MOLLY ANDREWS-HINDERS is a songwriter, performance artist, and educator working at the intersection of healing, justice, and transmutation in Cleveland, Ohio. She wrote Velveteen, a new musical that was featured at Playhouse Square as part of their Children’s Theatre Series in October 2024. Molly released her debut album, Naked Dinner, in May 2023, a self-produced recording under the stage name Creating Lewis. This project blends avant-pop, neo-soul, and musical theatre to investigate collective care, systems of power, and radical love. Molly is director and composer of Emergence, a “soul-stirring” musical that challenges our cognitive dissonance and invites our collective becoming. Emergence ensemble performed at Prop Thtr's Rhinofest (Feb 2020), Cleveland Public Theatre's Test Flight Series (Mar 2019), and multiple music venues throughout Cleveland. Molly’s written music for shows performed at Cleveland Public Theatre, Near West Theatre, BorderLight Festival, and Maelstrom Collaborative Arts. She currently serves as Education Content Creation Coordinator at Playhouse Square, writing and producing music and original work that is featured both digitally and onstage for audiences of up to 100,000 each year.  

MINOR PROPHET JOÉL is an alternative R&B/hip-hop/soul music artist, songwriter, producer, composer, and performer from Cleveland, Ohio. He received classical training in voice with the famed Morehouse College Glee Club and Quartet. The artist sang background vocals for Beyoncé Knowles-Carter on The Fighting Temptations movie soundtrack. Currently, he is the Multi-Media/Outreach Coordinator for Tri-C JazzFest/Performing Arts Cleveland. He is the curator of The Funk N Parables Show. This show features three musical acts and a spoken word artist/emcee.

Minor Prophet Joél is a member of the LGBTQ community who is in recovery from codependency. Therapy, the arts, and literature on codependency helped Minor Prophet Joél get on a road to recovery. Codependency is the excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, typically one who requires support on account of an illness or addiction. Melody Beattie's definition of a codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect them and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior. Codependency can be a strong gateway to depression and suicide, especially among queer youth.  

Minor Prophet Joél wants to perform his show with a goal to address the challenges in the queer community of high rates of depression and suicide internationally. This show will ultimately help raise awareness of resources for LGBTQ youth. It will help address the challenge by using the universal language of music to bring awareness. 

FLOCO TORRES (pronounced Flock-o) is a hip-hop musician 37 projects deep into his career. He has envisioned and reenvisioned his creative expression countless times, and with this adaptive style, he has gained a steady following for his hip-hop-meets-alternative-rock style. Floco continues to redefine hip-hop with his own personal style through his flows, production, and graphic design.  

As a child, Torres played the violin, drums, and trumpet. His parents encouraged him to journal, with this gradually evolving into a love for writing lyrics when he first discovered hip-hop. Now with 37 unique musical projects to his name, including involvement with a hip-hop group called Free Black! with producer/drummer HR3 and Akron, Floco Torres is showing no signs of slowing down. Torres’ career took flight in 2011 when he received a $25,000 grant to produce the 10,000 Hours EP with Grammy-nominated producer/percussionist Steve Moretti. Additionally, his song "Cherry Street" went on to win six ADDY Awards and a national Mosaic Award for diversity.  

VINCE TYREE has a diverse background in audio production, ranging from working as a technician for music festivals and theatre to capturing corporate interviews and location recording to working as a studio musician, artist, and producer. This is a most fitting progression in his pursuit to hold space for artists and showcase their talent and stories through the media of sound. He has worked on projects and productions for Akron Civic Theatre, Blossom Music Center, LiveNation, ESPN, HGTV, TNT, TBS, Cleveland Foundation, and many others.