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.

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. 

Victor Lesniewski’s plays include The Fifth Domain (Upcoming World Premiere at Contemporary American Theater Festival), Couriers and Contrabands (World Premiere at TBG Theatre in NYC, Critic Howard Miller’s 2015 Best of Off & Off-Off Broadway List…

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Josh Levine is a stage and screen writer with the heart of a golden retriever and an unhealthy obsession for funny women.

Bianca is a Writer/Actor. She graduated from New York University’s Tisch School with a BFA in Acting & Dramatic Writing (TV/Film/Play writing).

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.

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

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.

Inda is a Los Angeles-based playwright and TV writer. Her plays include Black Super Hero Magic Mama, The Great Jheri Curl Debate, and A Jumping-Off Point.

Jason Grote’s theater credits include 1001 (Time Out NY Top 10 of 2007, Ovation Award); Shostakovich or Silence (ACT New Play Award); the text for David Levine’s HABIT (2013 OBIE); and the script for En Garde Arts’ Basetrack (NY Times 2014 Critic’s Pick).

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

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.

Abbey Fenbert is a writer from Detroit, MI. Her work celebrates empathy, living in truth, and women having lots of lines.

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.

Julianne Jigour’s plays have been produced or developed at the Antaeus Playwrights Lab, Central Works, PlayGround, Theater Masters, KCACTF, and the HBMG National Winter Playwrights Retreat.

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 and currently runs private workshops)…

Chanel Glover (Florida A&M University BA | Tulane Law School JD | Ohio University MFA | Hunter College MSEd) is a former lawyer and special education teacher, whose work centers black queer characters, and stories exploring social justice.

Dan Steele is an L.A. based playwright and screenwriter. His recent plays include The Ghost (developed with Moving Arts’ MADlabs Program) and Uptown (work-shopped with Pasadena Playhouse’s HOTHouse Reading Program and at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts).

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

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

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

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…

Sean Abley is a screenwriter, journalist, dramaturg, novelist, and award-winning playwright.
He has over thirty plays published by Playscripts, Brooklyn Publishers, Heuer Publishing, Next Stage Press, Stage Partners, Plays to Order, and Eldridge Plays and Musicals…