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Michael Bradford
Michael Bradford is the Department Head of Drama at the University of Connecticut and Artistic Director of the Connecticut Repertory Theatre. His work has been produced in New York (The American Place Theatre, The Lark, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the HERE Art Center) and regionally (eta Creative Arts Foundation, Inc., Chicago, Il.; the Playhouse on Park, Hartford, Ct.; ACT, Seattle, Wa.) and internationally (Teatro Rita Montaner, Havana, Cuba; Brixton East Theatre, London, UK). His workshops and readings include The Negro Ensemble Co., The Ne...
Sam Chanse
Sam Chanse is the author of Trigger, The Opportunities of Extinction, Fruiting Bodies, The Other Instinct, What You Are Now, Lydia’s Funeral Video,and Asian American Jesus. Her work has been developed with The Lark, Ma-Yi Theater, Cherry Lane, Leviathan Lab, Ars Nova, and Ensemble Studio Theater/Sloan Project, and is published by Kaya Press (Lydia’s Funeral Video) and TCG (The Kilroys List). She is a resident playwright of New Dramatists, a member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, and a Lark Venturous Fellow. A former fellow at MacDowell, Cherry Lane ...
J. Julian Christopher
J. Julian Christopher is a Queer, Puerto Rican and Dominican playwright. He holds an MFA in Acting from The New School for Drama. Playwriting awards include: The 2009 Public Theater Emerging Writers Group, the 2014 Best New Work Motif Award, the 2015 Queens Arts Council Grant, the 2017 & 2018 Pipeline Theatre Company PlayLab, the 2018 La Guardia Community College’s LGBTQ History Project Grant, and the Class of 2025 New Dramatists Residency. Productions include: Man Boobs (Pride Films & Plays, 2011), Nico was a Fashion Model (Counter-Produ...
Xavier Galva
Xavier Galva is a Dominican- American writer/performer/ teaching artist born in Washington Heights and raised in the Bronx. He trained as an actor at the Atlantic Acting School. He is a founding member of The Rattlestick's apprentice company: The Middle Voice. He’s a member of the 2014-2015 Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group and Gingold Theatrical 2017 Speakers Corner Writers Group. His plays have been developed by MCC Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Rattlestick Playwriting Theater, The Lark, and The Middle Voice. last edited 7/31/2019
Dipika Guha
Dipika Guha was born in Calcutta and raised in South India, Russia, and the United Kingdom. Her plays include Yoga Play (South Coast Rep, Upcoming: Gateway Theatre Vancouver, Moxie Theatre & SF Playhouse), The Art of Gaman (Theatre 503 London, Relentless Award semifinalist), and Unreliable (Upcoming: Kansas City Rep). Recent works includes Azaan, a play for for Oregon Symphony Orchestra, contributions to You Across From Me (Humana, Actors Theatre of Louisville), Elizabeth for the McCarter Theatre’s Princeton and Slavery Project and In Braunau...
Dave Harris
Dave Harris is a poet and playwright from West Philly. His plays include White History (Victory Gardens Ignition Festival, finalist O'Neill, semi-finalist The Relentless Award), Exception to the Rule (finalist O'Neill), Tambo & Bones (Black Swan Lab at Oregon Shakespeare Fest, SPACE on Ryder Farm), Incendiary (NNPN/The Kennedy Center MFA Workshop), and Everybody Black. He is a member of The Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm, a Cave Canem Poetry Fellow, a Callaloo poetry fellow, and the 2018 winner of The Rattle Poetry Prize. His first full-...
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s plays include Everybody (Signature Theatre; Pulitzer Prize-finalist), War (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre; Pulitzer Prize-finalist), Appropriate (Signature Theatre; Obie Award), An Octoroon (Soho Rep; Obie Award) and Neighbors (The Public Theater). A Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre, his most recent honors include the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright from the London Evening Standard, a London Critics Circle Award, a MacArthur fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize f...
C.A. Johnson
C. A. Johnson hails from Metairie Louisiana, but currently lives and writes in Queens, NY. Her plays include All The Natalie Portmans (upcoming at MCC Theater in 2020), Thirst (2017 Kilroys List, The Contemporary American Theater Festival), The Climb (2018 Cherry Lane Mentor Project), An American Feast (NYU Playwrights Horizons Theater School), and Mother Tongue. She is a Core Writer at the Playwrights Center. She was previously the 2018 P73 Playwriting Fellow, The Lark's 2016-17 Van Lier Fellow, a Dramatists Guild Fellow, a member of The Civilia...
Abe Koogler
Abe Koogler’s produced plays include Aspen Ideas (upcoming at DC’s Studio Theatre), Fulfillment Center (Manhattan Theatre Club, Red Orchid Theatre), Kill Floor (Lincoln Center Theatre, American Theater Company), Lisa, My Friend (Kitchen Dog Theatre), and Blue Skies Process (Goodman Theatre’s New Stages Festival). Awards include a Lanford Wilson Award from the Dramatists Guild, an Obie Award for Playwriting, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Weissberger Award. His work is published by Dramatists Play Service and Bloomsbury. He received an MF...
Ife Olujobi
Ife Olujobi is a playwright and editor from Columbia, Maryland. She is a member of the 2018-19 Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater. Her work has been seen at the Charity Randall Theater (Pittsburgh, PA), Bishop Arts Theater Center (Dallas, TX), City Pier A (New York, NY), and the Abe Burrows Theater at NYU. She is the managing editor of The Supplements, a series of artists books created and published by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins in conjunction with Soho Rep. She also is the founder and editor of Townies, a zine exploring the experiences o...
Leah Nanako Winkler
Leah Nanako Winkler is a Japanese American playwright from Kamakura, Japan and Lexington, Kentucky. Her plays include Kentucky (2015 Kilroys List, World Premiere: Ensemble Studio Theatre in co-production with Page 73 and the Radio Drama Network. West Coast Premiere: East West Players), Two Mile Hollow (2017 Kilroys List, 2017-2018 Simultaneous World Premiere at Artists At Play in LA, Mixed Blood/Theater Mu in Minneapolis, First Floor Theater in Chicago and Ferocious Lotus in SF), Death For Sydney Black (terraNova Collective, Thinking Cap Theater,...

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