The Inside Outside

Nazlah Black is an Administrative Associate at Swim Pony and theatre artist whose most recent credits include Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Little Flame); Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest (Encounters Theatre); Malcolm, Witch 2, and Lady Macduff in Macbeth (New York Shakespeare Company); and Juliet in a New York City educational tour of Romeo and Juliet.
They have worked as an actor, director, and arts administrator on both coasts. Nazlah Black received their BFA in Theatre from Cornish College of the Arts.

Adrienne Mackey is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the potential of performance and play. With her company, Swim Pony, she’s created works including SURVIVE! - a 22,000 sq-ft interactive science installation;The Ballad of Joe Hill at Eastern State Penitentiary; War of the Worlds, with Drexel's Entrepreneurial Game Studio; and The End – a month-long mixed reality game exploring fears about mortality. She’s the originator of Cross Pollination, a residency program in which 32 artists took part in documented interdisciplinary collaborations and also writes for Swim Pony’s blog, boasting 50,000 views. She’s now developing Water Logged!, a wildlife card game with the Alliance for Watershed Education, and an ecological table-top role-play for Fairmount Waterworks. Mackey holds an MFA in game/theater from Goddard, has received an Independence Fellowship and two Knight Arts Challenges. She is also a classically trained soprano, former chemistry major, and teaches acting, directing and devising for University of Washington’s School of Drama.