Andrea
Ciannevei | Christina Gorman | Katori
Hall | Andrea Lepcio
Megan Mostyn-Brown | Molly Rice | Peggy Stafford | Saviana Stanescu Joy Tomasko | Kathryn Walat 
ANDREA CIANNAVEI
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KATORI HALL
Other plays include: Freedom Train, Awake, and Diaspora, a one-woman show fused with music and poetry that was performed in South Africa. Her new works, a short play called On the Chitlin' Circuit and a one-woman show entitled Oreogirl: The Miscegenation of Miss Emma Brown, were given readings at the 2005 Eugene O'Neill Playwright's Conference where she was a Kennedy Center Playwriting Fellow. Education:
MEGAN MOSTYN-BROWN
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Molly Rice’s plays have been developed and produced in Austin, Dallas, Providence, Ithaca, Montana, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Aspen, and New York (Rattlestick, Clubbed Thumb, Atlantic Theater, Women’s Project, Mint Theater, Drilling Company, New Georges). Her work has been published by Heinemann Press,the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Press, Salvage Vanguard Press, Perishable Press, Austin Script Works Press, and the Austin Chronicle, with upcoming publications in American Theater Magazine, Kenyon Review.com, and DEVICE. Residencies include Yale/ P73 Residency (2008), Missoula Colony (2007), Voice and Vision (2006), and Hangar Theater (2005); awards include the Weston Award for Graduate Playwriting (Brown University); Women’s International Playwriting Festival (Perishable Theater); and nominations for the Kesselring Fellowship, Cherry Lane Mentor Project, and New York Innovative Theater Award (Outstanding Original Short Play). She has been a finalist for New Dramatists (2006-2008), the Actors Theater of Louisville Heidemann Award (2003, 2007), the O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference (2006, semifinalist 2007), and the Princess Grace Award (2004). Recent projects: BLOOD: OF BROTHERS AND SISTERS, a play written for and produced by Kenyon College. Upcoming projects: book, lyrics and music (with musician Ray Rizzo) for the new musical CANARY (showcase at Rattlestick Theater, June 2008); an adaptation of Maeterlinck’s The Blue Bird, with EgoPo Productions and Orchestra 2001 (production exp. May 2009); and FIREHOUSE 17, in development with director Kara Lynn Vaeni. She is a member of America-In-Play Residency and Commissions, Women’s Project Lab, and the Playwrights’ Center. She has taught playwriting and dramatic literature at Brown University, the Brown/ Trinity MFA Acting Program, and the University of Rhode Island, and last year she was Visiting Assistant Professor of Drama at Kenyon College, standing in for Wendy MacLeod. She currently teaches at Brown University and Rowan University. Molly was a Lucille Lortel fellow at Brown (2004-2006), where she earned her MFA in Playwriting. Plays:
PEGGY STAFFORD
Plays:
SAVIANA STANESCU
JOY TOMASKO
KATHRYN WALAT Kathryn Walat's Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen first appeared in the Women's Project's 2005 Women's Work reading festival. Her play Know Dog premiered in 2004 at Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin, and her latest work Bleeding Kansas was recently developed in a workshop at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca. Other plays include Connecticut (readings at MTC, Playwrights Horizons), Greenspace (Boston Theatre Works Unbound Festival), Johnny Hong Kong (Perishable Theatre; Actors Theatre, Santa Rosa), Rotten State (Bay Area Playwrights Festival), Spy Speak Spy (New York Fringe Festival). Her work has been developed in Women's Project's Playwrights Lab, at the Lark Play Development Center, and at New Georges, where she is an affiliated playwright. She received her BA from Brown University and her MFA from Yale Drama School, and is currently working on a commission for Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana 2007 Anthology Project. |
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Andrea
Ciannavei is an actor, writer and producer in New York City. Her first
full-length play Art Outside was produced at CenterStage NY. She co-wrote
Gypsy: Wanted for UnAmerican Activities with Laura Somers which premiered
at the Mexican American Cultural Theatre in Austin, TX (Dirigo Group).
Short plays include Murasaki at The Women's Project Festival (dir.
Christina
Gorman's play SPLIT WIDE OPEN was produced at the Summer Play Festival
in New York City and was developed with a fellowship at Ensemble Studio
Theatre through its New Voices Program. The play was also runner-up
for the 2005 Princess Grace Award. Her play DNA was produced at the
Hangar Theatre, as well as at the New York International Fringe Festival,
where it received the award for Overall Excellence in Playwriting.
She is the co-writer of KEEP THE CHANGE, part of The Women's Project's "Girls
Just Wanna Have Funds" production which will appear in May 2007
in the Word of Mouth Festival at the World Financial Center. She is
a member of The Torture Project Ensemble, and together with them is
collaborating on a play. THE TORTURE PROJECT (working title) has received
a fellowship from The Drama League as part of its Directors Project
New Directors/New Works Program and was presented in Six Figures Theatre
Company's Artists of Tomorrow Festival. Her first play, WRECKAGE was
produced at the University of Notre Dame, her alma mater. Christina's
work has also been presented and/or developed at The Juilliard School,
Lark Theatre Center, and in the Hallie Flanagan Play Series/Women at
Wings. She is a current member of The Women's Project Playwrights Lab.
Her other works include SACRED GROUND and DIARY OF AN ADMAN.
Katori
Hall is an award-winning playwright/performer. She is a 2006 recipient
of the New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting and
Screenwriting, 2007 winner of the Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan
Family Award in Drama, and a recent writing resident at the Royal Court
Theatre. Her play, Hoodoo Love, received a workshop production through
the
Andrea's
plays have been presented and read at HERE, Chashama, Manhattan Theatre
Source, Vital Theatre, New Shoe, Shalimar Productions, Three Chicks,
Titans Theatre, Williamsburg Art Nexus, and Women's Project in NY,
and at Trustus Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Bloody Unicorn and Provincetown
Theatre Company, regionally. Her screenplay, A September Spring, won
the Sloan Foundation Dramatic Writing Award. Hook & Eye won the
Trustus Playwrights Festival where it was produced. In addition to
the Women's Project Playwrights' Lab, she is a member of the BMI Lehman
Engel Musical Theatre Librettist Workshop and alumnus of the Lark Playwrights'
Workshop. A Dramatists Guild Fellow, she currently directs the Fellows
program. A two-time finalist for the Heideman Award, her short plays
and monologues have been published in Plays and Playwrights 2003, Estrogenius,
lichen and by Smith & Kraus in 60 Seconds to Shine: 221 One-Minute
Monologues for Men and the upcoming Best Ten Minute Plays with 3 or
more characters of 2006. Upcoming: a workshop of Looking
for the Pony at Vital Theatre and The Immediacy Project, an
ensemble created dance-theatre collaboration with Zach Morris. She
is a founder of the Mint Theatre Company where she produced the World
Premiere of Austin Pendleton's Uncle Bob. Though theatre was her first
love, life has provided many detours: Andrea has worked on farms, at
coops, for universities, in Congress and on Wall St. She is currently
a teaching artist and economic consultant. She is a member of the Dramatist
Guild, New Shoe, New York Theatre Experience Advisory Committee, and
International Centre for Women Playwrights. M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing,
Carnegie Mellon University. M.B.A. UC Berkeley. B.A. Human Ecology,
College of the Atlantic.
Megan
Mostyn-Brown: Plays include: Girl, The Secret Lives of Losers, 4th
of July, Going After Alice and The Hawk Has No Home. Her plays have
been read and performed at: The Actor’s Theater of Louisville,
The Women’s Project and Productions, LAByrinth Theater Company,
The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis Playwrights Center, The Public Theater,
The Warehouse Theater, Barrington Stage Company, The NYC International
Fringe Festival, The Tribeca Theater Festival and The HBO Comedy Arts
Festival in Aspen, CO. She won an honorable mention for The Secret
Lives of Losers in the 2004 Herrick Theater Foundation New Play Competition.
Megan is a member of LAByrinth Theater Company and The Women’s
Project Playwrights LAB. She has been a guest playwright at New River
Dramatists and the 24/7 Lab. Megan is a graduate of Northwestern University.
Peggy
Stafford has written for the Soho Rep (NYC), The Empty Space Theatre
(Seattle), New Georges Theatre (NYC), The Playhouse (Northern Ireland),
and The Seattle Repertory Theatre, among others. Her plays have been
produced by P73 at HERE (NYC), On the Boards (Seattle), Dixon Place
(NYC), Bottom's Dream (Los Angeles), and Annex Theatre (Seattle). Her
short film, A Problem with Sharks, premiered at The Seattle
International Film Festival, screened nationally, and was an Official
Selection at The Hamptons International Film Festival. She was a member
of the Soho Rep's Writer/Director Lab and Phase
Saviana
Stanescu has published books of poetry and drama including: The
Inflatable Apocalypse (Best Romanian Play of 2000), Diary
of a Clone and GOOGLE ME! (poems), Black Milk (four
plays), and Final Countdown (a play, Antoine Vitez Center
Award, Paris). 
Joy
Tomasko, current member of the Women’s Project Playwrights Lab,
recently earned an M.F.A. in playwriting from California Institute
of the Arts. While at CalArts, she developed several plays including
Arden; My End; The Tragedy of Kelly Green; Underbelly, Underheart;
and Unfold Me. She also wrote
