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Elizabeth Bojsza is currently a facilitator and lead curriculum designer for the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science - which offers experiential communication training for healthcare professionsals - at Stony Brook University where she has been on the faculty for over two decades. She applies the skills she honed as a theater artist - she has a Master Of Fine Arts In Theater - to designing curricula and facilitating experiential learning for scientists andhealthcare professionals. She also worked professionally as a literary manager, running the Young Playwrights Inc. playwriting competitions from 2008-2013. She is the program director for the Academy of Civic Life , a pre-college program for local high school students to earn Stony Brook University college credit learning about democracy and civic engagement. Ms. Bojsza served Suffolk County, NY as a human rights commissioner, and is currently the Vice Chair of the Board for Stony Brook Child Care.

Calvin Cato is a comedian and storyteller who is onstage every night of the week in comedy clubs, theaters and private events. Named one of Time Out New York’s LGBTQ Comics of Color to Watch Out For, his on-air and radio appearances include Oxygen, Netflix, Sirius XM, RISK!, WIRED Magazine, and an unaired pilot for Vice Media called Emergency Black Meeting. Read about all of his current appearances on this link. He has been featured in San Francisco Sketchfest, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Gotham Storytelling Festival, Brooklyn Pride, and FlameCon and many more. In early 2021, Calvin was published in Kweendom, an anthology of essays by queer comedians and entertainers.

Rita Rigano is a storyteller, educator, and improviser. She was recently featured on The Story Collider, TALE, Generation Women, Bloomingdales Women's History Month tribute, several prior appearances on (mostly) TRUE THINGS, and many other shows around the metropolitan area. Favorite venues are QED in Astoria and Caveat in Manhattan. For many years Rita was Adjunct Faculty at Yeshiva University, teaching Presentation Skills and Business Communication. She was a regular on the long-running Sunday Night Improv Jam at Stand Up NY.

Deborah Singer is a psychotherapist with 30 years of experience helping individuals and families navigate the challenges of mental health, substance abuse, and relationships. For the past decade, her focus has been couples therapy, where she brings deep compassion and insight as a Certified Gottman Couples Therapist. Outside the therapy room, she finds joy and creative release through the world of performance, through dance, improv classes, and performing in a sketch comedy show at The Magnet Theater in New York City. At the heart of everything is her family. She is married and the proud parent of three beautiful adult children who continue to inspire and ground her every day.