Lisa Sanaye Dring
The Jack/Euchre

Lisa is an actor, writer and director. She has worked with Asolo Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, East West Players, Hero Theatre, Circle X Theatre Co., Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On!, SCF @ Son of Semele, Rogue Artists Ensemble, One Year Lease, Bread & Puppet, Bootleg Theater, Boston Court, We the People at Sacred Fools and Theatre of NOTE. She can be seen on Shameless, Grown-ish, NCIS, Good Girls and Shut Eye, and as Danielle on two seasons of How to get Away with Murder. She recently played Hermes in a virtual reality piece called Finding Pandora X, which won the Best VR Immersive User Experience at the Venice International Film Festival. Lisa has studied clown and physical comedy with Aitor Basauri, Chris Bayes, John Gilkey and Paola Coletto.

Lisa is a proud member Rogue Artists Ensemble and Hero Theatre. She co-founded and co-directs Rogue Artists' Rogue Lab, a creative incubator for new, hyper-theatrical work. She founded and leads Circle X's Evolving Playwrights Group, a writing and mentorship program for emerging and mid-career writers. She's the Associate Artistic Director of Circle X Theatre Co. lisasanayedring.com

Anil Margsahayam
The King/Rake

Anil is a Bay Area native who attended the University of San Francisco. His theatre credits include The Clay Cart, The Comedy of Errors, Our Town, The Music Man, Quixote (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Bombay Dreams (1st National Broadway Tour), Photograph 51(South Coast Rep), Baby Taj (Theatreworks), All's Well That Ends Well (CalShakes), Disgraced (Nevada Conservatory Theatre), Twelfth Night (New Theatre House), Minnie's Boys, Hooray for What, Very Warm For May, One Touch of Venus (42nd St. Moon), and Wit and Aspects of Love (Palo Alto Players). Television credits include Grey's Anatomy, The Big Bang Theory, Silicon Valley, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Dr. Ken, Speechless, The Brink and The Common Cult. Film credits include Feeding Mr. Baldwin, A Little Bit Pregnant, I Got This and Oh Danny Boy.

Liana Mesaikou
The Queen/Pip

Liana Mesaikou is an LA-based Greek artist (actress, comedian, writer). She has acted in a number of theater productions in Greece, London and LA. She earned her Master’s in Text & Performance Studies at King’s College London & RADA, and has studied comedy at The Groundlings, iO West and Second City. In 2019, she completed her MFA in Screenwriting at UC Riverside where she developed two comedic interactive projects for kids as part of her Gluck fellowship. Liana wrote the script for the 12th Orpheus Awards at the LA Greek Film Festival in 2018, and was a contributor on Ladies Night Live and Fake News. Her first one-woman show Fifty Shades of Melania premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in June 2019, and traveled to the New York Fringe in October. She was a member of the all-female group "Butter Sketch Comedy", and she's also a member of "The Interlocutors", a long-form improv team. She can be seen around LA performing improv and sketch comedy at venues such as the Gary Austin stage at the Groundlings, Second City, the Pack Theater etc., as well as your zoom screens! She created Dear America with Liana Mesaikou, a late-night show where she discussed the news through the lens of a feminist immigrant living in the US. Liana loves making people laugh, because it will be the closest she’ll ever get to being a heart-surgeon. And her grand-mother always wanted her to marry one! lianascomedy.com

Kate Weinberg
The Rulemaker

Kate Weinberg is a Baltimore-bred artist and writer working primarily in ink, watercolor, and other mixed media. She's interested in exploring the interplay between language and image, human and creature, delicate and grotesque, among, of course, other things that she is not necessarily cognizant of or able to properly articulate.

Mauro Flores Jr.

Illustrator for The Jack of Fire

Originally from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, Mauro currently lives in Los Angeles. He works in television as a story producer and freelancers as a graphic designer and illustrator. Before moving to Hollywood, he worked in south Texas as a high school theater director and freelance stage director for three years. maurofloresjr.com

Matthew G. Hill

Illustrator for The New Joker

From stage to screen to the printed page, Matthew G. Hill is a storyteller by trade and by heart. He believes in the power of story and hopes to tell ones that inspire curiosity, hope, and wonder. In this pursuit, Matt works as a designer, director, illustrator, and writer. He is especially interested in creating rich evocative worlds, the intersection of technology & storytelling, and crafting works that have the power to impact the world. logicink.net

Lori Meeker

Illustrator for The King of Roses

Lori Meeker is an artist and designer from beautiful Los Angeles California. Since childhood, Lori has been painting, sewing and crafting up a storm in a multitude of mediums. She began her artistic career right out of Th LA County High School for the Arts, crafting costumes for TV and film ( The Drew Carey Show, Austin Powers, Desperate Housewives) and for theater (Long Beach Opera, Pasadena Playhouse, Eclectic Company Theater) Most notably Lori received 2 Ovation nominations for Costume Design for her work with The Rogue Artists Ensemble (Wood Boy Dog Fish, Kaidan - Walls Grow Thin). lorimeeker.com

Kate Weinberg

Illustrator for
The Queen of Blood

Kate Weinberg is a Baltimore-bred artist and writer working primarily in ink, watercolor, and other mixed media. She's interested in exploring the interplay between language and image, human and creature, delicate and grotesque, among, of course, other things that she is not necessarily cognizant of or able to properly articulate.