Click on the members of the Playwrights' Coalition below to read their bios.

ALUMNI
Glen Berger, Julia Cho, Jorge Ignacio Cortinas, Daniel Goldfarb, Joe Hortua, Julia Jordan, Oren Lavie, Adam Rapp

David Adjmi

David Adjmi’s play The Evildoers was developed at MCC, the Royal The Evildoers was developed at MCC, the Royal Court (UK), and Sundance; it received its world premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre. Stunning was developed at NYTW, Sundance/Ucross residency and Manhattan Theatre Club; it will be produced at Woolly Mammoth in March 2008. Marie Antoinette was developed at MTC, JAW/West, Soho Rep, Sundance and the  Public/NYSF. Caligula was selected to inaugurate Soho Rep’s Studio Series in September 2007. Elective Affinities was produced at the RSC/Stratford-on-Avon in Fall 2005; it transferred the following sping to the Soho Theatre, London. Both productions were directed by Dominic Cooke. Other plays include Strange Attractors (Empty Space; Seattle Weekly Top 10 of 2003), Woody Allen’s Fall Project and 3C. Upcoming plays: Red Elvis, Bonifacius (or, The Do-Gooders), Washington Square and Broadway Boogie Woogie: a trilogy loosely based on Doblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz.

David has received numerous awards and honors, including commissions from Lincoln Center Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, Yale Rep and Berkeley Rep, nominations for the  Kesselring, Weissberger and Barrie Stavis Prizes,  a McKnight Advancement Grant, the Marian Seldes-Garson Kanin Award, a Jerome Fellowship, a Royal Court Residency, the Helen Merill Award, Jon Robin Baitz’s Ovid Grant for New Writing, a Soho Rep W/D fellowship, a NYTW/Dartmouth Residency, the Lecomte du Nouy Award, the Cherry Lane Mentor Project Fellowship (w. Craig Lucas), an Atlantic Center for the Arts residency (w. Paula Vogel), and multiple fellowships from The MacDowell Colony. David attended Sarah Lawrence College, the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and the Juilliard School. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, MCC Playwrights Coalition, Rising Phoenix Rep and Vinegar Tom Players. He is represented by Mark Christian Subias (US) and Curtis Brown Ltd (UK & Europe).
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Mike Batistick
Chicken was produced Off-Broadway by Studio Dante in Spring 2007, and will make its UK premiere at London’s Theatro Technis in March 2008. Flag was produced at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY in Summer 2006, and will makes its UK premiere at London’s Latchmere Theater 503 in May 2008. Port Authority Throw Down was produced Off-Broadway by the Culture Project in Winter 2006. Ponies, which premiered Off-Broadway at Studio Dante in 2004, was produced at Gloucester (MA) Stage in Summer 2007. Bodega Lung Fat was a part of the Public Theater's New Work Now! Festival. Hartshorne was a part of the 2006 Echo Theater One-Act Festival. Mike was a two-year Juilliard Playwriting Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow to Taiwan, and is graduate of Fordham University in the Bronx. Member: MCC Playwrights’ Coalition, Ars Nova Play Group. Commissioned by the Atlantic Theater Company. Ponies, Port Authority Throw Down, and Chicken are available through Dramatists Play Service.
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Stephen Belber
Stephen Belber 's plays include Match (Broadway, Tony nomination for Frank Langella), McReele (Roundabout), Tape (Naked Angels--NYC/LA/London, Top 10 Plays, Time Out NYC), Carol Mulroney (Huntington Theater), One Million Butterflies (Primary Stages), Drifting Elegant (Magic Theater), The Transparency Of Val (Theater Outrageous, NYC), The Wake (Via Theater, NYC), Through Fred (Soho Rep) and The Death of Frank (Araca Group, NYC). Stephen wrote the screenplay for TAPE, directed by Richard Linklater (Sundance; Berlin). He is a member of Tectonic Theater Project and was an Associate Writer (and actor) for The Laramie Project, later made into an HBO movie (Sundance, Emmy nomination for screenwriting). Graduate of Juilliard's Playwrights Program, commissions from Manhattan Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, The Huntington Theater, Arena Stage and Philadelphia Theater Company. TV credits include "Rescue Me" and "Law & Order SVU" (staff writer). His play Drifting Elegant, was recently shot as a film, and he is currently working on several studio film projects. Upcoming: A Small, Melodramatic Story, to be produced by the Labyrinth Theater Company at the Public Theater, fall 2006.
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Brooke Berman
Brooke Berman's play Smashing premiered in New York in the Fall of 2003 with The Play Company, directed by Trip Cullman. Other plays have been produced at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Round Table Ensemble and Naked Angels. The Triple Happiness premiered with The Second Stage in August of 2004 directed by Michael John Garces. Brooke recently wrote a project commissioned by the Tony award winning Childrens' Theatre Company in Minneapolis and is working a romantic comedy roadtrip screenplay and a Young Adult novel. Readings and workshops: The Royal Court Theatre in London, The O'Neill Playwrights Conference, The Childrens Theatre Company, ASK Theater Projects, Rattlestick, The Hourglass Group, The Womens Project, the Denver Center Theater Company, Soho Rep, HERE, PatchFilms, and the Juilliard School. Awards and Grants: Berilla Kerr award, Helen Merrill Award, two Francesca Primus awards, Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Fellowship at the Juilliard School, two Lecomte du Nouy awards, and a commissioning grant from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.

Brooke is a member of New Dramatists, Rising Phoenix Rep, and the Dramatists Guild and a graduate of the Juilliard School. Originally a solo performer, Brooke occasionally still performs her own work, most recently at The Culture Project as part of HEAT, a new burlesque cabaret.
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Adam Bock
Adam Bock's play Swimming in the Shallows was produced by Second Stage as part of their New Plays Uptown series in 2005. His play Five Flights, produced by Rattlestick in 2004 won the 2002 Will Glickman Award for best new play produced in the Bay Area, four Dean Goodman awards and was nominated for the American Theater Critics, the Osborn, and two BATCC awards. It was named in the SF Chronicle and Oakland Tribune's Top Ten Theatrical Events and the Chronicle's Top Ten Cultural Events for 2002. Shotgun Player's production of Swimming in the Shallows won the 2000 BATCC awards for best production, best ensemble and best original script. It was a Clauder Competition award-winner, a Weissberger award nominee, and has or will be produced in Boston, London, Toronto, Key West, Ithaca, Santa Cruz and the Edinburgh Fringe. The Typographer’s Dream has been produced in NYC and at the Edinburgh Fringe. These and other plays have been read and workshopped by New York Theater Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Rattlestick, Naked Angels, Soho Rep, Clubbed Thumb, Underwood, Oregon Shakes and Printer's Devil, among others. He is the resident playwright at Encore Theater, a Shotgun Players Artistic Associate, and a member of the MCC Playwrights' Coalition. He is a NEA and CASH grantee, was a resident at Yaddo, a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and is at work on his first commission, from Playwrights Horizons.
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Jason Chimonides
Jason's plays: The Troubadour, Pathological and The Optimist were all developed and produced at Florida State University's School of Theatre from where Jason also holds an MFA in Directing.  Pathological was also produced as part of the Boulder Fringe Festival in Boulder, Colorado.  His first full length drama: THE OPTIMIST is currently under option.
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Cusi Cram
Cusi Cram's plays include, Landlocked, The End of it All, Lucy and rhe Conquest Fuente, Twenty Shadows, and All rhe Bad Things, in addition to numerous short plays, solo plays and adaptations. Her work has been performed and developed at the 2001 & 2003 O’Neill Playwrights Conference, New York Theater Workshop, South Coast Repertory, MCC, The Cherry Lane Alternative, The Atlantic Theatre Company, The New Group, The Humana Festival, The Echo Theater Company, The Miranda Theater, LAByrinth Theater Company, Naked Angels, Joe’s Pub, New Georges, The Lark Theater, PS 122 and The Dag Hammarskjöld Theater at the United Nations. Her musical adaptation of the children’s book, Corduroy, is currently touring nationally. Her play Fuente will premiere in the summer of 2005 at Barrington Stage. She has received commissions from South Coast Repertory, The Atlantic Theater Company, The Actors Theater of Louisville, The Echo Theater Company, New Georges and Theaterworks USA . She is a recipient of a fellowship and residency from the Lila Acheson American Playwrights Program at Juilliard, a fellowship from the Camargo Foundation in Cassis , France , two Le Comte du Nuoy Awards and most recently the 2004 Herrick Theatre Foundation New Play Prize for her play, Fuente. She has been nominated for a Humanitas Award and two Emmy awards for her work on the children’s animated program, Arthur. Her plays are published in Latino Plays from South Coast Rep (Broadway Publishing), The Best Short Plays of 2001 (Applause Books), and Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2000 (Smith & Kraus) as well as several other anthologies. She is a member of MCC Playwrights Coalition, Primary Stages New American Writer’s Program and The HB Playwrights Unit. She also sits on New Georges Artist Advisorary Board. Ms. Cram is a graduate of Brown University.
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Anton Dudley
Anton Dudley (Playwright), Off-Broadway: Substitution (Playwrights Realm@Soho Playhouse); Getting Home (Secondstage Theatre Uptown); Slag Heap (Cherry Lane Theatre); Honor and the River (SPF’04).  Other NY: Circumvention (Keen Company); BOB, This Ball of Mud & Fire, Honor and the River, Substitution (New York Stage & Film); Davy & Stu (Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon, Directors Company, Bread & Water Theatre); Pleaching the Coffin Sisters (EST); Flight of Kings (Baryshnikov Arts Center@37Arts); The Lake’s End (Adirondack Theatre Festival); January 1, 2000 (Lincoln Center Theater@HERE), Drowned People (SpeakEasy) (Fire Dept@Joe's Pub); Antarctica (Vital Theatre); edWARd2 (FringeNYC).  Regional: Honor and the River (Luna Stage NJ); Slag Heap (Theatre Pro Rata MN); Antarctica (Cleveland Public Theatre OH); Pleaching the Coffin Sisters (Momentum Productions TX, New Works/New Haven CT); Prelude Festival (Kennedy Center DC); Spamlet (Cherry Red Productions DC).  Publications: Circumvention (Playscripts, Inc.), PLAY A Journal of Plays (Vol. II), Monologues for Men by Men,Vols. I+II (Heinemann Press), New American Short Plays 2005 (Backstage Books) edited by Craig Lucas.  Fellowships: Manhattan Theatre Club; Dramatists Guild of America; Cherry Lane Mentor Project; New York Theatre Workshop; Playwrights Center of San Francisco; First Look Theatre Company.  Short Film: Davy & Stu (No Pressure Productions, released by Strand Releasing on Boys Life 6, Award-Winning Official Selection of 60 International Film Festivals on 5 continents).  An Assistant Professor at Adelphi University, Anton is a member of NYTW's Usual Suspects, MCC's Playwrights Coalition, a three-time alumnus of Arthur Kopit's Playwrights Workshop at the Lark Play Development Center and was the Lark's Playwright-in-Residence for 2007.
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Stephen Adly Guirgis
Stephen is a longtime member of NYC's LAByrinth Theater Company. His plays have been produced on five continents and throughout the United States. They include: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (LABrynth in collaboration with The Public Theater), Our Lady of 121st Street (10 best plays of 2003; Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Best Play Nominations), Jesus Hopped the A Train (Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award and Detroit Free Press Best Play of the Year, as well as a Laurence Olivier Nomination for Best New Play), In Arabia We'd All Be Kings (10 Best of '99, TimeOut New York). All four plays were originally produced by LAByrinth and directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. They are published by Dramatists Play Service as well as by Faber and Faber in the anthology Three Plays By Stephen Adly Guirgis. Stephen was awarded a 2004 TCG fellowship and attended the 2004 Sundance Screenwriter's Lab. He is the recipient of new play commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club and South Coast Repertory, and is a member of New Dramatists, MCC Theater Playwrights’ Coalition, New River Dramatists, and The Actor's Studio Playwright/Directors Unit. He developed and directed Liza Colon Zayas' Sistuh Supreme for Danny Hoch's Hip Hop Theater Festival, and Marco Greco's award-winning Behind the Counter With Mussolini in New York and Los Angeles. Television writing credits include “NYPD Blue”, “The Sopranos”, David Milch’s CBS drama “Big Apple”, and NBCs “UC: Undercover". He is currently developing a pilot for HBO and Mos Def, and writing his first screenplay. As an actor, he most recently appeared in Brett C. Leonard’s Guinea Pig Solo produced at the Public Theatre in New York last season, and has leading roles in two films to be released in 2005: Todd Solondz's Palindromes, and Brett C. Leonard's Jailbait opposite Michael Pitt.
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Ashlin Halfnight
Ashlin Halfnight was a 2006 Fulbright Award winner and an artist in residence at the National Theatre of Hungary.  His plays include God’s Waiting Room (Best Play, 2005 NYFringe Festival), Diving Normal (Plays and Playwrights 2007), Mud Blossom, Baby Face, The Stars Above Balaton, Garotting, and Cronotopia.  He is the recipient of a TCG Travel Grant, a Ludwig Volgelstein Artist Grant, and the Howard Stein Playwriting Fellowship. His work has been seen on stages in Canada, the U.S. and Hungary, and has been developed at The 24Seven Lab, The Lark, and Electric Pear’s The Outlet.  He was a member of the Royal Court’s 2006 New York Residency, and holds an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia.
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Ann Marie Healy
Ann Marie Healy’s play Have You Seen Steve Steven was developed at the Sundance Theater Institute this past summer. It was subsequently produced by 13P, the Obie-award winning collective, directed by Anne Kauffman. (TimeOut NYand FlavorPill picks of the month). Healy’s play The Night That Roger Went to Visit the Parents of His Old High School Girlfriend premiered in the EST Marathon of One-Acts plays (directed by Andrew McCarthy). Now That's What I Call A Storm was the recipient of a development fellowship with MCC Theater (directed by Jo Bonney), and produced by Edge Theater Company, directed by Carolyn Cantor and featuring Marylouise Burke (TimeOut NY pick of the month). Dearest Eugenia Haggis was developed at LAByrinth Theater’s 2004 summer intensive and The Cape Cod Theater Project and published in the anthology: Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays by Clubbed Thumb.

Her writing is published through Samuel French, Smith & Kraus, Playscripts and The Kenyon Review. She is an affiliated artist with the Obie-Award winning theater company Clubbed Thumb; a member of MCC's Playwrights Coalition; a member of 13P, a former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and a writing fellow at New River Dramatists.

Ann Marie was awarded a 2006/07 Sloan Commission and a 2006 NYSCA commissioning grant. She is currently completing her MFA with Paula Vogel and Bonnie Metzgar at Brown University.
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Dan LeFranc
Dan LeFranc is a recent graduate of the MFA playwriting program at Brown University, where he is currently in residence as the 2007-2008 John C. Russell Fellow in Playwriting.  His plays have been seen at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Magic Theater, Portland Center Stage, American Repertory Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Perishable Theater, UCSB Summer Theater Lab, Page 73 Yale Summer Residency, Kitchen Dog Theater, Santa Cruz Actors' Theatre, Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati, and Clubbed Thumb in New York, among others.  This fall, Dan will develop work with Woolly Mammoth Theater in DC and The Vineyard Theater in New York.  He is a member of the MCC Playwrights Coalition and teaches playwriting at the Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium.  His short play Hippie Van Gumdrop is published in The Backstage Book of New American Short Plays 2005, edited by Craig Lucas.
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Kara Manning
Kara Manning’s plays, including Mind the Gap, Killing Swans, afterdark and Sleeping Rough, have been performed or developed via the Royal Court Theatre, the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Playwrights Horizons, MCC Theater, NYTW, LAByrinth Theater, the Magic Theater, the Lark Play Development Center, Studio Dante, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (The 24 Hour Plays), Here (Raw Impressions), The Directors Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Makor, Expanded Arts, Theatre for the New City and the Bloomington Playwrights Project. She is the 2007 recipient of the Princess Grace Award in playwriting. Kara is the literary manager of the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York, a freelance music and arts journalist and is a recipient of the 2000-2001 Jerome Foundation, Affiliated Writers Program grant in association with American Theatre magazine. She is a finalist for the 2007 Heideman Award, finalist for the 2008 P73 fellowship, semifinalist for the 2008 Cherry Lane Mentor Project, finalist for the 2006 Playpenn conference and a 2005 Barrie Stavis Award finalist. Member of the MCC Theater Playwrights Coalition and former resident playwright at the Royal Court Theatre’s International Residency. Member of the Dramatists’ Guild. She served as an assistant director at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre (Fringe Festival), research assistant to Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, and is currently the moderator for MCC Theater's Artist Talkback Series (on and off Broadway). Kara is a former MTV News reporter and staff writer for Rolling Stone magazine. She wrote liner notes for the Grammy-nominated Rhino box set "Respect: A Century of Women in Music." She is  a talent booker/producer for Vin Scelsa's "Idiot's Delight" on WFUV. Graduate of Columbia University's M.F.A. program in playwriting.
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Rami Metal
Rami lives in Long island City, writes in fits, and every so often finishes something.   He has written a play called Lullabye and is finishing up a play called Betty My Love, Betty My God.  He is a recipient of a commission from The National Foundation of Jewish Culture for his unfortunately titled play The Language of Dirt, a play he never finished. 
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Itamar Moses
Itamar Moses is the author of the full-length plays Outrage, Bach at Leipzig, Celebrity Row, The Four of Us, Yellowjackets, Back Back Back, and Completeness, and various short plays and one-acts. His work has appeared Off-Broadway and elsewhere in New York, at regional theatres across the country and in Canada, and has been published by Faber & Faber, Heinemann Press, Playscripts Inc., and Vintage. He has received new play commissions from The McCarter Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Wilma Theater, and Manhattan Theatre Club. Itamar holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU and has taught playwriting at Yale and NYU. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, MCC Playwrights’ Coalition, Naked Angels Mag 7, and is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. He was born in 1977 in Berkeley, CA. He now lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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Edward Napier
Edward Napier's first play produced in New York, Junior Prom, was directed by the late Herbert Berghof at the H.B. Playwright's Foundation. Off-Broadway credits include 'Til the Rapture Comes at the W.P.A. ­ speeches of which appear in both The Best Men's and The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1998 published by Smith and Krauss ­ and The English Teachers, produced at MCC and published by Dramatists Play Service. Before working Off-Broadway, Ed worked extensively Off-Off-Broadway at the West Bank Café, Trocadero Café, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Theatre Nada, Alice's Fourth Floor, P.S. 122, the Salon, and the Workhouse Theatre, where he was Playwright in Residence. He graduated from Columbia University cum laude with a concentration in Literature/Writing and was the recipient of the Writing Program Award (departmental prize). He received a Berrilla Kerr Award for Playwriting in 1996 and has been a Columbia Senior Writing Fellow for the past four years. For the past three years, Ed has been on the staff at MCC Theater as a Teaching Artist in the New York City public schools and serves on the faculty of the Columbia University High School Summer Program as a creative writing and performance instructor. Ed is also a member of the Playwright's Unit at H.B. Studio. He recently finished his first screenplay, The Lord in Kenova.
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Mark Schultz
Recent plays include: Everything Will Be Different or A Brief History of Helen of Troy (Soho Rep & True Love Productions) for which he won the 2005 Oppenheimer Award and the 2006 Kesselring Prize;  The Gingerbread House; Gift (Rising Phoenix Rep / NY International Fringe Festival); Polar Bear (Birmingham Rep, UK); Magic Kingdom. Everything Will Be Different was produced and toured in the UK by the Actors Touring Company with Theatre Royal Plymouth under the title A Brief History of Helen of Troy.  His latest play, Deathbed, will have its world premiere in New York this winter.  His play Passion was featured in Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope magazine.  He is a founding member and artistic associate of Theater Mitu, a member of Rising Phoenix Rep, and co-ordinator of MCC Theater’s Playwrights’ Coalition.  He holds an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University.
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Julian Sheppard
Julian Sheppard's play Buicks was produced by the Underwood Theater at the McGinn/Cazale in March, 2003. The production received 2 Drama Desk nominations, including one for Outstanding Play. Regionally, Love and Happiness was produced in July 2001 by the Barrington Stage Company and Los Angeles was produced in September, 2002 by the Pacific Resident Theatre in L.A. Buicks and Love and Happiness are both forthcoming from Dramatists Play Service, which earlier published his first full-length play, Whatever. Julian's plays have been produced in New York at Soho Rep, Miranda Theatre, Blue Heron Arts Center, the Lincoln Center Directors' Lab at the Salon, Juilliard, The Cherry Lane Alternative, MCC Performance Lab, New York Performance Works, and Nada; his work has also been developed at numerous theaters, including New York Theatre Workshop, New York Stage & Film, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth, Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, MCC, WPA, Rattlestick, Bat Theatre Company, and the Workhouse Theatre. Other full-length plays include After America, A Hole In the Earth and From Now On. Julian has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, Blue Mountain Center, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. He has twice received the Le Comte de Nouy Award and three times has been a finalist for the Actor Theatre of Louisville's Heidemann Award ­ for Rollie & Fitch, Everything Else, and Smile, which was written originally for MCC. Julian was the head writer on ESPN's "2-Minute Drill". Julian is a member of MCC Theatre's Playwrights Coalition, and is a graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwrights program at the Juilliard School, where he studied with Chris Durang and Marsha Norman.
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Ranbir Sidhu
Ranbir Sidhu was born in London and grew up in California. He studied archaeology at UC Berkeley and worked as an archaeologist in California, Nevada, Israel and France. He is a winner of the Pushcart Prize in fiction and his stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Georgia Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Zyzzyva, The Missouri Review, and Other Voices. He he has been awarded residencies by the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, California, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation in New York. He was recently the 2006-07 writer-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Ranbir is a member of the MCC Theater Playwright’s Coalition and the Dramatist’s Guild and his play True East will have it's off-Broadway premiere in the 2008-09 season. He is at work on two new plays and recently completed a novel, Deep Singh Blue.
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Blair Singer
Blair Singer is a playwright and a writer for television.  His monologue play, Placement, received four LA Weekly Award nominations, winning one for Best Solo Performance.  Currently, his play, Notice Me, is being produced by James Hammerstein Productions and will feature Alison Pill and Kieran Culkin in the lead roles.  His most recent play is Matthew Modine Saves The Alpacas, about an actor named Matthew Modine who goes to Ecuador to save the Alpacas.  Blair’s most recent television work includes writing on the 3rd season of the hit Showtime series “Weeds.”  Other television credits include “Monk” and “The Book of Daniel”.  He is also a contributor to the web series, “lonelygirl15”.     

Blair is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Drama and has been a member of the MCC Playwrights’ Coalition since 2006.  He is also the co-founder of the Bronx Acting Ensemble, a conservatory-style training program for Bronx teenagers.   
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Crystal Skillman
Crystal Skillman is the author of The Telling Trilogy (Telling, Ride, Reaching), published in Plays & Playwrights 2008 (Directed by Daniel Talbott for Rising Phoenix Rep, 2006 NY IT Award Nomination); Apocalypse Neo (co-written with Rob Neill and Justin Tolley, NY Neo-Futurists); The Vigil or the Guided Cradle (hotINK 2008); 4 Edges (Amphibian Productions, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab), Flow (E.S.T/Sloan Commission) and Ballad of Phineas P. Gage (Drama of Works/HERE).  Her work was recently featured in Small Pond Entertainment’s production of So She Said directed by Larissa Lury in NYC and has been developed by theatres such as the Magic, Soho Rep, the Lark, Les Freres Corbusier, Culture Project, Committee Theatre, Studio 42, Confluence Theatre Company, and the Royal Court Theatre. She is the bookwriter/lyricist for the musical That’s Andy (composer Kevin Carter) in development with Edgewater Entertainment (President Joe McGinnis, producer of Spring Awakening, Drowsy Chaperone). Upcoming productions this spring include: Birthday (Rising Phoenix Rep); Summerland (for Gideon Productions’ Blueprint Project); The Ride (Prospect Theater Company’s Dark Night Series, Director: Lauren Keating) and her play 4 Edges will be further developed in this the New Harmony Project this May.  She is currently working on her new full length The Sleeping World, recently read at MCC Theater.  Crystal is a member of the MCC Theater Playwrights’ Coalition, E.S.T, Rising Phoenix Rep and the Dramatists Guild. 
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Gary Sunshine
Gary Sunshine’s play The Names of Foods will be produced by the Exchange in the Spring 2008. Sweetness was produced in the Summer Play Festival (SPF); Mercury was produced at HERE in association with Eve Ensler; other recent productions include Kahn & Kant (Drama League Directors Project), Al Takes A Bride (Sydney Mardi Gras Festival) and My President (Echo Theater Company). His work has been seen/developed at the Royal National Theatre Studio, New York Stage & Film, Playwrights Horizons, NYTW’s Just Add Water Festival, Rattlestick, the New Group, the New Company (London), Underwood Theater, MCC Theater, the Actors Studio, and Rising Phoenix Rep. He has been the recipient of a NYFA fellowship and a Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights. His one-act play AL TAKES A BRIDE was published in “The Best American Short Plays of 2001” (Applause), and by Playscripts, Inc.  Gary wrote, co-created, and co-produced the documentary What I Want My Words to Do to You: Voices From Inside a Women’s Maximum Security Prison (Freedom of Expression Award, Sundance Film Festival), which premiered nationwide on PBS’s “P.O.V.” He has been a writer for CBS’s “As the World Turns,” (Writers Guild Award nomination) and is currently writing a feature film for Starry Night Entertainment called Moscows. Gary received an A.B. from Princeton and an M.F.A. from NYU’s Dramatic Writing Program.
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Adam Szymkowicz
Adam Szymkowicz graduated in May of 2007 from The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. In 2004, he received his playwriting MFA from Columbia University where he was the Dean’s Fellow. His work has been produced throughout the U.S., and in Canada, England, The Netherlands and Lithuania.   His plays have been presented or developed at such places as MCC Theater, Ars Nova, South Coast Rep, Playwrights Horizons, The Lark, Kitchen Dog, HotINK, Theatre of Note and Studio Dante among others.  Plays include Deflowering Waldo, Open Minds, Anne, The Art Machine, Pretty Theft, Food For Fish, Herbie, Incendiary, Old Fashioned Cold Fusion, Bee Eater, Temporary Everything, Susan Gets Some Play and Nerve. Several of his plays have been published by Dramatists Play Service.  Szymkowicz is a two-time Lecomte du Nouy Prize winner, a member of the Dramatists Guild, the MCC Playwright’s Coalition and of the Ars Nova Play Group. He is currently working on a commission from South Coast Rep.  For more, go to www.adamszymkowicz.com.
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Lucy Thurber
Lucy is the author of seven plays, WHERE WE'RE BORN, ASHVILLE, Innocence is a Sin, Killers and Other Family, Stay, Bottom of the World and Monstrosity. She was the recipient of the 2000/2001 Manhattan Theatre Club playwriting fellowship. Her play Bottom of the World was produced by WET in the winter of 2005 and was workshopped at The Eugene O'Neill Playwrights' Center this summer. Bottom of the World was part of The Tribeca Theater festival this fall and received a workshop at The Public Theater. She attended New River Dramatists in North Carolina. Her play Where We're Born was produced at Rattlestick Theater in the fall of 2003. Killers and Other Family was produced at Rattlestick Theater in 2001. Also in 2001 she was commissioned by The Keene Theater company to write a short piece called The Kool Aid Smile, which was presented in "Keene America". She was a guest artist at The Perseverance Theater twice, where she helped to adapt both Moby Dick and Desire Under the Elms. She has had readings and workshops at Manhattan Theatre Club, The New Group, Primary Stages and SOHO Rep. Her ten-minute play Dinner is published in a collection called, Not So Sweet, 16 plays from Soho Rep's 10-minute play festival. She is a member of MCC Playwrights' Coalition, Primary Stages writing group, 13P and New Dramatists.
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Kathryn Walat
Kathryn Walat’s play Bleeding Kansas premiered in summer 2007 at the Hangar Theatre (Ithaca), and her Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen premiered earlier that year at the Women’s Project in New York. Other plays include Connecticut, Greenspace, Know Dog, and her newest project, Smile. Her work has been produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Salvage Vanguard Theater, and Perishable Theatre; and developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Ars Nova, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Boston Theatre Works, Lark Play Development Center, and New Georges, where she is an affiliated playwright. Victoria Martin was recently published by Samuel French, and will appear in New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2007 (Smith & Kraus). Kate received her BA from Brown University and her MFA from Yale Drama School.
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