D.L. Siegel is a born and raised New Yorker, currently residing in Brooklyn. BA in English and Theater from Princeton University and MFA in Playwriting from The New School for Drama. Credits include: HERE Arts Center, Silver Spring Stage, Millibo Art Theatre, Independent Actors Theatre, The Gallery Players, Modern-Day Griot Theatre, Pink Banana Theatre, Ticket 2 Eternity to Productions, Hip Obscurity, and the New York International Fringe Festival among others. This fall, Atalanta K.O. will be performed as a staged reading through Artemisia in Chicago, and D.L. will present a world premiere full-length in Wyoming in Summer 2015.
D Lee Miller is the author of BEATRIX IN THE SHADOWS, THE QUICKENING, WHEN THE DODGERS LEFT BROOKLYN, ANIMATION IN DUST and RED QUARTERS among other plays. Her plays have been presented at EST, CAP 21, Alice’s Fourth Floor, LaMaMa ETC, the Vital Theatre, Playground Hub (San Francisco), Kansas City Women’s Playwrights Festival, New Vision Theatre, Stagecrafter’s, Shenandoah Valley International Playwrights Retreat & the West Bank Cafe. Her play, She is, happily, a repeat offender with 365 Women a Year. ORIGAMI TEARS, is included in FACING FORWARD, published by Broadway Play Publishing. Her play, BROKEN HEART SYMDROME, is in the anthology 105 FIVE MINUTE PLAYS by Smith and Kraus.
Daniel Kinch is a playwright, actor, and historian. His play A CLOWN, A HAMMER, A BOMB, AND GOD premiered at the New York International Fringe Festival and has toured the United States and Europe. Mr. Kinch’s 30+ other plays include PETRA KELLY SPEAKS TO POWER (a biography of the founder of the German Green Party, developed by Artists In Search Of…) and A GOOD DAY 2 PIE (about protest against Monsanto). His play HOW TO STOP THE EMPIRE WHILE KEEPING YOUR DAY JOB has received over 12,000 views on YouTube.
Danielle Winston is a writer/director fascinated by what remains unseen in the shadows. Whether writing psychological thrillers or romantic comedy-dramas, her stories are interwoven with a dark sneaky sense of humor. Winston’s one act stage plays have been produced numerous times at local Manhattan theaters, a few have won audience choice awards. Winston’s screenplays are driven by complicated female protagonists, reoccurring elements include artists and supernatural happenings. Living in New York City provides Winston with an unstoppable source of cinematic inspiration. Usually Manhattan’s backdrop springs to life as a vivid character in her works. Hands of Fate, the short thriller film-turned-web-series, also inspired a television series and feature screenplay about three women who form a dangerous secret pact. Other current projects include, Love In Reverse, a feature screenplay, told backwards that reveals itself like a mystery of human nature. For children, her fantastical picture book series, Betsy Green Bean, is about a witch who has a magical adventure.
Danielle Wirsansky is a playwright and librettist. She has participated in the 365 Women A Year Playwriting Project since it’s very first year! Her plays and musicals have been performed around the world from Sligo, Ireland to London, England, to Boston, MA, to Plano, TX and from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee to Florida State University to the Museum of Jewish Heritage. She is also a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. You can find out more about her and her work at www.DanielleWirsansky.com!
Darian Lindle is a playwright, director and novelist living in Seattle, WA. She recently directed a one-man show currently touring the US: Tesla Ex Machina. Her other plays include: The Westing Game (Dramatic Publishing), The City of Crooked Teeth, Jackson, and The Secret and Impossible League of the NooSphere which will be produced by LG! Theater in 2017, as well as numerous short plays. She wrote a paranormal romance novel with her sister and is currently working on a middle-grade mystery. Darian graduated from Indiana University. When not writing, she enjoys reading, hiking and singing with her twin daughters named for Greek gods.
DAVID BELKE is an award winning playwright based in Edmonton Canada. His plays have been produced across Canada and the United States as well as in England, Northern Ireland, India, Greece, Ghana and Singapore. Having premiered his first play at the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival in 1990, he has gone to write a new play for each subsequent annual festival. With over fifty produced plays on his résumé David has served as resident playwright with Edmonton’s Shadow Theatre and Holy Trinity Anglican Church while having played leadership roles with Playwrights Guild of Canada and Alberta Playwrights Network.
David Marrs I was a member of Birmingham Youth Theatre in the 1980’s. I have since had plays performed at Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury Playhouse and in venues locally and in Bath. I was a founding member of Salisbury Fringe Festival in 2013. Which continues to support new writing. In 2014 I was part of Theatre Fest West and had work performed at Salisbury Playhouse. In 2015, while living in Barcelona, I begun to do a lot of improv’ as a way of developing ideas. This resulted in my involvement in a short film and having a short play produced on stage.
David Preece has had several productions of his plays and screenplays, including Charles Dickens’ Ghost Stories, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The House of the Seven Gables, and Tender. His movie, Lunch with Eddie, which I wrote, directed, and produced, was shown at over thirty international film festivals and won several awards including Best Short Film and Best Director. He has received theatre and film training at HB Studios, Playwrights Horizons, American Conservatory Theatre, and the University of California-Los Angeles. Mr. Preece is a member of the Dramatist Guild.
Deb Caperton Ballard is a playwright from Texas with one full length play to her credit and several short plays, two of which have been produced on stage in Chicago. She resides in the Dallas area with her husband, Kevin, but spends weeks at a time living and writing in her “beloved Manhattan.”
Deanne Stillman’s latest play is “Reflections in a D’back’s Eye,” to be produced at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica in January 2020, directed by Darrell Larson. It was a semi-finalist for the 2019 Blue Ink Playwriting Award from American Blues Theater and a finalist in the 2018 Cutting Ball Theater’s Playwrights Series. Her other plays include “Star Maps” (LA premiere, April 17, 2016 at the Hudson Theatre, InkFest series for women playwrights via 2Cents Theatre); “Twentynine Palms” (monologue adapted from her acclaimed book of same title), full production at True Crime Night, January 13, 2016, at the Three Clubs in Hollywood; “Life’s a Beach: An Evening of One-Act Plays” (“Star Maps” and “Pray for Surf”), staged reading, June 27, 2015 at the Clairemont Community Act One Community Theatre in San Diego; “Inside the White House” and “Billy the Kid and Lee Harvey Oswald Praise Citizenship in the American Dreamtime,” workshop production, November 23, 2013, UCR ARTSBlock, Riverside, CA), directed by Carol Lynne Damgen.
Deborah Savadge Playwright, dramaturg, director. Member of the DG, AEA and SAG-AFTRA. Literary Manager: Playwrights Gallery.
Deneen Reynolds-Knott is a playwright living in Brooklyn, New York. She developed her one-act, OPPOSING OPHELIA with the Frank Silvera Workshop’s 2016 3in3 Playwright Residency. Her full-length play, BATON, was a finalist for the 2016 Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers. Her ten minute play, DANGLING, was a finalist in the 2016 Little Black Dress INK project. Deneen is the co-creator and executive producer of BULK, a web series about friendships and romances within the gay bear community in New York City.
Denise Despeyroux es autora, directora de escena y licenciada en Filosofía. Cuenta con diez obras estrenadas en salas de Madrid, Barcelona, Buenos Aires y Montevideo, entre ellas Cuarta Pared, Teatro Fernán Gómez, Sala Beckett, El Extranjero y Teatro Solís.
Ha obtenido diversos premios y reconocimientos, como: Premio Federico García Lorca 2005; Premio al Mejor Espectáculo en la 15ª Mostra de Teatre de Barcelona 2010; finalista al Premio Max Revelación 2013 y la candidatura a Mejor Autoría en los Premios Max 2014.
Diana Cristóbal Herrero es Licenciada en Dirección y Dramaturgia por la RESAD de Madrid. Como Autora, destacan las obras: “Situaciones ridículas en un mundo ridículo” estrenada en el festival de “La Alternativa” en la Sala Triángulo (2004). “¡A tomar por culo!” estrenada en el teatro Buero Vallejo. (2005). La Dramaturgia de encargo del infantil “El viaje de Rita” Editorial: Librosaurio. (2007) Estreno: Casa de Vacas del Retiro. Adaptación dramatúrgica y Ayudante de Dirección de la obra: “Los últimos días de Enmanuell Kant” de Alfonso Sastre. Estreno: R.E.S.A.D. (2009) Publicación es la pieza corta: La Casa púrpura. Ediciones Fundamentos. (2009/2010) Es finalista en la modalidad de relato hipercorto en los premios INJUVE (2010). Ha trabajado como ayudante de Dirección en la Cía Ballet Madrid en la obra “La Puta Crisis” de María Graciani y ayudante de producción en los Ballet “El Cascanueces” (Estreno Teatro Apolo, 2011). Ha trabajado en la Cía Producciones Off Madrid como Ayudante de Dirección con la obra “Antílopes” de Henning Mankell dirigida por Luis Maluenda. (2012). Es premio José Martín Recuerda por su obra Princesas de hueso. Acaba de ser editada su obra infantil en co-escritura para teatro de la infancia la juventud: “En el mundo del revés” por la revista Acotaciones. Editorial Fundamentos. Estrena para el II Certamen de Barroco Infantil de Almagro “Segismundo, el príncipe prisionero” adaptación infantil de La vida es sueño de Calderón de la Barca.(Candidata a los premios Max)
Diane Baia Hale is a Chicago-based playwright whose drama, THE MARBLE MUSE, was a winner for Capital Repertory Theatre’s NEXT ACT! New Play Summit; Jewish Ensemble Theatre’s JETFest; and Boomerang Theatre Company’s First Flight Festival. THE MARBLE MUSE also took third prize in the 84th Annual “Writer’s Digest” Writing Competition—Stage Play Category, and the Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women. Other full-length plays include RAKE (finalist, 2013 Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Play Competition; semi-finalist 2014 Pride Films and Plays Contest); THE WISDOM OF SERPENTS (finalist, 2009 Jane Chambers Award; published, Xlibris, 2014); DRAGON’S TEETH; and THE LION’S SHARE.
Donna Hoke Western New York regional representative for the Dramatists Guild, award-winning playwright Donna Hoke’s work has been seen in 34 states and on five continents. Her full-length plays include THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR (currently playing in its third year in rep in Romania), SEEDS (Artie award winner), FLOWERS IN THE DESERT (AACT top 20 finalist), SAFE (winner of the 2014 Todd McNerney National Playwriting and Naatak National Playwriting Contests, and the 2015 Great Gay Play and Musical Contest), andBRILLIANT WORKS OF ART (winner Firehouse Festival of New American Plays and top ten finisher Woodward/Newman Drama Contest). Donna is also a New York Times-published crossword puzzle constructor; author of Neko and the Twiggets, a children’s book; and founder/co-curator of BUA Takes 10: GLBT Short Stories. For three consecutive years, she was named Buffalo’s Best Writer by Artvoice, the only woman to ever receive the designation.
Donna Latham’s plays have been produced coast to coast and around the world. Kennedy Center Finalist for the David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award, she received the National Theatre for Young Audiences Award. Recently, Wretched Deathbed Fever Dreams of Edgar Allan Poereceived the Design Challenge Award at KCACTF, and Be Bold, Be Bold received the silver award at HearNow Festival. Donna’s works are included in Best American Short Plays 2017-2018, Best American Short Plays 2014-2015,and 2016’s Best Ten-Minute Plays anthologies. Resident playwright at Rising Sun Performance Company NYC and a script reader for Houston’s Alley Theatre, she’s a proud member of the Dramatist Guild.
Dorothy Velasco Oregon resident Dorothy Velasco has written over 30 plays produced around the United States and abroad. Her musical, Miracle in Memphis, was published by Samuel French. Her outdoor drama, Oregon Fever, played for 11 summers at Oregon City. She co-authored the feature film, Raising Flagg, starring Alan Arkin, and wrote and co-produced several award-winning video documentaries. Velasco received an Oregon Institute of Literary Arts Playwriting Fellowship, Oregon Individual Artist Fellowship, Eugene Arts Foundation Arts & Letters Award and the Alvord Award for Service to the Arts. She belongs to the Dramatists Guild of America.
DS Magid Playwright, composer, lyricist, director, Broadway veteran, poet, and all-round energetic sort, DS Magid’s works comprise long, short, drama, comedy, pop and C&W musicals, romcom, tragedy, SciFi, verse and free-verse, modern, historical, magic realism, rock and chamber operas, and Richard Wagner’s Entire Ring Cycle in Ten Minutes with Sock Puppets. Magid is an emeritus Cleveland Public Theatre Artist and alum of the Cleveland Play House Playwrights’ Unit, a WISC Fellow, and a Wurlie. She’s currently published in the November-December 2018 issue of The Dramatist, and you may find her on dsmagid.com and miseentheatre.wordpress.com.
Dwayne Yancey is a playwright in the Blue Ridge Mountain of Virginia. He’s had scripts published and produced all around the world. You can find more at www.dwayneyancey.com.
Earl T. Roske Playwright and writer of fiction. Earl lives in Hayward, California with his wife, daughter, two cats, and ten fish. Earl’s short plays have been produced around the world from Long Island, NY to Chennai, India. As always, he is hard at work on a full length play.
Elaine Flynn keeps searching for fascinating women to portray. Currently she performs two one women shows in a variety of venues including local theatres, women’s clubs, senior communities, government organizations and even Thule Air Force Base in Greenland! Her plays are entitled “The Wit of Dorothy Parker” and “Alice Roosevelt Longworth Presents: Scandals in the City”. Most recently she performed as Dorothy at the National Press Club where the American Women Writers Museum has their fundraising. She will present both characters at Mary Washington University at a forum entitled Women who Defy Convention.
Elise Geither‘s plays have been produced in New York, California, Ohio, Minnesota, and her monologues appear in the chapbooks “Horse Latitudes: Monologues for Women” and “Monologues for Poets.” Her short “The Stone” was a Pushcart Prize nominee. Geither has a PhD in Education and works with international students at the university level. Her book, “Helping Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder Express their Thoughts and Knowledge in Writing” was published in 2014.
Elizabeth Orndorff worked in advertising, public relations and publications production before turning to fiction and playwriting. She has degrees from Grove City College (PA), University of Georgia, and University of Kentucky, where she taught journalism. Her play Death by Darkness won the International Mystery Writers Festival in 2007 and the Southern Playwrights Competition in 2008. In 2009, her play Aidan’s Gift won the Kentucky Theatre Association’s playwriting award. She won a Wurlitzer Foundation Fellowship to live and write plays in Taos, New Mexico, during 2010. In 2012 she won a month-long artists exchange in Northern Ireland. She lives in Danville, Kentucky.
Ellen W. Kaplan Professor at Smith College, Fulbright Scholar, Guest Professor (Tel Aviv University; UNATEC,Bucharest). Plays: 2016: Someone Is Sure to Come about Death Row, presented at La Mama ETC; Livy in the Garden at Robert Black Theatre in Hong Kong. Previous: Cast No Shadow, premiered at Jewish State Theater of Bucharest. Pulling Apart (O’Neill Playwrights Conference finalist; Produced in New Haven, CT, Moss Hart Award); Cell Buddy and Empty Cell Windows (Bleak House award winners); Sarajevo Phoenix (interviewing women in Bosnia); With Dream Awakened Eyes, about Charlotte Salomon. Ellen was twice Finalist for the Massachusetts Playwriting Fellowship. Poems, essays, translations.
Ellen Struve is an award-winning Omaha-based playwright. Her plays have been produced across the country. Her play Prince Max’s Trewly Awful Trip to the Desolat Interior was selected for the 2015 PlayPenn Playwrights’ Conference and presented at Great Plains Theatre Conference PlayFest at Joslyn Art Museum. Recommended Reading for Girls was an O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist. She is a Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellow, Omaha Creative Institute Peer Facilitator, WhyArts resident artist and Bemis Center community artist. In 2017 she will be Creighton University’s playwright-in-residence, developing The Dairy Maid-Right and co-teaching Theatre for Social Justice.
Ellen Davis Sullivan is an award-winning writer of fiction, nonfiction and plays. Her plays have been on stage in festivals across the country including The Boston Theatre Marathon, Indie Boots (Chicago), and The Thalia Festival (New York City), and have been published in Ponder Review and anthologies, including The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2016 (Smith & Kraus). Ellen’s essay The Perfect Height for Kissing won the 2014 Columbia Nonfiction Prize and appeared in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. Her stories are published in journals including Cherry Tree, Clarion and Stonecoast Review. Ellen is a member of the Dramatists’ Guild.
Elliot Huxtable is a director/playwright living in Canterbury, Kent. His first play, an adaptation of Cervantes’ Don Quixote was performed at the University of Kent in 2013. A semi-professional theatre director, Elliot has worked with the Canterbury Shakespeare Festival since its inauguration in 2015, directing A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2015), The Merchant of Venice (2016) and Julius Caesar (2017). Professional work in London includes Politic Man in December 2016, with a tour in early 2017. He also works with Kent Coast Theatre in Whitstable, recently as an assistant director on Animal Farm (2016), and as director on Ellen (2017).
Elsa Rael, in addition to writing nine plays produced Off-Broadway and in regional theatres, has written special material for Walter Cronkite, Kaye Ballard, Gilbert Price, Marsha Mason, Beatrice Straight, and Christine Andreas. She was awarded First Prize in the Atlanta Theatre Guild Playwriting Competition and a NY State CAPS Grant. Her books for young readers have received major awards including the Children’s Book Council Choice of Books and the Sydney Taylor Book Award. As an arts advocate, she co-produced with Joseph Papp at the Public Theatre, the Professional Older Women’s Theatre Festival, including readings and performances of 33 plays written by women. For this, she was presented with a Special Citation by Governor Mario Cuomo.
Emily Atkinson is a Chicago native currently based in the Boston area. She recently received her MFA in Playwriting from Smith College, where three of her full-length plays — Fruit in Winter, An Exorcism in Cambridge, and (Act of) Contrition— received readings as part of the Smith College New Playreading Series. (Act of) Contrition also received a fully staged reading performance, supported by the Northampton Arts Council. She is also working on a novel, which was workshopped at Tin House this July.
Emily Ball Cicchini Emily is a published and prolific playwright with an interest in historical, literary, and imaginative subjects. Her plays Like A Metaphor, Mays & Terese and Becoming Brontë have been produced across the country and published by Dramatic and YouthPlays. She edited the Mother/Daughter Monologues for the International Centre for Women Playwrights (ICWP) Press, and one of her pieces appears in Scenes from a Diverse World. The Pollyanna Theatre Company, where she is playwright in residence, has commissioned and produced over a dozen plays for youth audiences, including A Christmas Rose, A Dragon’s Happy Day, Pattern Nation, and Just Bee. She has taught creative writing, acting, directing, voice, movement, and arts integration from pre-school to post-graduate levels in both formal and community based settings across the country. She has also been a radio commentator on PRI, Public Radio International’s “Primary Sources.” She holds a MFA from the University of Texas at Austin where she was a Michener Fellow, and a BFA in Acting from Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.
Emily Brauer Roger’s credits include two full-length plays that were produced at Hunger Artists Theatre Company. Her screenplay, “Romeo, Juliet and Rosaline” was recently optioned by Amazon Studios. She has been published in a Smith and Kraus anthology, “161 Monologues from Literature.” Emily has had short plays read and produced in Australia, Missouri, Los Angeles, San Diego, North Dakota, New York, Orange County and Indiana. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches analytical writing at UC Irvine.
Emmy Kuperschmid is an actor, writer, and theater artist. Plays include comment below, Blood Countess, and where has all the cat soup gone? Her monologue “Wings” was published in the Smith & Krauss anthology Evil Genius: Monsters on Stage, with an introduction by Julie Taymor. Emmy is a proud alum of Skidmore College and The National Theater Institute. EmmyKuperschmid.com.
Erin Marshall will graduate from the University of Iowa in May of 2015 with a degree in English and an emphasis in Creative Writing. Erin’s passion for theatre grew after she took a playwriting course during her freshman year of college. Since then, her plays have been in a festival and a reading at the University of Iowa. In 2014, she was selected to be a part of Horizon Theatre Company’s New South Young Playwrights Festival. In her free time, Erin enjoys eating peanut butter, running, and playing the piano.
Erin Moughon is a NYC-based playwright and teacher with an MFA from Columbia. Plays: Survived By (New Plays Now, 3LD), Slip Her a Mickey (Schapiro Theatre), Pretend That You Owe Me… (Schapiro Theatre) Short plays: Many. See erinmoughon.com for complete list. Semi-finalist for both the Princess Grace award (‘10) and the National Playwrights Conference (‘12 and ‘14) She completed 31 Plays in 31 Days and participated in 365 Women a Year every year so far. She is published in The Best Ten Minute Plays of 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2017.
Estela Garcia is a multi-disciplinary artists that specializes in physical performance and developing original work. She received her MFA from Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre. She is a Rogue Artists Ensemble member and has collaborated on many of its award winning shows. She has worked with SCR, CTG, RAE, The Pasadena Playhouse,The Dell’Arte Company, ARTEL, 24th Street Theatre, Watts Village Theater, The Grand Guignolers, and Laboratorio de las Mascaras (MX). She has performed at the Bootleg, LACMA, The Getty Villa, The Getty Center and El Portal. She is currently working on her one-woman play on surrealist painter Remedios Varo.
Eugenie Carabatsos is currently pursuing her MFA in Dramatic Writing at Carnegie Mellon University. Her full length plays have been produced by Trustus Theatre, South Park Theatre, iDiOM Theatre, and 3 Brothers Theatre, as well as in a number of festivals. Her comedy pilot, Fanny Slept Here is a finalist for the Humanitas Student Comedy Writing Fellowship, and her mini-series pilot, Colossus was awarded a $5000 grant for Carnegie Mellon’s Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenplay Competition. Her short screenplay, The Yard won the Cinequest Screenwriting Competition and New York Screenplay Contest. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2010.
Eva Hibernia Biografhy: Dramaturga, directora de escena y escritora. Autora de 19 textos teatrales, ha sido galardonada con varios premios. Destacan EL ARPONERO HERIDO POR EL TIEMPO,Áccesit al Premio Nacional de Teatro Marqués de Bradomín 1997, FUSO NEGRO, Áccesit al Premio SGAE de Teatro 2005. LA SAL, Mención Especial del Jurado Premio Nacional Escena Contemporánea 2006. Autora residente del Programa de Dramaturgia Contemporánea T6, del TNC. Escribe y dirige UNA MUJER EN TRANSPARENCIA, estrenada en el TNC y LA AMÉRICA DE EDWARD HOPPER, estrenada en el Teatre Ponent, con amplias temporadas en la Sala Beckett, Teatro Español de Madrid y gira. Este montaje gana el Premio de la Crítica a la mejor Iluminación y el Premio Max Revelación por Catalunya. Entre su producción más reciente, LOS VIEJOS MAESTROS fue Finalista del Premi Born de Teatro 2012. Más información: www. evahibernia.blogspot.com
Eva Montealegre is Anne Bonny! From the Crow’s Nest in her original play based on the historical figure, Lady Pirate, Anne Bonny. I was fortunate to have the experience of working in collaboration with Pulitzer-Prize Winning playwright, Charles Gordone, in his production of Strindberg’s Miss Julie, set in New Orleans. I garnered critical acclaim for that and for Jump At The Sun, directed by New York’s Glenda Dickerson. I researched, wrote and produced 80 mini documentaries on American History focusing on little known contributions of women and minorities. Anne Bonny is my favorite historical personality thus far.
Eva C. Schegulla is a full-time writer publishing under multiple names in fiction and non-fiction. She is an internationally-produced playwright and radio writer. Her plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, London, Edinburgh, and Australia. One of her plays originally written as part of 365 Women, “Confidence Confidant”, was adapted for radio and performed live in Boston in 2019. Find her at www.devonellingtonwork.com and www.fearlessink.com. Her blog on the writing life is Ink in My Coffee: https://devonellngton.wordpress.com.
Evelyn Jean Pine’s work explores moments when life feels brand new — whether it is or not. With Katja Rivera, she wrote THE INVISIBLE PROJECT, about how women experience invisibility as both a superpower and a superbummer. Her other full-length plays include stories of 19-year old Bill Gates, Queen Isabella, Rita Hayworth, and three golden robots created by Greek fire God Hephaestus. Pine told the story of her abortion — and her mother’s — at ReproRights. She is a June Ann Baker Award Winner, PlayGround Alumnus, and a Djerassi Resident Writer. Her award-winning short plays are performed around the country.
Francesca Peppiatt is an Emmy nominated writer whose TV work includes stints with Dick Clark, Love Connection, and Hee Haw. She appeared on The Paula Poundstone Show with Paula and Lily Tomlin, and tap-danced in a film choreographed by Twyla Tharp. Francesca is a playwright and actor with four published books to her name plus she is the Producing Artistic Director of Stockyards Theatre Project whose mission statement is – Giving Volume to the Voices of Women. Currently, Francesca writes a Chicago Theater column at Examiner.com and just completed a musical adaptation of Treasure Island, with composer Elizabeth Doyle.
Gabriella Oldham has written five books on film (First Cut: Conversations with Film Editors; First Cut 2: More Conversations with Film Editors; Keaton’s Silent Shorts: Beyond the Laughter; John Cassavetes: Interviews; Harry Langdon: King of Silent Comedy, A Biography). She has also written the book, lyrics, and music for several family theater productions: Melville and the Yellow Umbrella, According to Aesop . . . ; As Flowers Grow (based on children’s war diaries), and A Comedy of Weeds. Gabriella is also a licensed New York City tour guide, a certified floral designer, and an academic writing coach and educator.
Gabrielle Sinclair is a playwright currently based in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her plays have been developed or presented through the Actors Studio Playwright-Directors Workshop, The Annoyance Theater, the chashama Performance Series, the Sweat Shop at The Paradise Factory, Horse & Cart’s PlayOffs, The Metropolitan Playhouse Living Literature Festival, as a fellow with America-In-Play, and as resident playwright of Lonesome George Productions. Gabrielle is an associate member of the Dramatists Guild. She begins as a playwright-in-residence with Nashville Rep’s 2014-2015 Ingram New Works project this fall. MFA Playwriting – Actors Studio Drama School, NYC
Gabrielle Strasun After a mixed career as Actress and Pharmaceutical Copywriter, I started writing plays. THE COUNTESS AND THE MAID is one of ten plays I have written in the last twenty years only one of which has been produced.
Gayla Morgan began writing for musical theater by compiling 15 original pop songs into a one-woman show about optimism in the face of failed love (REFLECTIONS ON BEING SINGLE). She wrote MARY – A MUSICAL with co-librettist and friend Jean Mornard; MARY was a finalist in the 2010 O’Neill summer workshop considerations, and was presented in a NYC staged reading in 2011. Recent shows as a composer/lyricist are A DOG STORY (Eric Weinberger, book) and CONCH REPUBLIC (Monnie King, book); A DOG STORY is scheduled to open Off-Broadway in late 2016. Now back in NYC, Gayla happily shares life with her adorable Yorkiepoo, Kaya. www.GaylaMorgan.com
Germaine Shames, recipient of Arizona’s Fellowship in Fiction, is author of the award-winning novels, Between Two Deserts and You, Fascinating You. Writing under the pen name Casper Silk (Hotel Noir, Echo Year), she has been compared to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene and P.D. James “on steroids”. A returning playwright, Shames majored in Theatre as an under-graduate. In addition to her original plays, Shames has made a mission of adapting and re-imagining classic 19th and early 20th-century novels for the stage with an emphasis on works with strong women’s roles and relationships. As a librettist and lyricist, Shames writes with award-winning composers in musical theatre, opera, choral and popular music. She is proud to mentor teen playwrights at her state theatre. Website: http://germainewrites.com New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/2551/germaine-shames
Gina Scanlon (cofounder of 365 Women a Year) is native Floridian, scriptwriter and a freelance writer/producer for BBC America and CBS Interactive. Her first play was performed in high school, and included 2 chefs with silly French accents, and singing. She has had various plays produced in both London and New York since. Gina enjoys stories that are challenging and female-friendly. Let’s give more strong women equal representation on stage and screen, kids! She currently lives in the City of Angels. Follow Gina on Twitter @JeanGina3D.
Gina Stevensen’s plays include THE COLONY (The Signature Theatre, Finalist: Kennedy Center 2018 MFA Playwrights Workshop), CRUEL SISTER (Semi-Finalist: O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2018), KIDS (Williamstown Theatre Festival 2017), and BOOK OF ESTHER (Top Ten Finalist: 2017 Jewish Playwriting Contest, Semi-Finalist: 2016 Princess Grace Award). Gina is a member of Joust Theatre Company’s 2018 Writer’s Round Table and teaches playwriting at Tribeca Performing Arts Center and The Writer’s Rock. She recently assisted playwright, performer, and activist Eve Ensler on her solo show IN THE BODY OF THE WORLD at MTC. BFA Drama: NYU Tisch. MFA Playwriting: Columbia University. www.ginastevensen.com
Gina Russell Tracy is an Award Winning actress ,Director ,Producer. She has performed with Julie Harris ,Beau Bridges, Ted Neeley ,Howard McGillian, Goldie Hawn, Pierce Brosnan, Anthony Edwards ,Phil Hartman and others. She currently is working on a Trilogy that deals with Climate Change .She is a graduate of Califonia State University at Northridge and part of the Santa Barbara High School Legacy under Jack Nakano. Website under construction. She is a member of AEA,SAG,AFTRA,SSDC and Dramatist Guild .She is available to be a Teaching Artist and Consultant.
Glenda Frank, a member of the American Renaissance Theatre Company and Playwrights Gallery, has written six full length plays and two dozen short pieces. The Fourth Estate was produced by the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival. The Insurgents (formerly The Beekeeper) was a semi-finalist at the National Playwrights Conference. She holds a Ph. D. in Theatre, teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, and reviews for nytheatre-wire.com and Plays International and Europe. She is a member of Dramatist Guild, League of Professional Theatre Women, Drama Desk, the American and the International Theatre Critics, and other professional groups.
Grace Ellis has been writing plays since 1976, and she has enjoyed seeing twenty-five of her plays performed—in the Sandhills of North Carolina, at evenings of short plays sponsored by the Greensboro Playwrights Forum, at Guilford Technical Community College, and at several churches. Her most recent full-length play, Rhonda’s Rites of Passage, was selected for a staged reading at the Carrboro Arts Center in April, 2014.Grace Ellis completed a Master’s degree in Theater at Hunter College in New York City, where she studied playwriting with Tina Howe. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild. http://www.gracewinnellis.com.
Gyda Arber is a writer/director best known for the transmedia theatrical experiences Suspicious Package (The Brick, 59E59, Edinburgh Fringe, Future Tenant: Pittsburgh), Suspicious Package: Rx (published in Plays and Playwrights 2010), the award-winning post-apocalyptic dating show FutureMate (Lincoln Center, The Brick), and the ARG-inspired Red Cloud Rising (called “brilliant” by the NY Times). Also an actress, Arber has appeared at Lincoln Center, The Public, 59E59, and most frequently at The Brick, where she also serves as the executive producer of the Game Play festival, a celebration of video game performance art.
365 Women A Year: a playwriting project 