Playwriting

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…

Krista Knight is a playwright and new media artist. Career highlights include scripting a ride for Tokyo Disneyland, meeting Václav Havel, pitching a movie to Janelle Monáe, writing a musical dance-a-thon to the death with Dave Malloy, and adapting Trolls for the stage for DreamWorks/Music Theatre International. Her New York Times recommended six-part VR puppet…

Born in small-town Oklahoma, Indian-American essayist Kirtan is now a practicing hematologist and oncologist near Houston, Texas. 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…

A 2024 Martha Boschen Porter Prize/Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Fellow, Aimée is a Professor of Theater and Head of the Theater Program at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. Aimée has been writing, directing, and teaching theater both professionally and at colleges and universities for over 30 years. Her interest in theater is inherently political and her work…