Ave Terrena is a playwright, theater director, poet, and curator. She has had eleven plays staged in Brazil, Mexico, and Portugal and has published three books, two of dramaturgy and one of poetry. She has an independent education in São Paulo’s group theaters, where she has worked since adolescence. She teaches at the Escola Livre de Teatro de Santo André and is active in the ballroom community as a member of the Pioneer House of Hands Up-SP.

Grace Passô is an actress, director, and screenwriter who creates in both theater and cinema. Her texts have been translated into multiple languages, including English, Spanish, French, Polish, and Mandarin. As a playwright, she has received awards such as Shell SP and RJ, APCA SP, Cesgranrio, Leda Maria Martins Award, and Questão de Crítica. In cinema, she has won Best Actress at the Rio Festival, Candango at the Brasília Festival, and Best Actress at the Turin Festival (Italy).

Verónica Valenttino is a Ceará-born actress and singer. She is the lead vocalist of the band Verónica Decide Morrer and has lived in São Paulo for six years. She has participated in major music festivals across Brazil, including Virada Cultural, Maloca Dragão, Ruído em Cena, Tomar Rock, Teia, Festival Marsha!, Festival Transversalidades Casa Chama, and For Rainbow. She holds a degree in Performing Arts from the Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Ceará (IFCE). As an actress, she has won multiple awards, including the Shell Award (2023) for Best Actress, the Bibi Ferreira Award (2022) for Breakthrough Actress in Musicals, and the APCA Award (2022) for Best Musical with Brenda Lee e o Palácio das Princesas.

Maria Carolina Casati is a Black woman, professor, writer, curator, and reading mediator. She is pursuing a Ph.D. at the School of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities of the University of São Paulo (EACH/USP) in the Graduate Program in Social Change and Political Participation, where she researches oral history with Black Brazilian women in relationships with Italian men from a writing-living perspective. She is a member of the Oral History and Memory Research Group (GEPHOM/USP) and the founder of @encruzilinhas, a reading and debate project on Blackness, gender, feminism, and activism. She is the mother of TumTum, daughter of Figênia and Brogio, granddaughter of Zelia, and friend to many, but above all, of G7.