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Nathan Alan Davis
Nathan Alan Davis is a playwright from Rockford, Illinois, now based in New York. He received a Whiting Award in Drama in 2018. His plays include Nat Turner in Jerusalem (NYTW; New York Magazine Critic's Pick), Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea (NNPN Rolling World Premiere; Steinberg/ATCA New Play Citation, Los Angeles Times Critic's Choice), The Wind and the Breeze (Cygnet Theatre; Blue Ink Award, Lorraine Hansberry Award) and Origin Story(Premiering at Water Tower Theatre in 2019). Commissions and development include: The Public Theater, McCarter Th...
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 Dramatist Residency. Productions include: Man Boobs (Pride Films & Plays, 2011), Nico was a Fashion Model (Counter-Produc...
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 is a Brooklyn-based playwright. His 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 for Most Promising ...
Sylvia Khoury
Sylvia Khoury is a New York-born writer of French and Lebanese descent. Her plays include Selling Kabul (2018 L.Arnold Weissberger Award and Jay Harris Commission from Williamstown Theater Festival, Citation of Excellence from Laurents/Hatcher Award, 2017 Kilroys List, Noor Theater Highlight Reading Series, La Jolla Playhouse DNA Reading Series), Against the Hillside (Ensemble Studio Theater premiere, Lark Playwrights' Week, Eugene O'Neill Playwrights' Conference, 2016 Kilroys List, Roundabout Theater Underground Reading Series, NNPN National Sho...
Arthur Kopit
Arthur Kopit is a playwright whose work includes Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (Drama Desk Award); Indians (Tony Nominee, Finalist for Pulitzer Prize); Wings (Tony Nominee, Finalist for Pulitzer Prize); a new translation of Ibsen's Ghosts; the book for the musical Nine (Tony Award for Best Musical, 1982; Tony Award for Best Musical revival, 2003); End of the World With Symposium to Follow; the books for the musicals Phantom and High Society; Road to Nirvana; Chad Curtiss, Lost Again; BecauseHeCan; A Dram ...
Tim J. Lord
Tim J. Lord is the recipient of the inaugural Apothetae and Lark Playwriting Fellowship for a writer with a disability and was a 2017-18 Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis. A native of St. Louis, his plays are still very much rooted in the Midwest, exploring the relationships between communities and the physical landscapes they inhabit often via our shared mythologies. His work has been seen at The Public Theater, The Lark, The Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, New Harmony Project, The Playwrights’ Center, Pillsb...
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,...
Lauren Yee
Lauren Yee’s Cambodian Rock Band, with music by Dengue Fever, premiered in March 2018 at South Coast Rep and will open at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Victory Gardens in 2019. Her play The Great Leap premiered this past season at Denver Center, Seattle Repertory, and Atlantic Theatre with 2019 productions slated for the Guthrie, American Conservatory Theater, Arts Club, and InterAct Theatre. Also upcoming for 2018-19: King of the Yees at Baltimore Center Stage and San Francisco Playhouse, and The Song of Summer at Trinity Rep. Recent honor...

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