[writer] Bekah Brunstetter’s plays include OOHRAH! (Atlantic Theater), Miss Lilly Gets Boned (Lark Playwright’s Week) and You May Go Now (A Marriage Play) (Finborough Theatre, London; NY IT Award for Best New Play) She is working on commissions for Naked Angels, Ars Nova, and the Roundabout Underground. Member: Primary Stages Writer’s Group, Women’s Project Lab, At Play Productions. MFA, The New School for Drama. www.bekahbrunstetter.com

[writer] Born and bred an Angeleno, Carla Ching’s full-lengths include TBA (2g/Milagro Theater-CSV), Dirty (Finalist: 2006 Cherry Lane Mentor Project and 2008 Victory Gardens Ignition Festival), Big Blind/Little Blind (Ma-Yi Labfest 2008) and The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness (NAATF workshop 2009).  Shorts include “Dissipating Heat” (finalist for the 2005 Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville) and “The Further Adventures of Little Goth Girl.” Member: Ma-Yi Writers Lab and Women’s Project Lab.  Fellowships: 2008 Urban Artists Initiative fellowship, 2009-2010 Teachers & Writers Collaborative Fellowship. Nominee: 2009 Wasserstein Prize.  MFA, Actors Studio Drama School. Artistic Director, 2g.

[editor, writer] Alexis Clements is a writer, performer and pamphleteer currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She has received a Dramatists Guild Fellowship, the 2004 Washington Theater Festival Literary Prize, two Puffin Foundation Artist’s Grants, and a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant. Productions include: Place ReImagined (NYC); Your Own Personal Apocalypse (NYC); The Interview (Edinburgh Festival); and Pieces (Washington, DC & Iowa City, IA). Publications include: selected plays in KNOCK Magazine, short stories in US and UK collections, and articles in Nature, The Brooklyn Rail and The Guardian. MSc, Philosophy & History of Science from the London School of Economics & Political Science. BA, Theatre Studies, Emerson College. www.alexisclements.com

[writer] Nadia Davids is a South African playwright and scholar. She has written five plays, including At Her Feet (2002) and Cissie (2008). Her work has been produced in Africa, Europe and North America and is studied at a range of universities on all three continents. She is the recipient of a Fleur de Cap Theatre Award (Best New Director, 2003) and was nominated for the Noma Award (2007), two African PEN Awards (2006, 2009), and a Fleur de Cap Award (Best New South African Play, 2009). She teaches at Queen Mary, University of London.

[writer] Laura Eason is the author of fifteen plays, original work and adaptations. Produced full-lengths: Sex with Strangers (Steppenwolf, Chicago), When the Messenger is Hot (59E59, NYC; Steppenwolf; Theatre Schmeater, Seattle), Area of Rescue (Andhow Theatre, NYC), Around the World in 80 Days (Baltimore Centerstage; Kansas City Rep; Lookingglass Theatre, Chicago), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Hartford Stage), and Rewind (Side Project, Chicago), among others. Publishing: Playscripts, Smith & Kraus and Broadway Play Publishing. Affilations: Affiliated Artist, New Georges, NYC; Women’s Project Lab, NYC; Ensemble Member and former Artistic Director, Lookingglass Theatre, Chicago. Originally from Chicago, Laura lives in Brooklyn, NY. www.lauraeason.com

[co-editor, writer] Christine Evans’ productions include multi-award winning Trojan Barbie (American Repertory Theatre, 2009; Playbox Theatre, U.K. 2010); Weightless, Mothergun and All Souls’ Day (Perishable Theatre); Slow Falling Bird (Crowded Fire, San Francisco; Metro Arts, Brisbane) and My Vicious Angel (Belvoir St. Theatre; Adelaide International Festival, Australia). Honors include the RISCA Playwriting Fellowship, two MacDowell Colony Fellowships and the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. Christine is a Fulbright alumna, holds an MFA and PhD from Brown and teaches playwriting at Harvard. Her plays are published by Theatre Forum, NoPassport Press, Smith & Kraus and Samuel French (2010). www.christine-evans-playwright.com

[writer] Charity Henson-Ballard, actor and emerging playwright, lives in New York where she is a member of Rising Circle Theater Collective. She received her Master’s in English with a concentration in Renaissance Literature and Psychoanalytic Theory from UMASS Amherst, and a Master’s of Fine Arts in Acting from NYU. Charity conducts actor coaching and playwriting workshops using critical approaches to language performativity and the utilization of the complete actor instrument. Her current projects include Pete the Girl and Muddy the Waters (full-length), which was originally showcased at the World Financial Center in collaboration with Women’s Project and River to River Festival, 2009. www.charityhensonballard.com

[writer] Kara Manning’s plays, including Mind the Gap, Killing Swans, afterdark, and Sleeping Rough, have been performed or developed via the Royal Court Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Playwrights Horizons, Rattlestick, NYTW, LAByrinth Theater. She is the 2007 recipient of the Princess Grace Award in playwriting. Member of the Women’s Project Lab and MCC Theater’s Playwrights Coalition. Playwright-in-residence with the Royal Court Theatre’s International Residency, Page 73 Productions’ 2008 Yale retreat and Women’s Project’s 2009 Voice & Vision retreat. Recipient of the 2000-2001 Jerome Foundation, Affiliated Writers Program grant. Graduate of Columbia University’s MFA playwriting program.

[writer] Lynn Rosen has had plays produced or developed at many theaters, including: Women’s Project, Centerstage (Baltimore), The Working Theater, The Lark Play Development Center, New Harmony Project, The New Group, New Georges, Geva Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Studio Theatre, Todd Mountain Theater Project, Willow Cabin Theatre Company, and several productions in Germany. Commissions from the EST/Sloan Foundation and New Georges. Named one of “50 to Watch” by The Dramatist magazine, Weissberger Award nominations, a member of the Women’s Project Lab, EST, Dramatist Guild, The Fire Dept., and a New Georges and Lark Affiliated Artist. She is originally from Gary, Indiana.

[writer] Crystal Skillman is the author of the plays Birthday, Nobody, The Telling Trilogy (Rising Phoenix Rep, Dir. Daniel Talbott), The Sleeping World (Developed by Flux, Woodshed Collective, Lincoln Center Directors Lab) and Hack (Vampire Cowboys Saloon Series, The Brick Too Soon Summer Festival 2010). Currently, Crystal has also been commissioned by the Vampire Cowboys to write a new play for an upcoming season. You can also find her work published in Plays & Playwrights 2008, Poems & Plays, as well as Smith & Kraus. Member: Women’s Project Lab, RPR, EST, The Pack, Dramatists Guild.

[writer] Andrea Thome is a Chilean-Costa Rican, Wisconsin-born mutt who grew up navigating the multiple landscapes and languages that now inhabit her plays. Her dramas, comedies, translations and video satires have been presented by organizations including: Lark Play Development Center, INTAR, TerraNova Collective, El Museo del Barrio, NYU, Yale, Cherry Red Productions (DC), the Bay Area’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Brava!, Latina Theatre Lab, and Stanford University. Andrea co-directs the satire collective FULANA (www.fulana.org). She regularly teaches youth and college students, and directs the Lark’s U.S.-México Playwrights Exchange. She is a member of New Dramatists.