Playwriting

  • Peter Sherman

  • Brian Silberman

    Brian Silberman

    Brian Silberman’s plays include Woman in a Hat, The Fear of Small Numbers, The Romeo and Juliet of Sarajevo, a 2016 Finalist for the O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference, Manifest, recipient of the 1998 Clauder Prize and the 2003 Pinter Review Prize for Drama, produced by Portland Stage Company, and published by the University of Tampa…

  • William Steele

    William Steele

    William Steele earned a BS in English and an MA in Theater and Speech from the University of Maine. Steele has worked as a Theater Director, actor and voice actor, and a Theater Professor at the University of Southern Maine. Steele lives in Cumberland County, Maine.

  • Burton Eugene Swartz

    Burton Eugene Swartz is a playwright from New York City. Swartz received his MA from Columbia University. He has worked with various theaters and entertainment venues, including Ensemble Studio Theatre, Producers Club Theaters, Don’t Tell Mama, Don Hill’s, and the Knitting Factory. Swartz has been a member of the Dramatists Guild.

  • Melisa Tien

    Melisa Tien

    Melisa Tien is a playwright and opera librettist invested in making socially relevant, emotionally evocative work that helps us imagine splendid alternative futures. An alum of New Dramatists, she is the librettist of the operas Family Style (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, 2025), Undone (American Opera Projects, 2025), Forever (Washington National Opera, 2024), The Big…

  • Neil Weiss

    Neil Weiss is a playwright from Cunningham, Massachusetts.

  • Dan Rustin

    Dan Rustin is a playwright from Yonkers, New York.

  • James Ryan

    James Ryan, founder of Insider Cultural Tours, is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and film director. The former Chair of the Playwriting Department, Actors Studio Drama School, he has taught at Rutgers, New York University, The New School, and Muhlenberg College. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State…

  • Sarah Sander

    Sarah Sander

    Sarah Sander is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose work has been developed and produced at Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Columbia University, |the claque|, DC Arts Center, Florida Studio Theatre, Inkwell Theatre, Kennedy Center, Lark, NYSF, Page 73 Productions, The Public Theater, Project Y, Raven Theater, and Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival. She’s a Core Writer at…