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Films). His web series SEND ME, about received workshops and residencies
time traveling black people, garnered a from the Lark, the National New Play
2016 Emmy Nomination for series lead Network’s MFA Playwrights Workshop,
Tracie Thoms (Now on YouTube). He Orlando Shakespeare Theatre’s
currently writes for the CW series PlayFest, and elsewhere. She has been
Stargirl and has worked on God a nominee or a finalist for the Steinberg
Friended Me, American Crime, and the Award, the Kesselring Prize, the
upcoming Amazon Prime Series Tell Me Weissberger Award, PlayPenn, and the
Your Secrets. Steve coaches writers NYIT Award for outstanding full-length
through his company Your Creative Life. script. She was the winner of City
www.harpercreates.com Theatre’s National Short Playwriting
Award, and was an Individual Artist
Mark Harvey Levine Fellowship winner in playwriting from
(Oh, Tannenbaum) has the New Jersey State Council for the
had over 1800 Arts. Her plays are published by
productions of his plays Broadway Play Publishing, Playscripts,
everywhere from Dramatists Play Service, and Smith &
Bangalore to Bucharest Kraus. She is also the author of a
and from Lima to novel, Dating the Devil (BelleBooks),
London. His plays have and a humor book, 11,002 Things to Be
won over 45 awards and
been produced in more than ten Miserable About (Abrams Image), which
has sold over 35,000 copies. She
languages. Full evenings of his plays, earned her B.A. from Princeton
such as Cabfare For The Common Man, University and her M.F.A. in playwriting
Didn’t See That Coming and A Very from Rutgers/MGSA, and she teaches
Special Holiday Special have been playwriting at Molloy College and in the
shown around the world, including a MA program in creative writing at
multi-year tour of Brazil. A Spanish- Fairleigh Dickinson University.
language film of The Kiss (El Beso)
premiered at Cannes and aired on HBO Pandora Scooter
and DTV (Japan). His work has been (Customer Service) is an
published in over two dozen anthologies award winning playwright
by Smith & Kraus, Applause, Routledge and spoken word
and Vintage. He lives in Indianapolis, artist. Her one-woman
where he teaches playwriting at the shows, I Am Enough and
Indiana Writer's Center. He often talks OutWordlyFabulous
to trees. toured the nation to 45
cities, reaching thousands
Lia Romeo (A Little Tiny of LGBTQ+ Youth. In 2017, her
Bit of Fucking Cheer)’s feminist, punk rock musical won Best
play The Forest was Musical from the Fresh Fruit Festival
developed at the O’Neill (NYC's only LGBTQ+ Theatre
Playwrights Conference, Festival). She is the founder of the
and was scheduled to ATG PlayLab, a play development group
receive a National New
Play Network rolling world dedicated to developing professional
BIPOC and Queer playwrights'
premiere in the upcoming
season (cancelled due to the works. Currently, her play Two Peas in
a Pod is being made into a film,
coronavirus). This and three of her shooting begins in late
other plays have been recognized by December. She's lived in New Jersey
the Kilroys List. Her plays have been for 30 years and currently teaches at
produced at 59E59, Unicorn Theatre, NYU, Terry Knickerbocker Studio and
Project Y Theatre Company, Marymount Manhattan College.
Dreamcatcher Rep, HotCity Theatre,
and many other companies, and have