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In this fierce and feverish comedy, a gang of teenage girls gather in a treehouse to summon the ghost of Pablo Escobar. Are they messing with the actual spirit of the infamous cartel kingpin? Or are they really just messing with each other? A rollercoaster ride through the danger and damage of girlhood. The teenage wasteland has never been so much twisted fun!Di Glazer & Ross Weiner / ICM Partners
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It's 2015 and Jeff and Judy are right where they belong: waiting outside the stage door of the Broadway musical "If/Then" to get Idina Menzel's autograph. But she never fucking comes out. And the conversation they have while they wait will change the course of their lifelong friendship forever.Ross Weiner / ICM Partners
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A darkly comic southern drama about love, art, and the power of women. This heart-wrenching story of a reclusive Alabama folk artist won the David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize. After a tornado barrels through town leaving nothing but death and destruction, only June and her pet goat Weezy live to tell the tale. When a prominent photographer visits to take pictures of June's scars, both are forced to reconcile the pain of loss and recovery. This all-female drama explores the meaning and purpose of art and the struggle of the lost and tortured souls that seek to create it.Susan Gurman / Gurman Agency LLC
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It’s 1997 and Cynthia Cooper rules the WNBA. Every player on Plainnole’s Lady Train basketball team wants to “go pro,” but none more than Starra Jones. She and her teammates, Cherise, Sidney, April, and Donna, make a pact to stick together come hell or high water. However, the realities of living life in rural Arkansas may tear them apart. Written in the structure of a four-quarter basketball game, FLEX presents a world in which scoring on the court is a score in life, and a foul on the court is a foul in life.candrice.jones@gmail.com
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Amali is a 12-year-old black girl who finds herself on the edge of womanhood and is having trouble navigating her new world. Her mom's always busy and her sister is about to have a baby of her own. Her friend Marina has ditched her, but her new best friend Finn is always there to listen--until he can't take it anymore. Her fascination with her changing body is one thing, but her fascination with the story of siblings killed in the woods is another thing entirely.Allison Schwartz / Paradigm
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In 1846, Philomena is a pregnant slave woman assisting her owner, Dr. George Barry, as he tries to find the cure for fistulas and tending to his patients, other enslaved black women. Everything changes when he receives a new patient. Inspired by the life and experimentation of Dr. J Marion Sims and the lives of Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey, three of the enslaved black women he worked on, Behind the Sheet explores the untold stories behind the rise of modern gynecology.Allison Schwartz / Paradigm
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In this comedy-drama, four sheltered Chinese-American teens want to perform an original rap song for their church’s talent show but none of them know how to DJ. When an African-American student answers their flyer, they all must confront their prejudices. MODEL MINORITY explores the appropriation of African-American culture by Asian-Americans.askchloesomething@gmail.com
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ROOM ENOUGH is centered on a contemporary African-American Muslim Family coming to terms with how to treat queerness up against long-standing ideals and faith. Fatimah, a recently widowed matriarch, is determined to have it all. She wants the opportunity to set right a 10 year mistake by inviting Jamillah, her queer daughter, to return home after a long forced absence. Can she have it all when, Abdullah, her son, is driven to fight against this decision even though he loves his mother deeply?daaimahm@gmail.com
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A cross-country road trip veers off course when family ties collide with the values of a changing culture.Derek Zasky / WME
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Nicole tells her sister Lee that she was abducted by aliens. Lee goes on a performance art journey to figure out why. THE GAP brings them both closer to articulating the truth about that strange moment in their childhood that neither of them can exactly name. Winner of the 2018 Barrymore Award, a new dark comedy about trauma, art, and sisterhood that asks, what's ultimately worse: forgetting, or remembering?Jonathan Mills / Paradigm
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Two months after Hurricane Katrina, 13-year-old Davis & her father Ernest find themselves in Chicago. With her mother dedicated to the fight for Black land ownership in New Orleans & her father committed to starting a new life in Chicago, divorce threatens to further separate a family already torn apart, & Davis is left hanging in the balance. explores Davis's experience navigating the Chicago public school system while silently coping with the PTSD of a secret assault at the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina.Olivier Sultan / CAA
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It’s been 936 days since Marion’s family has had clean water. When local activists file a class action lawsuit against the city, Marion—a third-generation employee at General Motors—must decide how best to support her two daughters, sister, and mother while lead seeps into the community, their home, and their bodies. As corrosive memories and secrets rise among them, the family wonders if they’ll ever be able to filter out the truth.Olivier Sultan / CAA
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Deb maintains the pristine surfaces of her 1990s white suburban life - but when her son is accused of sexual assault, guilt threatens to tear her apart. Dana seems to be holding it together as a queer black woman in Trump’s America, until her past creeps into her already troubled present. Through visual metaphor and dark humor, THE GIRL IS CHAINED tells the story of two women and the night that both divides and connects them.gennemurphy@gmail.com
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"StoneHeart" is a deconstructed western that explores the parallel deterioration of a family and a society in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua in the 1980s. Persecution, curses, and rattle snakes, and past lives come together in a visceral family drama where the Zermanis are forced to cope with the death of their legacy amidst the rise of a new generation of 'society's finest.'gesco33@gmail.com
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Allonda and her friends wrestle their way through the summer - sometimes it's on the playgrounds in the projects of Coney Island, sometimes it's with their feelings and often it's at home. A coming of age story about friendship and heartache, ALLOND(R)A asks how much is too much to fight for?ginafemia@gmail.com
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Meeting young, at pivotal moments in their lives, Manuel and Johaira fell in love and got married. Although both were raised in the same type of environment, each had different perspectives on how their experiences affected their choices. Johaira, a smart young lawyer, has always been an independent spirit that gets things done. Manuel, is an entrepreneur on the rise with a mechanic shop that is on the cusp of expansion. Both have ambitions and dreams that they hope to achieve together. Johaira lands a career defining case that rocks her confidence and has her questioning her husband’s will to...Michael Finkle at WME (mfinkle@wmeagency.com)
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What would you do if you had the power to build your own baby? In this version of a near future society, prospective parents learn within the first weeks of conception which genetic traits their child will have, and what behaviors they are likely to exhibit. Based on these test results, the parent(s) are either issued a PRE certification which legally guarantees the baby will be a "good" person or not. Without the certification, the child will be limited in what it is allowed to do. Two couples collide over what to do with their PRE certification test results. With rapid advances in reproducti...Susan Gurman / Susan Gurman Agency
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Five former employees. One great love. Thorny, uncomfortable, and funny (and... sexy?), LOVE asks what accountability looks like when an abuser of power is one of our favorite men, and dares us to get to the other side of accountability and hashtags together.Ben Izzo / Abrams Artists
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In present-day Appalachian Georgia, an English assignment becomes uncomfortably relevant when scandal swirls and old heroes are questioned. What does it mean to inherit centuries of trauma and come of age in a world that has always prioritized a man’s reputation above a woman’s experience? The line between witch and heroine blurs in this post-#MeToo examination of power, literature, and sex education. Plus there’s Lorde.belflower122@gmail.com
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LIPSTICK LOBOTOMY imagines a friendship between JFK’s little sister Rosemary Kennedy and the playwright’s great-aunt Ginny at an exclusive high-end sanitarium for women in the fall of 1941. The women undergo the peculiar cutting-edge treatments on offer by a society desperate to find the cure for womanhood. When Rosemary is selected by the famous surgeon Dr. Walter Jackson Freeman II for an exciting new procedure, Ginny will do everything in her power to take control of her own future.Mark Orsini / Bret Adams, Ltd.
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Juliet is losing her marriage. Her mother Pam is losing her memory. And there's a mysterious forest growing in and around their living room. A play about grief, weird love, and what to do when there aren't any right answers.Samara Harris / Robert A. Freedman Agency
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Seven college students gather for a DIY self-defense workshop after a sorority sister is raped. They learn to use their bodies as weapons. They learn to fend off attackers. They learn “not to be a victim.” Learning self-defense becomes a channel for their rage, anxiety, confusion, trauma and desire – lots of desire. HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF explores what you want, how to ask for it, and the insidious ways rape culture steals one's body and sense of belonging.Agent: Kevin Lin / CAA
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After ten years of self-imposed estrangement from her country, Turkey, Rana reunites with three of her old friends on a soccer field in Istanbul on 15 July 2016 (the eve of the attempted coup d'etat in Turkey), only to realize what it was that really drove them apart. Spanning across the surreal events of one evening, Field, Awakening is an anti-homecoming: a tale of a stranger in a strange land, searching in vain for a home that is lost in a landscape of fleeting familiarity and heightened political surveillance.Kevin Lin / CAA
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Georgia’s husband, Corbin, has been offered his dream job. But there’s a catch: in order to take the position, he has to give up a big piece of their personal privacy. On the precipice of this life-changing decision, Corbin’s integrity, Georgia’s own needs, and their marriage all hang in the balance.monapirnot@gmail.com
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Childhood friends Elena Ramírez and Tanok Cárdenas come from different worlds, but share one dream: to become matadors in Mexico's bullfighting circuit. Elena's mother, Pastora, is the live-in housekeeper for her childhood confidant, renowned rejoneador, Rafael Cárdenas. Though class and gender divide this household, Pastora raises Tanok and Elena side by side, while keeping a watchful eye on her daughter's budding interest in bullfighting from Rafael's young protégé. As Elena and Tanok grow, she proves a much more skilled fighter than Tanok, and what began as child's play is now a vocation. D...Robert Lazar / Marathon Management
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A young Black female coder wrestles with love, identity, and the tension between striving and thriving as she tries to get her startup off the ground. How can you fully be yourself in spaces where no one can see all the sides of you?Jonathan Mills / Paradigm
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T and Lola met in sexual abuse survivor’s support group and the support group ain't doing sh*t for them. So, tonight they have decided to take it upon themselves to right the wrongs that have been done to them. Spend the night with two f*ckedup people who are going to f*ck up the people who f*cked them over.Rachel Viola / UTA
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With his 13th birthday around the corner, Totome is excited to meet “the butcher” and finally become a man. His mother, however, hopes to keep him whole for just a little while longer. Set in a dystopian future, BEFORE EVENING COMES explores what becomes of black boys, men, and women in an America rooted in the founding myths that the black male body is either a commodity or a threat.philanao@gmail.com
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“English, always.” That’s the motto for one classroom in Iran, as a group of students struggles to learn a new language. If only they can conquer this mysterious tongue, doors will open to new jobs, deeper family connections, and boundless opportunities. But as they practice, practice, practice, desperate not to fail (or, worst of all, sound like Borat), understanding a new world might also mean leaving their old one behind.Rachel Viola / UTA
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A derogatory comment, a summit gone awry, an anal abscess—it’s a bad day at the White House. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven women he most relies upon risk their careers, families, and freedom to save the day.Michael Finkle / WME
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Cleo and KJ hole up in a hotel room in between shows. They’re married, they’re both musicians, but KJ’s more successful than Cleo. When they encounter Cass, a younger fan of Cleo’s who works as a towel attendant at the hotel, she sheds light on Cleo’s panic about her career and her marriage. this party sucks is a fluid fever dream examining the artist relationship through gender, competition, and sexuality, asking us to examine what it means to love and be loved, to create and be created.Allison Schwartz / Paradigm
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America v. 2.1 is a day in the life of a troupe of historical re-enactors charged with telling the tragic story of what was once was the American Negro, a woeful race once featured prominently in the American landscape, but whose time has been extinguished at own foolish hand. The troupe finds themselves at odds with the state of their own existences while being painfully oblivious to the parallels and intersections their lives draw to those of the very Negroes whose story they are bound to tell. As this oblivion fades and they are faced with their stark reality, this day in the life of actors...Olivier Sultan / CAA
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AS IS is the story of four Big Beautiful Black Women living the everyday struggle of trying to lose a few pounds and navigating their Big Black Womeness in the confined spaces of their lives. D. Everette has found her stride as a college professor. Antonia seems to have stumbled upon the perfect manifestation of Black love. Beverly has her children and her grief. It is young Camille who threatens to unravel the four way friendship with her inability to find and relegate herself to a confined space of her own.Olivier Sultan / CAA
2019 Honorable Mentions
The following are the 40 un- and underproduced plays by woman, trans, and non-binary authors that each received 4 nominations. For more about the selection process, visit our About The List page. Playwrights have been encouraged to list their plays on the New Play Exchange to make the plays as accessible as possible.
VIVIAN BARNES – Jezebels
BLEU BECKFORD-BURRELL – Lyons Pride
FRANCE-LUCE BENSON – Deux Femmes on the Edge de la Revolution
KARI BENTLEY-QUINN – Wendy and the Neckbeards
EBONI BOOTH – A Small World
J. NICOLE BROOKS – HeLa
MEGHAN BROWN – The Tasters
ELEANOR BURGESS – Wife of a Salesman
MARGOT CONNOLLY – Quiz Out
PATRICIA COTTER – The Daughters
GUADALIS DEL CARMEN – My Father’s Keeper
MIA CHUNG – This Exquisite Corpse
JULIA DOOLITTLE – The Absentee
OLIVIA DUFAULT – For Want of a Horse
SARAH EINSPANIER – Lunch Bunch
SARAH EINSPANIER – I LOVE SEAN
L M FELDMAN – Thrive, Or What You Will
GINA FEMIA – This Happened Once At The Romance Depot Off The I-87
JAHNA FERRON-SMITH – The Woods
JACQUELINE GOLDFINGER – Click
MARY HAMILTON – A Liberal Tradition
LILY HOUGHTON- Dear
JULIA IZUMI – miku, and the gods
LINDSAY JOELLE – The Garbologists
EMILY KACZMAREK – Sam & Lizzie
ANCHULI FELICIA KING – Golden Shield
LISA LANGFORD – Rastus and Hattie
MIA MCCULLOUGH – Household Spirits
BONNIE METZGAR – You Lost Me
LIZ MORGAN – Deliver: Letters to the Motherland from a Foreign Body
LAURA NEILL – Winter People
AYA OGAWA – The Nosebleed
TIRA PALMQUIST – The Way North
VICKIE RAMIREZ – Pure Native
STACEY ROSE – Legacy Land
ABBY ROSEBROCK – Blue Ridge
CRYSTAL SKILLMAN – Pulp Vérité
KRISTIN SLANEY – Hockey Messiah
ANDREA STOLOWITZ – The Berlin Diaries
BRYNA TURNER – Carlo at the Wedding
**We made our best effort to confirm titles and eligibility of all nominated plays. If we weren’t able to find you, please email us at roys@thekilroys.org.
2019 Nominators
Rey Pamatmat – Playwright
A.J. Muhammad – Producer, The Fire This Time Festival
A.P. Andrews – Literary Manager, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference
Aaron Malkin – Literary Director & Dramaturg, New York Theatre Workshop
Abigail Katz – Director of New Play Development, Atlantic Theater Company
Adam Szymkowicz – Literary Manager, The Juilliard School
Addie Gorlin
Adrien-Alice Hansel – Literary Director, Studio Theatre
Adrienne Campbell-Holt – Artistic Director, Colt Coeur
Alexis Williams – Associate Artistic Director, Playwrights Realm
Alfredo Narciso – actor
Alice Tuan – Playwright Associate, East West Players & Ojai Playwrights Conference
Amy Levinson – Associate Artistic Director, Geffen Playhouse
Amy Rose Marsh – Literary Director, Concord Theatricals
Amy Wegener – Literary Director, Actors Theatre of Louisville
Andrea Hiebler – Director of Scouting and Submissions, The Lark
Andrew Knight – Associate Literary Director, South Coast Repertory
Angel Desai – actor/musician/activist
Anna Morton – Literary Manager, McCarter Theatre Center
Anna Shapiro – Artistic Director, Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Anne Hamilton – Founder, Hamilton Dramaturgy
annie-b parson – artistic director, Big Dance Theater
Aphra Behn – Artistic Director – Guerrilla Girls On Tour
April Matthis – Actor
Art Borreca – Co-Head, Iowa Playwrights Workshop
Art Rotch – Artistic Director, Perseverance Theatre
Artistic Producer/Steppenwolf Theatre
Aya Ogawa – writer/director
Bernie Balbot – Director of New Play Development, Jackalope Theatre Company
Beth Wood – Associate Artistic Director – Cleveland Public Theatre
Bianca Bagatourian – President, Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance
Bixby Elliot – playwright and co-curator of The Brooklyn Generator
Blair Nodelman – Marketing Coordinator, Fresh Ink Theatre
Bobby Moreno – actor
Bonnie Metzgar – playwright
Brandon Weinbrenner – Artistic Associate, Alley Theatre
Brant Russell – Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati
Candis Jones – Playwrights Lab Mngr., New Dramatists
Carrie Chapter – Freelance Dramaturg
Casey Stangl – Associate Artistic Director, Ojai Playwrights’ Conference
Catherine Miller – Casting Director, First Floor Theater
Catherine Randazzo – FST, Associate Artist/Literary Manager
Cece Tio – Producer: Moving Arts and the Playwrights Union
Celise Kalk – Synchronicity Theatre Managing Director
Chad Beckim – co-Artistic Director, Partial Comfort Productions
Chad Rabinovitz – Producing Artistic Director, Adirondack Theatre Fesitval/Bloomington Playwrights Project
chay yew – artistic director, victory gardens theater
Chelsea Radigan – Literary Fellow, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
CHICHI ANYANWU – MANAGER, THE COOPER COMPANY
Chris Fields
Christian Parker
Christopher Breyer – Literary Director/Dramaturg, Ojai Playwrights Conference
Colette Robert – Director
Cynthia White – Director of New Play Development, Orlando Shakes
Daniel Jáquez – Co-Founder, core leader, TuYo Theatre
Daniel Talbott – Artistic Director RPR, Lit Team Rattlestick
Daniella – Artistic Director, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Danielle Ward – Literary Manager San Diego Repertory Theatre
David Mendizábal – Producing Artistic Leader, The Movement Theatre Company
Dawson Moore – Coordinator, Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference
Derek Lee McPhatter – Playwright
Diana Wyenn – co-founder, Plain Wood Productions
Dina Vovsi – Director
Don Nguyen – Playwright and co-founder of Mission to (dit)Mars
Donnetta Lavinia Grays – Playwright
Drayton Hiers – Company Dramaturg, The Flea
Dyan Flores – script reader for Manhattan Theatre Club
Elinor T Vanderburg – Creative Director, Fresh Ground Pepper
Elisa Carlson – Resident Director, Gainesville Theatre Alliance
Elizabeth Rothman – Director of Play Development, MTC
Elizabeth Sharpe-Levine – Literary Associate, Manhattan Theatre Club
Ellie Covan – Artistic Director, Dixon Place
Emilie Beck – Literary Manager, Boston Court Pasadena
Emily Lyon – Director and Dramaturg
Emily Mann – Artistic Director/Resident Playwright McCarter Theatre
Emily Morse – Artistic Director, New Dramatists
Emily Shooltz – Ars Nova, Associate Artistic Director
Emily Simoness – Co-Founder and Executive Director, SPACE on Ryder Farm
Eric Shethar – Manager of Artistic Programs, Ars Nova
Erin Courtney – Playwright and Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College
Erin Washburn – Literary & Patron Services Manager, InterAct Theatre Company
Evan Mueller – Artistic Director: American Theater Northwest
Gabriel Greene – Director of Artistic Development / La Jolla Playhouse
Garrett Anderson – Literary Manager, Concord Theatricals
Gavin Witt – Associate Director/Baltimore Center Stage
Gaye Jeffers – Professor, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Giulianna Marchese – Literary Manager, Red Theater
Graeme Gillis – Associate Artistic Director, Ensemble Studio Theatre
Gwendolyn Whiteside – Artistic Director, American Blues Theater
Gwydion Suilebhan – playwright
Halley Platz – writer-performer, independent
Hannah Wolf – director
Hayley Finn – Associate Artistic Director at the Playwrights’ Center
Heather Helinsky – Freelance Dramaturg (VP of Freelance for LMDA)
Heidi Stillman – Artistic Director, Lookingglass Theatre Company
Henry Wishcamper – Artistic Associate, Goodman Theatre
Ilana M Brownstein – Director of New Work, Company One Theatre
Isaiah Matthew Wooden – Assistant Professor, Brandeis University
Jack Phillips Moore – Associate Dramaturg, The Public Theater
Jacqueline Goldfinger – playwright
Jaime Castaneda
Janice Paran – dramaturg and Senior Program Associate for the Sundance Theatre Program
Jason Eagan – Founding Artistic Director, Ars Nova
Jasson Minadakis – Artistic Director, Marin Theatre Company
Jean Bruce Scott – Producing Executive Director, Native Voices at the Autry
Jen Kays – Artistic Director, Circle X Theatre Co.
Jenna Clark Embrey – Literary Manager, Signature Theatre
Jenna Segal – Producer, Segal NYC
Jenni Page-White – Literary Manager, Actors Theatre of Louisville
Jenni Werner – Literary Director/Resident Dramaturg, Geva Theatre Center
Jennifer Berry
Jennifer Decker – Artistic Director, Mildred’s Umbrella Theater
Jennifer Goff – Assistant Professor of Dramatic Arts, Centre College
Jenny Larson – Artistic Director, Salvage Vanguard Theater
Jenny Lavery – Producing Artistic Director, Theatre en Bloc
Jer Adrianne Lelliott – artistic director, Coeurage Theatre Company
Jeremy Aluma – Freelance Director
Jeremy Cohen – Producing Artistic Director, The Playwrights’ Center
Jeremy Stoller – co-founder, Beehive Dramaturgy Studio
Jeri Frederickson – Program Director, Awakenings
Jerry Ruiz – Asst Professor of Directing, Texas State University
Jesca Prudencio
Jess Chayes – BOLD Associate Artistic Director, Northern Stage
Jessi Hill – Rattlestick Lit Director
Jessica Kubzansky – Artistic Director, Boston Court Pasadena
Jessica Reese – Literary Associate, Actors Theatre of Louisville
Jessie Baxter – Dramaturg & Connectivity Manager at Company One Theatre, Co-founder and Literary Director at Fresh Ink Theatre
Jill Rafson – Director of New Play Development, Roundabout Theatre Company
Joan Kane – Producing Artistic Director Ego Actus Theatre Co.
Joanie Schultz – director
Joe Zarrow – playwright and actor
John Clinton Eisner – Artistic Director, The Lark
John Glore – Associate Artistic Director, South Coast Rep
John M. Baker – Director of Artistic Programs, SPACE on Ryder Farm
John Patrick Bray – Associate Professor, UGA Theatre Dept.; Dramatists Guild Atlanta Region Ambassador
Jolie Curtsinger – Artistic Director, InProximity Theatre Company
Jon Klein – Head of MFA Playwriting, Catholic University of America
Jonathan L. Green – literary manager, Goodman Theatre
Jonathan McCrory – AD, National Black Theatre
Jonathan Muñoz-Proulx – Director of Cultural Programming, A Noise Within
Jordan Schwartz – Associate Producing Director, Fonseca Theatre
Jose Solís – Theatre Critic (Token Theatre Friends, TDF Stages, Scenes in Color)
Julia Brown – Artistic Programs Administrator, Playwrights’ Center
Julie Crosby – Producer
Julie Felise Dubiner
Julis Greer – Co-Artisti Director, The Hearth
Justin J. Sacramone – Freelance Director
K.C. Wilson
Karen Carpenter – Director (Freelance), The Figment Factory
Kari Bentley-Quinn – Playwright and Co-Founder of Mission to (dit)Mars
Kat White – Literary Director, Theater Alliance of Washington, DC
Kat Zukaitis – Literary Associate, South Coast Repertory
Kate Bergstrom – Artistic Director On The Verge + Freelance Director
Kate Moore Heaney – Artistic Producer, Noor Theatre; Co-Program Director, The Amoralists’ ‘Wright Club; Freelance Director
Kate Snodgrass – Artistic Director, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
Katherine Freer – Multimedia Designer
Katherine Kovner – Founding Artistic Director The Playwrights Realm
Katherine M. Carter – Stage Director
Kathleen Warnock – Associate Artistic Director, TOSOS
Katie Baskerville – Directing Fellow, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Keith Josef Adkins – artistic director of The New Black Fest
Kel Haney – free-lance director
Kenneth Prestininzi – New Dramatist playwright; freelance director and dramaturg; Connecticut College Theater Chair
Kent Nicholson – Playwrights Horizons, Associate Producer Musical theater
Kimberly Colburn – Dramaturg
Kimberly Faith Hickman – Artistic Director, Omaha Playhouse
Kirk Lynn – Rude Mechs Co-Producing Artistic Director and Head of Play at UTexas
Kirsten Bowen – Literary Director, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Krissy VanderwarkervDirector
Krista Williams – Roundtable and Casting Director, The Lark
Kristin Leahey – Boston University
Kristine Haruna Lee – Artist
LaRonika Thomas – Doctoral Candidate, University of Maryland
Laura A. Brueckner – Literary Manager & Resident Dramaturg, Marin Theatre Company
Laura Esti Miller – Literary Manager/Dramaturg/Educator, 1st Stage
Laura Shatkus – Artistic Director, ArkansasStaged
Lauren Halvorsen – Associate Literary Director, Studio Theatre
Lauren Miller – freelance director/producer as well as Development Director of The Bushwick Starr
Lauren Shouse – Associate Artistic Director at Northlight Theatre
Leah Nanako Winkler – playwright
Lexy Leuszler – Literary Manager, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
Lia Romeo – playwright and associate artistic director, Project Y Theatre Company
Linda Lombardi – Freelance Director/Dramaturg
Linsay Firman – Director of Play Development, Ensemble Studio Theatre
Lisa Channer – Theatre Novi Most (artistic director) and University of Minnesota (Head of Performance)
Lisa McNulty – Producing Artistic Director, WP Theater
Lisa Steindler – Artistic Director, Z Space
Liz Carlson – Artistic Producer, New York Stage and Film
Liz Engelman – Dramaturg UT-Austin; Director, Tofte Lake Center
Liz Frankel – Director of New Work, Alley Theatre
Lizzie Stern – Literary Manager, Playwrights Horizons
Lloyd Suh – Director of Artistic Programs, The Lark
Lori Wolter Hudson – Artistic Director, The New Harmony Project
Louise Hamill – Artistic Director, Fresh Ink Theatre Company
Luan Schooler – Director of New Play Development & Dramaturgy, Artists Repertory Theatre
Lydia Fort – Assistant Professor, Emory University
Lynde Rosario – Literary Manager, Denver Center Theatre Company
Madeleine Oldham – Director of The Ground Floor and Resident Dramaturg, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Mandy Greenfield – Artistic Director, Williamstown Theatre Festival
Marguerite Stimpson – Actor
Maria Paz Alegre – Theatre Critic for Theatre Is Easy and RE: Theatre
Mariah MacCarthy – Executive Artistic Director, Caps Lock Theatre
Marie-Reine Vele – Producing Artistic Leader, Artists at Play
Mark Armstrong – Executive Director, The 24 Hour Plays
Mark J Bly – Director of Dramaturgy Intensive Kennedy Center
Mark Valdez – Independent Artist/Organizer
Martha Wade Steketee – critic and dramaturg
Martine Kei Green-Rogers – President of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and Asst. Professor at SUNY New Paltz
Masha Tsimring – Lighting Designer
Matt Henderson – Literary Manager, 12 Peers Theater
Matt M. Morrow – Executive Artistic Director, Diversionary Theatre
Matthew Paul Olmos – playwright
Megan McClain – R&D Program Director, The Civilians
Megan Sandberg-Zakian – freelance theater director, co-founder of Maia Directors
Mei Ann Teo – Producing Artistic Director, Musical Theatre Factory
Melissa Kievman – Creative Producer, Brown MFA Playwriting
Melody Brooks – Artistic Director, New Perspectives Theatre Company
Meropi Peponides – Co-Founder, Radical Evolution and Producer, Soho Rep.
Mfoniso Udofia – Playwright/Educator, Now Africa Festival Artistic Director
Michael John Garcés – Artistic Director, Cornerstone Theater Company
Michael Walkup – Producing Artistic Director, Page 73
Michele Travis – Director
Michele Volansky – Associate Artistic Director, PlayPenn
Micheline Auger – producer, writer and editor, Theaterspeak
Michole Biancosino – Co-Artistic Director, Project Y Theatre
Mike Donahue – freelance director
Mike Sablone – Producing Artistic Director, The Warehouse Theatre
Milo Cramer – Literary Associate, Clubbed Thumb; Special Forces Unit, Playwrights Horizons
Mina Morita – Artistic Director, Crowded Fire Theater Company
MJ Kaufman – playwright and producing artistic leader of Trans Lab Fellowship
Molly Marinik – dramaturg/co-founder, Beehive Dramaturgy Studio
Morgan Gould – playwright/director
Morgan Hicks – Director of Program Development, TheatreSquared
Nan Barnett – Executive Director, National New Play Network
Nancy Kim – Producer, Rising Circle Theater Collective
Naomi Iizuka – Playwright and Head of MFA Playwriting, UC-San Diego
Nataki Garrett – Incoming Artistic Director
Natasha Sinha – Director of Artistic Programs (Signature Theatre)
Nate Eppler – Director of the Ingram New Works Project
Nelson T. Eusebio – freelance director, SDC
Ngozi Anyanwu – actor/ playwright
Nicholas Orvis – Literary Assistant & Resident Dramaturg, Premiere Stages at Kean University
Niegel Smith – Artistic Director, The Flea Theater
Nivedita Kulkarni – www.niveditakulkarni.com – Founder, www.nuva.io
Padraic Lillis – The Farm Theater Artistic Director
Paige Price – Producing Artistic Director, Philadelphia Theatre Company
Patricia Garz – Line Producer of Special Artistic Projects, Center Theatre Group
Paul Daigneault – Producing Artistic Director – SpeakEasy Stage
Paula Cizmar – Playwright/Associate Professor of Theatre Practice, USC
Pesha Rudnick – Artistic Director, Local Theater Company in Boulder, Co
Peter Hardy – Artistic Director, the Essential Theatre
PJ Powers – Artistic Director, TimeLine Theatre Company
Polly Hubbard – Director of New Play Development, Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Portia Krieger – Director
Quinn Metal Corbin – Advancement Director, Clubbed Thumb
Rachel Berney – Needleman
Rachel Dickson – Artistic Associate, The Ensemble Theatre
Rachel Karpf – Artistic Producer at WP Theater
Rachel Lerner-Ley – Literary Manager & Resident Dramaturg, Cleveland Play House
Rachel Lynett – Artistic Director, Arts Center of the Ozarks
Rachel Rusch – SVP Television, Bad Robot
Rachel Sussman – Producer
Rachel Wiegardt-Egel – Manager of New Play Development, Geffen Playhouse
Ralph B. Pena – Artistic Director, Ma-Yi Theater Company
Ramona Ostrowski – Producer, HowlRound Theatre Commons
Randy Reinholz – Artistic Director, Native Voices at the Autry
Ray Yamanouchi – Playwright
Rhiana Yazzie
Rob Nagle – former Artistic Director, Antaeus Theatre Company
Roberta Pereira – Producing Director, The Playwrights Realm
Roger Tang – Executive Director, Pork Filled Productions
Sandy MacDonald – freelance theatre critic (NYC)
Sarah Krohn – Freelance Director
Sarah Lee Chic – Costume Designer
Sarah Lunnie – Dramaturg
Sarah Rasmussen – Artistic Director Jungle Theater
Sarah Rose Leonard – Literary Manager, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Sasha Emerson – Associate Artistic Producer, Ojai Playwrights Conference; theatrical consultant, AMC Networks; Dramaturg.
Saviana Stanescu – playwright, Associate Professor of Playwriting and Contemporary Theatre, Ithaca College
Scott Kaplan
Sean San José – program director, Campo Santo (new performances group for people of color)
Selene Santiago – Program Manager of Education and National Initiatives, artEquity
Seth Gordon – Associate Artistic Director, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis
Shaun Leisher –Literary Manager, Emerge Theatre Company
Skyler Gray – Director of New Play Development, Victory Gardens Theater
Snehal Desai – Artistic Director, East West Players
Sonia Fernandez, Associate Artistic Director, Magic Theatre
Sonya Sobieski – New Play Advocate, New Georges
Spenser Davis – Director/Playwright, Broken Nose Theatre
Stacey Raymond – Actor
Stella Bowles – Dramaturg
Stephanie Kane – Teaching Artist, The Public Theater
Steven Boyer – actor
Steven Dietz – playwright/director
Susan Bernfield – Artistic Director/Producer, New Georges
Suzanne M. Cohen – Managing Artistic Director, Mirror Stage
Suzy Fay – Artistic Consultant-Dramaturgy, Lark Play Development Center
Tamilla Woodard – Associate Artistic Director, WP Theater
Tanya Palmer – Producer/Director of New Play Development Goodman Theatre
Tara Mallen – Artistic Director, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
Teresa Coelman Wash – Executive Artistic Director, Bishop Arts Theatre Center
Teresa Sapien – Associate Producer, La Jolla Playhouse
Toni Press-Coffman – Literary Manager, Playwright in Residence Winding Road Theater Ensemble
Tony Adams – Artistic Director, Halcyon Theatre
Trevor Boffone – Founder, 50 Playwrights Project
Tyler Dobrowsky
Velina Hasu Houston – Distinguished Professor, Director of MFA Dramatic Writing, Head of Undergraduate Playwriting, Resident Playwright, USC School of Dramatic Arts
Walter Bilderback, Dramaturg – Wilma Theater
Walter Byongsok Chon – Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy and Theatre Studies, Ithaca College
Whitney Dibo – Theatrical Acquisitions, Anonymous Content
Will Arbery – playwright
Will Steinberger – Director/Dramaturg
Working Title Playwrights
Zak Berkman – Producing Director, People’s Light
Dina Janis
Whitney White – Director
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