Into You

Lee Blessing has become a major voice in the modern American theater. His plays have been nominated for Tony and Olivier awards and a Pulitzer Prize. Recent plays in New York, Thief River, Cobb and Chesapeake, received Drama Desk nominations and an award, plus nominations from the Outer Critics Circle. He's had two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as from the Guggenheim, Bush, McKnight and Jerome Foundations. His plays include A Walk In The Woods, Eleemosynary, Two Rooms, Down The Road and Going To St. Ives among many others, and have been performed throughout the world.

Trickle

Kia Corthron was born in Cumberland, Maryland and lives in Harlem. She is the recipient of the Mark Taper Forum’s Fadiman Award, a National Endowment for the Arts/TCG residency, a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays grant, the Callaway Award, the New Professional Theatre Playwriting Award, a Van Lier Fellowship, Delaware Theatre Company’s Connections Contest Award, and the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award through New Dramatists. She has developed work through the National Playwrights Conference, Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theater Projects, A Contemporary Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Crossroads Theatre Company’s Genesis Festival, The Public Theater’s New Work Now! Festival, the Shenandoah International Playwrights Retreat, Voice and Vision, Hedgebrook writer’s retreat, the Circle Rep Lab and elsewhere. Kia has been commissioned by numerous major theatres including: the Royal Court Theatre in London, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Atlantic Theatre Company, the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Mark Taper Forum, the Public Media Foundation, the Children's Theatre Company, and National Public Radio with The Public Theater.

Stepping on Water

Caridad Svich is an award-winning US Latina playwright, songwriter/lyricist, translator and editor known for her critique of the American dream and media culture, her adaptations of ancient Greek texts, and free linguistic and visual mix of Latino and American cultures . She has written over forty full-length plays and fifteen translations as well as a number of other shorter works. Her original plays and translations have been performed at diverse venues including The Women's Project in New York City, 7 Stages in Atlanta, Salvage Vanguard in Austin, Pearl Theatre in New York City, Cincinnati Playhouse, artheater in Cologne (Germany) and ASK Theater Projects in Los Angeles, the Royal Court Theatre in London. Her awards include NEA/TCG Playwriting Residency at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre, TCG/PEW National Theatre Artist Residency at INTAR, Rosenthal New Play Prize at Cincinnati Playhouse, 2007 Whitfield Cook Prize for New Writing at New Dramatists, 2003 National Latino Playwriting Award and Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University. She is also an alumna playwright of New Dramatists.

Confirmed Sighting

Patrick Gabridge is an award-winning writer, with numerous productions of his plays for stage and radio in venues across the country. His plays, Blinders and Reading the Mind of God, were both nominated for Best New Play by the Denver Drama Critics Circle. Pieces of Whitey, his comedy about well-meaning white people, generated intense discussion (and laughter) to sold out audiences in Boston. Patrick co-founded the Chameleon Stage theatre company in Denver, the Bare Bones Theatre Company in New York, and the Rhombus Playwrights group in Boston (apparently he likes to start things). From 1993 to 1999, Patrick created and published, Market InSight... for Playwrights, a monthly newsletter for playwrights that has helped hundreds of writers market their work.