Brian "Dyalekt" Kushner
Founder & Tour Guide
Brian ‘Dyalekt’ Kushner moved from St. Croix to New York to study acting and law. He also liked to rap. After witnessing civil rights injustices at the law firm he worked for, he dropped both the job and the law classes, pursuing the arts instead. Performances at the Nuyorican led him to Hip Hop Theater, writing plays that have been performed on stages across the world. He didn’t sleep on the rapping either, releasing music and touring internationally. His first album/one man play …
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Pamela Capalad
Producer & Dramaturg
Pamela Capalad is a Certified Financial Planner™ and Accredited Financial Counselor™ and has been in the financial services industry since 2008. She founded Brunch & Budget to help people who felt ashamed or embarrassed about money have a safe and friendly place to talk about it and make real financial progress. Her mission is to make financial planning as affordable as possible for the communities who need it most. She co-hosts the Brunch & Budget podcast and co-founded …
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Andrew J. Scoville
Director & Curator of Empathy
Andrew Scoville is a theater director specializing in immersive layouts and hybrid-genre theater-making. He is currently directing Theater of the Mind by David Byrne and Mala Goankar, premiering with Denver Center of the Performing arts in the summer of 2020. Previous credits include The Brobot Johnson Experience (Bushwick Starr, NYTimes Critics Pick), Escape the Planet (NY Hall of Science commission with astronomer Moiya McTier), …
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Kristen Crouch
Art director & curator of aesthetic + experience
Kristen Crouch (b. 1991) received a BFA in photography with a minor in sculpture from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Savannah, GA (2014). She has had solo exhibitions in Savannah (I Will Live On [2014]) and her hometown of Wilmington (Landscape and Memory [2018], a collaboration with LOCAL: Art + Ideas). She has also organized exhibitions in Wilmington, including Full Frontal (2017). Omni (2016), and Thirty Under 30: An International Young Artist Group Exhibition (2015) …
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