Matthew Crawford is a local DMV actor, teaching artist, and fight choreographer. He has been a member of the Maryland Renaissance Festival acting company since 2018. Other regional Shakespeare performance credits include Macbeth (x2), Hamlet (x2), Romeo & Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V, and traveling three-actor versions of both A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth; not to mention numerous Shakespeare contemporaries, modern plays, and musicals (including children’s theatre). He continues his own education as a SAFD certified Advanced Actor Combatant via numerous stage combat classes and workshops. He is the Theatre Adjunct for PGCPS' VPA program, a standardized patient, and has worked as a teaching artist with Signature Theatre, Imagination stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Baltimore Shakespeare Factory, and Compass Rose Theater.

Emily Karol is an actor, director, and teaching artist in the DC/Baltimore metro area. She has been a teaching artist with Chesapeake Shakespeare Company since 2015. She has performed with CSC in A Christmas Carol, Romeo & Juliet (student matinee) and Love's Labour's Lost. Emily works for AACPS as an acting teacher with the magnet program of Apex Arts. She is also an acting company member and Shakespeare Text Coach for the Maryland Renaissance Festival. Emily recently won Best Stage Actor in The Baltimore Sun’s “Best of 2023” competition for her performance as the titular character in Shakespeare’s Richard III at the Maryland Renaissance Festival and The Strand Theatre in Baltimore.