Diana Lawrence (Composer/Lyricist/Music Director/Performer/Collaborator) works across genres and disciplines to tell essential human stories through music. Her musical, Mill Girls, released a 2021 EP featuring Nikki Renée Daniels, Alysha Deslorieux, and Val Vigoda. Diana has worked as an improvising music director for The Second City, and was commissioned to write original music for Steppenwolf Theatre’s premiere of Tracy Letts’ Mary Page Marlowe. Diana & the Dishes, Diana’s original pop-soul project, has shared the stage with artists such as Nellie McKay and Becca Stevens. Dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices, Diana is a member of the feminist vocal trio, Artemisia, and works with Storycatchers Theatre, a company that creates original musical theatre with incarcerated youth. A member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, Diana is a 2021 recipient of the Jerry Harrington Award.
Alexandria Davis (Choreographer/Performer/Original Collaborator) is a dancer, Teaching Artist, Choreographer, and Screendance maker, and a 2020 MFA dance choreography graduate of the University of Michigan. Born and raised in Gainesville, Florida, Alexandria is an integrated mover trained in liturgical dance, modern (in all its forms and facets), jazz, ballet, pointe & partnering, hip hop, West African, Afro-Caribbean, contemporary, contact improvisation, Laban/Bartenieff fundamentals, Katherine Dunham technique, historically black college, and university auxiliary technique. Alexandria creates dangerous work, often using her choreography to instigate conversations that challenge tradition and collectivist thinking. Her movement is a manifestation of resilience and years of self-interrogation often presented through the vehicle of a three-dimensional conversation. Her style is driven by triumph and encouraged by rhythm and bass. Alexandria earned her BFA in Dance Performance and Dance in Medicine certification from the University of Florida. Alexandria is a dance activist dedicated to community partnership and performing arts education.