Brittany K. Allen
Brittany K. Allen (Playwright) is a Brooklyn-based writer/actor. Her plays have been produced and developed by Manhattan Theatre Club, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Studio Theatre, and KC Rep, among other places, and her radio plays and podcasts have been produced by Fresh Produce Media and Playing On Air. She is an alumna of EST/Youngblood, The Public Theater’s EWG, and the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages. Awards include the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, the Dramatists Guild Foundation Comedic Playwriting Prize, and recognition on the Kilroys List. Her writing life has been nourished by residential stints at the late Lark, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, Ucross, and Juilliard, where she will join the Lila Acheson Wallace playwriting cohort this fall as a Hansberry-Lilly fellow. She periodically teaches on the playwriting faculty at the Sewanee Writers Conference, and is a resident artist with Colt Coeur.
Karina Billini
Karina Billini (Playwright) (she/her) is a Dominican-American playwright, poet, and educator from Brooklyn. She is a recent graduate of Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. She is a proud alum of the Public Theater’s 2023–25 Emerging Writers Group, New Harmony Project Conference, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood, Pipeline PlayLab, and Gingold Theatrical Group’s Speakers’ Corner, among others. Her plays have been workshopped and/or produced at the Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New Harmony Project, Fault Line Theatre, and Teatro Vivo, among others. Her play APPLE BOTTOM is a recipient of the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation commission. Billini holds an MFA in Playwriting from the New School and a BA from Marymount Manhattan College. www.karinabillini.com
Mary Hamilton
Mary Hamilton (Playwright) is a Brooklyn based playwright, screenwriter and mom. She holds her MFA from The University of Iowa and an Artistic Diploma from Juilliard. Mary was a Jerome Fellow at The Lark and has participated in Youngblood, The O’Neill, Ars Nova, I-73, New Georges’ The Jam, and Play Penn. Her play 16 Winters won The American Shakespeare
Company’s New Contemporaries Award and was produced by them in Virginia. Her Sloan commission, Smart, was produced off Broadway at Ensemble Studio Theater and optioned by AMC. Mary was an Executive Story Editor on the Paramount+ show Why Women Kill and is a resident playwright with New Dramatists.
Iraisa Ann Reilly
Iraisa Ann Reilly (Playwright) is a writer, actor and educator originally from New Jersey. She recently appeared Off-Broadway at Ensemble Studio Theatre in her one-woman show A Bodega Princess Remembers La Fiesta de Los Reyes Magos, 1998. Her work has been developed and recognized by Lucille Lortel Theatre, EST, Latinx Playwrights Circle, Teatro del Sol, Soho Rep, Atlantic Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Two River Theatre, Arkansas New Play Festival, Bay Area Playwright’s Festival, Theatre Exile, The New Harmony Project, Texas A&M University, Michigan State, Sol Project, Simpatico Theatre Company, Art House Productions, Repertorio Español and the Yale Drama Series. She is currently a part of Roundabout Theatre Company’s Underground Residency. Iraisa Ann is an adjunct professor of Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch and is a teaching artist with Roundabout Theatre Company and ESPA Primary Stages. MFA Dramatic Writing, NYU. BA Theatre and English, University of Notre Dame. iraisaannreilly.com
Ren Dara Santiago
Ren Dara Santiago (Playwright) is a Fili-Rican storyteller from Yonkers and Harlem. Awards include the Dramatist Guild’s Lanford Wilson Award, TOW Foundation Fellowship, MCC Alumni Award, and the inaugural recipient of Rising Phoenix Rep’s Cornelia Street American Playwriting Award. Plays include The Siblings Play (Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Something in the Balete Tree (Ground Floor Summer Lab at Berkeley Rep, Winner: Lark Play Development Center’s Playwright’s Week, Finalist: National Playwright’s Conference); Subliminal; I’ll Write You Down in Brick & Mortar; Gods Play; Battle. Experimental, Musical and Immersive works include What Thaws or Will Thaw; Ghosts in the Sky; Building Models; As Hard as You Can; In the Shit; Same Shadow; Where We At; Love & Animation. Ren created and curated the MTA Radio Plays, was the head writer for See You In Your Nightmares, staff-writer for Let The Right One In and wrote the short film The Knock Shadow. Ren is Core Faculty at the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and a member of Ma-Yi Writer’s Lab.