Tsering Wangmo, owner of Lhasa Moon, is also a famous Tibetan actress singer and dancer. She has made numerous recordings and performed around the world with the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts of Dharamsala, India. In 1991 she became a founding member of Chakasam-pa Tibetan Opera Troupe in San Francisco, which has performed in Lincoln Center in New York and the Warner Theater in Washington, D.C. as well as throughout North America. In 1995 she opened Lhasa Moon, the first Tibetan restaurant in the Bay area.

Zara Houshmand is an Iranian-American writer. She is active in modern Iranian theater as well as traditional Balinese puppetry, and her own plays have been produced in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. She cooks compulsively for friends and especially enjoys cooking for retreats.