Anya Pearson

Anya Pearson

Anya Pearson is an award-winning actress, playwright, poet, producer, and activist. She was the inaugural winner of the $10,000 Voice is a Muscle Grant from the Corporeal Voices Foundation, for her choreopoem, Made to Dance in Burning Buildings. Made to Dance in...

Diana Burbano

Diana Burbano

Diana Burbano, a Colombian immigrant, is a playwright, an Equity actor, and a teaching artist at South Coast Repertory and Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble. Diana’s play Ghosts of Bogota, was commissioned and debuted at Alter Theater in the Bay Area in Feb 2020....

E.M. Lewis

E.M. Lewis

E. M. Lewis is an award-winning playwright, teacher, and opera librettist. Her work has been produced around the world, and published by Samuel French. Lewis received the Steinberg Award for both How the Light Gets In and Song of Extinction, and the Primus Prize for...

Jacklyn Maddux

Jacklyn Maddux

Jacklyn has appeared Off Broadway and regionally (Joseph Papp’s Public Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, Kennedy Center, Thirteenth Street Theatre, etc.)  She is an Artistic Member of the Ensemble Studio...

Lava Alapai

Lava Alapai

Lava Alapai (She/Her) is a playwright and director, born in Okinawa, Japan, and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her recent directing credits include School Girls, or; the African Mean Girls Play for Portland Center Stage, The Chinese Lady, The Revolutionists, and An...

Lolly Ward

Lolly Ward

Lolly Ward came west to attend Stanford University, where she received her Bachelor's and Master's in English and Creative Writing. As a member of The Actors’ Gang, she originated roles in Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando, toured nationally and internationally, and acted in the...