Bekah Brunstetter | Carla Ching | Alexis Clements | Nadia Davids
Laura Eason | Christine Evans | Charity Henson-Ballard | Kara Manning Lynn Rosen | Crystal Skillman | Andrea Thome 
BEKAH BRUNSTETTER
ALEXIS CLEMENTS
KARA MANNING
LYNN ROSEN
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Bekah Brunstetter received her BA (Theater/Fiction Writing) from UNC Chapel Hill in 2004. As of May 2007, she is a proud recipient of an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the New School for Drama. Her plays include: TO NINEVEH (NY Innovative Theater Award for Best new full length play, 2006) SICK (winner, Sam French short play festival 2006), GREEN (finalist, Alliance Theater’s Kendeda Competition; national finalist, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival; Semi-finalst, O’Neill 2007), SPACE (semi-finalist, Princess Grace Award 2007) I USED TO WRITE ON WALLS (published and licensed by Samuel French) FAT KIDS ON FIRE (licensed by Playscripts, Inc), YOU MAY GO NOW: A MARRIAGE PLAY (nominee, Cherry Lane Mentorship, 2008l semi-finalist, O’Neill 2008), ARMS (Finalist, Heidemann Award, 2007; published by Smith and Krauss), LE FOU (The Atlantic Acting school), HAPPY BIRTHDAY/ I’M DEAD (Samuel French Short Play festival Finalist, 2007), MISS LILLY GETS BONED (nominee, 2008 L. Arnold Weissberger Award), CELEBRITY , and TORCH NUMBER 2 (SOHO Think Tank.) .Her plays have been read and produced by the Babel Theatre Project, The Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater, the Ohio Theater (Think tank), NYU, Centenary Stage, NC New Voices, The New School for Drama, Working Man’s Clothes, Flux Theatre Ensemble, Phare Play Productions, Old Vic/ New Voices, Boston Theatre Works, Manhattan Theatre Source, SPF, The Alliance Theater, and The Atlantic (Acting School.) Her plays are published by Sam French, Playscripts, Original Works, and Smith and Krauss. In New York, she serves as the director of New Play Development for Working Man’s Clothes Productions. She is a member of the Ars Nova play group, the Playwright’s Center, At Play Productions, and the Dramatist’s Guild. Bekah lives in Williamsburg with her bikes, Roberta and Tony, and her cat, the Baby Kitty. 
Born and bred an Angeleno, 
Alexis Clements, a writer of plays, short stories as well as nonfiction work, has received a handful of grants and awards for her work. Most recently she received a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant to support her full-length play currently in development, TYPEWRITER GIRLS. She is also the founder of NEW ACQUISITION, a literary and performance project that was begun with the help of a Puffin Foundation Artist's Grant. In addition to being a member of the Women's Project Playwrights Lab, she is a member of the America-in-Play workshop and was a fellow of the Dramatists Guild of America. Recent theatrical productions include: CONVERSATION (New York, NY); YOUR OWN PERSONAL APOCALYPSE (New York, NY); THE INTERVIEW (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, UK); CAUSALITY (Wheeling, WV); THREE CHOICES (Chesterfield, UK); PIECES (Washington, DC, & Iowa City, IA); CLASS and THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL (Washington, DC); FINDING WORDS and UNFETTERED (Kansas City, MO). Her play CAUSALITY won the Oglebay Institute's 2006 National Playwriting Contest as well as the Source Theatre's 2004 Washington Theatre Festival Literary Prize. Her play PIECES was recently published in KNOCK magazine and her short stories have appeared in a handful of literary magazines and anthologies. Her articles and reviews have appeared in magazines and newspapers such as The Brooklyn Rail, Nature, Aesthetica, The L Magazine, and Travel New England. She has a 
Nadia Davids was born in 1977 in Cape Town. She is an award-winning South African playwright, director and scholar; her work has been produced, published and studied in Africa, Europe and North America. She has written five plays, among them At Her Feet (2002), for which she received the Fleur de Cap for best New Director and was nominated for the Noma Award for best book published in Africa. At Her Feet has been a school and university set-work in South Africa and North America since 2004. Between 2003-2004 she wrote a weekly column for The Argus; today she writes a bi monthly column for the New York based publication, The Brooklyn Rail. In June 2008, Nadia graduated with PhD in Theatre at the University of Cape Town for a thesis which traces the performative connections between archive, exile, memory and loss through the experience of forced removals under apartheid in District Six. She has received two A.W.Mellon Fellowships for her research and has been made a visiting scholar at U.C.Berkeley (2001) and New York University (2004-2006). She has lectured at UCT and NYU.
Laura Eason is the author of more than fifteen plays, both original work and adaptations. 
Christine Evans plays have received awards and been produced in her native Australia at venues including Belvoir St. Theatre (Sydney) and the Adelaide International Festival of the Arts. In the U.S., her work has been seen in New York, San Francisco, Providence, New Jersey, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Atlanta, Santa Rosa and Boston. Selected productions include Trojan Barbie at the A.R.T (American Repertory Theatre, scheduled 2009); All Souls Day (Perishable Theatre; Boston Theater Marathon); Weightless (Perishable Theatre); Mothergun (Perishable Theatre; Emergency Theatre Project, NYC) Slow Falling Bird (Crowded Fire) and My Vicious Angel (Belvoir St. Theatre, Sydney.) Awards and honors include a Fulbright Award, the 2007 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Rella Lossy Playwriting Award, the Monash National Playwriting Award (Australia), the Weston Award for Dramatic Writing, Perishable Theatres Womens Playwriting Festival (WPF) award (2000 and 2001), and the 2009 recipient of the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting. Christine is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and was a 2007 Resident Artist at Perishable Theatre. She holds an MFA (Playwriting) and Ph.D. (Theatre & Performance Studies) from Brown University. She is the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Playwriting at Harvard.
Charity Henson-Ballard is an actor and emerging playwright in New York City. Her first full-length play, The Quiver of Children (directed by Louis Scheeder) was originally developed in part with the support of Voice & Vision Theater ENVISION Retreat for Women Theater Artists at Bard College where she was selected to be one of 2008’s core artists. She received her Masters in English with a concentration in Renaissance Literature and Psychoanalytic Theory from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. She considers her work “language plays driven by the exploration of Biblical themes set against the backdrop of her parents’ hometown, Chattanooga, Tennessee.” 
Kara Manning’s plays, including Mind the Gap, Killing Swans, afterdark and Sleeping Rough,have been performed or developed via the Royal Court Theatre, the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Playwrights Horizons, MCC Theater, NYTW, LAByrinth Theater, the Magic Theater, New Dramatists, the Lark Play Development Center, Studio Dante, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (The 24 Hour Plays), Here (Raw Impressions), The Directors Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Makor, Expanded Arts, Theatre for the New City and the Bloomington Playwrights Project. She is the 2007 recipient of the Princess Grace Award in playwriting. Kara is a member of the 2008-2010 Women’s Project Playwrights Lab and MCC Theater’s Playwrights Coalition. Kara was a playwright-in-residence with the Royal Court Theatre’s International Residency and Page 73 Productions’ 2008 Yale retreat. She was a recipient of the 2000-2001 Jerome Foundation, Affiliated Writers Program grant in association with American Theatre magazine, a finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (2008), P73 fellowship (2008), the Heideman Award (2007), PlayPenn Conference (2006), Barrie Stavis Award (2005), semifinalist for the Cherry Lane Mentor Project (2007), shortlisted for NYU’s Hot Ink festival (2008) and nominee for the 2007-08 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is the literary manager of the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York. Member of the Dramatists Guild. She served as an assistant director at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre (Fringe Festival), research assistant to Anne Bogart and the SITI Company. Kara is also a freelance music/arts journalist and a former MTV News reporter and staff writer for Rolling Stone magazine. She wrote liner notes for the Grammy-nominated Rhino box set "Respect: A Century of Women in Music.” In addition, she wrangles musicians for Vin Scelsa's "Idiot's Delight" on WFUV and Uncensored Interview. Graduate of Columbia University's M.F.A. program in playwriting.
Lynn Rosen's play BACK FROM THE FRONT was recently produced by the Working
Crystal Skillman's play The Telling Trilogy wasproduced by Rising Phoenix Rep and is published in Plays & Playwrights 2008. This summer her play 4 Edges, produced by Amphibian Productions and written in the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, was workshopped as one of the four selected plays at the 2008 New Harmony Project Theatre Conference. As well, Crystal's new play The Sleeping World was workshopped at Lincoln Center (with director Scott Ebersold) as part of the 2008 Director's Lab. The Vigil or the Guided Cradle, featured in hotINK 2008, received a mini-workshop directed by Erica Gould for New Georges and will receive a reading at Rattlestick. Past productions and commissions include: Summerland (Gideon Production's Blueprint Project); Apocalypse Neo (co-written with Rob Neill and Justin Tolley, NY Neo-Futurists); Flow (E.S.T/Sloan Commission) and Ballad of Phineas P. Gage (Drama of Works/HERE). She is the bookwriter/lyricist for the musical That's Andy (composer Kevin Carter; conceiver Robert Jay Cronin) and is co-writing the rock musical 72 Devils with director/composer Jerry Ruiz. Her play The Ride, second play in The Telling Trilogy (directed by Daniel Talbott), was nominated for a NY Innovative Theatre Award. In addition to being a member of the Women's Project Playwrights Lab, Crystal is a member of the MCC Theater Playwrights' Coalition, E.S.T, Rising Phoenix Rep and the Dramatists Guild.
Andrea Thome is a playwright and translator whose works have been produced in NYC (the Lark, INTAR, Immigrants’ Theatre Project, NYU) as well as in Washington DC, San Francisco, and Latin America. She is Program Director of the Lark Play Development Center’s U.S.-Mexico Playwright Exchange (now in its 3rd year), which brings Mexican and U.S. playwrights and other theater artists together to create translations of new works from both countries. She also co-founded FULANA, a satirical video and performance collective whose work screens at festivals worldwide and online at 
