is a founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse where she is the editor of the Paperless Book Department, curates the Emergency Playscript series, and co-edits Emergency INDEX. Initially studying and working in neuroscience, Yelena began making theater works in 1997 as a continuation of her interest in the mechanisms underlying human behavior. Since 1999, under the initiative called Science Project, Yelena conducts research, makes theater works, performance art works, and site-specific social experiments. In New York, she has shown her works at The Performing Garage, Theater for a New City, the Old American Can Factory, The Collapsable Hole, the Prelude Festival, etc.

Sophia Cleary is a performer and choreographer. She curates the Rehearsal series. She co-edits Emergency INDEX.

Zoe Guttenplan works as an editor, designer, and letterpress printer. Her interest in archiving performance was sparked when studying communes throughout history, and their stagings of Shakespeare’s plays. She co-edits Emergency INDEX.