Caitlin Johnston - has choreographed, performed in, improvised, and produced/directed many dance/theater productions in Santa Cruz County. She is also recently retired from 25+ years of teaching dance and theater in the public schools. She is thrilled and honored to be able to play and perform with grown-ups again!

Julie Oak - high school (a long time ago!) Julie became a member of Wisconsin Mime company, then moving to San Francisco started Quadrangle Mime Theater. She studied and performed Ruth Zaporah’s Action Theater in Berkeley, and moving to Santa Cruz began creating and teaching RealPlay Movement Theater Improvisation. Please visit RealPlayis.Us for more info and upcoming classes!

Kirk Glaser is an award-winning poet and prose writer whose work has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle and many literary journals. He has been playing with different modes of body-centered improvisation as well as theater improvisation for decades and has performed in Santa Cruz. His book of poetry, The House That Fire Built (MadHat Press), came out in Summer, 2025. Kirk is a professor of creative writing at Santa Clara University, where he serves as faculty advisor to the Santa Clara Review.

Miranda Janeschild is a storyteller, choreographer, performing artist, and dancer with extensive experience teaching acrobatics, aerial dance, contact improvisation, Feldenkrais®, and the Axis Syllabus™. Her performance art focuses on portraying the human condition through theater, aerial, and ground-based dance, often in collaboration with musicians and circus artists.