Kia Yee is a transdisciplinary poet, performance-maker, and slow dream machine who believes in our capacity for compassion, rupture, agency, and change. She is the Co-Founder & was the Company Lead (2020-2024) of Feelers, a research lab of artists and designers focused on the intersections of art and technology. From 2015-2017, she co-founded and co-led theatre collective make/space. She currently co-organizes Opening Acts, a performance initiative for fledgling writers and performers, with Elle Cheng. Her work has spanned poetry, essays, short stories, plays, performances, audio walks, workshops, video, counselling, and astrology readings.

Chew Shaw En is an artist, performer and facilitator who works from the perspective of the body. She has a multidisciplinary practice that spans across different contexts. Her work often involves being part of highly collaborative and relational environments where co-creation and new ways of understanding emerges. She finds meaning in creating and being part of work that nurtures worlds and possibilities for people to relate to one another.

Lai Yu Tong is a visual artist who works across drawing, image-making, sculpture and sound. His practice works towards creating adequate media to articulate the present, believing in the intrinsic need for humans to make images and tell stories. He publishes music as Cosmologists and books under Thumb Books.

Neo Hai Bin is a performance maker. He began his theatre debut with Drama Box in 2009. He studied actor’s training practices with SCOT (Summer intensive 2014, Japan) and SITI Company (Summer Workshop 2019, NYC). Some of his physical theatre works are Being:息在 (M1 Fringe Festival 2022), Transit步, Transition移 (Esplanade eXchAnge 2023, 2024), OX (Kaleidoscope.V 2023), maomao (2025).

His literary practice involves research works in social issues and the human condition, culminating into poems, prose, critiques, and short stories. Some of his written plays include 招: When The Cold Wind Blows (Singapore Theatre Festival 2018); Cut Kafka! (Esplanade Huayi Festival Commission 2018); Merdeka / 獨立 /சுதந்திரம் (Wild Rice, with Alfian Sa’at, 2019); Tanah•Air 水•土: A Play In Two Parts (Devised with Drama Box, 2019); Being:息在 (M1 Fringe Festival 2022).

He is part of the theatre reviewers team “劇讀：thea.preter” since 2017. He also co-founded "微.Wei Collective" with lighting designer Liu Yong Huay, creating spatial experiences for participants since 2017.

Pearlyn Tay is an independent producer invested in enabling artistic developmental and creation processes across disciplines and genres. Dedicated to dismantling inherited ways of working, she seeks reconstruction towards intentional and meaningful collaborative spaces for artistic creation. She takes a special interest in the development of emergent practices for artists and producers alongside community- and network-building.

Cheryl works fluidly across marketing and start-ups, with past experience at a social media agency and secondary art market, Art Again. She is drawn to the ecosystems and experimental spaces where creative communities gather. Since Zone’s first presentation of Descendants in 2025, she's gained a focus on initiatives built from the ground up, helping articulate artistic visions into clear, engaging narratives for the audiences they hope to reach. Cheryl approaches communications as both a strategic and collaborative practice.

Dan (Nguyen Cong Danh) is a designer working across visual communication and editorial design. His practice explores how typography and visual systems can shape the way stories, research, and collective memory are read. He is particularly interested in publication as a space for structuring conversations, translating archives, and connecting individual voices into shared narratives.

Yiling, aka. ariatays, is a photographer and visual artist who works across images, poetry, and performance. Her practice makes close-readings of the material everyday and all the ways we live, examining points of humanness, intimacy, and vulnerability. She has presented works with the likes of Objectifs, Singapore International Photography Festival, AFTERIMAGE Press, Lightbox Photo Library (TW), and Ephemere (JP).