Derek Lee Miller is an actor, puppeteer, designer, writer and musician. He earned his BFA in acting and technical theatre at Millikin University in Decatur, IL. During his time there, he founded the Last Chance Theatre, an underground experimental black box space and was awarded the school’s McNabb Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Theater. He has toured nationally as a puppeteer for Madcap Puppets in Cincinnati, OH and regionally as an actor/educator for Twin Cities companies National Theatre for Children and Teatro del Pueblo. The Yaddo Artists Colony in Saratoga Springs, NY awarded him two residencies for playwriting in 2006 and 2007. Derek was voted Outstanding Male Performance of the 2011 Minnesota Fringe Festival for his role in Transatlantic Love Affair’s Red Resurrected and was also part of that group’s 2012 Ivey Award-winning play, Ballad of the Pale Fisherman. He is a founding member of Transatlantic Love Affair.

Isabel Nelson (she/they) is a performer, director, and theatre creator in the Twin Cities. She received her B.A. from Macalester College in Theater and Religious Studies, and a certificate in Creating Theater at the Lecoq-based London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA). She served as founding Artistic Director of TLA from 2010 until 2021 (when the company moved to a collaborative leadership model). During that time, Isabel conceived and directed Ballad of the Pale Fisherman, Red Resurrected Emilie/Eurydice, The Devout, and After the Fires, and performed and collaborated on Ash Land, These Old Shoes, and Solitaire, and co-directed Promise Land at the Guthrie's Dowling Studio. Isabel has been honored with the Emerging Artist Ivey (2012) and the National Theater Conference's Outstanding Emerging Professional Award (2015). She is currently pursuing her M.Div. in Theology and the Arts from United Theological Seminary in St. Paul, MN.

Allison Vincent is a Twin Cities-based performer, director, writer, deviser, and teacher. Allison is a proud alum of the University of Minnesota's B.A. Theater program, where she also teaches. In addition to performing all around the Twin Cities, she is a core and founding member of Transatlantic Love Affair, a company member of Umbrella Collective, and a teaching artist at the Guthrie Theater.