Lynn Farrington (she/her) has been a costume designer in the Twin Cities for over 30 years. After graduating from Hamline University and attending the University of Minnesota for graduate studies, she supervised professional costume shops for over a decade before becoming the resident costume designer at Macalester College until 2021. She has been a professional costume designer for many local theater companies, working extensively with the History Theater and Skylark Opera. Additionally, she has designed and built costumes for many national tours including A Christmas Carol and Forbidden Broadway. Favorite productions include Bittersweet at Skylark Opera, Fire Ball at the History Theater, and India Song at Macalester College. 

Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento (she/ela) is an artist-scholar with an interest in experimental, ensemble, and political dance and theater. She began a professional acting career while living in Brazil. In the United States, Tatinge Nascimento joined Cleveland’s New World Performance Laboratory and performed in Europe, North and South America. With NWPL, she participated in Jerzy Grotowski’s final Objective Drama Session at UC-Irvine. She received a Consulate General of Brazil in New York Arts Grant to direct Pornographic Angel, her published adaptation of Nelson Rodrigues’ short stories at The Ohio Theater. She is currently the dramaturg for Li Chiao-Ping Dance’s Here Lies the Truth, a dance piece on social inequities that has toured to Honolulu, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Las Vegas. In the Twin Cities, Tatinge Nascimento has collaborated with Exposed Brick and Playwrights’ Center. The author of After the Long Silence: The Theater of Brazil’s Post-Dictatorship Generation and Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor’s Work: Foreign Bodies of Knowledge, both from Routledge, her articles appear internationally in theater and performance studies anthologies, as well as in journals such as A[l]berto and Folhetim (Brazil), Biblioteca Teatrale (Italy), Didaskalia (Poland), Studia Dramatica (Romania), and TDR, Yale’s Theater, and Theater Research International (United States). She was a fellow at Trinity College Dublin’s Long Room Hub, Wesleyan University’s Center for the Humanities, Freie Universität-Berlin, and most recently an artist-in-residence at Caldera Arts Center. Tatinge Nascimento was a Professor of Theater at Wesleyan University before joining Macalester College as the chair of the Theater and Dance Department.