Brady Brophy-Hilton (she/her) is a queer theater director, producer and company member at Shotgun Players. She has worked with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Shotgun Players, Crowded Fire, Capital Stage, Playwrights Foundation, All Terrain Theater, Book-It Repertory Theater and Z Space. She holds a BFA in Original Works from Cornish College of the Arts. She recently directed the zoom production of Quack by Eliza Clark at Shotgun Players. Her passion is developing new work and creating opportunities for emerging theater artists.

Brady’s FLT History: Creative Producer for the last FaultLine show, Caveman Play

Ciera Eis (she/hers) is a theater director, producer, and performer. As an artist, she is interested in socio-political new work and experimenting with the breaking of space and form in theater. She most recently directed The Official Unicorn Hunters' Guide which won Best in Show in Shortlived VIII. Ciera has assistant directed and aided in new play development at companies such as A.C.T., Magic Theatre, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory, CustomMade Theater, and PianoFight. She is the creative producer of Pint-Sized Plays at PianoFight, has line-produced for Virgin Play Festival at Magic Theatre, and is the New Works Producer at Custom Made Theatre Company. In her not so free time, she is an SDCF Observer and the Manager of Individual Giving at Magic Theatre. She has a double BA in Theatre Arts (Directing) and Psychology from University of California, Santa Cruz.

Ciera’s FLT History: Acted in Vanessa Flores’ Where the Boys Are

Vanessa Flores (she/her) is a playwright, short story writer, screenwriter, and performer with an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts (2016). Her plays have been produced by SF Playground, SF Olympians, Double Backbone, and Aluminous Theater. In August 2018, her full-length play Where the Boys Are was produced by Faultline Theater with a run at American Conservatory Theater’s The Rueff at The Strand. In 2019, her webseries Uneasy (now on You Tube) premiered to a sold out audience at Oakland’s The New Parkway. In 2020, Vanessa launched Other Hand Media, a creative current affairs mixed-media company intent on making creative work that gives people the information they need to make good decisions. She is currently the CEO of Kinda Shitty Things, as well as a writer, singer, and keyboardist for the San Francisco based funny-girl-band, Lentil.

Vanessa’s FLT History: Vanessa had the unique experience of being one of Faultline’s emerging resident playwrights who worked with Faultline from concept to full production in 2017-2018. It was a spectacular and challenging experience that she would love to offer to other emerging playwrights as someone who has experienced the entire exciting journey first-hand.