FOUNDER/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Laser Webber (he/they) is a trans musician, performer, professional nerd, and author. He toured the US, Australia, and Europe with his nerdy music duo the Doubleclicks, which racked up over 4 million Youtube views amongst their large and beautiful grassroots audience. Laser co-wrote the musical "Teaching a Robot to Love," a sci-fi story about the trans experience, with E. Aaron Wilson. The musical’s concept album charted on Billboard and its sold-out, award-winning debut run took place at the 2022 Hollywood Fringe Festival! His 2023 solo show, “A Shark Ate My Penis,” won “Best World Premiere” at Hollywood Fringe and went on to a 5-star run at Edinburgh Fringe.  He currently produces and performs at comedy events in Los Angeles, including the popular “Gentlemen’s Club: A Fancy Trans Comedy Show,” which he founded with comedian Charlie James. He’s produced charity comedy events with stand-up, improv, music and sketch that raised over $25,000 for charity during the 2020-2022 lockdowns. Laser helps independent artists (like Maria Bamford, Saladin Ahmed, Jonathan Coulton, and Rekha Shankar) get money and attention for their creative projects. He has raised more than $4 million using Kickstarter and Patreon for comics, games, and music, and is the author of “Crowdfunding for Musicians,” a how-to book for indie artists who want to achieve their dreams without gatekeepers. He is currently working in development and fundraising for Complexly. 

PRODUCER/EDUCATION DIRECTOR

Maddox Pennington (he/they) has most recently worked with LA's Native Voices as a playwright and actor; his short play "Reparations ATM" will be included in this year's Festival of Short Plays. His work has also been read in the 2023 T/GNC Reading Festival, the Theater Viscera Podcast, Off-Off Broadway NYC’s FRIGID Queerly Festival, the Moving Arts MADLab, the Native American Media Alliance TV Writing Fellowship, and the inaugural Creative Nations First Storytellers Festival in Boulder, CO. Last year they directed Marilyn Monroe in the Desert with Premiere the Play Podcast. His award-winning work at the Hollywood Fringe Festival with majority nonbinary/trans casts has included Love Chicken, Annex, and A Third Space. Maddox has taught creative and college writing at Columbia University, American University, and the University of Southern California, where he is currently an Assistant Professor offering first year and advanced writing courses in Native Studies, Queer Studies, Disability Studies, and Society and Technology. 

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY

Petey Gibson (he/him) comes to JWL off a sold-out run of Tales of the Transcestors: The Divine for Celebration Theatre, and is also a proud co-producer of Them Fatale, LA’s longest-running drag king show, raising $40,000+ to date for local queer orgs. Other productions from the past 18 years include a silly amount of live shows, a web series, and an award-winning feature film. A multi-hyphenate (aren’t we all?), he recently starred in A.R.T.’s world premiere of Becoming A Man, and recurs as “C” on FOX’s ALERT, with his cuter credits including Broad City and Grace & Frankie. @petey_gibson