Désirée Wenger (she/her) is a director, writer, and theater drama teacher. She studied French and English literature and linguistics at the Universities of Zurich and Lausanne, and holds a Master of Arts in Theater Directing from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London, completed in 2021. After her studies, she worked as assistant director at Schauspiel Bern, and has completed further training in intimacy coordination while also pursuing various projects of academic and creative writing. Désirée currently acts in and writes on a number of plays, is a boardmember of theagovia theater in Thurgau, and together with Ximena Sánchez founded ICDS (Intimacy Coordinators and Directors Switzerland).

Ximena Sánchez (she/her) is an actress and intimacy coordinator. She studied film and television directing at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, and has attended masterclasses with Ricky Ceballos at Real Theater, and with the independent collective Cirulaxia in Córdoba. In subsequent years, she refined her acting through classes in South Beach, Miami, and with Binario 7 in Monza, Italy. After having worked as a store manager for several years, she decided to reconnect with her passion: film and theater. At present, Ximena is training as an intimacy coordinator and mental health ambassador. Together with Désirée Wenger, she founded ICDS (Intimacy Coordinators and Directors Switzerland).

Andrin Albrecht (he/they) holds a PhD in Anglophone Literature from the University of Jena, Germany. Before, they studied English literature and linguistics, and history, in Zurich, Colorado, and Singapore, and have trained in classical and contemporary composition at Konservatorium Winterthur for close to a decade. Andrin has composed original scores for a number of theater productions associated with the University of Zurich, for short films, and orchestral performances at the TaG Winterthur. In addition, their short fiction and poetry has appeared in a variety of anthologies in both English and German, and have won several international awards.

Olivia Fischer (she/her) is an actress, writer, and former academic. She studied English literature and linguistics, and psychology, at the Universities of Zurich and Basel, and received her PhD in Psychology in 2026. In 2017 and 2019, she was director of marketing and photography for the UZH English theater group The Blueprint Masquerades, and played leading roles in productions of August: Osage County, and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. In 2020, she performed in the Buchmann&Horst production As It Is in Zurich and St. Gallen, in 2021 in Right Sensations (by Rich Orloff) with The Semi-Circle Basel, and in 2023 she co-wrote and performed in the Copper Tongues original Assistant.