Neher Jaqueline Briceño is an actor/director who has worked at Teatro Avante since 1997. In her native Venezuela, she worked extensively with children. Recently she has acted in Teatro Avante’s productions, La feria de los inventos, El vuelo del Quijote, El filantropo and Una Tempestad. She is the winner of the Spanish playwriting award “Maria Teresa Leon–2005.”

Zaida Castellanos was born in Cuba and holds a degree in the Performing Arts. She taught acting and worked as a Theatre Director in Venezuela for nine years. Zaida is a well known actress, and has performed in theatre, film and television.

Angel Cuadra was born in Cuba and has lived in the US since 1985. Besides teaching theatre, he is a poet who has published the books Peldaño, Impromptus, Tiempo del hombre, Esa tristeza que nos inunda, Fantasia para el viernes, Las señales y los sueños, Requiem violento por Jan Palach, La voz inevitable, Diez Sonetos Ocultos, De los resumenes y el tiempo, and others. Cuadra writes for Diario las Americas.

Jorge Hernandez has been an actor of theatre and television since 1986. He has appeared in many productions and theatre festivals, and was the founder of the theatre group BUSCON in his native Cuba. He graduated from El Instituto Superior de Arte de La Habana with a Theatre and Music Arts degree.

Beatriz J. Rizk was born in Bogotá, Colombia. She attended New York University, and received her Ph.D. from the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY, N.Y. She is a professor, critic, promoter and theatre researcher, and co-founder and director of ATINT (Asociación de Trabajadores e Investigadores del Nuevo Teatro) She has published more than a hundred articles on Latino and Latin American theatre.

Vivian Ruiz is an experienced actress in theatre, radio and television in both English and Spanish.  She has participated in over 30 theatre productions, in various telenovelas with Telemundo and Univision, as well as a webnovela, "Mi Adorada Malena" presented through Univision.com. Vivian also had part in "Miami Sands", the first "American" soap opera filmed in Miami, and was a guest star on "Miami Vice", "Unsolved Mysteries" and "America’s Most Wanted".

Lilliam Vega was born in Cuba. She graduated from that city’s Higher Arts Insititute with a degree in Performing Arts and began her artistic career with the company Grupo Teatro Buendía. Since 1996, the director and actress has lived in Miami and worked with Teatro Avante. She is one of the coordinators of the International Hispanic Theatre Festival and International Children’s Day presented by Teatro Avante. For the last few years she has taught theatre to children and teens at Prometeo.

Joann María Yarrow was born in Colombia and directs, choreographs, and produces theater and film around the world. She is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab West, the Directors Collective of L.A. and co-founder of A Laboratory for Actor Training. She trained with the Odin Teatret in Denmark, and has her M.F.A. in directing from the University of California. She joins Prometeo Theater from New York.