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.
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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