Rose: You Are Who You Eat

John Jarboe (she/her) is a director, singer, writer, and host serving you herstory, queer community making, and a whole lot of glitter. She is the founding artistic director of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret in Philadelphia. She has written, performed, and directed original work for La Mama ETC, Joe’s Pub, Opera Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Wilma Theater, Lincoln Center, and The Guggenheim’s Works & Process series. She recently opened her first art exhibition The Rose Garden open through September at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Follow her @johnjarbeaux.

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Emily Bate is a singer, composer and performer, working fluidly across disciplines including music performance, theater and choral music. She runs a queer & trans community chorus called Trust Your Moves, an experiment in collective singing designed around liberation and co-creation. She has collaborated with artists such as Erin Markey, Ragnar Kjartansson, filmmaker Chet Pancake, MJ Kaufman, and Pig Iron. In 2023 she premiered Wig Wag, a music-theater piece performed by a cast of 4 and the entire audience, as part of the Curated Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Emily is a 2022 Art Works Fellow and a 2021 Pew Fellow. @_emilybate_

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he/him. Broadway : New York, New York, Sunday in the Park with George, Saint Joan. Broadway Associate : Network, The Prince of Broadway, the Crucible. Opera : The Met, Paris Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Canadian Opera, and Houston Grand Opera. International : International Theatre Amsterdam  Regional : Gutherie, Ballet Hispanico, Wilma, Philadelphia Theatre Co., Yale Rep. Dance : Doña Peron – Ballet Hispanico, Callas, La Davina – Municipal De Santiago, CoisCéim, River North Chicago Dance, Anadolu Ateşi.  His work has been seen in 17 countries and been recognized for 15 awards. Education:  MFA Yale School of Drama.

Kate McGee (Lighting Designer) is a trans* designer and new media artist. Off-Broadway: My Lingerie Play (Rattlestick Theater), The Infinite Love Party (Bushwick Starr), while you were partying and Notes on Killing … (Soho Rep), I’m Revolting (Atlantic Theater), Pay no Attention to the Girl (Target Margin Theater), The Hang by Taylor Mac and Matt Ray (HERE/Prototype Festival), Early Plays (New York City Players/Wooster Group). International: protec/attac (Deutsches Schauspielhaus – Scenery, Costumes, Lighting), Emily’s D+ Evolution, songwrights apothecary lab, and Off-Brand gOdds tours for Esperanza Spalding Regional: An Iliad and A view from the Bridge (Long Wharf), Life of Galileo and Julius Caesar (Playmaker’s Rep), and A Tale of Two Cities (Trinity Rep). She was a 2022/2023 project one artist in residence at Soho Rep, where she used her year to develop a VR experience called Girl Mode. Kate is a close collaborator with Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey, with whom she designs and devises “somehow literary” works that engage with questions of authenticity, spectatorship, violence, coercion and comedy. katedesignsfortheater.com

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Jecca Barry is an independent theatre, opera, film, and music producer. She is the founder and creative producer of Fin Productions, and a co-founder of the Up Until Now Collective. Jecca’s practice focuses on developing work with artists that are challenging the conventions of the performing arts industry. From 2012-2022, she served as Executive Director of the acclaimed production company Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) and was a Co-Director of New York’s annual PROTOTYPE Festival from 2017-2022. Jecca has overseen the commissioning, development, production and touring of over 30 new theatre, music-theatre, and opera works, and has toured those works to over 40 national and 20 international venues. Notable productions include FOOD, HOME, and The Object Lesson by Geoff Sobelle, NOWISWHENWEARE (the stars) by Andrew Schneider, Unholy Wars by Karim Sulayman, and HONOR by Suzanne Bocanegra. Jecca holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in avant-garde flute performance from the Royal Northern College of Music and New York University.