Aristide Tarnagda is a Burkinabè actor, playwright, and director who has led the Récréâtrales Festival since 2016. He is the author of over twenty plays which have been performed throughout Africa and around the world.
Heather Jeanne Denyer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Theatre at California State University, Fullerton, is a dramaturg, translator, and scholar of African theatre, gender studies, and puppetry.
Anna G. R. Miller, Ph.D., is a translator, teacher, and scholar specializing in twentieth and twenty-first century French and Francophone literature.