(she/hers) is an interdisciplinary artist, organizer, & proud native New Yorker. She is the founding producer of KALIDASCOPES Media– an award-winning collective that lends itself to stories that inspire new perspectives on ourselves, on others, & the world(s) unknown. In response to Roe vs. Wade, Alida enacted SUMMER OF RAGE– a performance slam & fundraising event for The National Network of Abortion Funds. The Rehearsal web-series (writer/dir Jaclyn Bethany) received the NY Web Festival Producers Award, including the 2020 Daytime Emmy for Tina Benko’s performance, plus seven Indie Series Award nominations. Alida has performed/developed work in part with the 92Y, Acme Brooklyn, American Irish Historical Society, Beth Morrison Projects, Broadway Bound Festival, Dixon Place, Hylton Performing Arts Center, Invulnerable Nothings (Barn Lab), Mercury Store, MoMA PS1, NYPL, New Ohio (Ice Factory), New York Deaf Theatre, Queens Museum, SoHo Playhouse (Fringe Festival), The Muse Brooklyn, director Hussein Hammouda (Knives Out), María Herrera López (Goya; BAFTA Newcomer), Pedro Tamames (recipient Madrids Young Talent), and Kim Wield (Drama Desk nom). At AllInOne Collective, she is part of the core team fighting to shift the housing crisis, by repurposing vacant and/or historical properties for residential & commercial use. Alida is the recipient of the Queens Borough award for the NYS Pavilion competition (featured in the Wall Street Journal & exhibited at the Queens Museum). Alida is a graduate from Marymount Manhattan College & is repped by KMR. @kalidascopes.

(she/hers) is a playwright, actor, director, and deviser. As an actor, Sophie has worked with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Off the Grid Theatre Company, and Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, among others; and her solo work, the orange, was presented at New York Theatre Workshop and Poetic Theatre’s Open Salon. She recently co-directed and starred in a multimedia production of The Last Five Years in St. Petersburg, FL (streaming across North America). Her plays include: galatea 2.0 (Invulnerable Nothings Barn Lab, Mercury Store workshop), the dance (Princess Grace Award semifinalist, National Playwright’s Conference longlist, Nervous Theatre Developmental Lab), and how would you like me to atone?  (National Theatre School of Canada reading).