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Playwrights Union
FIRST PEEK 2023 – May 20 & 21 at Atwater Village Theatre
Meet the Playwrights
Erick Rudnick started out as an actor and began writing by performing his own one-person...
Vasanti Saxena is a Los Angeles-based writer whose work explores the fissures of family and...
Christina Ham’s plays have been developed and produced both nationally and internationally with the Kennedy...
Kevin Douglas (writer) received a B.F.A in acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University....
Was the Shakespeare consultant on The Tragedy of Macbeth film starring Denzel Washington and Frances...
David Myers’ work has been developed at Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Rep,...
Khari Wyatt has written for theatre, television, and various journalistic publications such as the National...
JAMI BRANDLI’s plays include The Romeo and Juliet Senior Citizens Project: A Comedy, M-Theory: a play told...
Bernardo Cubría is the co-writer of the short Spanish Class that won Best Comedy at...
Victor Lesniewski’s plays include The Fifth Domain (World Premiere at Contemporary American Theater Festival), Couriers...
Juan Francisco Villa is a Colombian-American award-winning published writer who grew up in The Lower...
Jennie Webb is an independent Los Angeles playwright and dramaturg (she created and ran the...
Brianna Barrett is a writer and performer fascinated with identity crises, double lives, mortality, grief,...
Jennifer Maisel’s The Last Seder premiered Off-Broadway with Gaby Hoffmann and Greg Mullavey after productions...
TIRA PALMQUIST’s plays include Two Degrees, Ten Mile Lake (Serenbe Playhouse), Age of Bees (MadLab Theater, Tesseract), And Then They Fell, and...
Matt is a Drama Desk-nominated comedic playwright and Emmy, Humanitas and Sentinel Award-winning TV writer.
Alex Goldberg is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and director. More than a dozen of his plays,...
Levi Jelks, an Atlanta born native, is currently the proud co-recipient of the KCACTF Lorraine...
Lisa Kenner Grissom is an LA-based playwright whose work explores complex social issues through intimate...
Both of David’s plays, Pang Spa and Two Stop, were awarded the 2022 Los Angeles New Play...
Jennifer Berry’s play “Big Pharma” about the rise of the anti-depressant drug industry and the...
Carolyn Kras is a writer whose honors include the Visionary Playwright Award, Fulbright Fellowship, Hamptons...
Wendy Weiner is a playwright and TV writer. Her work walks the line between comedy...
Minita is most known for her critically acclaimed solo-show Muthaland which was workshopped at Silk...
Jeanette Farr is a playwright, producer and director of new plays, and holds an MFA...
Bianca is a Writer/Actor. She graduated from New York University’s Tisch School with a BFA...
Julianne Jigour’s plays have been produced by or developed with PlayGround, the Antaeus Playwrights Lab,...
Kansas City native, Marlow Wyatt is a magna cum laude graduate of Howard University’s Theater...