Caitlin Hart / Founder & Artistic DirectorCaitlin Hart (she/her) is a theatre director and intimacy professional working in theatre and film. She recently moved back to her hometown - Grand Rapids, Michigan after fifteen years in NYC and Los Angeles. She recently directed The Revolutionists at Grand Rapids Civic Theatre and Indecent at Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids (Michigan Premiere). She holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts and completed the Atlantic Theatre company’s two-year Professional Acting Conservatory in NYC. She has worked on the casting team for Showtime, the award-winning live Emmy Campaigns for Hulu’s THE HANDMAID'S TALE and Amazon Prime’s THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL, among other immersive marketing events. Favorite directing credits include: Romeo and Juliet (Broadway World 2018 Best Play Nominee), Macbeth (Broadway World 2017 Best Play Nominee), Maria Irene Fornes’ What of the Night? (West Coast Premiere; Best Acting Ensemble Ovation Nominee) and Tommy Smith’s White Hot (LA Premiere; Hollywood Fringe Best in Ensemble Theatre Winner). She is the Resident Director of the touring, musical satire troupe, 'Capitol Comedy' and helm's their new touring production each year. Caitlin has produced and directed many new plays, musicals, new play development workshops, and staged readings as well as instructed professional acting workshops. She is a proud associate member of SDC and is a teaching artist at Grand Rapids Civic Theatre. You can see her resume and learn more about her and her work at caitlinhartdirector.com and thevagrancy.com
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Jocelyn Barnes / BLOSSOMING ModeratorJocelyn Barnes grew up in West Michigan. Her poetry focuses on a whole bunch of lived experiences, with topics ranging from coping with trauma and mental illness, dating/living/loving as a queer, fat, black woman, and finding love for herself and her community, despite colonizer standards of existence in her hometown, and country. Jocelyn is the newest host of the Drunken Retort, an open mic hosted in Grand Rapids, MI, she is a Teaching Artist with the Diatribe, and she was Retort United Grand Slam Champion of 2020. Her main goal in life is to empower those without the ability to do so themselves and to give as much love as she wants to be given. She says she’s proof that art saves lives, and wants you to say “thank you” to a black woman today!
Ynika Yuag / BLOSSOMING Associate Producer & DramaturgYnika Yuag is a Kalamazoo-based director, dramaturg, and production manager. In 2021, she received her B.A. in Psychology and Theatre Arts from Kalamazoo College where she graduated magna cum laude with Departmental Honors in Theatre Arts. She is a member of Face Off Theatre Company in Kalamazoo, MI where she serves as the 2022 season production manager. Selected directing credits include Kokoro (True Heart) (Festival Playhouse of Kalamazoo College), Dance Again (Queer Theatre Kalamazoo), and Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine (Face Off Theatre Company). Selected dramaturgy credits include Pipeline (FOTC) and Student Body (Festival Playhouse), for which she received the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Certificate of Merit for Dramaturgy. She currently resides in Kalamazoo.
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