Danielle Bacibianco, also known as “Dr. B.,” is an Adjunct Professor at Kean University. She continues to develop her research in addiction recovery community literacy and public rhetoric activism. Danielle is absolutely thrilled to collaborate with peer writers for the Women’s Playwright Collective creative community, who she will get to tell bold and powerful stories with. Aside and upcoming, Danielle will be directing Eileen Atkin’s Vita & Virginia and Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band at Sea View Playwrights Theatre. Both works reclaim and celebrate queer stories that are profoundly personal and political acts, a creative assertion that queer love has always existed, that gender has always been fluid, and that the art and lives of those who defied norms continue to shape our world. We have always been here, and we always will be. In the past, Danielle has directed “Bill W. and Dr. Bob” (2024) and “Blackout” (2021) at Sea View Playwrights Theatre (SVPT), which were other ways Danielle gave back to the community by doing addiction recovery activism. Before her first directorial debut with “Blackout,” Danielle has been an avid lover of theatre, a collector of playbills, and has always been thinking of the stories she wanted to tell. In the past, Danielle has also served as a Stage Manager for the following: SVPT’s 2019 production of “RENT,” Hemlock Theatre Co.’s 2018 production of “American Idiot,” and SIST’s 2019 Summer Repertory of “Much Ado”/”Antigone.” Danielle thanks Women’s Playwright Collective (WPC) and Staten Island Shakespearean Theatre Co. (SIST) for the amazing, creative endeavor to tell our own stories as a counterforce to erasure, allowing new voices to emerge. Feminism is not monolithic; it is intersectional, it is genre-defying, it is queer. As a queer woman, it is her hope that through WPC’s project, Danielle can co-create space for audiences to see themselves reflected in the stories on stage, as Danielle believes that art is not only an act of resistance, but of love. Beyond the immediate political moment, being in a collective is an investment in the future. Further, she is humbled to work with sister artists in solidarity to amplify unheard voices from page to stage! Love to Francine, Luca, and Noah, always, all ways, like a repeating decimal.