Sarah Sierra is a student, writer, and actor. In 2015, at the age of six, she joined an after-school program called Still Waters in a Storm. Sarah has been a founding member of the Kid Quixotes since 2016 and plays the lead role in The Traveling Serialized Adventures of Kid Quixote. She loves to tell imaginative and creative stories that will have you believe anything is possible.
Stephen Haff is the founder and director of Still Waters in a Storm, a one-room schoolhouse for Hispanic and immigrant children in Brooklyn, New York, begun in 2007. He has taught English, mathematics, and theater at universities, including the City University of New York, high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools across North America for nearly three decades. He has also made a living directing plays and writing essays for the Village Voice, American Theater, Bomb, and other publications. Stephen earned his MFA in theater studies at Yale University. He lives in Queens, New York, with his wife, children’s book author Tina Schneider, and their three children.
Kyla Garcia is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. Born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, she discovered acting at the age of eight when she played Lady Macbeth in a children’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. She made her off-Broadway debut at fifteen when she played Dorothy in Oz: A Twisted Musical. Eleven years after she discovered her passion for acting, she would go on to play Lady Macbeth once again in London at the Globe Theatre, where she studied Shakespeare during her third year at Mason Gross School of the Arts. She received her BFA in acting from Rutgers University.