Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Anglo-Irish poet, author and playwright. His poetry was first published in 1881. He contributed to publications such as “Pall Mall Gazette”and he wrote the novel, The Novel of Dorian Gray (1891). Perhaps most recognizable for his work as...
Paula Vogel has written HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE (Pulitzer Prize, New York Drama Critics Award, Obie Award, Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and many more.) Other plays include A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS, THE LONG CHRISTMAS RIDE HOME, THE MINEOLA TWINS, HOT...
Robert Icke is an award-winning writer and theatre director. He is currently Associate Director at the Almeida. From 2010-13 he was Associate Director at Headlong, where he worked on all of the company’s productions and directed three of his own. He was the Artistic...
Sarah's plays include Everything That Never Happened, The Good Guys, Tiny, and Fight Call. Her work has been produced and developed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Boston Court Pasadena, The Playwrights Realm, Seattle Rep, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, The...
Shepsu Aakhu is a founding member of MPAACT. He has developed several critically acclaimed works for MPAACT. Among them are: Never the Milk and Honey; By Association; Starting Over; Feral; Warm on the Coolin' Board; Speaking in Tongues/Babel; Ten Square; Kiwi Black;...
LOIS WEAVER (UXO Co-Writer, Director, Performer) is an artist, activist, and part-time professor of Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary, University of London. She was co-founder of Spiderwoman Theater, WOW, and Artistic Director of Gay Sweatshop in London. She has...
Stephen Adly Guirgis is a member and former co-artistic director of LAByrinth Theater Company. His plays have been produced on five continents and throughout the United States. His most recent play, Between Riverside and Crazy (dir: Austin Pendleton) premiered at...
Stephen Karam is the author of Sons Of The Prophet, which recently ended its extended Off-Broadway run at the Laura Pels Theater in New York City (Roundabout Theatre Company) following its debut at the Huntington Theatre Company. Other plays include Speech &...
Steve Rathje’s play SIGNS was recently named a Finalist in the 2016 National Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference and won the 2016 Oregon Play Prize. His other plays have been published by Samuel French Inc. and Dramatics Magazine and have been produced by Stanford...
She has an MA in Playwriting from Boston University. Her plays have been produced at Theatre for the New City in New York City, the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble in Pennsylvania, Icarus Theatre Ensemble in Ithaca, New York, Portland Repertory Theatre, Artists Repertory...
Susan Soon He Stanton is a writer for theatre, film, and television from ‘Aiea, Hawai‘i. Susan is a producer and writer on the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Emmy award winning HBO Succession, for which she has also won WGA and Peabody Awards. Upcoming television work...
Terrence McNally was awarded the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. He is the winner of Tony Awards for his plays LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! and MASTER CLASS and his books for the musicals RAGTIME and KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN. In 2010 the John F....