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Shakespeare), A Midsummer Night's    New Play Festival, the Blue Ink Award,
     Dream (Lake Tahoe Shakespeare),      the ScreenCraft Stage PlayAward, The
     Romeo and Juliet (Saratoga           Amoralists Writers Group, and the
     Shakespeare), and Peter Pan (Dorset   Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm.
     Theatre Festival). www.lorivega.net    He’s been a member of Page 73’s
                                          writers group Interstate 73, Youngblood
                 Emaline Williams is an   at EST, and has received residencies at
                 Ohio native currently
                 residing in Hackettstown,   SPACE on Ryder Farm, Tofte Lake
                 NJ. Her theatrical credits   Center, and with the Rockefeller
                 include NYC: Vampire     Brothers Fund, and has a play
                 Cowboys Theater Co       commission from the Ensemble Studio
                 (Alice in Slasherland,   Theatre / Sloan Project. He has
                 GEEK!) Centenary Stage   upcoming publications with Applause
                 Company (Dracula,        Books, Stage Rights, and Heuer
     Hitler’s Tasters) The Bickford       Publishing.
     Theatre (Accomplice), The Growing
     Stage (Tales from the Garden) &      Emma Gibson is a British theatre-
     Alliance Repertory (Bluff, Trying),   maker, now living in Philadelphia. She
     Monomoy Theatre (The Crucible,       has an MA in Creative and Critical
     Harvey, Henry IV 1&2, George         Writing from the University of
     Washington Slept Here) Film: A       Southampton. In the UK she worked as
     Thousand Words, Hotel*, Hunter’s     an actress and a freelance journalist for
     Weekend Webseries: Jess Archer VS*   The Guardian Newspaper. She moved
     *now streaming on Amazon Prime.      to Philadelphia in 2006 and has worked
     Emaline received her BFA in theater   with many local companies, most
     performance from Ohio University and   recently performing in the Barrymore-
     is a proud member of the Actor’s Equity   nominated production of Perfect Blue.
     Association.
     www.emalinewilliams.com              She teaches theatre at The Shipley
                                          School in Bryn Mawr, PA and was the
                 Joelle Zazz is making her   founding producing artistic director of
                 debut with Dreamcatcher.   Tiny Dynamite
                 NYC roles include: The   (www.tinydynamite.org). Her plays
                 10th Anniversary         have been selected for the 2020
                 Broadway Concert of A    PlayPenn Conference, Philadelphia
                 Tale of Two Cities: the   Women’s Theatre Festival, Spooky
                 Musical; BRURIAH         Action New Works in Development, The
                 (Reading, La Mama); Titus   Liz Smith Reading Series with Miranda
     Andronicus(Revolución Latina).       Theatre Company and Digital Theatre
     Regional: Speranza Theatre Company,   shorts. She was recently announced as
     The Shakespeare Theatre of New       the winner of The Pittsburgh Public
     Jersey, Centenary Stage Company,     Theater’s inaugural new play
     Premiere Stages, Mile Square Theatre,   competition. She has been a finalist for
     Hamilton Stage, and more. TV: Eighty-  Premiere Stages at Kean 2020, a
     12 (Amazon Prime). Joellezazz.com    finalist for Kitchen Dog’s New Works
                                          Festival 2020 and a semi-finalist for the
              ~ Playwrights ~             O‘Neill New Play Conference 2020. She
     Stephen Brown’s play Everything is   was also in the top 100 for the Verity
     Super Great recently premiered Off-  Bargate Award at The Soho Theatre,
     Broadway at 59E59 Theaters, where it   UK, and on the long list for The
     was a TimeOut NY Critic’s Pick. His   International Playwriting Award with
     other work has been developed or     Theatre 503, UK. Her Poetry has been
     produced by MCC, Ensemble Studio     published by Willowdown Books (Poems
     Theatre, Page 73, Primary Stages,    from the Lockdown) and Indolent Books
     Barter Theatre, Youngblood, The Road   (What Rough Beast). More at
     Theatre, New Light Theatre Project, and   www.britishemma.com
     Aurora Theatre. He’s been a finalist for   Aly Kantor is an emerging New York
     the Juilliard Playwriting Fellowship, Play   based playwright, performer, and
     Penn Conference, Seven Devil’s       educator with a passion for telling off-
     Playwrights Conference, Kitchen Dog’s
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