Samantha Martinson (she/her/hers) is a Milwaukee theater artist and educator. She is the Education Associate at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, where she facilitates playwriting residencies in high schools across the greater Milwaukee area and assistant produces their Young Playwrights Festival. Samantha serves as the Manager of Innovation & Engagement with the Zoological Society of Milwaukee, focusing on community partnerships and the connectedness between science and empathy. Regionally, she has worked with Renaissance Theaterworks, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, First Stage Children's Theater, Door Shakespeare, and Mad Rogues.
For more information: samanthamartinson.com.

Nadja Simmonds (she/her) is a Milwaukee actor and teaching artist. Originally hailing from Cincinnati, Nadja moved to Milwaukee and received her theater arts degree from Marquette University. Since graduating, she has been seen on stage all throughout Wisconsin. Regional credits include Matilda (Children's Theater of Madison), Mary Jane (Forward Theater), Romeo and Juliet and Comedy of Errors (Summit Players Theatre), Boxcar and Muskie Love (Northern Sky Theater), Locomotion (First Stage) and various productions with Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's Young Playwrights Festival. Favorite roles include Alex in On the Verge, Pilot in Grounded, Tommy in Wine in the Wilderness, and Celia in As You Like It. Nadja is currently an Acting Emerging Professional Resident with the Milwaukee Repertory Theater through the end of the 19/20 season. She has also served as a teaching artist with both First Stage Children's Theater and the Summit Players. For more information: nadjasimmonds.com

Maggie Marks (she/her) is an actor/artist a mother of two and a wife.  She has been an artist in some form her whole life.  She grew up in a family of artists; both parents and her four brothers are artists.  Her father, a comic book artist, (magician, theologian, and engineer) taught drawing classes out of their house; of which she would attend.  Her mother a fiber artist, worked as a weaver and a seamstress, and now focuses on knitting.  They both shared and taught their love and appreciation for the arts. Growing up there were endless art projects going of various types at all times. Maggie went to Skidmore College and has a degree in both Theater and Spanish.  She has trained in many places as well as BADA in Oxford.  She has been an actress for 20 plus years with a break in between to focus on raising her children.  During which time she was a board member of the Shorewood Library and did intermittent commercial work.  Most recently she returned to the stage and has been involved with several different Theater companies including: Mad Rogues, Cardinal Stritch, Sunset Playhouse, Renaissance Theaterworks, and First Stage Children’s Theater.