2023 I-M Gallery
Divya Rajan (she/her)
Director
Divya is a creative practitioner/warrior and a performance artiste. She loves creating site-specific, immersive, experimental, and devised works. She holds an MFA in theatre arts, is a trained cinematographer, a Scuba diver and a Reiki healer. She practices the Margolis Method. Divya designs & facilitates creative rituals through Epiphany Sutra – a world of re-imagined rituals. She also works with youth. Her cultural roots, immigrant life, & self-learned artistic pursuits significantly shape her artistic identity.
Rachel Atkins (she/her)
Playwright
Rachel Atkins (she/her) is the scriptwriter for the multimedia educational theatre company Living Voices, with 12 shows on history and social justice in ongoing touring repertory, seen by over 4 million audience members throughout the US and Canada. Her play Black Like Us (Original Works Publishing) received the TPS Gregory Award for Outstanding New Play, two Seattle Times Footlight Awards, and was an American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg New Play Award nominee. A 3-time Gregory Award nominee for Outstanding Playwright/New Play, her work has been produced extensively in Seattle and around the US, Canada, and Brazil. Rachel is a Dramatists Guild member and holds her Master’s in Educational Theatre from New York University.
Azadeh Zanjani (she/her)
Sera/Sarah | Out of Time
Azadeh Zanjani is a Meisner trained actor and multidisciplinary artist based in Seattle. Recent credits include The Forgotten History of Mastaneh with Seattle Public Theatre/Seda Theatre, TheTitle, a short film by Naghmeh Samini, Hijab with Island Theatre and Play of Life and Death with Seda Theatre/MachaTheatre Works. When not acting, Azadeh practices architecture, paints, and sings classical arias.
Natalie Schmidt (she/her)
Trish/Miranda | Out of Time
Natalie Schmidt (she/her) is a multidisciplinary theatre artist, Designated Linklater Voice Teacher, and Co-Artistic Director of General Gabler’s Theatre. Credits include: Hedda Gabler (Hedda; General Gabler’s Theatre), Ghost Party: Remastered (Ursula; Dacha), When Love Speaks (Thalia Dionysus; Thalia’s Umbrella), and In the Next Room (Mrs. Daldry; BAT). More at thenatalieschmidt.com!
Tessa “Cricket” James (they/them)
Angie/Angelina | Out of Time
Tessa “Cricket” James is an actor local to the Seattle area and is honored to be able to help tell the story of the struggle of the women who have come before us. They would like to dedicate this performance to their mom, the strongest woman they know.