Trebien Pollard is a graduate of Florida A&M University with a BS in Mathematics Education and a MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He received training at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Florida A & M University, Florida State University, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, and from several gifted teachers and choreographers. Trebien has performed with many dance companies, including Tania Isaac Dance, Nia Love, Martha Graham Ensemble, RIOULT, Pearl Lang Dance Theatre, Rebecca Stenn Co., Erick Hawkins Dance Co., the MET (Metropolitan Opera Ballet), Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, Bebe Miller Company, Urban Bush Women and Pilobolus. He appeared in the jazz musical opera, The Hang by Taylor Mac (Librettist) and Matt Ray (Composer).
 
As a choreographer, Trebien's work has been performed throughout United States, England and Japan. He has choreographed and toured, nationally and internationally, with RASA recording artist 'Nomad'. Trebien has also choreographed William Electric Black's The Hamlet Project, The Damned: A Rock Musical and Frankenstein: The Rock Musical. He performed in and co-choreographed with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (choreographer) in the opera, The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist by Jonathan Berger (Composer) and Vievee Francis (Librettist). Trebien's most recent creative work considers interdisciplinary design, geographic sites, embodied language and spatial strategies as emancipatory practices for survival and liberation. 
 
Katie Curran, she/her (Stage Manager): Katie is thrilled to be joining the team for Vegan Chitlins. Katie is an NYC-based stage and production manager. Production Management – The Pool Plays 3.0 at 59E59 Theater (PM); 2023 Spring Concert with Flight Path Dance Company (PM); & Only Gold at MCC (PM-PA). Stage Management – Mausoleum at BAM Fisher (SM); NYC Free at Little Island (SM PA); & Continuity at Fordham University (PSM). Thanks to everyone who made this incredible show possible!
 
Rebecca Stenn is an artist living and working in New York City. Her group Rebecca Stenn Company performed to critical acclaim in over 50 cities including such venues as The Copenhagen Festival, The Edinburgh Festival, The Joyce Theater, Danspace Project, and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival among others. As a dancer with MOMIX, Stenn performed in over 30 countries and appeared as a featured performer in films for Italian, Spanish and French television. She is a founding member of Pilobolus Too. Stenn is currently on faculty at The New School and Princeton University and is Choreographer-in-Residence at Dartmouth College. Recently, Stenn started a visual arts practice as a painter and is currently represented by Agora Gallery. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in New York City, London, Milan, Venice and Lisbon and at art fairs in Miami, NYC and South Hampton. She is honored and delighted to have the chance to collaborate, once again, with her dear friend and esteemed colleague, Trebien Pollard.
 
Amara McNeil is a New York-based, Hartford-raised, theatrical lighting designer and filmmaker.  She holds a B.A. in Theater from Fordham University and was the 2023 Howell Binkley Fellow as well as 2019 ALW American Theater Wing Scholar. As a visual storyteller, she aims to create an immersive experience for the audience, using vibrant colors and dynamic angles to bring texture to the stage. She enjoys work created for and by the black community and projects that push the boundaries of what we can imagine to be real. 
 
Credits include Broadway: Come From Away 2nd Nat Tour (Asst. LD), The Wiz Pre-Broadway Tour (HBB Fellow), Once Upon A One More Time (LD Intern), Parade (LD Intern); Regional: Hair (Assoc. LD), The Untitled, Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical (ALD); Fordham: La Cocina (LD), The Nether (Dir. of Photography), Enterprise (Asst. Dir. of Cinematography),  My Papier Mache Monster (LD), Hand to God (LD) ;  Barnard: Fedra (LD) Film: A Thousand and One (Art Dept. PA), Condé Nast (PA), Big Think (Grip); PPAS: And A Child Shall Lead (LD), Indecent (LD), Roe (LD).
 
Will Rossiter is a New York based lighting designer, programmer, and electrician.  Recent programming credits include Artificial Flavors and The Pool Plays 3.0, both at 59e59 Theatres.  Thanks to Amara, Trebien, and Katie for making this a wonderful process.
 
Jay Weissman, Soundview Studios; contributed incidental sound design, audio recording and music composition for this performance. Jay is thrilled and always honored to work with Trebien, a treasured collaboration well into its fourth decade.