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backgrounds and is especially Confessions (This is Not a Theatre
invigorated by stories centering Black Company), an audio play that has
women. You can learn more about Daria streamed on five continents. One-acts
on her episode of Vivid Stage’s Local include Worldness (Humana Festival of
podcast (Season 3; Episode 6). Want to New American Plays), CEO (Urban
create together? Shoot her an email at Stages), and Miss America (“Best of the
DariaMSullivan@gmail.com. Training: Fringe” selection, NY International
BA, University of Pittsburgh. Fringe Festival). Honors include the
Jason Szamreta made his Athena Fellowship, Lark Fellowship
debut at Vivid Stage as (nomination by Wendy Wasserstein),
Luke in the 2011 “Best Documentary One Woman Show”
production of Next Fall and award (O’Neill Center). Her work has
joined the company after been published by Dramatists Play
performing in the following Service, Next Stage Press, Applause,
season's original musical Smith & Kraus, and Vintage, and has
The Neighborhood. He has appeared in the Lincoln Center Theatre
also appeared in Rx, The Review, Plays International and Europe
Most Deserving, Sister Play, and Things and The New York Times, where she
Being What They Are, as well as various served as a frequent contributor to the
improv and holiday specials. In 2022, he “Week in Review.” She is a summa cum
performed in Vivid’s very first radio play laude graduate of Harvard.
and web series, the latter of which is an Alice Eve Cohen is a
official selection of the 8th annual NYC playwright, solo theatre
Web Fest. For Carol and Herman. artist and author, whose
Emaline Williams is an plays have been
performed for over
Ohio born but NJ based
Equity actor. A member 200,000 people on four
of the Vivid Company, continents. Winner of the
Emaline appeared in the 10th Annual National
recent production of Soft Jewish Playwriting Contest
Animals. Her theatrical for Oklahoma Samovar in 2021, she
credits include NYC: received the 2019 Jane Chambers
Vampire Cowboys Theater Feminist Playwriting Award for In the
Co (Alice in Slasherland, GEEK!) NJ: Cervix of Others, which was a featured
Centenary Stage Co (Meteor Shower, program selection at the 2022 Women
Turning, The Sunshine Boys, Dracula, Playwrights International Conference
Montréal. Her new play, Hotel Limbo,
Hitler’s Tasters), Shakespeare Theatre
of New Jersey (A Child’s Christmas in has received 2023 readings and
Wales), Vivid Stage (Ways to be Happy: developed with New York Theatre
a radio play), The Bickford Theatre Workshop, Ensemble Studio Theatre,
(Accomplice), The Growing Stage (Tales The Orchard Project, and University of
from the Garden) & Alliance Repertory California Irvine. Her acclaimed memoirs
(Bluff, Trying). Emaline holds a BFA in have received the Elle Literary Grand
theater performance from Ohio Prize & Oprah magazine's 25 Best Books
University. www.emalinewilliams.com of Summer. Recipient of fellowships and
grants from the NYS Council on the Arts,
~ Playwrights ~ the NEA, and Virginia Center for
Jenny Lyn Bader is a Creative Arts, she has written television
playwright living in New for Nickelodeon and CBS and has
York City. Her plays composed music for theatre, dance, and
include None of the Above film. Recent work includes What I
(New Georges), In Flight Thought I Knew, produced nationally, a
(Workshop Theatre), Mrs. finalist for the O'Neill National
Stern Wanders the Playwrights Conference, nominated for 5
Prussian State Library Broadway World Awards; Mrs Satan &
(Luna Stage), and Tree the Nasty Woman, presented by the
2020 Philadelphia Women's Theatre