Saturday, October 17, 2020 | By | | Comment

Kim Golding

(ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, she/her/hers) is a director, creative producer, and performance maker from Bronx, New York. She has worked for The Museum of Modern Art, Clubbed Thumb, and Playwrights Horizons. Her recent production credits include: Pope.L’s Eating the Wall Street Journal (Flag Version) and Dressing Up for Civil Rights (MoMA); Ann Marie Dorr & Paul Ketchum’s Good and Noble Beings (created with Jeff Aaron Bryant, Dallas Estes, and Kedian Keohan; Exponential Festival, NACL, Soho Rep), Raja Feather Kelly’s UGLY (Washington Ensemble Theatre; The Bushwick Starr), Sam Myers’ Cow Camp (Downtown Art), and Sarah Einspanier’s Madonna col Bambino (created with Caitlin Sullivan and Deepali Gupta; New Ohio, Ars Nova). Kim received her B.A. from Williams College in Theater and Psychology.

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Saturday, October 17, 2020 | By | | Comment

Carol Almonte

(STAGE MANAGER, she/hers) is a Production and Stage Manager based in New York City. She recently completed the Production Management Apprenticeship at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, as part of the Professional Training Company. At Actors Theatre: New Play Projects (PM), Solo Mios (PM), and the 44th Humana Festival of New American Plays (PM Apprentice). Off-Off Broadway: MADONNA col BAMBINO (Stage Manager) at the New Ohio Theatre and Dutch Masters (Assistant Scenic Designer) at the Wild Project. Additional Theatre: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Assoc. PM) and Purple Valley Plays (Scenic and Lighting Designer) at Williams College, Ars Nova (PM Apprentice), and The Williamstown Theatre Festival (PM Intern).  

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Saturday, October 17, 2020 | By | | Comment

Thomas Dieter

(AYE DEFY Stream Manager, he/him) is thrilled to join this collaboration between AYE DEFY and WP Theater. Virtual Theater: The Tribute Artist (Primary Stages); rain falls special on me, Uhuru (AYE DEFY); The Way of Water, Crying on Television (Play-PerView); Much Ado About Nothing, A Tell-Tale Heart, Redux (Pittsburgh Public Theater). Off-Broadway: The Confession of Lily Dare (Primary Stages); for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, The Loophole (Public Theater); The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic Theater Company). AYE DEFY Resident Stage Manager. In addition to stage management and broadcast design, Thomas is also a writer and education consultant, advising leaders across the country on best practices in adult education and contextualized instruction. 

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www.thomasdieter.com

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Mirirai Sithole

(AYE DEFY Founder, Co-Producer, she/they) is a multi-hyphenate artist based in Los Angeles. Virtual Producing: A Doll’s House, Part 2, Cadillac Crew, Rinse Repeat, The Way of Water (Play-PerView), My H8 Letter…, Uhuru, Salt Pepper Ketchup, rain falls special on me(AYE DEFY). New York acting: If Pretty Hurts… (Playwrights Horizons), School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (MCC Theater, Lucille Lortel Award, Drama Desk Award), The Homecoming Queen (AUDELCO nomination, Atlantic Theatre Company), Suzan-Lori Parks’ The Death of the Last Black Man… (Signature Theatre Company), Mother Courage and Her Children (CSC, Rosemarie Tichler Award), and Frontières Sans Frontières (Bushwick Starr).  Regional: School Girls;… (Kirk Douglas Theatre), Skeleton Crew (Dorset Theatre Festival), and Our Town and A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville). TV: “Black Mirror,” “Russian Doll,” “Bull,” “The Affair,” “Master of None,” and “Broad City.”  She received her BFA in Theatre from Adelphi University and was a member of the Professional Training Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

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Saturday, October 17, 2020 | By | | Comment

Leslie Roth

(AYE DEFY Co-Producer, she/they) is an actor, director, writer and producer based in NYC.  Virtual producing credits include THE WOODS. by Jahna Ferron-Smith, MODEL MINORITY by Chloé Hung and Ole White Sugah Daddy by Obehi Janice.  As a multi-hyphenate artist, Leslie has developed, devised and acted in new works at La MaMa E.T.C., Primary Stages, Target Margin, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and The Bushwick Starr.  Acting credits include Measure for Measure (Shakespeare’s Globe, London) and Di & Viv & Rose (Theatre Row).  Leslie’s interview-based play Trigger Warning has received readings at The Barrow Group and Columbia University.  A former member of The Literary Wing at The Lark and staff at The Lilly Awards, Leslie has a passion for amplifying vibrant stories and celebrating writers.  She received her MFA in Acting from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of The Arts and trained at NTI as a director in the Theatermakers program at The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.  

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www.leslieerinroth.com 

Thursday, October 15, 2020 | By | | Comment

Cori Thomas

(PLAYWRIGHT, she/her) is an award winning playwright and screenwriter. Produced plays: Lockdown; When January Feels Like Summer; Citizens Market; My Secret Language of Wishes; PA’S Hat and more. Produced and Developed at: WP Theater; Rattlestick Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Page 73, Ensemble Studio Theatre; City Theater Co. Pittsburgh; The Goodman Theater; Pillsbury House Theater; Mixed Blood; Horizon’s Theater, Mosaic Theatre Co.; and others. She has won the American Theater Critics Osborn Award; Edgerton Foundation Prize; Was a 2017 runner up for The Dramatist Guild Horton Foote Playwriting Award; is a two time Theodore Ward Prize winner. Cori is a New Dramatists Resident. She has been awarded Fellowships at O’Neill National Playwrights Conference; Sundance Theater Lab; MacDowell Colony; Bogliasco Foundation; Baryshnikov Arts Center; and more. Film and TV Projects include: Original screenplay for HBO Films and Tribeca Productions; JuVee Productions; and more.. Cori is presently co-writing the memoirs of Sex Trafficking victim Sara Kruzan for Knopf/Random House. Founder: The Pa’s Hat Foundation a 501c(3) in 2012. Pa’s Hat is an organization focused on helping former child soldiers and other marginalized citizens of Liberia, West Africa with educational and work related assistance. Ongoing volunteer at San Quentin State Prison with the anti-violence program No More Tears. Board of Directors: of New Dramatists, Pa’s Hat Foundation, Project FEEL, and No More TearsSQ. Cori is represented by Leah Hamos and Vernalis Co at The Gersh Agency, Kirsten Jacobson at Good-Fear Eve MacSweeney at Fletcher and Co.

Thursday, October 15, 2020 | By | | Comment

Kent Gash

(DIRECTOR, he/him) directed the acclaimed World Premiere of Robert O’Hara’s BARBECUE at the Public Theatre and is the co-author and director of LANGSTON IN HARLEM (2010 Audelco Award-BEST MUSICAL.).  New York: New York premiere of MISS EVER’S BOYS and the revival of HOME both for Melting Pot Theatre Co., and Duke Ellington’s BEGGARS HOLIDAY: York.  Recent regional: Public Works WINTERS TALE: Dallas Theatre Center, THE WIZ at Ford’s Theatre (10 Best of 2018- Washington Post,13 Helen Hayes nominations), August Wilson’s THE GEM OF THE OCEAN: South Coast Rep, (LA TIMES TEN BEST OF 2017).  GOODNIGHT TYLER: Alliance, THE MOUNTAINTOP: Trinity Rep, WIG OUT and CHOIR BOY for Studio Theatre, DC.  Classical productions include: TROILIUS and CRESSIDA and TWELFTH NIGHT at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, CORIOLANUS and PRIVATE LIVES at Shakespeare Santa Cruz and THE COMEDY OF ERRORS at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.  Future productions 2019:  GUYS AND DOLLS at the Guthrie.  Mr. Gash is the former Associate Artistic Director of both Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Alliance Theatre; former Artist in Residence Studio Theatre DC and is Founding Director of The New Studio on Broadway at Tisch, NYU.  BFA: CMU, MFA: UCLA.  For Darius Smith.

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Stefani Kuo

(she/her) is a playwright/performer and native of Hong Kong and Taiwan. She received her B.A. from Yale and is an MFA Playwriting Candidate at the Yale School of Drama. Currently based in New York, Stefani has worked in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Berlin, Provence, and the U.S. She has been an awardee of the Jerome fellowship, finalist for the National Playwrights Conference, Jerome fellowship at Lanesboro Arts Centre, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Van Lier New Voices Fellowship, NAP Series, DVRF Playwrights’ Program, semi-finalist for the Page 73 playwriting fellowship, Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, and the Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep. As a performer, she was most recently seen in Bedlam Theatre Company’s six-women production of King Lear at Bristol Riverside Theater Company, PA. She is fluent in English, French, Mandarin, and Cantonese. Her work in translation and non-fiction involve all four languages, and have appeared in China Hands, and the New York Times. She is currently commissioned to write a play for Roundhouse Theater Company in D.C. which will be produced in the spring of 2021.

Thursday, October 15, 2020 | By | | Comment

Mei Ann Teo

(they/she) is a Singaporean director/dramaturg/devisor. At the intersection of artistic/civic/contemplative practice, they make work across genres, including experimental participatory work, music theatre, and documentary theatre. Teo’s work has been seen internationally including Belgium’s Festival de Liege (Lyrics From Lockdown, “Truly polished, meaningful and entertaining” –New York Times), Edinburgh International Fringe (MiddleFlight, “Stunning” –Scotsman), Beijing International Festival (Labyrinth – Top 8 in Beijing News). They have directed and/or developed new work at OSF (Phil Killian Fellow 2015), Goodman, Public, Berkeley Rep, Playwrights Realm, and the National Black Theatre. Recent work: Dim Sum Warriors the Musical by Colin Goh and Yen Yen Woo, composed by Pulitzer Prize winner Du Yun for national China twenty-five city tour, Jillian Walker’s world premiere SKiNFoLK: An American Show at the Bushwick Starr (NYTimes Critics Pick, NYMag’s matrix “Highbrow and Brilliant”) Upcoming: Nia Witherspoon’s Chronicle X: Windows (with composer Troy Anthony) at the Shed. Teo is the Artistic Director of Musical Theatre Factory, a resident company of Playwrights Horizons and an artist service organization that provides all access and affinity spaces for the development of new musical theatre that dismantles oppressive ideologies towards collective liberation. www.meiannteo.com

Tuesday, February 16, 2021 | By | | Comment

Hao

(DESIGNER, she/her) is a multidisciplinary designer in lighting, sound, and video projection for live and virtual performances. Hao works with groundbreaking and innovative artists including Charlotte Braithwaite, Abigail DeVille, Mei Ann Teo, Ping Chong Company, The Talking Band, Mabou Mines, The Wooster Group, The Builders Association, The Hawtplates (Justin Hicks), Pioneers Go East Collective, Loco7, Nia Witherspoon, and New Stage Theatre, etc. Hao’s work has been seen internationally at Asia Culture Center (South Korea), WuZhen Festival (China), in the states at CAC (Cincinnati), Stanford, Jone Hall (Houston), and in New York at The Public Theatre, NYU Skirball, BAAD!, La MaMa, JACK, Bushwick Starr, Performance Space New York, New Stage Theatre, 59E59, A.R.T/New York Theatres, 14 Street Y, Stella Adler, The Performing Garage, The Gallery Players, The Tank, etc.

Thursday, February 06, 2020 | By | | Comment

Bryna Turner

Bryna Turner’s plays include: Bull in a China Shop (LCT3, About Face, Aurora, Diversionary, The National Theatre); At the Wedding (Kilroy’s 2019 Honorable Mention; Development: A.C.T., Arkansas New Play Festival); RATS! (Clubbed Thumb Winterworks Festival); How to Separate Your Soul from your Body (in ten easy steps!) (Mason Gross School of the Arts). Indebted to: Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writer’s Group; WP’s 2018-2020 Lab. Recipient of: a MacDowell Colony Fellowship; Lincoln Center Theater’s Emerging Artist Award of 2018. MFA: Rutgers University. www.brynaturner.com

Thursday, February 06, 2020 | By | | Comment

Rebecca Martínez

Rebecca Martinez is an NYC-based director, choreographer, deviser, and ensemble member of Sojourn Theatre. Upcoming projects: Songs About Trains (New Ohio Theatre, world premiere), DON’T GO (Sojourn Theatre, world premiere). Recent projects: I Am My Own Wife (Long Wharf Theatre); Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Miss You Like Hell (Baltimore Center Stage), Wolf at the Door (Milagro Theatre, NNPN rolling world premiere), Anna in the Tropics (Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Henry Award for Outstanding Direction), Tomás and the Library Lady (Oregon Children’s Theatre). Rebecca has worked with INTAR, Working Theater, Signature Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, the Lark, The Playwrights Realm, New Dramatists, the 52nd Street Project, Radical Evolution among others. Member of: Sol Project Collective, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, INTAR’s Unit52, SDCF Observer, Latinx Theatre Commons Advisory Committee, 2019 Audrey Resident, New Georges Affiliated Artist, 2018-2020 WP Lab, 2017 Drama League Directing Fellow, Member of SDC. Awards: four Portland, Oregon Drammy Awards; Lilla Jewel Award. Rebeccamartinez.org 

Thursday, February 06, 2020 | By | | Comment

Stephanie Rolland

Stephanie Rolland is an NYC/NJ based creative producer and arts administrator. Her work as an artist is fueled by connection, experimentation and laughter. She finds her joy in bringing multi-faceted, swirling, human universes together in space to make magic. She is currently the Director of Theatre Operations at Theatre Row in Midtown. She co-founded Interfest, an *arts and ideas* festival focused on intersectionality and mutual liberation (www.interfestnyc.org). She was chosen as a member of Theater Communication Group (TCG)’s inaugural Rising Leaders of Color cohort in 2016 and the Americans for the Arts inaugural Diversity in Arts Leadership Lab in 2018. Stephanie also served on TCG’s National Awards Committee and the League of Resident Theater’s Diversity Committee. She holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Theater Management from Yale School of Drama.

Thursday, February 06, 2020 | By | | Comment

Charly Evon Simpson

Charly Evon Simpson’s plays include Behind the Sheet, Jump, form of a girl unknown, it’s not a trip it’s a journey, and more.  Her work has been seen and/or developed with Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Lark, P73, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Chautauqua Theater Company, Salt Lake Acting Company, and others. She is a recipient of the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award and the Lanford Wilson Award.  Some of the commissions she has received include commissions from MTC/Sloan, Cleveland Playhouse, EST/Sloan, and one of the 2020 Elizabeth George Commissions through South Coast Repertory. Charly is currently a member of WP Theater’s 2018-2020 Lab and The New Georges Jam. She’s a former member of SPACE on Ryder Farm’s The Working Farm, Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers’ Group, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood, and Pipeline Theatre Company’s PlayLab. BA: Brown University. MSt: University of Oxford, New College. MFA: Hunter College. www.charlyevonsimpson.com

Thursday, February 06, 2020 | By | | Comment

Victoria Collado

Victoria Collado is a Cuban-American director with an interest in creating exciting and adventurous theatrical experiences both inside and outside the proscenium frame. She recently directed the immersive theatre piece, AMPARO, written by Vanessa Garcia in partnership with Havana Club by Bacardi. Victoria has directed for Repertorio Español, MCC Youth Company, Sheen Center, IATI theatre, Microteatro Miami, Columbia University and others. Her production El Burlador de Sevilla received various nominations from the ACE awards, and won for Outstanding Ensemble. She was a Van Lier Directing Fellow with Repertorio Español, part of the Directing Corps in the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and a recipient of the SDCF Observership. Victoria was the assistant director to Tony Taccone in John Leguizamo’s Latin History For Morons on Broadway. She received her BFA from Florida International University. She is a fellow of the WP Theater’s 2018-2020 Lab. Ms. Collado is an Associate Member of SDC.

Thursday, February 06, 2020 | By | | Comment

Ilana Becker

Ilana Becker is a producer and director specializing in new play and musical development, investigative and verbatim material, community-driven projects, and arts education. She is the current Civilians’ R&D Group Program Director, has served on the staff of All For One Theater, Lincoln Center Education, and Bret Adams Ltd, and spent a year as the Associate Artistic Director and Interim Artistic Director of Company of Fools/Sun Valley Center for the Arts. Recent Line Producing includes CollaborationTown’s Riddle of the Trilobites at New Victory Theater, and projects with All For One and Jewish Plays Project. Ilana is the creator of Argument Sessions, a series of ongoing immersive theatrical events weaving SCOTUS transcripts with collaboratively developed original material. She is a member of The WP Theater 2018-2020 Producers Lab, an associate member of SDC, and an alum of The Civilians’ R&D Group, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, DirectorsLabChicago, Fresh Ground Pepper PlayGroup, as well as a Playwrights Horizons Robert Moss Directing Fellow and an Emerging Leader of NY Arts Fellow. She holds a BA in Dramaturgy from Emerson College and is an alum of NTI at the O’Neill Theater Center. www.ilanabecker.com

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Christina Quintana (CQ)

Christina Quintana (CQ) is a writer with Cuban and Louisiana roots. Her plays and musicals include: Citizen Scientist (Barrington Stage Company Burman New Play Award), AZUL (Southern Rep), Scissoring (INTAR, available via Dramatists Play Service), Evensong (Astoria Performing Arts Center), and Enter Your Sleep (Yale Cabaret), among others. She is the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Playwrights Realm, Van Lier New Voices at the Lark, Queer/Art and Lambda Literary, and holds an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University. Most recently, her dystopian television pilot, Invisible Lily, was featured on the 2020 WeForShe “Ones to Watch” List, and CQ served as staff writer on the upcoming ABC series The Baker and the Beauty. She is currently at work on a new musical commissioned by Black Cap Productions based on Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America by Roberto G. Gonzales. For more, visit www.cquintana.com

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Arpita Mukherjee

Arpita Mukherjee (she/her/hers) is the Artistic Director and co-founder of Hypokrit Theatre Company and the Festival Chair for Tamasha. Recent: Jump by Charly Evon Simpson (APAC), One Way by Ben Bonnema and Christopher Staskel (NAMT), The Golden Threshold by Cheeyang Ng and Eric Sorrels (Live & In Color), Strange Men by Will Snider (PlayPenn 2019), Citizen Scientist by CQ (Barrington Stage Company Playworks Weekend), Anon(ymous) by Naomi Iizuka (Iowa State University), Vietgone by Qui Nguyen (reading Song Collective), Eh Dah? Questions For My Father by Aya Aziz (Next Door @NYTW), and Elements of Change by Divya Mangwani (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, UNICEF). Upcoming: House of Joy by Madhuri Shekar (San Diego Rep), Tobias by Christina Quintana – CQ (WP Theater Pipeline Festival), Raisins not Virgins by Sharbari Ahmed (Next Door @NYTW). She is a 2019 – 2020 SDC Denham Fellow, a 2018 – 2020 Women’s Project Lab Member, 2018 Eugene O’ Neill National Directing Fellow, alumni of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a 2019 Mabou Mines Resident Artist and 2019-2020 LMCC Artist-in-Residence at Governors Island. Arpita is currently the book writer for Monsoon Wedding musical, opening in London summer 2020. “

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Marie Cisco

Marie is a producer who has worked for The Public Theater, National Black Theatre, the New Black Fest, Lee Daniels Entertainment, and The Apollo Theater. Marie recently worked as a Co-Producer on the feature film US. vs. Billie Holiday and she is currently the New Works Development Consultant for The Apollo Theater.  She holds a B.F.A from The Theatre School at DePaul University in Theatre Arts and a M.A from Columbia College Chicago in Interdisciplinary Arts.

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Vanessa Garcia

Vanessa Garcia is a multidisciplinary artist working as a playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist. Her most recent play includes the immersive hit, The Amparo Experience (“Miami’s Hottest Ticket,” according to People en Español). She’s also written for TV, and was a Sesame Street Writer’s Room Fellow. Her debut novel, White Light, was published in 2015, to critical acclaim. Named one of the Best Books of 2015 by NPR, it also won an International Latino Book Award. As a journalist, feature writer, and essayist, her pieces have appeared in The LA Times, The Miami Herald, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Narrative.ly, and American Theatre Magazine, among numerous other publications. She holds a PhD from the University of California Irvine in English (with a focus in Creative Nonfiction), an MFA from the University of Miami (in fiction), and a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University (English and Art History).  She wants to express her gratitude here to her amazing cohort and to the group of women she has had the honor and luck to work with these past two years at the WP Lab. This makes her a playwright with a very, very happy heart.

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Sarah Hughes

Sarah Hughes is a director and producer of theater and new media. She’s collaborated on new plays and devised works with Julia May Jonas, MJ Kaufman, Julia Izumi, Eliza Bent, Zarina Shea, Carl Holder, Elevator Repair Service, and more, and her work has been seen at Clubbed Thumb, Abrons Arts Center, WP Theater, The Bushwick Starr, and New Ohio, among others. As a producer she’s developed performances with Target Margin Theater, Sibyl Kempson, MoMA, and Half Straddle, and new media projects for Tribeca Film Festival, NYTW, and The New York Times. Sarah is a WP Theater Directors Lab Fellow and an NNPN/O’Neill National Directors Fellow, as well as an alum of Clubbed Thumb’s Directing Fellowship and The Civilians’ R&D Lab. She has been a resident artist with New Georges, the Drama League, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, BRIC, NACL and more. Sarah was recently named Director of Artistic Programming at Theatre Row, where she created and runs the Kitchen Sink Residency. She teaches at Dartmouth College and NYU.

Thursday, February 06, 2020 | By | | Comment

Alyssa Simmons

Alyssa Simmons is a creative producer and manager. She currently serves as the Assistant General Manager at The Public Theater where her primary responsibility is the Under The Radar Festival. Her interests run the gamut from devised performance to new plays to musicals to immersive experiences and live events. Alyssa pursues projects that challenge the idea of performance, broaden the form of storytelling, and, most importantly, make the audience experience something memorable.  She is a woman of two cities: her hometown of Los Angeles and her adopted city of New York. Alyssa holds a BA in Theater Studies and International Studies from Yale University and a MFA in Theater Management from Yale School of Drama. She is a member of the 2018-2020 WP Theater Producers Lab, a member of Round 4 of Theatre Communication Group’s Rising Leaders of Color program, and a member of the 2018 Producer Farm cohort. Recent credits include serving as the producer on the 2018 Prelude Festival, the Associate Producer on Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon’s opera Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, and producer on freelance projects around the city.

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Sukari Jones

Sukari Jones is a playwright and musical theater lyricist most interested in the intersection of race and power in the United States as seen through a magical or sci-fi lens, creating impossible theater that necessarily centers people of color–in particular Black femmes. B.A. Vassar College, M.F.A. NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Memberships: WP Lab, BMI Musical Theater Workshop, The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group. Productions/Development: The Public Theater, Cherry Lane Theater, Lincoln Center, Lark Play Development Center, Barrington Stage Company, Joe’s Pub, Prospect Theater Company, Feinstein’s/54 Below, National Alliance of Musical Theatre Conference and Goodspeed Opera House. Fellowships/Residencies: The MacDowell Colony, W.K. Rose (Vassar College), Catwalk Art Residency, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center National Music Theatre Conference INCUBATOR residency, NAMT Festival of New Musicals. Commissions: Atlantic Theater Company, Barrington Stage Company. www.sukarijones.com

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Candis C. Jones

Upcoming: Cullud Wattah (The Public Theater) Selected Credits: 53% OF (The Alliance Theater), Trapt (Joe’s Pub), House of the Negro Insane (Bay Area Playwrights Festival), Pipeline (Detroit Public Theater), shadow/land (Faultline Theater), Nike (A.C.T. New Strands Festival), Gloria (AADA), The Wolves (AADA), Brother Rabbit (New Black Fest), Name Calling (Kennedy Center), New Shoes (The Drama League), Morning in America (Primary Stages), TEMBO! (Zanzibar International Film Fest). Awards and Fellowships: Lilly Award, WP Theater’s 2018-2020 Lab, Drama League Alumni. www.candiscjones.com

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Lucy Jackson

Lucy Jackson is an independent performing arts producer. Originally from London, UK, she now lives and works in New York City, USA, supporting playwrights and multidisciplinary artists to develop, produce and tour new work. She is Producer for Rachel Mars (Our Carnal Hearts: Fusebox Festival; Oberon A.R.T.; On the Boards;  Melbourne & Brisbane Fringes) and Salty Brine’s Living Record Collection (with Exec Producer Renee Blinkwolt; Pangea & Joe’s Pub). Recent productions include the world premieres of Intelligence by Helen Banner (NYTW Next Door), and Heather Christian’s Animal Wisdom (The Bushwick Starr). Line Producing includes Andrew Schneider’s NERVOUS/SYSTEM (BAM Next Wave) and Amir Nizar Zuabi’s Oh My Sweet Land (The Play Company). She works with Los Angeles Performance Practice as their New York Producer, and has been Producing Director for The Assembly, Development Director for the New Ohio Theatre, and General Manager/Touring Producer for the TEAM. She teaches Creative Producing & Production Management as part of The New School’s MA in Artistic Entrepreneurship.  www.lsajackson.com