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MaryJayne is a brand and marketing strategist who works remotely from a small farm in North Eastern Pennsylvania. She holds a certificate in human-centered design from IDEO and a Masters of Arts in contemporary English literature and modern media, with a specialization in narratology, from the University of Sheffield. Her career to date has primarily…
Miriam A. Laube is a mixed race first generation American actor, producer, and director. She recently directed The Tempest for Santa Cruz Shakespeare. For 16 seasons Miriam was an actor and producer, where she had the honor of working with an extraordinary company of artists. Her favorite roles include Cleopatra, Olivia, Hermione, Rosalind and Julia,…
Melinda Lopez (she/her) is a playwright and performer. She is the recipient of the 2019 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Achievement, and she was a member of the Mellon Foundation’s National Playwrights Residency Program and the Playwright-in-Residence at the Huntington Theatre Co. Recent plays include: Stir, (Writer/Performer, Old Globe Theatre) Mala, (Arts Emerson, The Guthrie Theatre, the Huntington Theatre…
Alex Vermillion (ze/zir/zirs) is a dramaturg, artist, marketer, and educator. Zir dramaturgy credits include blues for miss lucille at the Yale School of Drama; Henry VI, Part III and The Two Noble Kinsmen with Play On Shakespeare; and We Are Proud to Present… at the Yale Cabaret. Ze was recently a guest artist at the Great Plains Theatre Commons. At Yale, Alex served…
Tracy Young is a theatre director and playwright. Tracy developed several original plays with The Actors’ Gang in Los Angeles, including the musicals Hysteria (Ovation Award), Euphoria (Ovation and LA Weekly Awards) and A Fairy Tale (Garland and GLAAD Image Awards), as well as Dreamplay, a meditation on Carl Jung’s theories of collective unconscious. She…
Lillian Groag works in the theatre as an actress, playwright and director. Her acting credits include Broadway, Off Broadway, Mark Taper Forum, and regional theatres throughout the country. She has directed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Old Globe Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Mark Taper Forum’s Taper Too, New York City Opera, Chicago Opera…
Tim’s plays include Joyful Noise (Lamb’s Theatre), Treasure, and Lightning Rod (Fulton Theatre), March Tale (Seven Angels Theatre), Utah (Tuacahn Theatre), Hancock County (Westminster College) and Virtue (Plan-B Theatre). His plays are published by Samuel French, Signature Books, Zarahemla Books, and Leicester Bay Books. Prose includes the novel and radio series, The Christmas Chronicles (Random…
Playwright and TV writer. Amelia writes for Netflix, Apple, Hulu, FX. Latest credits include writer / co producer on The Great S1 and S2 with Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult, created by Tony McNamara (The Favourite). She’s developing an Aussie TV adaptation of Richard III for Margot Robbie’s company LuckyChap / Hoodlum. Her first TV…
Alison Carey is director of American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s multi-decade program of commissioning and developing 37 new plays about moments of change in United States history. Carey is co-founder of and former resident playwright of Cornerstone Theater Company, which creates work with and for communities, sometimes through adaptations…
Kenneth Cavander’s plays, adaptations and translations have been widely performed both in the U.S. and abroad. In the U.S. he has been represented on Broadway and at many regional theatres, including the Guthrie Theatre, Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., the Yale Repertory Theatre, the Williamstown Theatre Festival. In the U.K., his work has been presented by…