The Creators
Kate Hawkes
Tricia Castañeda-Guevara (Cultural Consultant)
Kate Hawkes
Originally from Australia, Kate is a freelance theatre professional who has worked in all aspects of theatre for over 40 years. As well as working in live theatre, she taught in the theatre department of a liberal arts college for 18 years and developed a storytelling/performance people living with trauma and chronic illness. A playwrig
Originally from Australia, Kate is a freelance theatre professional who has worked in all aspects of theatre for over 40 years. As well as working in live theatre, she taught in the theatre department of a liberal arts college for 18 years and developed a storytelling/performance people living with trauma and chronic illness. A playwright/screenwriter, her work includes Loplop and the Queen about Surrealist artists Max` Ernst and Dorothea Tanning; the award-winning Sky…Diamonds, exploring a family’s experience of Alzheimer’s andUngodly Behavior, a retelling of the Demeter/Persephone story. Kate has an unerring instinct and decades of experience in using the performing arts to bring people together in ways that surprise, delight and empower, inspiring community and building bridges. www.wellnesswithkate.com
Dev Ross
Tricia Castañeda-Guevara (Cultural Consultant)
Kate Hawkes
Currently a series wrier for Baboon Ent. Dev is an Emmy and Humanitas winner, and a live action and animation screenwriter in television and film. Work experience includes writing for Disney, Universal, Amazon Studio, Mattel, Scholastic, FOX-KIDS, HIT Entertainment, and Cloud-co. Other skills include: Script doctor, story editor, story an
Currently a series wrier for Baboon Ent. Dev is an Emmy and Humanitas winner, and a live action and animation screenwriter in television and film. Work experience includes writing for Disney, Universal, Amazon Studio, Mattel, Scholastic, FOX-KIDS, HIT Entertainment, and Cloud-co. Other skills include: Script doctor, story editor, story analyst and IP developer. Three years working in South Korea with 3D CGI production companies. In 2019 served as Head Writer for Guangzhou Sunboy Animation and Toy Co. and developed their first female-driven show and was a series writer, co-story editor on the New Generation of The Care Bears. Currently producing my live action WEird Detention.
Crystal Manich
Tricia Castañeda-Guevara (Cultural Consultant)
Tricia Castañeda-Guevara (Cultural Consultant)
Crystal Manich is a Latiné multilingual creative leader and manager in the arts dedicated to making vibrant entertainment and cultural experiences. Represented by UTA. Credits include: over 85 international stage and circus productions; librettist for two upcoming world premiere works for stage; feature film THE COPPER QUEEN winner Best F
Crystal Manich is a Latiné multilingual creative leader and manager in the arts dedicated to making vibrant entertainment and cultural experiences. Represented by UTA. Credits include: over 85 international stage and circus productions; librettist for two upcoming world premiere works for stage; feature film THE COPPER QUEEN winner Best First Time Female Filmmaker 2021 Toronto International Women Film Festival; 2021 Regional Chicago Emmy Award nominee as director and co-producer for the multicam livestream of La Hija de Rappaccini at Chicago Opera Theater. National Association of Latino Independent Producers Latino Lens Workshop Fellow 2020; National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Leadership Institute Fellow. Carnegie Mellon University alumna. https://www.crystalmanich.com/
Tricia Castañeda-Guevara (Cultural Consultant)
Tricia Castañeda-Guevara (Cultural Consultant)
Tricia Castañeda-Guevara (Cultural Consultant)
Tricia is Chicana actor and teaching artist in the PNW, originally hailing from Los Angeles, CA. She is a proud graduate of the University of Washington’s M.F.A. program as well as the International Stunt School in Seattle, WA and Linfield University with a B.A. in Theatre Arts. She is represented by TCM Talent Agency in Seattle, Washingt
Tricia is Chicana actor and teaching artist in the PNW, originally hailing from Los Angeles, CA. She is a proud graduate of the University of Washington’s M.F.A. program as well as the International Stunt School in Seattle, WA and Linfield University with a B.A. in Theatre Arts. She is represented by TCM Talent Agency in Seattle, Washington. Tricia is fiercely passionate about utilizing the art of story telling as a means of accessibility, healing and transformation. Through cultural consultation and performance she is eager to see herself and the Chicano experience accurately and authentically represented in the arts. Passion projects include but are not limited to performance in Romeo y Julieta with Seattle Shakespeare Company, Xmas Cuento Remix, B'aktun 13, The Play You Want, and Corrido Calavera with Milagro Theatre! On screen, she appears in the film This Land Is, by Bunnie Rivera premiering March 2024.
