Elaine Vaan Hogue (Julia Ward Howe) is an actor, director, teacher, and producer. Originally from Los Angeles she has performed, directed, and taught in diverse settings across the country. Elaine is a fervent member of The Magdalena Project, a dynamic international cross-cultural and cross-generational network of women in contemporary theatre. In 2022 she was a performer in Daughter directed by Jill Greenhalgh as part of the Magdalena International Festival hosted by Double Edge Theatre, a gathering of worldwide women, non-binary, and trans artists. She co-founded the Gypsy Mamas Artist Group, a laboratory sustaining adventurous creative exploration and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration in the creation of new work. Projects include The Future of Ice, Creation: Mythic Weavings, and When Jennie Goes Marching. Elaine has performed and directed at many theatres including THT Rep, New Repertory Theatre, Central Square Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Boston Center for American Performance, Arts After Hours, Bridge Repertory Theatre, Wheelock Family Theatre, Double Edge Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, New Theatre, American Theatre Arts. She is a Professor Emerita at Boston University where she taught acting and directing for 25 years. Elaine is thrilled to be touring Representation and How to Get It to historic venues throughout New England. www.representationtheplay.com

Joyce Van Dyke (Playwright) Joyce Van Dyke’s solo show, Representation and How to Get It, was developed in collaboration with actor Elaine Vaan Hogue and director Judy Braha. It was performed in New York and numerous historic New England venues in 2022. Joyce’s other plays include Daybreak (Off-Broadway premiere, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre), The Women Who Mapped the Stars (commissioned and produced by Central Square Theater), The Oil Thief (commissioned by Ensemble Studio Theatre / Sloan Project, produced by Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, winner of the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script), and A Girl’s War (produced by Golden Thread Productions, New Repertory Theatre, and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, winner of the Gassner Award and Boston Globe’s “Top Ten” plays of the year.) Her plays have been anthologized in 100 Plays to Save the World; Contemporary Armenian American Drama; and Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays. She is a MacDowell Fellow and Huntington Playwriting Fellow, and has taught Shakespeare and playwriting for many years at Harvard Extension School. www.joycevandyke.com

Judy Braha (Director) has been a director, actor, teacher and arts activist for over four decades. Long-time Head of the M.F.A. Directing Program at Boston University her credits include theaters and universities throughout New England. Judy is now Associate Artistic Director at GBPT in the beautiful Berkshires. She proudly works with the BU Prison Arts Project focused on the arts and social justice. https://judybraha.squarespace.com/