Artist Discipline: Playwriting

Travis Lee Russ (he/they) is a Queer playwright/director from a small, blue-collar town: Kokomo, Indiana. Recent plays: AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE (accolades include Critics’ Picks from The List, Voice Magazine, and Fest Magazine; “Top 10 Plays of the Year” from New, Now, Next; “#1 Show of Edinburgh Fringe” from Fest Magazine) and GOREY: THE…

Savannah Reich is a playwright and screenwriter based in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her plays have been produced at theaters and universities across the country, commissioned by Walking Shadow Theater Company, the University of Minnesota, SuperGroup, and the Lucille Lortel Theater, developed by the Playwrights Center, The Flea, and Seven Devils New Play Foundry. Her feature-length…

Regan Moro is a lesbian playwright and actor, and also just a girl from the North Country. She received her BFA from the University of Michigan and spent a year as an apprentice in the Professional Training Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville. As an actor, they’ve worked with The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, La…

Rachel Jendrzejewski is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who frequently collaborates with choreographers, musicians, and multimedia artists to explore wide-ranging performative vocabularies. Her work has been developed and/or presented by Walker Art Center, Red Eye, Hair+Nails, Public Functionary, Padua Playwrights, Joes’ Pub at the Public Theater, MASS MoCA, and ICA Boston among others. Published texts include MERONYMY…

I am a member of The Actor’s Studio, Ensemble Studio Theater, and The Writers Guild East, and my work has been published in The Best Short Plays of 2018, The Best Men’s Monologues 2007 and 2018, Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2018, 2019, and 2020, all by Smith and Kraus. As well as Monologues For…

Jenn Bokoch Gillett is a playwright, performer, educator, and storyteller. She has devoted her career to creating interview-based theater featuring underrepresented voices and utilizing various mediums such as puppetry, audio recordings, movement, and music. Her goal is to place real words, experiences, and stories onstage; both so that audiences can reflect upon them, and so…

Danny Tejera is a playwright, film/TV writer and teacher from Madrid. His play Toros (Second Stage Theater) was a New York Times “Critic’s Pick,” Theatrely’s “Best Off-Broadway Theater of 2023,” 2024 HOLA Award Winner for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting, and Lucille Lortel Award Nominee (Frank Wood, Best Featured Performer in a Play). It’s published by…

Spencer Huffman is a playwright, director, and actor based in Chicago. His plays include: Evil Perfect (Bramble Theatre Co, 2024), The Shape of the Bones, The Baseball Gods, When We Were Little, and Shine Down on Us. His plays have earned recognition from theaters and festivals across the country, including The National Playwrights Conference, American…

Brandon Zang (he/him) is a science fiction and fantasy playwright who uses worldbuilding to distance, deconstruct, and dissect the complex issues of today. His plays have been presented at CHUANG Stage, Lifeline Theatre, The Road Theatre Company, Live Arts, among others. His play Ah Wing and the Automaton Eagle was the winner of the 2023…