Jack is an Oakland based producer and designer. He’s the Director of Production for ODC and the Production Manager for the Sun Valley Music Festival in Idaho. He’s toured nationally and internationally with Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Van Anh Vo, and Flyaway Productions among many others, and is thrilled to have been a part of bringing The Forgotten Empress to Pakistan in 2017. Jack is honored to have received a 2019 Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design for Flyaway’s The Wait Room. Most recently Jack produced the feature opera film Goodbye, Mr Chips. www.jackb.info

Mr. Davel is a percussionist who combines his classical training with intimate knowledge and use of electronic music resources. Davel’s diverse career and influences range from traditional acoustic folk and classical music to the highly experimental. Davel has been a member of the Paul Dresher Ensemble’s Electro-Acoustic Band since 1999 and his also works with Dresher as part of the Dresher-Davel Invented Instrument Duo and Double Duo (a quartet).  Other notable close collaborators include Amy X Neuburg, Jack West, John Duykers, Guillermo Galindo, and Vân-Ánh Võ. He has composed and performed live for several dNaga dance productions and appeared in theater productions for The California Shakespeare Theater, West Edge Opera, and South Coast Repertory. As a mentee of electronic music pioneer Don Buchla for over 20 years, he continues the design of electronic music instruments, including continued refinement of the Buchla Marimba Lumina — Davel’s signature instrument. Davel holds a Bachelor of Music from Northern Illinois University and MFA from Mills College.

Mary is an award-winning costume designer and small business leader in the commercial photography industry. She has worked as a costume designer in the Bay Area since 2001 and her costuming has been presented at Carnegie Hall, toured internationally, and was featured on the cover of the New York Times, among other publications. She has collaborated with a number of dance companies (including ODC, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Liss Fain Dance, RAWdance, and Robert Moses' Kin, among others), as well as numerous theater and opera companies. Her collaborations with photographer RJ Muna have won recognition from American Photographic Artists and Graphis publications. Mary received a BFA in apparel design from the Rhode Island School of Design and additionally has spent years as a set tailor for clients that ranged from Vogue to Vanity Fair. In 2014, she founded a unique family of companies that serve the commercial photography industry: LuLu Artists Collective & Blackbird Tailors, representation agencies for production artists and tailors; BULA Billing, which provides accounts payables and fiduciary services; and OOTB Solutions, a production payroll company. Nicknamed "Miracle Mary" early in her career for her skill at pulling off the seemingly impossible, Mary continues to create and evoke the unimaginable through her costume designs and business ventures.

Paul Dresher is an internationally active composer noted for his ability to integrate diverse musical
influences into his own coherent style. He pursues many forms of musical expression including experimental opera/music theater, chamber and orchestral composition, live instrumental electro-acoustic music, musical instrument invention, and scores for theater and dance. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Composition in 2006-07, he has received commissions from the Library of Congress, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Spoleto Festival USA, Kronos Quartet, San Francisco Symphony, Zeitgeist, San Francisco Ballet, Seattle Chamber Players, Present Music, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Brenda Way/ODC Dance and Chamber Music America. He has performed or had his works performed throughout the world at venues including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Festival d ’Automne in Paris, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, and the Minnesota Opera. Recent works include Breathing at the Boundaries (2020), Trace Figures (2019); Crazy Eights &Fractured Symmetries, commissioned and premiered by the Berkeley Symphony in 2016, Family Matters (2014) - a duo for TwoSense - cellist Ashley Bathgate and pianist Lisa Moore, Concerto for Quadrachord & Orchestra for the Berkeley Symphony, and Two Entwined (2011) - commissioned by pianist Sarah Cahill and premiered at the Spoleto Festival USA. In 2015, Dresher entered an entirely new arena with Sound Maze, a hands-on installation of his large-scale invented musical instruments created in collaboration with Daniel Schmidt. Sound Maze, has been presented at OZ in Nashville, the Esplanade Theater in Singapore, Fort Mason in San Francisco, the Mondavi Center at UC Davis, the Napa Valley Museum, USC’s Fisher Museum, UNC Chapel Hill’s CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio and at The Doseum in San Antonio. In the fall of 2022, it will travel to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

Poet and translator Michael Palmer has lived in San Francisco since 1969. He has worked with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company since its inception and has collaborated with many visual artists and composers. His most recent collections are Little Elegies for Sister Satan (New Directions, 2021), The Laughter of the Sphinx, (New Directions, 2016), Madman With Broom (selected poems, with Chinese translations by Yunte Huang, Oxford University Press, 2011) and Thread (New Directions 2011). Among his awards, Palmer has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Fund Writer’s Award, two National Endowment for the Arts grants in poetry, the Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, and in 2006, the Wallace Stevens Prize from the Academy of American Poets.  In June of 2012 he received the Arts and Letters Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught at various universities in the United States, Europe and Asia, and his writings have been translated into more than thirty languages.