(he/him) is a writer and actor. He was a Michael Grandage Company Futures bursary winner in 2021. His most recent work includes Kabul Goes Pop (Brixton House / Hightide / Colchester Mercury – UK Tour) and The P Word (Bush Theatre). He created Sholay on the Big Screen supported by The Bush and I Don’t Know What To Do at the Vault Festival 2020 (Evening Standard Pick of the Fest). His short film Lost Paradise was produced by UK Film Council and he has contributed material for BBC Radio 4’s “Sketchtopia” and “Newsjack” and BBC3’s “Famalam.” As an actor his credits include Cruella, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and “The Great.”

Will Arbery is a playwright from Texas + Wyoming + seven sisters. His play Heroes of the Fourth Turning was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the winner of an OBIE for Playwriting, the Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, the John Gassner Playwriting Award, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. He's the recipient of a Whiting Award for Drama. Other plays: Plano (Clubbed Thumb), Evanston Salt Costs Climbing (New Neighborhood), and Wheelchair (3 Hole Press). Commissions: Playwrights Horizons, Audible, MTC. He’s a member/alum of New Dramatists, The Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm, Page 73’s Interstate 73, Colt Coeur, Youngblood, and Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers Group. New plays: Corsicana (developed at Playwrights Horizons/Ojai), and You Hateful Things (developed at The Public/NYTW/SPACE on Ryder Farm). Film/TV: HBO, A24, BBC Films. willarbery.com

A screenwriter and playwright from the Pacific Northwest. His work has been produced around the country, from Aspen to New York. He was the recipient of the Gary Garrison Prize for playwriting at the American College Theater Festival in Washington D.C.; a selected writer for Theater Masters’ Palm Beach Developmental Workshop Series; and a Kennedy Center Fellow at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference. His original pilot, The Roadside, won the Gold Prize in the 2015 PAGE International Screenwriting Competition. He holds a BFA in Film and Television Production from the Savannah College of Art & Design, and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

An Obie Award-winning playwright whose work has been extensively produced across the United States and abroad. In addition to Audible, he is currently under commission at The Aurora, LCT3, Manhattan Theatre Club, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons and the Royal Shakespeare Company. His next production is Passage at Soho Rep in Spring 2019. Chris is a San Francisco native.

Vichet Chum is a Cambodian-American playwright and theater maker, originally from Dallas, Texas and now living in New York City. His plays have been workshopped at Steppenwolf Theatre, the Magic Theater, the Alley Theatre, the UCROSS Foundation, Fault Line Theatre, Crowded Outlet, Second Generation Productions, Weston Playhouse, Cleveland Public Theatre, All For One Theater, Amios, Florida State University, Merrimack Repertory Theatre and the New Harmony Project. He received the 2018-19 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting with New Dramatists and is a current board member for the New Harmony Project. This season, Vichet is a part of the 2019-20 Resident Working Farm Group at Space on Ryder Farm, the 2020 Interstate 73 Writer's Group at Page 73 and the 2020 Ars Nova Play Group. His play High School Play: A Nostalgia Fest will have its world premiere as a co-production at Dallas Theater Center and the Alley Theatre in 2021. He is a proud graduate of the University of Evansville (BFA) and Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company (MFA). He’s represented by Beth Blickers at APA. vichetchum.com

London based playwright who was the winner of the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright 2013 and a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2018. Her plays include Out of Love (Paines Plough), Pilgrims (HighTide), Image of an Unknown Young Woman (The Gate) and a new version of Ibsen's The Lady From The Sea for the Donmar Warehouse, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah. She is currently working on a musical adaptation of a major children's novel for the stage.

A Chicago playwright and educator whose plays include Failure: A Love Story; Le Switch; The Homosexuals; The Burn; Dr.Seuss’s The Sneetches, the Musical  (with composer David Mallamud);Spamtown, USA; The Gentleman Caller; Charm; Miss Marx: Or The Involuntary Side Effect of Livingand The Happiest Place on Earth. Philip has won some awards and not won some others. He’s taught playwriting at his alma mater, Loyola University Chicago, Northwestern University, Victory Gardens Theater and the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. Many of Philip’s plays, including his scripts for young performers, are available through Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, Inc. and Dramatic Publishing. He is currently working on an American English translaptation of Michel Tremblay’s Messe Solennelle Pour Une Pleine Lune D'été.

(she/her) is an Eritrean and Ethiopian-American playwright and screenwriter who crafts stories about and for the African diaspora. For the screen, she is currently a staff writer for the BET+ series “First Wives Club.” She wrote the short film, Diner, for the 2021 Disney Discovers showcase, collaborating with the next wave of up-and-coming actors and directors in New York and Los Angeles. She has assisted multiple television series in both the writers room and on set, including FOX’s “Filthy Rich,” NBC’s “This Is Us,” and Amazon’s “Harlem.” For the stage, her short play Pining, a tragicomedy that explores the thrills and shortcomings of attraction, premiered at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and was published by Samuel French in 2019.

Noah Diaz is a playwright and television writer from the Iowa/Nebraska border. His plays have been developed with La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, The Playwrights Realm, First Floor Theater, The Sol Project, Two River Theater, Howlround Latinx Theater Commons, Seven Devils New Play Foundry, and WildWind Performance Lab. He is a recipient of the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize for Excellence in Playwriting, a five-time recipient of playwriting awards from the Kennedy Center, and is currently under commission from La Jolla Playhouse, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan, Baltimore Center Stage, and Audible/Amazon Studios. MFA: Yale School of Drama.

Mathilde Dratwa’s plays include Milk and Gall, which was produced at Theatre503 in London in 2021, and A Play about David Mamet Writing a Play about Harvey Weinstein. Her work has been developed and presented by the Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Rattlestick, LAByrinth Theater Company, the Great Plains Theater Conference, the Playwrights' Center, and in London at the Young Vic. Mathilde is a member of Dorset Theater Festival's Women Artists Writing Group, a member of the Orchard Project's Greenhouse and a two-time Pulitzer Center grant recipient. Recently, she was a Dramatist Guild Foundation Playwriting Fellow, a member of New York Foundation for the Arts' Immigrant Artist Program and a co-leader of the FilmShop collective. She is also the co-founder of Moms-in-Film, which, among other things, provided free childcare to filmmaker-parents at SXSW and Sundance.

(she/her) is a playwright originally from Dallas, TX, and currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the recipient of the 2020 Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers, and the recipient of the 2018 Kennedy Center Paula Vogel Play Prize. Tyler is also a member of the 2020 Page 73 writers group Interstate 73. Her plays include ,i>Mingus (2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2019 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Play Conference Finalist), Maya and Rivers (2020 Fire This Time Festival), B*TCH (Development: Page 73’s Interstate 73, Joust Theatre Company), and Twentyeight (The Vortex, Austin, TX). Tyler holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch, and a BA in African and African Diaspora Studies from UT Austin. Tyler hopes to create worlds, in her writing, where black women live beyond the basic means of survival and have the audacity to be autonomous.

Amy Evans is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her plays include The Champion(TheatreSquared), Achidi J’s Final Hours (Finborough Theatre UK), Many Men’s Wife(Tricycle Theatre), The Next Question (HB Playwrights Foundation), The Big Nickel(Soho Theatre UK), The Most Unsatisfied Town (English Theatre Berlin International Performing Arts Center), and English-Free Zone (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture). A recipient of a 2019 NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Playwriting and the 2020 Thornwillow Patrons’ Prize, Amy is an alumna of Hedgebrook Women Writers’Residency, BRICLab Performing Arts Residency (2008 and 2015), 651 Arts’ Artist Development Initiative, Berlin Kulturlabor Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Willapa Bay AiR Artists’ Residency, Quest University Writers’ Conference, and Interstate 73 Playwrights’ Group. She holds an MA in Theatre Arts from Goldsmiths College at the University of London. Headshot by Daniela Incoronato. www.scriptingrage.com

Un dramaturgo londinense cuya primera obra de larga duración, Four Minutes Twelve Seconds se estrenó en el Hampstead Theatre Downstairs en 2014 y fue nominado al Premio Olivier por Logros Destacados en un Teatro Afiliado. En 2017, su obra radiofónica Comment is Free ganó los premios Imison y Tinniswood en los BBC Audio Drama Awards, que es la primera vez que un escritor gana ambos premios el mismo año.

Berri is a London based playwright and screenwriter. A graduate of the Belgrade Theatre’s Critical Mass and the Royal Court Theatre local invitation playwriting schemes and 2014 alumni for the Orange Tree Theatre’s playwrights’ group. LARP her one-woman play which she also performed, received five-star reviews, as well as touring a range of London & regional venues, alongside making her Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut in 2019. SHADOW KINGDOMS staged at Theatre503 in 2018 went on to secure her a Channel Four Playwright Bursary award and runner up for the Mercury Playwriting Award. She was a part of the 2017 BBC Drama Room following on from her short film TITS (BBC 3). Most recently, she has been working on ITVs CORONATION STREET part of their Original Voices Initiative and in 2021 will be joining the BBC Writers Academy.

Ava Geyer is a playwright and screenwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. She's a 2023 resident of SPACE on Ryder Farm, a member of Obie-winning writers group EST/Youngblood and under commission by La Jolla Playhouse. Past honors include Theater Masters' Visionary Award (2020) and Shank Residency at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater ('19-'20). She writes about tech, economics, sex, and female consciousness. Aaron Sorkin with a feminist heart. Plays include Monster (finalist, Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition), B-Storm (pub. by Concord Theatricals; winner, National MFA Playwrights Festival), Death Cleaning (Bloodworks Reading Series '23) and Fruit Snacks ("Hopeful Decade" event, Williamsburg, BK). Ava is an Artist Advocate for Healing TREE, a mental health nonprofit dedicated to promoting trauma-focused therapy. Generally regarded as the most promising young writer to emerge from her Crown Heights apartment. MFA: UC San Diego '19. BA: Princeton University '15.

An award-winning playwright based in London who won the Nick Darke Award for her play Made for Him. Her plays have been performed in London, Italy and South Africa. In 2016, she was selected to write a play for Promised Lands, a playwriting festival based in Milan, exploring themes of migration. Her critically acclaimed play Occupied at Theatre503 was nominated for two Off West End Theatre Awards in 2014. The same year, she was honoured at HRM’s RADA ceremony at Buckingham Palace celebrating excellence in the Dramatic Arts. She also works as a script reader.

Afsaneh Gray is a playwright and screenwriter of mixed Iranian/Jewish heritage. She is the winner of the 2018 Brian Way Award and is currently on the longlist for the Women's Prize for Playwriting. Having completed the BBC Doctors Shadow Scheme, her first episode aired in January and her second is currently in production. Last year, her play THE BORDER (**** The Stage) toured schools and venues nationally with Theatre Centre. Previous credits include the critically acclaimed OCTOPUS, an anarchic comedy about what it means to be British, which premiered at the Assembly Box at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival (subsequent transfer to Theatre503 and ACE-funded UK tour); and AND THE CROWD (WEPT), a verbatim opera drawn from media reports of the death of Jade Goody, which premiered as a work-in-progress showing to critical acclaim (“Both satirical and sad” The Guardian) at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival at the Riverside Studios in 2013. She has been a member of the Bush Theatre Emerging Writers' Group, the Orange Tree Writers' Collective, the Royal Court Studio Group and the Soho Young Writers' Group. Previous work has been seen at venues including the Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan, the Soho Theatre, the Bush Theatre and the V&A.

El dramaturgo más producido en América en 2017 y autor de obras como The Book of Will, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, and I and You. El trabajo de Gunderson ha sido comisionado, desarrollado y producido en compañías como South Coast Repertory, Marin Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center, San Francisco Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, TheatreWorks, y más.

A playwright and radio dramatist whose work has been heard on the BBC ("Care Inc.") and seen at The National Black Theatre (“Mondo Tragic,”) The New Black Fest and MCC Theatre (“Pornplay; or, Blessèd Are The Meek, ”) New York Theatre Workshop (“Nimpsey Pink,”) and The Lark Play Development Center (“Jackets In May”) among others. Residencies and fellowships include The Dramatist Guild Fellowship, Space At Ryder Farm, 'I Am Soul' Playwright's Residency at The National Black Theatre, LaGuardia Performing Arts Playwriting Lab, City Theatre Company, and more. MFA: University of Iowa.

Jessica Huang is a playwright based in New York, from Minnesota. Her work includes The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin (2018 Barry and Bernice Stavis Award, 2017 Kilroy’s List), Mother of Exiles (2020 Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, 2020 Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award, 2020 Kendeda Prize Finalist),Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying, and Purple Cloud. She has commissions with Manhattan Theatre Club, TimeLine Theatre Company, Audible, Theater Masters, History Theatre, and Theater Mu. Her work has been seen or read at New York Stage and Film, The New Group, Atlantic Theater Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, The Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, The Minnesota Museum of American Art, Yellow Earth Theatre and more. She is the inaugural recipient of the 4 Seasons Residency; a 2018 MacDowell Fellow; a three-time Playwrights’ Center Fellow, and has received awards from the Sloan Foundation, the Jerome Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Jessica co-founded and co-directs Other Tiger Productions, a theatrical production company with a mission to pursue multidisciplinary collaborations, intentional inclusivity and a re-examination of traditional theater practices. She has been a member of the Civilians R&D Group, Page 73's Interstate 73 and Ars Nova Play Group. She attends the Playwrights Program at Juilliard.

Un aclamado dramaturgo criado y actualmente residente en Newark, New Jersey. Hutchinson tiene un B.A. en Artes Dramáticas de Vassar College y un M.F.A. en Dramaturgia de NYU. Su trabajo ha sido presentado en lugares como el Teatro Nacional Negro y el Teatro de la Segunda Etapa. Actualmente es miembro de New Dramatists y ex-escritora del Blue Man Group.

(they/them) is a London-based writer. In 2021, Oli was a lead artist for the Barbican x CRIPtic Showcase and the BBC’s Words First festival. A non-binary artist working across poetry, film and theatre, Oli’s work has been screened at international film festivals, published in Rattle Magazine and Bath Magg, and performed at the Barbican Centre, Edinburgh Fringe, VAULT Festival and Hay Festival. They have been a member of the Soho Theatre Writers' Lab, Roundhouse Poetry Collective and the Apples & Snakes’ Writing Room. They are also one-half of Clumsy Bodies, a trans performance duo.

A Chicago-born, New York-based playwright and lyricist. Joelle holds a B.A. in English from Columbia University and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from CUNY/Hunter. Her play TRAYF premiered at Theater J in 2018, and The Garbologists was recently workshopped at PlayPenn. She is a member of Nashville Repertory Theatre’s Ingram New Works Lab, a National New Play Network writer-in-residence at Curious Theatre, and an alumna of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop.

An award-winning playwright and actress. ‘Bitch Boxer’ won the Soho Theatre Young Writers Award 2012, the Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh Season 2012, the Clonmel Junction Best Theatre Award 2013, the Holden Street Theatre’s Award 2013 and the Adelaide Fringe Award 2014. Charlotte’s play ‘Blush’ won The Stage Edinburgh Award 2017. In 2017 Charlotte won the inaugural BBC Screenplay First Award, and was named on the BBC New Talent Hotlist. Her monologue ‘Blue’ won the Octagon National Monologue Prize 2017. Charlotte is currently playing ‘Mercutio’ in Romeo and Juliet at the RSC.

Un artista multidisciplinario de ascendencia búlgara e india que se crió en Suecia. Las obras de Kapil incluyen Love Person (Premio Stavis a la Dramaturgia, 2009), la trilogía Displaced Hindu Gods Trilogy (Mixed Blood Theater y a través E.U.A. y Londres), Orange (Mixed Blood Theatre y SCR), y Imogen Says Nothing (Yale Repertory Theatre). Ella es la dramaturga residente en el Mixed Blood Theatre, una Asociada Artística en el Park Square Theatre, una Redactora Principal en el Playwrights’ Center, y una Redactora Principal en New Dramatists.

Paul William Kruse is a playwright, film/video maker, and teaching artist from western Wisconsin. His work flows from his queer identity, Catholic roots, and ever-evolving experience of family. He is a founding member and resident playwright of Hatch Arts Collective in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Paul often writes collaboratively, drawing from his years of experience as a videographer and documentarian. He is currently a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is pursuing an MFA. www.paulwkruse.com

Dramaturgo y actor nacido y criado en San Juan, Puerto Rico. Lázaro tiene un B.F.A. en Escritura Dramática de SUNY Purchase College y una Maestría en Escritura Dramática de la Universidad de Columbia. Su obra Tell Hector I Miss Him se estrenó en la Atlantic Theater Company en otoño de 2017, y There's Always the Hudson se estrenó recientemente en Sundance. Paola es parte del Grupo de Escritores Emergentes 2015 en el Teatro Público.

A Brooklyn-based playwright, Tony voter and Dramatists Guild Council member whose honors include the PEN Emerging Playwright, Lanford Wilson, Helen Merrill, Heideman, and Kendeda awards as well as a Lark Venturous fellowship. Alongside his wife and fellow playwright Rehana Lew Mirza, Mike holds a shared Mellon Foundation Residency at Ma-Yi Theater and Artist-in-Residence at La Jolla Playhouse. His plays include Teenage Dick, Tiger Style!, Bike America, microcrisis, and the book to the musical Bhangin’ It (with Rehana Mirza and Sam Willmott). Mike is an alumnus of Juilliard and graduated manga cum laude from Yale.

Yilong Liu is a New York-based playwright originally from Chongqing, China. He is the recipient of Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Playwriting Award and Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award. Yilong is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Obie Award-winning playwrights group Youngblood. He is currently under commission from the EST/ Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project. His works include The Book of Mountains and Seas (New Conservatory Theatre Center), June is The First Fall (Kumu Kahua Theatre, Yangtze Repertory Theatre), Joker (Po’okela Award for Best New Play, Kumu Kahua Theatre, FringeNYC, National Queer Theatre), The PrEP Play (National Queer Theatre), Flood in The Valley: A Bilingual Folk Musical (Gung Ho Project). Yilong received a BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Beijing Normal University and an MFA in Playwriting from University of Hawai‘i.

Gloria Majule is a playwright from Dodoma, Tanzania presently residing in Seattle, WA. She seeks to tell stories that bring multiple black voices together from across the world, and are accessible to black audiences no matter where they are. She writes plays about Africans and the African diaspora. Gloria is an inaugural recipient of Atlantic Theater Company's Judith Champion Launch Commission, and is the 2023 winner of the Leah Prize from the Leah Ryan Fund. Her plays have been developed at Vassar's Powerhouse Theater, The New Group, Premiere Stages at Kean University, Great Plains Theater Commons, A is For, Alliance Theater, Westport Country Playhouse and Aye Defy. She graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University with a BA in Performing & Media Arts and Spanish, and holds an MFA in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama.

Un artista nacido en Texas, con sede en Nueva York cuyo estilo narrativo distintivo atrajo la atención inmediata de este dramaturgo de carrera temprana. La serie de exposiciones individuales en curso de Mark, incluyendo Empanada Loca, le ha valido la reputación de ser una nueva luz de vanguardia del género de un solo artista.

Dramaturgo, director e intérprete con sede en Glasgow, Escocia. El trabajo de McNair de 2017 se agotó. Ganador del premio Fringe First Letters to Morrissey es el tercero en una trilogía de trabajos a menudo oscuramente cómicos basados en las alegrías y luchas de crecer en la clase obrera escocesa.

(she/her) is a citizen of Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, Mvskoke, award-winning playwright, director, Artistic Director of Red Eagle Soaring, and co-Founder of Groundwater Arts. Works include Sections, He’eo’o (Winner of the 2019 Native Storytellers Contest), Quantum (2020 and 2021 Finalist for the National Playwrights Conference), Bound (2019 Native American New Play Festival Winner), Hamlet: El Príncipe de Denmark, Don Juan, Arbeka (Supported by First Peoples Fund Cultural Capital Fellowship), Patchwork, Oñgwehoñwe, Snag, Sugar, and OklaHOME. She is also the writer behind The Oklahoma Cycle, a seven play, interconnected cycle centered on Seminole and Mvskoke peoples in Oklahoma.
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Un dramaturgo con sede en Nueva York, cuyos honores incluyen el premio Paula Vogel a la Dramaturgia, el Premio a la Dramaturgia Lorraine Hansberry, y el premio Douglas Turner Ward de la Compañía Negro Ensemble. Su obra Pass over (Teatro Steppenwolf, 2017) recibió un Premio Jeff por su nueva y destacada obra. Su obra más reciente Breach: a manifesto on race in America through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate fue producida por Victory Gardens el pasado febrero de 2018.

A graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and a Core Writer at The Playwrights’ Center. She has been awarded the 2006 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize in Drama, the 2009 Pen Center USA Literary Award in Drama, the 2013 National Latino Playwriting Award, and is a 2019 Kendeda Finalist. Her plays have been produced by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arizona Theatre Company, New Jersey Repertory Company, American Conservatory Theater, Stages Repertory Theatre, Halcyon Theatre, Shotgun Players, Su Teatro, and Brava Theater.

C. QUINTANA, or CQ (she/any) is a queer writer with Cuban and New Orleans roots based on Canarsee and Munsee Lenape land in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Plays include AZUL (Diversionary Theatre), SCISSORING (INTAR), CITIZEN SCIENTIST (Barrington Stage Company Burman New Play Award), EVENSONG (Astoria Performing Arts Center), ENTER YOUR SLEEP (Yale Cabaret), and more. CQ is the recipient of grants & fellowships from NYSCA, Café Royal Cultural Foundation, MacDowell, Playwrights Realm, Van Lier/New Voices at The Lark, CubaOne, Lambda Literary, and Queer|Art, as well as commissions from the Carthage College New Play Initiative, The Kennedy Center, The Civilians, and the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Project. Television writing credits include ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES (AMC) and THE BAKER AND THE BEAUTY (ABC). CQ is a proud graduate of the now defunct College of Santa Fe (RIP) and holds an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University. For more, visit cquintana.com or @cquintanatown

Escritor, actor y músico. Rossmer co-escribió un libro, música y letras (con Steve Rosen) para la aclamada comedia The Other Josh Cohen, que se estrenó en Off-Broadway y fue nominada para seis Drama Desk Awards, el Lucille Lortel Award y el Off-Broadway Alliance Award. También co-creó el exitoso programa de variedades Don't Quit Your Night Job, el cual comenzó en el Teatro Público de la ciudad de Nueva York y se mudó a un exitoso programa Off-Broadway.

Omer Abbas Salem is a playwright and actor. His work has been produced by Steppenwolf Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, About Face Theater, Steep Theatre, First Floor Theater, Jackalope Theater, The New Coordinates, National Queer Theater, and The Theatre School of DePaul. He is the winner of the 3Arts Award in Theater for 2022, the 2022 Cunningham Commission, the 2022 Blueprint Commission, a semi-finalist for the 2021 Amplify Commission, a member of the 2022 Goodman Playwrights Unit, the 2021 Steppenwolf Scout Development, and attended The New Harmony Project in 2023 as a writer. He is an ensemble member of Steep Theatre, Jackalope Theatre, First Floor Theater, and The New Coordinates. He is represented by Gray Talent Agency and The Gersh Agency.

Michael Shayan is an Iranian-American Jewish playwright and performer based in NY. He was a Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting. He has recently developed and presented work at New York Stage & Film, La MaMa, The Lark, Project Y and Dixon Place. He is currently developing a theatrical project with Susanne Bartsch. BA: Harvard College. MFA: Playwriting, Brooklyn College, under Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney. Recipient of the Himan Brown Playwriting Award. Finalist: New Dramatists. Michael was also a member and performer at The Magic Castle in Hollywood.

Una estudiante actual de dramaturgia en Juilliard. Madhuri es la ganadora del concurso de dramaturgia para graduados Kendeda que organiza el Teatro de la Alianza por su obra In Love and Warcraft, para la que realizó el estreno mundial. Más recientemente, su obra Queen fue producida en Victory Gardens en Chicago.

Sinfolk is an NYC-based writing team committed to elevating their music experiences with narrative journey. J’s original music and voice can be heard on network TV shows and commercials worldwide and her self-produced music videos have been viewed by millions. Gabriel Ruiz’s acting career has sent him from stage to screen to Broadway while he has written and produced podcasts and original music. They’ve made a habit of writing love songs since they started dating that has continued into their marriage. Together they combine their abilities in composition and sound design to become a genre-bending creative duo bridging the distance between stages and recording studios.

Realizador de teatro multidisciplinar de Teherán, actualmente con sede en Berlín, Alemania. Sus obras han sido traducidas a más de 25 idiomas y representadas en todo el mundo.

Un dramaturgo cuyos créditos incluyen pero no se limitan a, Oo-bla-dee (ganador del premio New Play Award de la Asociación Americana de Críticos de Teatro), Drowning Crow (Manhattan Theatre Club), y The Trinity River Plays (Dallas Theater Center and the Goodman Theatre). El aclamado Crowns de Taylor sigue siendo uno de los musicales más interpretados en el país, y es el ganador de cuatro premios de Washington, D.C. Helen Hayes.

Un dramaturgo galardonado, que tiene un MFA en Cine de Howard University, un MFA en Escritura Dramática de New York University y, más recientemente, un diploma de artista en dramaturgia de The Julliard School. Los honores de Tyler incluyen el premio Paul Robeson y el premio John Golden Award por Excelencia en Dramaturgia de New York University. Su obra Dolphins and Sharks se estrenó mundialmente en 2016 con la compañía LABrynth Theatre, y su obra Some Old Black Man se estrenará esta primavera en el 59E59 Theatre.

Amanda Wilkin is a playwright, actress and jazz and blues singer-songwriter from London. In 2017 she was on the Royal Court and BBC London Writers’ Groups. After touring HAMLET to 188 countries with Shakespeare's Globe, she wrote her first play AND I DREAMT I WAS DROWNING, which was developed as part of the Talawa Firsts Festival 2018. She has since written and performed short pieces at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, THE LITTLE SOB as part of Dark Night of the Soul in early 2019, and BESSIE COLEMAN as part of Notes to the Forgotten She-Wolves in early 2020. She is writing a play about the history of protest songs and another about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Photo courtesy of Helen Murray.

Un galardonado poeta, dramaturgo y libretista, ha sido producido Off-Broadway y a través de los EE.UU. en lugares como: Ópera de Filadelfia, Teatro Apolo, Ópera Madison, y la Ópera Lírica de Chicago. La obra de Wimberly de 2001 Saint Lucy's Eyes protagonizada por Ruby Dee se estrenó en el Alliance Theatre de Atlanta, el Cherry Lane Theatre, el St. Louis Black Repertory Theatre y el Women's Project de la ciudad de Nueva York. Su reciente obra Charlie Parker's Yardbird protagonizada por Lawrence Brownlee, se estrenó en el Hackney Empire y en la Ópera Real Inglesa de Londres en 2017.