Marike Splint (concept, text, voice) is a Dutch French-Tunisian theater maker based in Los Angeles on Tongva/Kizh land, specializing in creating work in public space that explores the relationship between people, places and identity. Her works You Are Here and Among Us have been presented as part of previous WOW programming. Other presenters and commissioners of her original work include Center Theater Group, UCLA Center for the Art of Performance, Skirball Cultural Center LA, Oerol Festival, Theaterfestival Boulevard (The Netherlands); Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires; Anciens Abattoirs de Casablanca (Morocco). Marike received her M.F.A. in directing from Columbia University and currently serves as an Associate Professor
in the Department of Theater at UCLA.
Jonathan Snipes (Original Music, Sound Design and Implementation) is a Los Angeles-based composer and sound designer. He teaches theater sound design at UCLA and is a member of the rap group clipping.
Stewart Blackwood (App Developer and Technical Sound Design) is a composer, sound designer, and creative coder. He is an Assistant Professor of Composition and Sound Design at Carnegie Mellon University. Places his work has been shown/heard: Center Theatre Group, Cleveland Play House, Island Shakespeare Festival, Cygnet Theater, Pennsylvania State University, Hangar Theatre, Black Lives Black Words, Maelstrom Collaborative Arts, Factory of Terror, Rubber City Theater, Black Squirrel Radio. He holds an MFA from UC San Diego in Sound Design and Technology.
Cristina Bercovitz (App User Interface and Visual Design) is an artist, sculptor and puppeteer from Los Angeles. She also makes a nice little Instagram comic @sortaroundy.
Kaileykielle Hoga (Additional Sound Design and Implementation) is an Undergraduate Student at the University of California San Diego in Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts for Music Technology with a minor in Theater, studying how spatialized audio supports immersive storytelling. She currently spends most of her time sound designing performances on campus, working as an audio/visual technician at the University Center, and researching in the Audio Spatialization Lab at the Qualcomm Institute.