Was the Shakespeare consultant on The Tragedy of Macbeth film starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand. Teaches Shakespeare at Hussian College of Los Angeles and teaches Thinking Critically About Film at Art Center School of Design in Pasadena.

Deb Hiett hails from the Deep South by way of Brooklyn.

Carolyn Kras is a writer whose honors include the Visionary Playwright Award, Fulbright Fellowship, Hamptons International Film Festival Screenwriters’ Lab Selection, and First Place Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Award.

Brianna Barrett is a writer and performer fascinated with identity crises, double lives, mortality, grief, dick jokes with heart, and the forgotten history of stuff that happened surprisingly-not-that-long-ago. Recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize in Comic Playwriting and twice-voted Portland’s Best Storyteller in Willamette Week.

Both of David’s plays, Pang Spa and Two Stop, received critical praise including Outstanding Production of a Drama (Intimate Theater) for both. TWO STOP was named BEST SHOW in the 2024 LA Theatre Bites Awards. Both plays were funded in part by VENTUROUS THEATRE FUND and LA New Play Project.

Bernardo Cubría is the co-writer of the short Spanish Class that won Best Comedy at The NBC Universal Shorts Awards in 2018.

Wendy Weiner is a playwright and TV writer. Her work walks the line between comedy and drama, using humor to crack open the complexities of being a woman in our culture, and to explore the ways gender roles affect people of all sexes. 

Minita is most known for her critically acclaimed solo-show Muthaland which was workshopped at Silk Road Rising, selected for the Ignition Festival at Victory Gardens, and Jeff Award-nominated for Best New Work and Best Solo Performance for its World Premiere at 16th Street Theater.

Victor Lesniewski’s plays include The Fifth Domain (World Premiere at Contemporary American Theater Festival), Couriers and Contrabands (World Premiere at TBG Theatre in NYC, Critic Howard Miller’s Best of Off & Off-Off Broadway List),

Alex Goldberg is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and director. More than a dozen of his plays, including five full-lengths, have been produced around the world.

Kevin Douglas (writer) received a B.F.A in acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University. After graduating Kevin took writing and improvisation classes at The Second City.

Lisa Kenner Grissom is an LA-based playwright whose work explores complex social issues through intimate relationships, often through the lens of strong, complicated women.

Christina Ham’s plays have been developed and produced both nationally and internationally with the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Center Theater Group, The Guthrie Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Goodman Theater, Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston…

Julianne Jigour’s plays have been produced by or developed with PlayGround, the Antaeus Playwrights Lab, Moving Arts’ MADlab, Santa Clara University, Bombay Theatre Company, Theater Masters, and the HBMG National Winter Playwrights Retreat.

Khari Wyatt has written for theatre, television, and various journalistic publications such as the National Urban Leagues “Opportunity Journal”.

Jennie Webb is an independent Los Angeles playwright and dramaturg (she created and ran the new play development program, “Seedlings,” at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, currently runs private workshops…

TIRA PALMQUIST’s plays include Two Degrees, Ten Mile Lake (Serenbe Playhouse), Age of Bees (MadLab Theater, Tesseract), And Then They Fell, and others.

Priya is an actor and writer. She moved from India in 2008 to go to business school and worked in the corporate world for a while when a dare from a friend led to a complete pivot into the artist life.

David Myers’ work has been developed at Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Rep, The Public Theater, The Royal Court, The Old Vic, Pasadena Playhouse and more.

Juan Francisco Villa is a Colombian-American award-winning published writer who grew up in The Lower East Side of NYC and currently resides in Los Angeles by way of Chicago. 

Matt is a Drama Desk-nominated comedic playwright and Emmy, Humanitas and Sentinel Award-winning TV writer.

Levi Jelks, an Atlanta born native, is currently the proud co-recipient of the KCACTF Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award for his satirical play, A Is For Apron.

Kansas City native, Marlow Wyatt is a magna cum laude graduate of Howard University’s Theater Arts Department. She is an actor and playwright.

Erick Rudnick started out as an actor and began writing by performing his own one-person shows in New York City.

Jennifer Berry’s play “Big Pharma” about the rise of the anti-depressant drug industry and the loss of her generation of women was commissioned by BmoCa in Boulder, CO in 2003 and  went on to tour for five years.

JAMI BRANDLI’s plays include The Romeo and Juliet Senior Citizens Project: A Comedy, M-Theory: a play told in 11 dimensions, Technicolor Life, Sisters Three, Through the Eye of a Needle, O: A Rhapsody in Divorce, Visiting Hours, The Caregiver’s Guide and BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!) which was named in the inaugural Kilroys List.

Jennifer Maisel’s The Last Seder premiered Off-Broadway with Gaby Hoffmann and Greg Mullavey after productions around the country and abroad.

Jeanette Farr is a playwright, producer and director of new plays, and holds an MFA in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in playwriting from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Vasanti Saxena is a Los Angeles-based writer whose work explores the fissures of family and relationships, memory, and historical legacy.