Omer Abbas Salem (he/they) is an actor and playwright. As an actor, they've worked at Roundabout Theatre, Atlantic Theatre, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Goodman, Steep Theatre, Jackalope Theatre, Silk Road Rising, First Floor Theatre, The New Coordinates, About Face Theatre, Griffin Theatre, and The Second City. As a playwright, their work has been produced at The Goodman, Steppenwolf Theatre, About Face Theatre, Steep Theatre, First Floor Theatre, Jackalope Theatre, The New Coordinates, The Story Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, National Queer Theatre, Definition Theatre, and The Theatre School of DePaul. They are a member of the 2021/22 Goodman Playwrights Unit and had a play developed in The Goodman’s New Stages Festival in 2022. They are the winner of the 2022 Blueprint Commission winner from First Floor recipient of the 2021 Cunningham Commission from DePaul University. They were given an Emerging Playwright Commission from Audible Theater and are also the most recent recipient of the Edgerton Commission at Steppenwolf Theater. They also won the 2022 3Arts Award in Theater. They will have World Premieres produced in this upcoming season with Steep Theatre, First Floor Theatre, and The Theatre School at DePaul. They are an ensemble member of Steep Theatre, First Floor Theater, and The New Coordinates. They graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and the University of Chicago. They are represented by Gray Talent and the Gersh Agency. Find out more at www.omerabbassalem.com.

Nadya Naumaan (they/she) is a Pakistani-American nonbinary queer Muslim artist, working in theater and filmmaking in Chicago over the last 6 years as a director/associate director,   dramaturg, producer, scriptwriter, playwright, stage manager, and actor. Previous credits include the Steppenwolf SCOUT iteration and About Face Theatre production of Mosque4Mosque (AD), Jackalope's Pretty Shahid (Dramaturg/AD), Court Theatre's Photograph 51 (AD), ITP’s I Call My Brothers (Dramaturg), and New Coordinates' Love in the Time of Jonestown (AD). Nadya's short film STUCK was a finalist in The Mosquers Film Festival in 2019 and was screened at 8 other film festivals. Their webseries, Pooj&Nad, was a finalist at the same festival in 2022. They just completed their short film, A Simple Ask, which will be screened in Chicago soon. Nadya is thrilled to be working with First Floor Theater after many years of admiring their work.