Members:

Joy Meads is Literary Manager/Artistic Engagement Strategist at Center Theatre Group. Recent dramaturgy credits include Forever by Dael Orlandersmith, Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison (2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist), The Royale by Marco Ramirez, & Radiate by Daniel Alexander Jones. Previously, Joy was Literary Manager at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Associate Artistic Director at California Shakespeare Theater. Joy has also developed plays with NYTW, Berkeley Rep, Denver Center, the O’Neill, Portland Center Stage, South Coast Rep, & Campo Santo, among others. @capnjoy

 

Meg Miroshnik’s plays include The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls (Yale Rep; Alliance), The Tall Girls (Alliance; O’Neill; La Jolla Playhouse DNA Series), The Droll (Pacific Playwrights Festival) and Lady Tattoo. Awards: Whiting Award, Susan Smith Blackburn finalist, Alliance/Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award. Publications: Samuel French. Commissions: South Coast Rep, Steppenwolf, and Yale Rep. MFA: Yale School of Drama under Paula Vogel. Affiliation: Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center. Meg hails from Minneapolis and currently lives in Los Angeles. megmiroshnik.com @megmiroshnik

 

Zakiyyah Alexander is a playwright, television writer, and occasional actor. Her plays have been seen and/or developed around the country, received numerous awards and commissions.  A graduate of the Yale School of Drama (MFA in playwriting); for four years she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Bard College where she taught undergraduate playwriting, as well as graduate television writing at Columbia University.  Most recently, a writer on the television show Grey’s Anatomy. Currently, she is developing a musical with Imani Uzuri (featuring the poetry of Sonia Sanchez).  Zakiyyah is a native New Yorker and was raised in Queens and Brooklyn. @model_minority

 

Bekah Brunstetter’s plays include Going to a Place Where you Already Are (SCR, Spring 2016), The Oregon Trail (O’Neill Playwright’s Conference; Upcoming, DC Women’s Playwright’s festival), Be A Good Little Widow (Ars Nova, The Old Globe) and Oohrah! (The Atlantic; Steppenwolf Garage.) She is currently an Executive Story Editor on ABC Family’s Switched at Birth. MFA, the New School for Drama. blog.bekahbrunstetter.com @funstetter

 

Sheila Callaghan is a NY and LA based playwright, founding member of the Obie winning playwright’s organization 13P, and New Dramatists alum. Plays include Scab, Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), Dead City, That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play, Everything You Touch, Elevada, and Women Laughing Alone With Salad. She is published with Playscripts and Samuel French, and several of her collected works are published with Counterpoint Press. Sheila is currently a writer/producer on the Showtime comedy Shameless. sheilacallaghan.com @sheilacalla

 

Carla Ching started doing theater with NYC collective Peeling. Fast Company, TBA and The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness have been produced by South Coast Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, 2g and Porkfilled Productions. Alumna: Women’s Project Lab, Lark Playwrights Workshop, CTG Writers’ Workshop, Ma-Yi Writers Lab. Former Artistic Director of 2g and staff writer on Graceland. Proud member of New Dramatists. Upcoming: Nomad Motel at the 2015 O’Neill Playwrights Conference. carlaching.com @carlaching

 

Annah Feinberg‘s plays, which include The Beautiful Beautiful Sea Next Door, Numismatics, and The Ivories, have been developed and produced by Ars Nova, Naked Angels, EBE Ensemble, and Clubbed Thumb. She has served in artistic and literary capacities for The Civilians, LCT3, MTC, Steppenwolf, Northlight, ICM, TimeLine and 13P. She wrote and directed short film “Gretch and Tim” and assisted on A+E’s Damien and HBO’s Veep. MFA Dramaturgy: Columbia University. annahfeinberg.com @annahfeinberg

 

Ssarah Gubbins hails from Chicago. Her plays include The Kid Thing (Jeff Award and Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award), fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life, Fair Use, The Drinking Problem, and Cocked. She’s has been a Carl J. Djerassi Fellow and Jerome Fellow. Currently she’s an Artistic Associate at About Face Theater and a Core Writer of the Playwrights’ Center. She holds a M.F.A. from Northwestern University in Writing for the Screen + Stage. She lives in Los Angeles with her dog Gil. @Sarah_Gubbins

 

Laura Jacqmin is a Chicago-based playwright, TV writer, and video game writer. Plays: A Third (Finborough Theatre), Look, We Are Breathing (Sundance Theatre Lab; Rivendell Theatre), January Joiner (Long Wharf Theatre), Ski Dubai (Steppenwolf Theatre), Dental Society Midwinter Meeting (Chicago Dramatists/At Play, remounted 16th Street Theater and Theater on the Lake; Williamstown Theatre Festival), and more. Awards: Wasserstein Prize, two NEA Art Works Grants, ATHE-Kennedy Center David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award, two MacDowell Fellowships. Television: Grace and Frankie (Netflix); Lucky 7 (ABC). Video games: Minecraft: Story Mode (Telltale Games). BA Yale University, MFA Ohio University. laurajacqmin.com @LauraJacqmin

 

Kelly L. Miller is the Director of Development for New Neighborhood. For the last six years, she served as South Coast Repertory’s Literary Director and the Co-Director of the Pacific Playwrights Festival. She dramaturged over 40 world premiere productions and readings at SCR and created the CrossRoads commissioning project. Miller has worked at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown, Long Wharf Theatre and consulted for the O’Neill, Berkeley Rep, the Kennedy Center, PlayPenn, the Public and many others. She continues to develop new work with her company Creative Destruction. @kellymiller03

 

Daria Polatin is a playwright and TV writer, and recently worked on the upcoming Starz ballet drama “Flesh and Bone.” Her plays include In Tandem, The Luxor Express, Guidance, That First Fall, D.C., and A Fair Affair; her work has been produced at The Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Naked Angels, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Golden Thread Productions, in London, Los Angeles and Hong Kong. Member of Center Theatre Group Writers’ Workshop, residency with London’s Royal Court Theatre, alumna of EST’s Youngblood. She has directed plays, and the short film “Till It Gets Weird.” BFA Boston University, MFA Columbia University. Kennedy Center/A.C.T.F. Best One-Act Play, Middle East America Playwriting Prize Honorable Mention. Plays published by Dramatists Play Service, Dramatic Publishing Company, and Vintage Books. dariapolatin.com @DariaPolatin

 

Tanya Saracho (born in Sinaloa, México) is a playwright, actor and TV writer (HBO’s Looking & Girls, Devious Maids) who is currently writing for How To Get Away With Murder.  Produced at: Denver Theatre Center (upcoming), 2nd Stage (NYC), Steppenwolf Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Goodman Theater, Teatro Vista, Teatro Luna, Fountain Theater, Clubbed Thumb, NEXT Theater and 16th Street Theater. Plays include: Fade; Hushabye; The Tenth Muse; Song for the Disappeared; Enfrascada; El Nogalar (inspired by The Cherry Orchard); an adaptation of The House on Mango Street for Steppenwolf; Our Lady of the Underpass; Kita y Fernanda and Quita Mitos. In Development with: HBO (adaptation of Mala Hierba), Two Rivers Theatre, Denver Theater Center, South Coast Rep., Goodman Theater, and Steppenwolf Theatre. Tanya’s a proud Union member of SAG/AFTRA & WGA. @TanyaSaracho

 

Marisa Wegrzyn - Chicago playwright working in LA. Writer of Mud Blue Sky, The Butcher of Baraboo, Hickorydickory, Killing Women, Ten Cent Night, other stuff. Gigs at Steppenwolf, Second Stage NYC, Baltimore Centerstage, A Red Orchid Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, Theatre Seven, Moxie Theatre, other places. Winner of the Wendy Wasserstein Playwriting Prize. Writer on TV shows Mind Games (ABC) and The Mentalist (CBS). Enjoys weather. @howdymarisa