Julius Caesar), Jerry (Betrayal), and Jim (The Glass Menagerie). TV credits include Mare of Easttown, Dispatches from Elsewhere and various commercials. Film credits include Kinderwald, Universal Signs and the upcoming Hayride to Hell. ▶︎

ELLA REMMINGS is a Philadelphia-based author, playwright, director and founder of the concert series Music from Our Garden. She has published essays and opinion pieces on topics ranging from medicine and technology to music and folk beliefs. In addition to writing and directing War of the Romantics, which premiered in Philadelphia in 2019 with a series of sold-out performances and is making a New York City debut in May 2023, Ella authored a stage play, Gadius, and several collections of stories. ▶︎

KATARZYNA MARZEC-SALWINSKI is a concert pianist based in Philadelphia. She has performed as a soloist, with orchestras, and various chamber ensembles in Europe, United States, Middle East, and Japan. Equally versed in the solo and chamber repertoire, Ms. Salwinski has appeared in many concerts and concert series, including at Carnegie Hall, live on the radio and television, Mostly Music at NEIU in Chicago and Concerts at One in New York. Ms. Salwinski was a co-founder and Artistic Director of Fine Art Music Company (FAMC), a chamber music ensemble that for ten years presented programs in salon settings, featuring accomplished musicians from the Philadelphia area. ▶︎

Ethiopian-Hungarian violinist SAMUEL NEBYU has performed as a soloist worldwide, including at Musikverein in Vienna, Berlin Philharmonie Concert Hall, KKL in Lucerne, Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Verizon Hall and Perelman Theater in Philadelphia, as well as in Brussels, Salzburg, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Lima and Bogotá. In 2019, Samuel was invited to join Anne-Sophie Mutter’s Virtuosi and performed with her ensemble in South America and in Europe. His first CD, Music by Composers of African Descent, was released on the BCM+D label and was named Album of the Week by WRTI radio in Philadelphia and WQXR in New York. ▶︎

Israeli musician MICHAL SCHMIDT has been a cellist and pianist throughout her career. She studied at the University of Tel Aviv, the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Curtis Institute of Music, University of the Arts and Temple University in Philadelphia, gaining a Doctoral degree in 2002. Michal is an active orchestral player, chamber musician and recitalist. Michal is currently completing the third disc of Bach’s music for solo cello and solo piano. Her recordings (Bach Double; Bach Double 2.0; Bach Double 3.0; Beethoven: Two Sonatas, Two Instruments, One Performer; SOLA; From Twilight to Tarantella) can be found online on multiple platforms. ▶︎