Some like it hot and the multi-hyphenate emerging performer Lauren Smith knows how to bring the heat! Originally hailing from Tarzana, California and moving across the country to grow up bracing the cold winters of Connecticut, Smith has already lived an exciting life. The bonafide triple threat grew up experiencing different cultures in her adolescence (She herself is Bahamian!) which has informed her as a singer, dancer, and actress, but also as a student of life and a proud alumna of Howard University’s Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts

Christina Ham has seen it all. This LA-based writer has worked doubly in the ever-changing theater industry and in the writers’ rooms of some of Hollywood’s highly-acclaimed television series. Christina has nurtured the skill of storytelling so much that her artistry has extended beyond the page and informs her work in advocacy as a member of The Kilroys.