Composer, singer, and visual artist Cécile McLorin Salvant is passionate about storytelling and exploring connections between vaudeville, blues, folk traditions, theater, jazz, and baroque music. An eclectic curator, she unearths rarely recorded, forgotten songs with strong narratives, power dynamics, twists, and humor.

She won the Thelonious Monk competition in 2010 and received Grammy Awards for three consecutive albums: The Window, Dreams and Daggers, and For One To Love. In 2020, she received the MacArthur Fellowship and Doris Duke Artist Award. Her debut and follow-up Nonesuch Records projects, Ghost Song (2022) and Mélusine (2023), have each received two Grammy nominations.

Mary Ellen Stebbins (Lighting Design) is a New York City–based lighting designer whose work spans theater, dance, opera, music, and live events. Collaborations include MCC Theater, Primary Stages, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theater, Opera Philadelphia, Juilliard, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Pittsburgh Opera, as well as artists and creators such as Theresa Rebeck, Clare Barron, A$AP Rocky, Adrienne Truscott, Monica Bill Barnes, CYI Studio, and American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*). Recent highlights of her work include the lighting design for a 2023 performance at the Mammoth Cave by the Louisville Orchestra and Chamber Choir, featuring star cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and Shimmer and Herringbone with Talking Band in their 50th season. She was a 2020 Bessie Award Honoree for her work on Monica Bill Barnes’s Days Go By and received a Henry Hewes Award nomination for her lighting design for Clare Barron’s I’ll Never Love Again. Her additional honors include the Opera America Tobin Director-Designer Prize, Live Design’s Young Designer to Watch, the USITT Barbizon Lighting Design Award, and a Hangar Theatre Lab Company Design Fellowship. Mary Ellen holds an A.B. from Harvard University and an M.F.A. from Boston University. She is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 and currently teaches at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. www.maryellenstebbinsdesign.com

Shannon Slaton on Broadway has designed Melissa Etheridge: My Window and The Illusionists as well as being the Associate Designer for The Humans, Blackbird, and several other shows. He has also designed more than fifty national tours including: Shrek, The Producers, Kiss Me Kate, Noise/Funk, The Full Monty, Contact, A Chorus Line, Tap Dogs, Aeros, Sweeney Todd, The Wizard of Oz, The Drowsy Chaperone, and The Wedding Singer. Shows he mixed on Broadway include: Springsteen on Broadway, Cabaret, Annie, and Anything Goes, Man of La Mancha, Bombay Dreams, A Christmas Carol, Sweet Charity, Jersey Boys, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Drowsy Chaperone, Spring Awakening, Fela!, Anything Goes, Annie, Legally Blonde, and Cabaret.

Erin McCoy is a Production Stage Manager and Show Caller returning to Little Island for her fourth season. She has had the joy of calling a wide variety of productions, live events, and corporate experiences throughout New York City at venues including Little Island, The Plaza, Rainbow Room, PAC NYC, as well as venues nationally including Globe Life Field and Charles Krug Vineyard. She has had the privilege of show calling events for clients such as Sephora, Southwest Airlines, and Storm King Art Center. Recent productions include La Fille du Régiment for Festival Napa Valley at Charles Krug Winery and Radiolab Live at Little Island.

Will Nunziata is a New York City-based award-winning filmmaker, theatre director, and writer whose work spans film, theatre, opera, and concerts.

His directorial short film debut, The Old Guitarist, starring Dominic Chianese (Uncle Junior in The Sopranos), earned more than a dozen national and international awards, including Best Short Film and Best Director at the London Movie Awards. As a screenwriter, Will wrote Débora, currently in pre-production, starring Marcela Mar and directed by Daniel Posada. He will make his feature film directorial debut in late 2026 with his psychological horror screenplay The Kept. His screenplays have received awards from the Melbourne International Screenplay Festival, Los Angeles Crime & Horror Film Festival, and Hollywood Blood Horror Festival.

Will made his West End directing debut at the London Palladium in 2025. His Off-Broadway directing credits include White Rose: The Musical, Over Here! starring Tony Award winner Debbie Gravitte, and Miss Peggy Lee: In Her Own Words & Music starring Tony Award winner Cady Huffman, for which he received a BroadwayWorld Award for Best Director.

He has also written and directed concerts for Tony Award winner Lillias White, Soul Train Award winner Nicole Henry, Platinum Recording Artist Jackie Evancho, and Grammy Award nominee Clint Holmes. A Boston College graduate, Will is a member of the Recording Academy/GRAMMYs and Stage Directors & Choreographers Society. @willnunzofficial on Instagram.