Raja Feather Kelly is a playwright, choreographer and director and the Artistic Director of the dance-theatre-media company the feath3r theory (TF3T), for which he has created 18 premieres, most recently The Absolute Future (NYU Skirball). Kelly’s most recent works outside of TF3T are The Fires, (Soho Rep) Teeth (Playwrights Horizons), and the Broadway Musical LEMPICKA. He choreographed the Broadway musical A Strange Loop … Continued

Jesús I. Valles (they/them) is a queer Mexican immigrant, educator, storyteller, and performer from Cd. Juarez/El Paso. Jesús is a 2021 CantoMundo fellowship recipient at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, a 2019 Lambda Literary fellow, a 2019 Walter E. Dakin Playwriting Fellow of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a recipient of the 2019 Letras Latinas Scholarship … Continued

Ian Robles is a Puerto Rican theatre-maker who writes theatrical, bold and chaotic plays about colonialism, failure and the resilience of the human spirit. He’s a 2023 O’Neill (NPC) semifinalist and was a finalist for The Orchard Project’s 2022 Adaptation Lab and The Bushwick Starr 2022 Reading Series. He was also a recipient of the … Continued

Majkin Holmquist is a playwright originally from a family farm in the Smoky Valley region of central Kansas. After graduating from Bethany College with a degree in Secondary English Education, she was co-founder of and producer for The Next Stage Theatre Company, an independent theatre company in Lindsborg and a board member of Broadway RFD, … Continued

Nia Ostrow Witherspoon is a Black Queer theatremaker, vocalist and composer, and a cultural worker investigating the metaphysics of Black liberation, desire, and diaspora. She is currently a member of the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP) at HERE in Lower Manhattan and a Resident Artist at BerkleeNYC and the Mercury Store. Nia was a Jerome … Continued

Shayan Lotfi is a writer whose work has been developed and presented at the Atlantic Theater, Roundabout Theatre, South Coast Repertory, The Lark, and Boston Court. He is a member playwright at New Dramatists, and has been a member of The Working Farm Writers’ Group at SPACE on Ryder Farm and Page 73’s I-73 Writers … Continued