Alejandra Ospina is a first-generation native New Yorker with roots in Colombia. She has been active for many years in advocacy and performance projects locally and beyond. In her youth, she was a founding member of the Fearless Theater Company in NYC, performing with Itzhak Perlman at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in Claire’s Broom Detective Agency: The Mystery of the Missing Violin.

In recent years, she has had the opportunity to re-engage with the stage, including as a member of the inaugural cohort of the Theatre for All intensive program for emerging actors with disabilities at the Queens Theatre (2018).  She has since performed in several projects via Queens Theatre (including a summer 2020 staging of Emily Driver’s Great Race Through Time and Space!), as well as through its partnership with the Phamaly Theatre Company in Colorado.

 She has previously trained and performed in physically integrated dance work (Infinity Dance Theater, Heidi Latsky Dance, ZCO Dance Project).

She sings regularly with the Peace of Heart Choir, and sometimes with other folks, too.

She works regularly as a media access provider on a variety of projects, for which she might create content as an audio describer, translator, or closed caption provider.

Alejandra is the Program Coordinator for Dark Room Ballet with Krishna Washburn, an ongoing educational program that prioritizes the needs of blind and visually impaired dance students at introductory and advanced levels.

She is also pursuing narration and voiceover projects, and can be heard as the primary narrator for the audiobook version of Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the 21st Century (Edited by Alice Wong, Vintage Books, 2020).

Dickie Hearts is a Deaf, gay, multiracial actor and three-time national film contest winner. His 2015 short film, Passengers, won the Best Filmmaker Award in Easterseals’ Disability Film Challenge and mentorship with director Peter Farrelly. In 2016, he won Project Greenlight’s LGBTQ+ "See Yourself" contest with his two-minute Deaf gay superhero pitch Save the World, landing a developmental deal with Adaptive Studios in partnership with GLAAD. In 2017, he won first place in the AT&T Create-a-Thon, taking home the grand prize of $20,000 with the seven-minute short he wrote, directed, and co-starred in, The Deaf vs The Dead.

Hearts is fluent in American Sign Language (ASL). His TV credits include a recurring role on “Tales of the City” (2019), a guest-starring role on “High Maintenance” (2020), and a co-starring role on “Grace & Frankie” (2017). Stage credits include New York Deaf Theater’s Maple & Vine and IRT’s Stepchild, Please Untranslate Me and Trash. In 2020, he wrote and remotely directed an ASL musical short film, Disconnected: The Musical, now available for online viewing. He continues to push for more Deaf, LGBTQ+, and BIPOC visibility and representation onscreen. Hearts is repped by Rossi Talent Management and Nicolosi & Co.

Ryan J. Haddad is an actor and playwright. His autobiographical plays include Hold Me in the Water (Playwrights Horizons, Drama League and Drama Desk nominations), Dark Disabled Stories (Bushwick Starr/Public Theater, Obie Award for Best New American Play), and Hi, Are You Single? (Woolly Mammoth/IAMA, Helen Hayes nomination). Additional stage credits: Tartuffe (New York Theatre Workshop), La Cage aux Folles (Pasadena Playhouse), american (tele)visions (New York Theatre Workshop/Theater Mitu, Lortel nomination), The Watering Hole (Signature), and his cabaret Falling for Make Believe (Joe’s Pub/Under the Radar). TV: “A Murder at the End of the World” (Hulu) and “The Politician” (Netflix). Haddad received the Drama Desk’s 2023 Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award, Vineyard Theatre’s 2021 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, and a 2020 Disability Futures Fellowship. His writing has been published in the New York Times, Out Magazine, and Alice Wong’s anthology Disability Intimacy. He is an alum of The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group and a former Queer|Art Performance and Playwriting Fellow, under the mentorship of Moe Angelos. @ryanjhaddad