Thomas James Boudreau is a playwright whose plays include If I Cleaned Everything, No Jacket, The Campaign, and Astral Projection. His work has been staged by the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and developed by the Actors Studio Drama School. Boudreau earned his BA in English from MCLA and is currently pursuing his MFA in Playwriting at the Actors Studio Drama School. He is also a member of the Dramatist’s Guild.
Christine J. Schmidt writes in various mediums, but mostly plays and screenplays. Her work has been developed and produced at Skylight Theatre, Ammunition Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA, The Blank, The Parsnip Ship, The NJ One-Minute Play Festival, and others. Her full-length play, Charlotte Stay Close, had its world premiere production at Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA in September 2019. She founded and was the co-program director of New West Playwrights, which was created to give voice to and foster the work of young playwrights in Los Angeles. More info at her website, or check out her Substack, Putting it Off.
Bethany Leigh Greenman is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, dramaturg, and stand-up comedian from New Jersey. She obtained her BFA in Playwriting at Ohio University. A Virginia Hahne scholarship recipient, she produced a reading of her full-length play, TEMPLE, at the Undergraduate Playwrights’ Festival. Since moving to Los Angeles, she has worked as a production assistant for multiple shows, including Abbott Elementary. She has also performed stand-up in multiple cities at various venues, including the Hollywood Improv. Most recently, she won the February 2024 Go Try PlayWrite Contest, presented by Kumu Kahua Theatre and Bamboo Ridge Press, for her monologue Lilies.
Gianfranco Lentini (he/him) is a NYC-based queer playwright, teacher, journalist, and first-generation Italian American. His plays include Glory Hole (Burlington County Footlighters), happier (A Night of Play), I’m really glad you’re here (The Magnetic Theatre), Katherine & Peter (Torrent Theatre, inspiraTO Festival), Self-Published (Molecule Literary Magazine), You Tell Me (Theatrical Response Team), Okay Walt Whitman (The Coachella Review), and Open (Mini Plays Review: An International Journal of Short Plays). Gianfranco is currently an Adjunct Professor at New York University for Tisch Drama’s New Studio on Broadway’s Summer Program and a Wendy Wasserstein Project Representative for TDF (Theatre Development Fund). He is also a proud Member of the Dramatists Guild of America. You can learn more…
Mitchell P. Ganem has written and directed for both stage and screen. He is co-writer of Elvis Has Left the Building, starring Academy Award winner Kim Basinger. His screenplay Kinky Grace has won several film festival awards. Mitch’s short film Killing Dinner has played in festivals from here to Turkey. He is currently in pre-production to direct his original screenplays Fleur de Lis and Losing Jerry for Beachfront Films. Mitch often works as an uncredited gun-for-hire on screenplays and a credited gun-for-hire on such cinematic wonders as the original screenplay No Visible Horizon and the screenplay adaption of J.P. Polidoro’s…
Romney Humphrey is a former media writer/producer, award-winning screenwriter, and nationally produced playwright with recent productions in California, Florida, and Connecticut. Her play The Bench is being made into a short film this spring. She is the author of three books, including the best-selling How I Learned I’m Old, a humor/memoir.
G.A. Milnthorpe is an author, playwright, and comedian. His latest novel, Archibald Mountbank and the Miniscule Miracles, is his best, and shortest, to date. He lives in Bury St. Edmunds, UK. You can find him on Facebook and X/Twitter.
Gianfranco Lentini is an NYC-based queer playwright, teacher, journalist, and First Generation Italian American. Gianfranco’s work has been developed and produced by Torrent Theatre, UNDER St. Marks Theatre, A Night of Play, Theatrical Response Team, Burlington County Footlighters, and the inspiraTO Festival (Canada’s largest short play festival). His work has been published by Molecule Literary Magazine and The Coachella Review. He is currently an Adjunct Professor for New York University’s New Studio on Broadway’s Summer Program and a Teaching Representative for the Theatre Development Fund’s Wendy Wasserstein Project. You can learn more about Gianfranco’s work at heygianfranco.com and on Instagram at @HeyGianfranco.
Daniil Lebedev is a writer and filmmaker. Born in Novosibirsk, Russia, he studied literature and cinema in Paris. He is the author of experimental and documentary films, as well as several works for theatre. He currently lives in Strasbourg. danlebedev.com
Kerry Muir’s prose has appeared in Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse, Fourth Genre and elsewhere. Her essay “The Bridge” was named as a notable in Best American Essays 2016, edited by Edwidge Danticat, as was her essay “Blur” in Best American Essays 2018, edited by Hilton Als. Her plays have received awards and honors from Nantucket Short Play Festival & Competition, Gibraltar International Drama Festival, The Great Platte River Playwrights Festival, Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition, and elsewhere. Her play, Esme & Jasper, Out to Sea received an honorable mention on The Kilroys’ THE LIST. Her play The Night Buster Keaton Dreamed Me was published in a bilingual English-Spanish edition…