Julia Rae Maldonado (Facilitator, Muses, Little Machine) is a Bronx based playwright from San Antonio, Texas. Her work has been developed & produced in NYC by companies including Theatre East & the LAByrinth Theatre and internationally (MUT! Theatre, Hamburg & Interkultural Festival, Stuttgart). Her play Juntos was a finalist in the 2021 Samuel French OOB Festival and her play Buskers! was a finalist for the Heideman Award (Actors Theatre Louisville). Her play Real Life is included in Gary Garrison’s A (More) Perfect 10 & A Younger 10. She is also the author of a collection of short plays for teens commissioned and produced by the Stella Adler Studio. She is a founding member of the GirlSOUP Collective and currently a faculty member at the Actors Studio Drama School. Member of the Dramatist Guild. BFA- NYU, Tisch, MFA - Actors Studio Drama School.www.juliaraemaldonado.com

Benedetta Spinetti is a New York based artist, born and raised in a small town called Pistoia in Tuscany, Italy. She is so deeply grateful to be part of the wonderful Theatre East Community and to be giving the opportunity to be one of the writers in residency. She graduated at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting after attending the 3 year Conservatory. Her professional work in New York includes Lucy in After Eden (TheatreEast), Rita in Background (Sundog Theater), Gonzalo and Caliban (NYU Company educational tour), The Sea Lady (Metropolitan Playhouse, understudy). She is now working on her first play. Thank you to my grandma Anna, her kind and beautiful heart taught everything that I know.

Natalie Estelle Marsan is an actor, singer, and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from the Midwest, Natalie received a BA in Psychology and Theater from Boston College and has been studying voice at Tamagini Voice Studio in conjunction with her masters degree at the Actors Studio Drama School. Recent Off-Broadway theater credits include The Senator and His Wife Go On Retreat at Blank Page Theater Company and Reflection of a Shadow at the New York Theater Festival.

Srujanee Mishra (she/her/hers) is a playwright and poet from India. She has an undergraduate degree in Economics and Theatre Studies from the University of Glasgow. She has worked at the intersection of economics and theatre, using insights from development surveys and projects to write and perform plays for social change in rural Odisha. Her work has been displayed at National Sawdust, and Columbia University’s 10-minute play festival and Second Year Show. She has worked in The Play Company and Nandita Das Initiatives. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University.

Kelechi Udenkwo is an actor based in New York City, but his roots come from Dallas, TX. Acting found him when he was a senior in high school, and since then he has pursued this career with hopes of paying forward the opportunities he has been given to his family, loved ones, and the next generation. He has appeared in productions such as The Altruist, Hamlet, A Doll's House, and this June he will portray Hero in the Suzan Lori-Parks play Father Comes Home From The Wars Parts 1, 2, and 3 at the Quintessence Theater Group in Philadelphia, PA. He is managed by Maxx Maulion of Kreativ Arts Media.

Riley Jo Payne (The Pigeon) (They/Them) is a non-binary actor, writer, teacher, and creator based in Brooklyn, NY. Riley holds an MFA in Acting from The New School of Drama, where they cultivated their love for collaboration, devised theater, and new works. They have worked with NY based companies including, New Perspectives Theatre Co, Company of Fools, GOLD Comedy, Theatre East, the nobodies collective, and is an ensemble member of the Underground Skills Exchange (USE). In addition, Riley has experience collaborating with youth-centered organizations such as Camp Half Blood, Drama Kids International, and Treasure Trunk Theatre. You can see more of their work at www.rileyjopayne.com

Grayson May is a produced playwright, a published poet and author, a professional actor, and a multidisciplinary artist. Their play SCRIPTURE was produced as a featured one-act in the 2024 Actors Studio Drama School Repertory Season. They produced, wrote for, directed and performed in The Tank Theater 2023 festival, Love, Science and Magic: New Plays from Emerging Playwrights.  They have been published in journals and reviews including: Bacopa Review, Colorado Review, Cleveland Review of Books, Poet's Choice and Z Publishing House’s “Emerging Writers” series. They received a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of the Arts, and a MA in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship from the New School of Performing Arts. They were awarded with the Impact Entrepreneurship Fellowship at the New School, where they dedicated their venture ART LAB to creating online community and visibility for LGBTQIA+ artists. From 2014 to 2018, Grayson worked with veterans as a lead actor, instructor, and observer-controller/trainer for PTSD-prevention study, Squad Overmatch. They currently work as a companion serving elders with memory loss and dementia. They are a MFA playwriting graduate of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University, where they also studied acting, movement, voice, devising, classics and screenwriting.

Diane Davis (Broken Arpeggio) is a playwright and the facilitator of the ETC PlayLab of new play development. Her plays have been developed or produced by The New Ohio Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), Primary Stages, Eden Theater Company (ETC), HOWL Playwrights, AMIOS, the Barrow Group, HB Studios, and Goddard College. Her full-length play Complicity (New Ohio) received an HB Studio Residency Award for development. Diane’s most recent one act plays include Broken Arpeggio, The Memorial Tree (published in the Pitkin Review Journal), What's What and The Night Becomes Morning with staged readings/workshops in New York City. Diane also produced and directed The Room Series (Eden Theater Company) – with each room as the theme for an evening of three short plays (the Bedroom, Livingroom, Bathroom and Kitchen) on zoom throughout the quarantine, with proceeds going to the Equal Justice Initiative. Prior to quarantine, she produced Scrambled Porn (Flea Theater), and FlipSide (Flea Theater). Diane earned a BA in theater from Bennington College and is currently working on an MFA in Playwrighting at Columbia University. She has also served as a Board Director for the Amoralist Theatre Company, and currently for the League of Professional Theater Women.