Mat Smart has written 27 full-length plays that have been produced around the United States. Upcoming in Fall 2026: A Black-billed Cuckoo, World Premiere at La Jolla Playhouse directed by Shelley Butler. He is currently writing an original screenplay for Taylor Sheridan, Bosque Ranch Productions, and Range Media Partners. Mat is also collaborating with the folk rock band Delta Rae (“Bottom of the River”) on a new Southern Gothic musical called The Ninth Woman with Logan Vaughn directing and P3 producing. Select productions include: The Agitators (premiered at Geva, more than 20 productions since), The Royal Society of Antarctica (Gift Theatre, recipient of the Jeff Award for Best New Work in Chicago), Eden Prairie, 1971 (National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere, Riverside Theatre; New Jersey Rep; BETC), Samuel J. and K. (Williamstown Theatre Festival; Steppenwolf), Tinker to Evers to Chance (Geva; Merrimack Rep), The 13 th of Paris (City Theatre), and The Hopper Collection (Huntington; Magic). His newest play, The Last Nun at Lake Leaf Monastery, will be developed at the prestigious National Playwrights Conference at the O’Neill, directed by Jaime Castañeda. An avid traveler and baseball fan, Mat has been to all of the states, all of the continents, and all of the current MLB stadiums. Undergrad: University of Evansville. MFA: UCSD.

Liza Anne is the artist project of songwriter, musician and poet, Liza Odachowski, from South Georgia. Their work is a harmonious cacophony, bending through genres and building landscapes of sound and poetry which burst into a frenetic charge with each performance. Liza’s artistry has been praised by Stereogum as a ‘celebration of change’ and by PAPER Magazine as the ‘exciting space between the worlds of pop and punk and alternative rock’. Their work has received critical acclaim for its signature ability to articulate the intricacy of a feeling until you are feeling it in your own body — after growing up a closeted lesbian in the Bible Belt of Southern Georgia, Liza grew a vibrant inner world that has turned into decades worth of poetry and reflection, spanning all the ways back to journals, poems and outlines of songs that they began at 8 years old. This constant posture towards emotional excavation and self reflection, paired with their signature songwriting and production has fueled five studio albums and over a decade of touring. Liza currently lives in Paris, France with their wife and two cats. They are currently finishing their forthcoming album (release TBD), their first collection of poetry and preparing for the world premiere of the musical Kill Local which is soundtracked by Liza’s catalogue of music. The musical features songs from their 2018 critically acclaimed release ‘Fine But Dying’ and a handful of songs from the forthcoming record that have never been performed.