PODCAST: Lost Underground

Gavin Reub is a multidisciplinary director, producer, and dramaturg. He is the Artistic Director of The Seagull Project, and has directed at ACT Theatre, Hugo House, Lewis and Clark College, and the Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent Uzbekistan. He won the Gregory Award for Outstanding Production in 2015 for their The Three Sisters. Gavin is a founding member of interdisciplinary group Cheat Day, which premiered their full-length concert/immersive event at Nii Modo in 2018, and have performed in venues across Seattle, NYC, and Lima-Peru. He is the Director of Creative Development for Umbrella Project, a new play accelerator; teaches at Coyote Central and with Path with Art; is a resident artist at Jack Straw Cultural Center, and member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.

Two-time Emmy-award winning Canadian composer/arranger Hummie Mann has collaborated with some of Hollywood's most celebrated directors in both theatrical and television films.

His motion pictures projects have ranged from Mel Brooks' “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” to Peter Yates' “Year of the Comet”, the children’s film“Thomas and the Magic Railroad” to “Wooly Boys” directed by Leszek Burzynski, starring Peter Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine and Joe Mazzello.

Mimi Gan is a multiple Emmy-award winning journalist and principal of Mi2 Media who specializes in social impact documentaries. Mimi has been honored with 12 Emmys, an AWRT Gracie Award, and NATPE Iris. For 16 years, Mimi was a reporter/producer for Seattle’s KING TV/NBC’s Evening Magazine. She also served as a science correspondent for The Discovery Channel’s Beyond 2000 and national story producer for San Francisco’s PM Magazine. Mimi directed the jury and audience award-winning documentaries, GIANTS and With Honors Denied, which screened at Tribeca and dozens of film festivals. Passionate about the arts and social justice, Mimi serves as a trustee for and Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience and Seattle Children's Theatre. She is a past president of the Asian American Journalists Association, Seattle. In 2021, Mimi co-created Our Stories Are Your Stories (ourstoriesareyourstories.com) an Emmy-nominated and Anthem Award-winning storytelling campaign in response to anti-Asian Hate. In 2020, Mimi co-founded SeattleUnite.org, a coalition of social and racial justice organizations to engage voters and promote democracy. Mimi received an A.B. in Sociology: Social Sciences from Stanford University. www.mi2mediallc.com

Kathy Hsieh is a Co-Executive Producer with SIS Productions, the Racial Equity in Grantmaking Strategist with the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, and is an award-winning actor, writer and director who works to create greater visibility and equity for theatre artists, especially those from communities who are less represented in the field. Recent projects include Seattle Shakespeare’s Drum & Colours productions of Hamlet and As You Like It, Book-It’s The Three Musketeers, and Macha Theatre Works’ Notes for My Daughter and Snow Woman. Next up, she can be seen in Sound Theatre’s Gaslight Project (Angel Street).

Shin Yu Pai is creator and host of the award-winning, chart-topping podcast Ten Thousand Things for KUOW, Seattle's NPR affiliate station. Named as one of the best podcasts of 2023 by Mashable, Ten Thousand Things has received recognition from the Asian American Podcasters Association and won a regional Edward R. Murrow Award and a Silver Signal Award. In addition to being an arts writer, Shin Yu is a poet with 13 books. In 2024, she received the Shelley Memorial Award for her work in poetry.

Owen has been working as an actor and musician for over 30 years. Since moving to Seattle in 2005, Owen’s has performed in plays, sketch comedy shows and staged readings with various theatre companies as well as in films, TV, commercials and industrials as a SAG-AFTRA member. Prior to coming to Seattle, Owen worked with various theatre companies in Chicago, and is a founding ensemble member of the Quest Theatre Ensemble which produces new original material by integrating music and puppetry with live theatre. In his spare time, Owen and his wife also enjoy life on a rescue farm with his family of horses, goats, sheep, dogs, cats, turkeys, chicken, etc.

Morgan Gwilym Tso (He/They) is a mixed-race Chinese American theater artist based out of Seattle, Washington. He has performed with many theaters throughout the region, including ACT Contemporary Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Rep, and more.

Pearl Mei Lam is an actor and solo performer who has worked with Seattle Shakespeare, Seattle Public Theater, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Macha Theatre Works, Jet City Improv, and ComedySportz. Onscreen credits include Pure Flix’s Going Home and local independent films. In 2024, she completed Freehold Theater’s Meisner course and also received a Gregory Award for Outstanding Performance in "Unrivaled."