Artist Discipline: Playwriting

Ken Urban is a playwright, screenwriter, and musician. His plays have been produced by Huntington Theatre Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Trafalgar Studios in the West End, Studio Theatre, 59E59 Theaters, London’s Theatre503, First Floor Theater, and The Public Theatre/Summer Play Festival. He is a four-time recipient of the prestigious MacDowell Fellowship and his audio play…

Dorinne Kondo is Professor of American Studies and Anthropology and former Director of Asian American Studies at the University of Southern California. A cultural anthropologist, Kondo’s books include Crafting Selves: Power, Gender and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace (J.I. Staley Prize from the School for Advanced Research, for a book that has influenced…

Lucas Baisch is a playwright from San Francisco. His plays have been read and developed at the Goodman Theatre, The Playwrights’ Center, The NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights’ Workshop, The Bushwick Starr, The Mercury Store, Cutting Ball Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, The Neo-Futurists, Chicago Dramatists, Links Hall, SF Playground, Ars Nova, the Magic Theatre, etc.…

Zahida Rahemtulla grew up in Burnaby, British Columbia and later spent years living in Metchosin, British Columbia; Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and Toronto, Ontario. Her first play, The Wrong Bashir, premiered in Vancouver and Toronto to critically acclaimed, sold-out runs (Touchstone Theatre, 2023 and Crow’s Theatre, 2024). Her second play, The Frontliners, a comedic…

Monet Hurst-Mendoza is a playwright and TV writer from Los Angeles who lives in New York City. Her plays have been developed with The Alley Theater, Rising Circle Theater Collective, Astoria Performing Arts Center, WP Theater, The Public Theater, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Westport Country Playhouse, and Long Wharf Theatre. She is an alum…

Jessie Seigel’s fiction has appeared in Ontario Review, The Pen Woman, Gargoyle, and Daily Science Fiction, as well as the anthologies Electric Grace, Furious Gravity, and the London Reader, among others. Seigel has twice been awarded an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities. Her work has been a finalist…

Jerry Lieblich (they/them) plays in the borderlands between theater, poetry, and music. Their work experiments with language as a way to explore unexpected textures of consciousness and attention. Their plays include The Barbarians (La Mama), Mahinerator (The Tank), D Deb Debbie Deborah (Clubbed Thumb — The New York Times’ Critic’s Pick, Time Out New York‘s…

Playwriting; Nashville, TN —Krista is a Juilliard Fellow, Page 73 Playwriting Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, Shank Playwriting Fellow at the Vineyard Theatre, Vanderbilt Writer-in-Residence, Chance Theater Resident Playwright, and winner of the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and the Broadway on Demand Film Festival. Plays…

Born in small-town Oklahoma, Indian-American essayist Kirtan is now a practicing hematologist and oncologist near Houston, TX. Recently awarded a full scholarship in non-fiction for the 2022 Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and a 2023 residential fellowship from the Ucross Foundation, he has published work in Guernica, Electric Literature, Crazyhorse, The Southern Review, Boulevard, and McSweeney’s…