RISK HALLELUJAH 

WRITER - COMPOSER

(they/he) is a Trans faggot theater director, writer-composer, and community minister: T4T, Tree4Tree, and in the mood to compost empire with you. Recent theater work: Director of Rent (NYU/Tisch Mainstage), Composer/MD for Light Shining In Buckinghamshire (NYTW) w/director Rachel Chavkin, Co-Director of Diana Oh’s {my lingerie play}: THE CONCERT AND CALL TO ARMS!!!!!!!!! (Rattlestick), and Music Supervisor / Contributing Composer of the TEAM’s Primer For a Failed Superpower. They studied Theater at NYU-Tisch and Justice Ministries at Auburn Seminary, and they were a founding member of Alt*Div with a focus on conflict transformation as spiritual practice. They are who they are because of the communities and individuals who have loved them into being and listened them into fullness. You can learn more about their work-love and lineages at: www.orionjohnstone.com

DIRECTOR

has been performing, composing and conducting for over 30 years. Recent projects include: SPUNK by Zora Neale Hurston directed by Tamilla Woodard at Yale Repertory Theatre in Fall 2025 (Composer, Arranger, and Music Supervisor), the original Spring 2025 Theater Production with Stew Stewart, Brisa Areli Muñoz, and the Theater, Dance and Media students at Harvard University (Arranger, Music Director, and Music Supervisor), ; and Brick by Brick (Composer) with Ross Wade. Projects in development include: Love Out of Time (Composer + Librettist) a queer Bible-based Afrofuturist opera, Triple Threats (Composer) with Tracey Conyer Lee, RISK HALLELUJAH (Director) with Orion Johnstone, Brick by Brick (Composer) with Ross Wade, and A Burning Church (Composer) with Zhailon Levingston and Alex Hare. Nehemiah is the Founder/Chief Dreaming Officer of Dreaming The Future Together and a member of ASMAC, ASCAP, and The Dramatist Guild. He currently lives in the Bronx with his husband and a variety of plants. Visit NehemiahLuckett.com for more info.

CREATIVE PRODUCER

Born in Bogotá, then adopted, MATTHEW B. CULLEN (he/they, él/elle) is a theatre director and creative producer now based in East Harlem. They are building a set of artistic, business, and management skills so that they may one day be a co-artistic director of a theatre company that develops new works at all stages. The goal is to cultivate a community of administrators, artists, and audiences alike around a process-focused practice. Broadway: Buena Vista Social Club. Off Broadway: Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theatre, En Garde Arts, Repertorio Español, 59e59. Other: Theater J, the Apollo, Musical Theatre Factory, New Dramatists, the Tank, 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, Downtown Urban Arts Festival, Chautauqua Theater Company, Golden Thread, the Kennedy Center’s Directing Intensive, Wingspace Theatrical Design’s Mentorship program, Lin-Manuel Miranda Family Fellowship. Matthew is the Executive Producer at mbc theatrical r&d, pursuing a process-focused practice. He is an Associate Member of SDC and a lover of blueberries. matthewbcullen.com

COMMS x COMMUNITY LEAD

is a Black, queer producer and cultural strategist working bi-coastally between New York and Los Angeles. She is the Producing Artistic Director at the Tony Award-winning Broadway Advocacy Coalition, where she leads national programs, public convenings, and artist-centered initiatives that position creative practice as a force for justice and civic engagement. Her producing work spans live performance, digital convenings, and civic experiences, including DEMO Festival, Theater of Change at Columbia Law School, and Broadway Advocacy Coalition’s Night of Artivism. During the 2020 uprisings, she produced Broadway for Black Lives Matter, a three-day digital convening that reached more than 10,000 viewers and received a Webby Awards honor. Dria is the founder of The Creative Doula Studio, where she advances care-centered, process-driven creative leadership and produces work rooted in justice, connection, and lasting impact.

RECORDING ENGINEER

Joshua Dumas (he/they) is a Brooklyn-based musician and new media artist exploring social and ecological justice across dance, theatre, video, broadcast, and sound. He performs in Mending with Kate Adams, solo as Tired Circuits, and produces "Bad at Goodbyes" – a podcast about endangered species. Recent credits include "seapony" at Dixon Place, "Love You More" at the Tank, "RISK HALLELUJAH First Drafts EP" engineering, "You Must Wear a Hat" with the Interstitial at TheaterLab, "La Musica Deuxième" at Torn Page, and "Four Studies" at PS122.