People
Sean San José is a writer, director, performer, and co-founder of Campo Santo, a new performance group for People of Color in San Francisco. Founded in 1996, Campo Santo is committed to developing new performance and to nurturing People of Color centered new audiences and has premiered over 100 new pieces. For 15 years, he…
Christina Anderson is a 2022 Tony Award Nominee for Outstanding Book of the Broadway musical Paradise Square. She is a playwright, screenwriter, educator, and creative. Plays include: The Ripple the Wave That Carried Me Home, How to Catch Creation, pen/man/ship, Man in Love, and Good Goods. Her work has appeared at The Goodman Theatre, OSF,…
In September of 2018 David assumed the role of Artistic Director of South Coast Repertory after a two-year tenure as Artistic Director of the Arizona Theatre Company. Previous to Arizona, he served almost seven seasons as Artistic Director of the The Utah Shakespeare Festival. In Utah he acted and directed over 50 productions in a…
Christopher Chen is an Obie Award-winning playwright whose work has been performed across the United States and abroad. His plays include Caught (Obie Award for Playwriting, Barrymore Award, Drama League Nomination), The Hundred Flowers Project (Glickman Award, Rella Lossy Award, James Tait Black Award shortlist), Into The Numbers (Belarus Free Theater International Contest of Modern…
Virginia Grise is a recipient of the Alpert Award in the Arts, Yale Drama Award, Whiting Writers’ Award, Princess Grace Award in Theatre Directing, and the Playwrights’ Center’s Jerome Fellowship. Her published work includes Your Healing is Killing Me (Plays Inverse Press), blu (Yale University Press), The Panza Monologues co-written with Irma Mayorga (University of Texas Press) and an edited volume of Zapatista…
Ben Pryor is the Provost and CEO of Antioch University Seattle. Before serving as a dramaturge for Play On!, Pryor was a founder and longtime member of the Glacity Theatre Collective in Toledo, Ohio. As an actor with GTC he appeared in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Breathing Corpses, Eurydice, Suburban Motel, All’s Well, Betrayal,…
Kate McConnell received her MFA in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism from Yale School of Drama in 2005, specializing in Shakespeare production. She was the dramaturg on Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew at OSF in 2007 and has had the pleasure of contributing a variety of articles to OSF’s various publications in…
James Magruder (Dramaturg, Troilus and Cressida) is a playwright, translator, and fiction writer. His adaptations of Gozzi, Moliére, Marivaux, Hofmannstahl, Lesage, Labiche, Giraudoux, Sidney, and Dickens have been performed on and off-Broadway, at regional theaters across the United States, and in Germany, England, and Japan. He has published four books of fiction (Sugarless, Let Me…
Christian Parker is a dramaturg, director, and Professor of Professional Practice in the MFA Theatre Program at Columbia University School of the Arts, where he heads the concentration in Dramaturgy. He has worked as the Literary Manager at Manhattan Theatre Club, the Associate Artistic Director at Atlantic Theater Company, and as a freelancer at numerous…
Dr. Drew Lichtenberg is a writer, teacher, adaptor, and dramaturg. Over his 15 year career, he has worked on more than 55 productions, collaborating with artists such as Rebecca Taichman, Ellen Mclaughlin, Whitney White, and Yaël Farber, working on plays by James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry in addition to Shakespeare. Selected international and New York…