Cayenne Douglass’ (select) credits and development opportunities include Ensemble Studio Theatre (One Act Marathon 2019, Sloan Project Commission 2023), Theatre Masters (Take Ten 2020, Visionary Playwright Award 2022) Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Fresh Ink, New Perspectives, Company One Theatre, Exquisite Corpse Company, Letter of Marque, Dixon Place, The Tank, Tofte Lake, The Kennedy Center and BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. Cayenne has been published by Concord Theatricals and was recently awarded the NYC Women’s Fund/NYFA grant to produce her play, Maiden Voyage which will be mounted in NYC 2024. MFA in Playwriting, Boston University. Website: www.cayennedouglass.com IG: bruteful_theatre.

Reid Pope is a comedian, playwright, and Jew who’s been featured in Vulture, PAPER, and Boys With Plants Magazine. They were a finalist for the 2023 Terrence McNally Incubator and have developed plays with Jewish Plays Project, Normal Ave, Primetime Theatre, The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, and Edinburgh Fringe. Their television pilot Old Queens won the 2023 ATX TV Festival Pitch Competition and they were named a 2022 New York Comedy Festival Content Creator To Watch. Reid is a New Georges Affiliated artist. B.A. Brown | M.F.A. NYU Tisch

Sam Mueller is a Chicago-born, Florida-raised, New York-based playwright. Their work primarily explores queer bodies, public spaces, and the search for safety and security to live as one's authentic self. Their plays include Laced (2022 Princess Grace Semifinalist, 2020 Kilroys List, 2019 O’Neill Finalist), 70.3 (2020 Hearth Theater Commission), and LYS (2021 WMU Commission). They find a deep joy in working with students; their work has been read at Northwestern University, Columbia College Chicago, University of Central Florida, Western Michigan University, and University of Dayton. Sam is a proud member of Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre. The plays (and Sam) are all very queer. BS: Northwestern University

Jordan Ramirez Puckett is a Latine writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Jordan’s plays include En Las Sombras, To Saints and Stars, A Driving Beat, Las Pajaritas, Restore, and Inevitable. These works have been produced and/or developed by Abingdon Theatre Company (New York, NY), Creede Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre (Chicago, IL), Harold Clurman Laboratory Theatre Company (New York, NY), Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Playwrights Foundation (San Francisco, CA), Playwrights Realm (New York, NY), San Diego Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, among others. Jordan is currently attending the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard.

Kelley Nicole Girod (she/her) is an award-winning playwright whose work centers on her Black Cajun/ Creole Louisiana heritage. Awards include Sundance IDP 2021 grantee, City Corp Artist Grant 2021, Atlantic Launch New Play Commission 2019, Sheen Center Fellow 2019, Stein and Liberace Fellow 2007, and John Golden Fellow 2008. Her work has been developed/presented at Atlantic Theater Company, Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, The Fire This Time Festival, Harlem 9, Primary Stages, Project Y, Poetic Theater Productions, Classical Theater of Harlem, Frigid NYC, Planet Connections Theater Festival, The Field, and Dixon Place. She was recently commissioned by Stanford University’s TAPS Program and completed a commission of a children’s play about Covid through a collaboration with Erin Brown under a City Corp Artist grant… Read more

M Sloth Levine (they/them/theirs) is a playwright, director, and designer. Their plays are sour gummy worms, sharp and sticky sweet.   They write for gothic dollhouses, for costume trunks full of rubber masks and elastic tutus. These plays are made of velvet, petrified wood, slime, celluloid, gold leaf, weed, gelatin, and citric acid. 

​Sloth's plays have been developed at Roundabout Theater Company, Company One, Sparkhaven Theatre, Central Square Theatre, Tufts University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Wisconsin Madison, and Parity Productions as the 2021 Parity Development Award winner.   Sloth has recently served as the Script Supervisor on Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bad Cinderella. Read more

Jonathan Alexandratos (they/them) is a Non-Binary writer based in New York City. Their stage work is interested in how ancient Queerness lives in the present. This often means exploring pop culture as a cathartic device in modern, Queer relationships. Recently, their solo show, Toys 101, about the intersection of toys (dolls, action figures) and gender non-conformity, was produced via Zoom by Strange Sun Theatre. Prior to that, Jonathan’s play We See What Happen, the story of Jonathan’s grandmother’s immigration to the U.S. from Greece as told by bootleg action figures, won the Greenhouse Award from Strange Sun Theatre, after being developed in the Ingram New Works Lab at Nashville Repertory Theatre, where Jonathan was a resident, and at Mission to (dit)Mars, where Jonathan was a Playwright-in-Residence… Read more

Amanda L. Andrei (she/her) is an award-winning Filipina Romanian American playwright and screenwriter residing in Los Angeles by way of Virginia/Washington DC. Her work is epic, irreverent, and centers the concealed, wounded places of history and societies from the perspectives of diasporic Filipina women. They include Mama, I Wish I Were Silver (Panndora Productions 2021 Festival, Vagrancy’s Blossoming 2021 Festival); Lena Passes By (Finalist 2021 O’Neill; Semifinalist 2021 Ashland Festival; Semifinalist 21st Century American Voices); Lake Opaque (2020 Southeastern European Film Festival Accelerator) and Black Sky (Winner 2020 Parity Productions Prize; Finalist 2020 Burnham Award, Finalist 2020 New American Voices Festival, 2019 Madison New Works Lab Residency)… Read more

Shualee Cook (she/her) has been writing theatre in the Midwest for so long that she’s starting to forget how to speak Californian. She has been a resident playwright at Tesseract Theatre in Saint Louis, and Stage Left Theatre in Chicago. Plays in performance and development include Earworm, Cercle Hermaphroditos, An Invitation Out, Sunset Artists of the American West, Tempest In A Teapot, Osgood Rex, The Geography of Nowhere, and Music of the Goddess.

Gina Femia (she/her) has written 32 full-length plays which include ALLOND(R)A (Winner: Leah Ryan Prize, Runner-up, Yale Drama Prize), We Are a Masterpiece (Winner: The Doric Wilson Award), The Mermaids’ Parade (Semifinalist, The Relentless Award, Finalist, Princess Grace Award), REBELS TIL DEATH (Reading, Playwrights Horizons), Annie and the Fat Man (Honorable Mention, The Kilroys), THIS HAPPENED ONCE AT THE ROMANCE DEPOT OFF THE I-87 IN WESTCHESTER (Workshop, Youngblood), Super, or, How Clark Graves Learned to Fly (semi-finalist The O’Neill and The Princess Grace Award)... Read more

Liz Kerin (she/her) A graduate of the Dramatic Writing Department at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Liz has a background in screenwriting as well as live theatre. Last year, her full-length play Stop-Motion was selected for the Botanicum Seedlings development workshop at Theatricum Botanicum and was also shortlisted as a semi-finalist at Premiere Stages. Read more

Azure D. Osborne-Lee (he/him, they/them) is an award-winning Black queer theatre maker whose work has been produced and/or developed by Parity Productions, Trans Lab @ The Public and WP, The Tank, The Flea Theater, BAX|Brooklyn Arts Exchange, BAM, JACK, Rising Circle Theater Collective... Read more

Mêlisa Annis (she/her) As a playwright, her plays have been developed at The Lark and Dorset Theater Festival at the Theresa Rebeck Writers Colony, The New School, Primary Stages' ESPA*Drills, The National Arts Club NYC, The Playground Experiment, and RAL. Mêlisa was a finalist for the High Tide New Playwriting Prize (2015), the Lark's Playwrights Week (2015) and she was the recipient of the Fordham Summer Fellowship while studying for her MFA in playwriting at Fordham/Primary Stages. ​

Else C. Went (they/them) is a non-binary playwright whose work has been developed by The Public, WP, Playwrights Realm, Parity Productions, The Tank, The Flea, The Brick, Florida Studio Theatre, ISC Santa Fe, Barn Arts Collective, and others. Else is a founding member of The Renovationists, a former Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow, and an alum of Trans Theatre Lab @ WP and The Public.