Isabelle Dayton (she/her) was pre-professionally trained in Chicago, Illinois at Extensions Dance Company under Lizzie MacKenzie before receiving her BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2020. After graduating she spent a year working professionally in Chicago with companies and collectives like Symbiosis Arts, Boom Crack!, and Identity Performing Arts. She is now currently based in Brooklyn, NY and working as a freelance artist with The Creature, Urban Tribe, Arsenal Movement, and Grace Tong. This is her second season with The Creature, and she’s looking forward to seeing how this next process will develop!

Maddie Hopfield is a New York City-based dancer, performer, choreographer, writer, and taiko drummer (Casual Fifth, Taikoza). She has shown work at spaces including Kestrels, LifeWorld, the MAAS building, Urban Movement Arts, and Vox Populi. She currently makes work with Marin Day under the name PEPTALK. She has performed in the work of Barnett Cohen, Amelia Heintzelman, Paris Cullen & Sarah Zucchero, Lindsey Jennings, Maya Lee-Parritz, Leah Stein Dance Company, Philly Kerplop (Vince Johnson), Lily Kind, and Concept Kinetics ("Cricket" / James Colter), among others. She graduated from Bard College in 2017 with a BA in Dance and Written Arts. maddiehopfield.com

Immersed in studies of contemporary and classical dance forms, Rebecca Gual (she/her) is a choreographer, interdisciplinary performer, arts-focused project manager, and burgeoning producer. Born and raised in Queens, New York, she is proudly of Jamaican and Puerto Rican descent. Gual began her dance training at The Ailey School and continued her education at Frank Sinatra School of the Arts and Ballet Hispánico. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance and Choreography from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). As a performer, she has worked with Ligia Lewis (Sensations 1 | This Interior), Jessica Lang (Bluebird, The Green Table), Colin Connor (Torch), Katherine Morales (Most People), Danielle Kipnis (Matter of Facts), Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone (Pitch Dark No. 1, The Garden for Forking Paths), Lisa D. Long (Totem), Alexis Zaccarello (Peculiar Ochre: Lines, Circles and Other Shapes), Tarren Johnson (Lessons in Composing Chaos), Zoe Scofield (Eleven), Regina Nejman (Beautiful Figure), Dolly Sfeir (Beveled), Karesia Batan (Passageways), Joan Bradford (Stairs), Jacqui Dugal (Tension of the Release), Molly Gorin (Having A Ball), Sydnie L. Mosley (PURPLE: A Ritual in Nine Spells), Morgaine de Leonardis (Opening Reception), Oroma Elewa (Crushed Guava Leaves) and as a member of The Syndicate of Initiative (True Voyage), a non-hierarchical collaborative performance collective. 

Jamie is a freelance artist, performer, choreographer, and dance instructor in NYC. Originally from Long Island, NY, Jamie received her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from Adelphi University with a major in Dance and minor in Psychology, and studied abroad at the London Contemporary Dance School in the UK. As a choreographer, she has set pieces at Adelphi University, for music videos, and on various dance studios. As a performer, she has danced works by Ohad Naharin, Azure Barton, Alexander Ekman, Paul Taylor, Manuel Vignoulle, Alice Klock, Florian Lochner, William Briscoe, Wesley Ensminger, and Michelle Thompson Ulerich, among others. Jamie has been a movement artist with Urban / Tribe, VALLETO Dance, Zullo/Raw Movement, Cloude.nyc, and currently, SAXYN Dance Works, TAKE Dance, and ChrstinaNoel & The Creature.

Jonathan Matthews-Guzmán (they/them) joined The Creature in 2015 for Ash and Honey not long after graduating NYU Tisch with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Music. Their studies in work have taken them abroad to Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, Toscana Dance HUB, Springboard Danse Montréal, and the International Theatre Festival of Kerala. They have additionally performed and choreographed with Darrah Carr Dance, Valerie Green/Dance Entropy, This is Not a Theatre Company, mishiDance, and BREAKTIME. A collaborative musician, Jonathan sings in The Cecilia Chorus of New York and Cantori New York, accompanies dance classes at Tisch and Barnard College, and music directs at West Milford Presbyterian Church. They were a 2021 dance curatorial fellow at SMUSH Gallery, and their writing can be found at Eye on Dance and the Arts, Dance Magazine, and BAC Stories. Jonathan's teaching has brought them to PS107, Irish Arts Center, The Calhoun School, and The Ephyras, for which Jonathan assistant teaches.