Matthew Moore is a playwright originally from New England currently living in D.C. His work has appeared at the Boston Theater Marathon, the Toronto Fringe Festival, Durango Arts, Two Oceans Theater, and the Chain Theater.
Sydney Strange has been writing and directing since she was in middle school, her passion for storytelling and film driving her throughout the past decade to make numerous short films, pilots, and more. With a strong focus on how people love and feel, Sydney focuses on trying to tell relatable, emotional driven stories that can represent everyone.
LIGHTS UP. A small, bland waiting room. Used furniture. Old magazines. Bad carpet. Weird paintings. Plastic plants. Muted Muzak. A middle-aged lady, Claire, sits looking a bit shocked and confused. There’s a knock at the door and a young man enters. It’s Steve. He looks like a Jehovah’s Witness with a clipboard, pen and white walkie-talkie clipped to his belt. He’s not a Jehovah’s Witness. STEVE: Hi. I’m Steve. Claire looks at him. Steve reads from his clipboard. STEVE: Claire Gifford. 226 Willow Crest Lane, Hammond, Missouri? CLAIRE: Yeah. Uh—I’m sorry. I was— STEVE:(at the clipboard) It’s okay. You’re dead.…
Peter Sands was first commissioned by the BBC in London for his original screenplay The Spiral. He wrote Undertow and Visions In The Fire and wrote and directed the Academy Awards® qualifying short, Blacktop Afternoon. Peter’s writing credits include SyFy’s The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Girl On A Train, The Other Day and most recently the story for Take My Heart which he also produced. It received the Emmy® Nomination for Outstanding Daytime Fiction Program. He is a Member of the Playwright Directors Unit at The Actors Studio, New York. Current Projects: NOSTRADAMUS & THE KING
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.