Beth Blatt has written for stage, TV, radio, and print in the U.S. and abroad. She has won numerous awards,
including the Directors' Choice Award from the New York Musical Festival (book and lyrics,
The Mistress Cycle),
a Klinsky Award for musical theatre excellence from 2nd Stage, and a grant from the Jonathan Larson Foundation.
Most recently, she received a commission from The Village Theatre (Issaquah, WA) to write a new musical. Her show,
The Mistress Cycle (music, Jenny Giering) will be seen in late 2007 at the Apple Tree Theatre (Chicago).
Also with Giering, Blatt wrote the musical version of the children's book
Island of the Blue Dolphins, which
became a best-selling show for TheatreWorks USA on the West Coast. Blatt wrote lyrics for
Princess Caraboo
(book by Marsha Norman, music by Jenny Giering). Her work has been featured at many venues including the Lincoln
Center American Songbook Series, Feinstein's, the Century Center, and Symphony Space. Member: BMI/Lehman Engel
Advanced Musical Theatre and Librettist Workshops, the Dramatists' Guild. Blatt is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of
Dartmouth College.
Alexis Clements is a 2006/2007 Dramatists Guild of America fellow and recipient of a Puffin Foundation Artist
Grant for her latest project,
New Acquisition. Clements has written numerous works for both the stage and for
print. She is the winner of the Oglebay Institute's 2006 National Playwriting Contest as well as the Source Theatre's
2004 Washington Theatre Festival Literary Prize for her play
Causality. Recent theatrical productions include:
The Interview (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, UK);
Causality (Wheeling, WV);
Pieces
(Washington, DC, and Iowa City, IA);
Three Choices (Chesterfield, UK). Her short stories have appeared in a
handful of literary magazines and collections, including the Route's
Ideas Above Our Station.
www.alexisclements.com.
Kimberly del Busto is a Centro Caribe/CUNY Caribbean Exchange Grant recipient completing a doctoral dissertation
in the field of Cuban-American theatre. She also teaches theatre and speech at several NYC college campuses. Del
Busto's plays have been presented at venues including the Kennedy Center, Wow Cafe Theatre, Primary Stages, Arthur
Saleen Theatre, Southeastern Theatre Conference, 21st Century Playwrights Festival, Hippodrome State Theatre, and
Edward Albee's Great Plains Theatre Conference. Del Busto holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from the University of
Georgia. She is a member of International Centre for Women Playwrights and the Dramatists Guild, and she serves as
co-founding Artistic Director of Dos Alas Theatre (
www.dosalas.org).
Zayd Dohrn, a Juilliard Playwriting Fellow, received his MFA from NYU's Department of Dramatic Writing. His
plays have been produced at Alchemy Theatre of Manhattan, Classic Stage Company (NYC Fringe), Theatre For One, Boston
Actor's Workshop, and Boston Playwrights Theatre, and developed at Woolly Mammoth, The Flea, Studio 42, the National
New Play Network, Ensemble Studio Theatre (24Seven Lab), Kitchen Dog, and Prop Thtr. He won The Rita and Burton
Goldberg Prize in Playwriting, an IRNE Award for Best New Play, a residency with the Royal Court Theatre of London,
and is currently the Playwright in Residence at Alchemy Theatre of Manhattan.
Laura Eason is a playwright and author of more than fifteen plays (original work and adaptations). Credits from
March '07 to April '08:
Huck Finn, Steppenwolf, Chicago;
Area of Rescue, New York's Connelly Theatre,
produced by Andhow Theater;
When the Messenger is Hot, Steppenwolf and Off-Broadway at 59E59 Theatres;
Lost
in the Supermarket, Vital Theatre's New Works Festival in New York;
The Ghost's Bargain, Two River Theatre,
Red Bank, NJ; and
Around the World in 80 Days, Lookingglass Theatre, Chicago, which she will also direct.
Eason's plays have been developed at New York Theatre Workshop, MCC, and New Georges, among others.
Area of
Rescue and
When the Messenger is Hot are published by Broadway Play Publishing. She is currently writing
the book for a new musical about Bayard Rustin, conceived with Paul Oakley Stovall. Eason is an Ensemble Member and
the former Artistic Director of Lookingglass Theatre, an Affiliated Artist and Kitchen Cabinet member of New Georges
in NYC, and a graduate of the Performance Studies Department of Northwestern University. Originally from Chicago,
Laura lives in Brooklyn.
www.lauraeason.com.
Adam Gwon is a composer/lyricist whose musicals include
Ordinary Days,
Ethan Frome, and
Lulu. His work has been seen at New Dramatists, NAMT, the New York Musical Theatre Festival, the York Theatre,
The Flea, the American Music Theatre Project, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, and many others. Adam was a 2006-07
musical theater fellow at the Dramatists Guild, and was recently named "One to Watch" in
The Dramatist
magazine. Upcoming projects include
Bernice Bobs Her Hair with playwright Julia Jordan and director Joe Calarco,
and an original musical with playwright Sarah Hammond. BFA, NYU/Tisch; member, ASCAP, Dramatists Guild.
www.adamgwon.com.
Laura Henry's plays have been produced or workshopped at theatres across the country that include the Hangar
Theatre, Cleveland Public Theatre, Centenary Stage Company, Echo Theatre, and OpenStage Theatre & Co. Laura has
received fellowships from Cornerstone Theater Company, the Edward Albee Foundation, and the Dramatists Guild. She
is a graduate of the MFA playwriting program at the University of California, San Diego, and is currently a teaching
artist for Theatre for a New Audience and Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey.
David Johnston is a playwright and actor from New York. Previous NYC productions include
Busted Jesus
Comix, an adaptation of
The Oresteia;
The Standards of Decency Project;
George Dubya and the
Xmas of Evil (all with Blue Coyote Theater Group); and
Candy & Dorothy with Kevin Newbury (also at
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre). David is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Blue Coyote Theater Group, and Charles
Maryan's Playwrights/Directors Workshop. Playwriting awards include the B.W. Morris Playwright Residency at the
University of Cincinnati, and awards from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation, the
Berrilla Kerr Foundation, and GLAAD.
Andrea Lepcio's plays have been presented at HERE, Chashama, Manhattan Theatre Source, Vital Theatre, and Women's
Project, among others in New York and regionally. Her screenplay,
A September Spring, won a Sloan Foundation Award.
Hook & Eye won the Trustus National Playwrights Award. A two-time finalist for the Heideman Award, her short plays and
monologues have been published by Plays and Playwrights,
lichen, and Smith & Kraus. She is Program Director of the
Dramatists Guild Fellows. She is a member of the BMI Librettist Workshop, Dramatist Guild, NewShoe, New York Theatre
Experience Advisory Committee, and Women's Project Playwrights' Lab. M.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University.
Kate McLeod's plays have been seen at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Center Stage, and the Actor's Ensemble Theatre
Festival. TSI, Inc. produced her one-act,
Ice Floes, or Don't Stay, Please Go, No Wait. . . in June 2007. It was
produced at The Midtown International Theatre Festival in July and in December by the Looking Glass Theatre.
Dad's
Arrival was performed at Edward Albee's Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, AK in 2003. She received a
playwriting fellowship at Jentel Artists Residency Program in Sheridan, WY in 2005 and at Ledig House in Ghent, NY,
in 2006. Dramatists' Guild; MFA, Catholic U.
Sally Oswald's plays have been seen or developed at New Georges, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Galapagos,
Dixon Place, St. Ann's Warehouse Puppet Lab, The Hangar Theatre, The Flea, Ensemble Studio Theater, Voice and Vision,
and Polybe+Seats, among others. She is the recipient of a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights' Center and fellowships
from the MacDowell Colony, The Millay Colony, The Dramatists Guild, Ensemble Studio Theater, and the Ohio State
University/Thurber House. With Jordan Harrison, she edits
Play A Journal of Plays. She holds an MFA in
playwriting from Brown University.
Molly B. Rice has been a finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights' Festival ('07), New Dramatists ('06, '07), the
Heidemann Award ('03, '07), the O'Neill (finalist '06, semifinalist '07), and the Princess Grace Award, and a
three-time semifinalist for PlayLabs. Publications: Heinemann Press, LMDA's
Review. Residencies: Voice &
Vision, Hangar Theater. Awards: Weston Award for Playwriting (Brown); nominee, Outstanding Original Short Play,
New York IT Awards; winner, Women's International Playwriting Festival. Memberships: Women's Project Lab,
Playwrights' Center. MFA: Brown University. Teaching: Brown, University of Rhode Island. Molly is currently Visiting
Assistant Professor of Playwriting at Kenyon College, taking the place of Wendy MacLeod for the year.
DeLora Whitney, a playwright and screenwriter, received her MFA in Playwriting from the New School ('07). Following
graduation, DeLora was Readings and Workshops Coordinator for New York Stage & Film's 2007 summer season. Prior to graduate
school, she spent two seasons as Associate Program Director and Literary Manager for the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project. As a director she has worked with numerous playwrights on the development of
new plays Ð directing readings and workshops for Romulus Linney, Edward Alan Baker, Julie McKee, and Amy Fox, among others.
She worked extensively with the sketch comedy team of Bethel Caram and Neil Potter Ð directing shows at venues including Catch
a Rising Star, NY, and the HBO Workspace, LA. Her own work has been seen in New York at Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Cocteau,
the Kraine, and the New School; and in Texas at the Strand Theatre.
