Emily Borrero is a sculptor, performer, and storyteller whose multidisciplinary practice moves between sculpture, performance, and community-centered installation, exploring Black, queer, and femme identity through acts of care, ritual, and everyday labor. As a Production Apprentice, Emily supports programming that centers youth leadership, creative innovation, and community engagement. Her recent contributions to Beyond the Algorithm: New Voices in AI and AR and MLK Young Changemakers: Feeding Our Future reflect her dedication to art as a social connector and catalyst for storytelling. She is also part of the MCC Theater AMBIES Ambassador cohort, where she continues to develop her voice as a performer and collaborator in projects that merge theater, poetry, and visual art. She has performed in In the Bronx Brown Girls Can See Stars Too by Amalio Oliva Rojas, a work celebrating girlhood, imagination, and love in the Bronx. She is currently pursuing a B.A. in Studio Art at CUNY Hunter College with a focus in sculpture. Emily’s work honors tenderness as resistance and reimagines community as both muse and material.

Kamau Nosakhere (any pronouns) is a Florida-born, Barbadian, New York-based actor and writer.  A recent graduate of Fordham University, Kamau holds a double major in Theatre (Performance) and English with a concentration in Creative Writing.  He prioritizes bringing a very respectful, cooperative mindset to every process of which he is a part.  As someone who has worked in many different facets of the theatrical world, he is very flexible when it comes to the spaces in which he works and operates. Additionally, because of the collaborative nature of his education, he is very comfortable communicating with others with different positions or backgrounds.  As an actor, he longs to see what aspect of the world he can impact and allow to evolve through his life on stage.  He hopes to bring the audience along with him on that journey as much as possible.  His credits include: Regional Theatre: Sunday In Sodom/Parsifal (Isaac/Ostrich), Cabaret (Male Ensemble Swing). New York Theatre: Frankenstein (Henry), Troilus and Cressida (Hector), Who’d Love Lucy? (Lover 2). Fordham Mainstage: Kentucky (Adam), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Flute/Egeus/Mustardseed), Aulis (Achilles). Fordham Studio: And This Is Where We (Jules), Jump (Dad), Constructed Realities (Devised). As a writer, he aims to tell stories that manifest a dreamlike version of the world in which we live.  His works are a communal offering to the audience; they work to subvert and reimagine the audience’s shared reality by creating safe, attainable utopias.  As a Black, genderqueer artist, Kamau centers the experiences of people of marginalized backgrounds and tells their stories through his words.  Staged readings of his works include: Pop (Fordham University Collaboration Festival), Pale, Purple, Moon (Fordham University Collaboration Festival), And Why Not Death (Fordham University Collaboration Festival), Slay the Dragon They Said (Under St. Marks Theatre), A Place Like This (Under St. Marks Theatre), and Write Me (Under St. Marks Theatre, Co-written with Isabella Acuña).  His poetry and short stories have also been published in Fordham University magazine, The Comma.  As he continues to grow and develop as an artist, Kamau is excited to explore taking his writing from staged readings to more full-scale productions.

Zoé Zifer is an actress, producer, director, and lover of multidisciplinary art. Across mediums, she focuses on cultivating intersectional work that is deeply authentic and rooted in community. Inspired by her lived culture and rooted culture, Zoé is specifically passionate about multimedia theater and interactive live events that uplift and showcase the North African/Middle Eastern diaspora. As she continues in her career as artist and theater-maker, her goal is to highlight these often unrepresented stories by curating fully immersive events that are a true intersectional crossroad; combining history with practice, ancestors with diaspora, visual-art with song, and involving all the senses to learn and engage with the beauty in these specific communities. Zoé is from Columbus, Ohio and obtained her BFA in Dramatic Arts from The New School, with a concentration in acting. Over the course of her training, she grew passionate about developing the intersectional stories she enjoyed expressing on stage. She wrote, produced, and directed a reimagining of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451; set in the modern day to exemplify the use of technology for censorship and revolution in relation to the Palestinian cause. Most notably, Zoé received the Best Director and Best Production awards from the New York Theater Festival ‘25 for new play, Archive Of My Own, by Annabel McConnachie, which takes a satirical look at a young woman’s struggle to reconcile with media’s problematic romantic expectations and real-world intimacy. Currently, apart from her apprenticeship work on MLK Young Changemakers: TLDR, Zoé is directing two new plays and acting with Engage Playwright’s Lab new-work workshop to production process.