Siobhan Juanita Brown (Keesuty8ee Elm, Mâseepee Wôpanâak) is from Roxbury, MA. Performance credits include Suzan-Lori Parks’s The America Play at the American Repertory Theater, The Emancipation of Valet de Chambre (premiere) at Cleveland Play House, Studs Terkel’s American Dreams: Lost

Prince Gomolvilas’s work includes Big Hunk o’ Burnin’ Love, a groundbreaking comedy about a Thai-American family; The Theory of Everything, a Pan-Asian Story which premiered at Singapore Repertory Theatre and won the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Drama; Mysterious

Idris Goodwin is an award-winning break-beat poet, playwright and director of The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. He was recently named a 2021 United States Artist Fellow. In addition to the recently released poetry collection Can I

Kirsten Greenidge’s plays are best described as works that place hyperrealism on stage as they examine the nexus of race, class, gender, and the African American experience.  Recently recognized as playwright laureate of Boston, she is the author of Beacon, 

Naomi lizuka’s plays include 36 Views, Polaroid Stories, Anon(ymous), Language Of Angels, Aloha, Say The Pretty Girls, Tattoo Girl, Skin, At The Vanishing Point, Concerning Strange Devices From The Distant West, Good Kids, and Sleep (in collaboration with RipeTime.) Her

Tim J. Lord is the recipient of the inaugural Apothetae-Lark Fellowship for a writer with a disability, the 2019 Reg E. Cathey Writing Residency at the Orchard Project, and a 2017-18 Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis. As

Mona Mansour’s Beginning Days Of True Jubilation, directed by Scott Illingworth and conceived with her company Society, was part of New Ohio’s Ice Factory Digital Festival. The Vagrant Trilogy was to make its NYC debut in March 2020 at the

Sarah B. Mantell’s plays include Everything That Never Happened, The Good Guys, Tiny, and Fight Call. Her work has been produced and developed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Boston Court Pasadena, The Playwrights Realm, Seattle Rep, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference,

Ramiz Monsef is a member of the 2019-20 Geffen Writers Room at The Geffen Playhouse. Most recently, his play, The Ants, was selected to be part of the 2020 Ojai Playwrights Conference. He is also co-author of the hit musical

Tara Moses (she/her) is a citizen of Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, Mvskoke, award-winning playwright, director, co-Artistic Director in Residence at Red Eagle Soaring, Producing Artistic Director of telatúlsa, co-Founder of Groundwater Arts, and Dramatists Guild member.  Her plays have been

Brian Quijada is an actor, playwright, musician, an award-winning solo performer, and Co-Artistic Director of The Wild Wind Performance Lab at Texas Tech University. Brian was born in the Greater Chicagoland Area to Salvadoran parents. After majoring in Theater and

Delores Jackson Radney is a founding partner of Kuumba Consultants, an arts-in-education agency providing arts and cultural programming for schools and youth organizations throughout the region. Ms. Radney was the theatre resource educator for the Rochester City School District (2001

Harrison David Rivers is the winner of the 2018 Relentless Award for The Bandaged Place. His other plays include When Last We Flew (GLAAD Media Award), Sweet (AUDELCO nomination), Where Storms Are Born (Berkshire Theatre Award nomination, Edgerton Foundation New

MJ Savastano is an actor, teaching artist, voice-over artist, and writer based in the Rochester area. A performance educator with Geva Theatre Center for several years, MJ teaches a Shakespeare Touchstone workshop with fellow educator Danny Hoskins. Most recently, MJ

Andrew Siañez-De La O (He/Him) is a Mexican-American writer from El Paso, Texas. He is currently a Huntington Playwriting Fellow at Huntington Theatre Company. His work, often centered around the culture of the US-Mexico Border, has been developed across the

Penny Sterling has worn many hats in her life, and none of them have looked particularly good on her. Penny has been a photographer, children’s show producer, assignment editor, advertising producer/director, actor, stand-up comedian, and competition chili cook. But the

Laura A. Thomas, a playwright as well as a director and actor, is a native Rochesterian with a lifelong love of theatre. Laura most recently took part in Geva’s Campfire Ghost Story event in autumn 2020. Prior to that, Laura

Katherine Varga is a millennial playwright working through her love-hate relationship with the internet. Her full length plays include I <3 Girls (Seabury Quinn, Jr. Festival), Cora (Viterbo University’s New Works Festival, Geva’s Regional Writers Showcase, Benchmark Theater’s Fever Dream

Karen Zacarías was recently hailed by American Theatre magazine as one of the most produced playwrights in the US. Her Geva productions proudly include Native Gardens and The Book Club Play. Other plays: The Copper Children, Destiny of Desire, Legacy