Mona Eldahshoury’s passion for the theatre was ignited in elementary school and grew throughout her undergraduate degree studies at the American University of Sharjah. Eldahshoury has performed, directed and coached actors for the past eight years across the United Arab Emirates. She has performed in local community theatres as well as in numerous college productions. Her notable productions include Antony and Cleopatra, The Glass Menagerie, Little Shop of Horrors, Alice in Wonderland, Our Town and Macbeth. 
In each class she taught and attended, Eldahshoury imagined creating a safe space for young actors in which to gain confidence, creativity and collaborative skills. After living in the United Arab Emirates for 12 years, she believes that acting training not only helps within a theatre classroom but also allows children to apply their skills in personal and academic environments. Her goal as a teacher is to ensure that every student leaves with the ability to understand, adapt and to express themselves both on and off stage. She is very excited to welcome the first batch of young actors at Berklee Abu Dhabi. 

Katarina Pejak is a singer-songwriter from Belgrade, Serbia, and a Berklee College of Music graduate (class of 2014). She was formerly based in Nashville, Tennessee, and was also a recording artist for European blues label Ruf Records (based in Germany). Pejak has participated in a number of FOSDI’s projects,
such as ‘Different Face of Serbia’ (presented at a final event at the London School of Economics) and ‘Let Me Be Myself’ (presented in Rome, Italy). 
Her career includes experience in teaching, mentoring and networking within diverse areas and communities. She has worked as a mentor to young songwriters at Berklee College of Music for the Berklee Songwriting Week (summer of 2015). 
In 2017, Pejak ran a concert series in Kolkata, India, for students of the Ashok Hall Group Schools – representing the diversity of musical and artistic expression and promoting gender equality. 
In 2019, she joined the women blues touring act The Blues Caravan, along with Finnish artist Ina Forsman, and American artist Ally Venable. Countries visited included Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden and the UK. Their performance in Belgrade was supported by the Embassy of the United States, as a part of the country’s cultural exchange scheme. 

An accomplished multi-instrumentalist, Julien Osty (Bachelor’s degree in Music, 2009, and Master’s degree in 2016)developed his skills onstage and during studio recording sessions. He is a former staff accompanist at Berklee College of Music (Boston), a live engineer assistant and a stage manager at Berklee Valencia Campus (Spain).
Osty has performed, as a sideman and leader, all over the world, gaining experience on music tours and luxury cruise line contracts.
He is currently working on original material for his project, Julien Osty Trio

Kostas Milonas was born on August 12, 1988, in Trikala, Greece. He started playing music at the age of three and became a professional drummer at the age of 10. From a very young age he had his first experience of percussion, the piano and guitar, but the drums inspired him the most. 
During his career as an all-round drummer he has worked with artists such as Carole King, Willie Nelson, Annie Lennox, Tina Arena, maestro Jorge Calandrelli, film composer Michel Legrand, Alexandra Burke, Tammy McCann, Kris Kristofferson, Steve Wood, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Daniella Lugassy, Deborah Myers, John Patitucci, Steve Bailey, Mario Frangoulis and Alkistis Protopsalti. Milonas is currently the drummer for Greek pop star Despina Vandi. 
He holds a degree in drums from Philippos Nakas Conservatory and the London College Of Music, and recently graduated with honours with a degree in performance from the Berklee College Of Music. 
Milonas has studied performance with great musicians such as Rod Morgenstein, Ian Froman, John Blackwell , Bob Gulloti , Kim Plainfield , Marko Djordjevic , Ed Saindon, Gustavo Agatiello and Ilias Doumanis. 

James Kelly is a DJ, composer, performer, producer, engineer and teacher who is from the United Kingdom. James’s creative work explores the use of the turntable as an instrument. He pioneered the use of a vinyl disc cutting lathe as part of the compositional process in order to create turntable music and has worked in popular and experimental music as well as academia. Spanning genres from dubstep to pop, funk and ambient, James’s projects have received national radio exposure in the United Kingdom. He toured the UK as a DJ and also with Ginger Snaps, Ola Szmidt and Pure Phase. As a composer, his interdisciplinary projects have included scores for the feature film Honeytrap (2014), the contemporary dance film Cynefin (2011) and for a solo sound art exhibition at the Avenue Gallery, University of Northampton, UK (2016). James’s teaching focuses on DJ’ing and electronic music production, performance and music education. He wrote an accredited course in turntablism and contributed to producing the Tutoritool, a vinyl record designed to teach the user how to DJ using the records themselves. James has a PhD in turntablist composition from De Montfort University, UK, and previously held the position of Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Northampton.