Eva Anderson was a winner of the YPI's National Playwriting Competition. Her winning one-act play From the Mouths of Babes, was performed at the Cherry Lane Theater, and has since been published by Playscripts, Inc. Eva's first full-length play, The Epic of Gil, opened at the McCadden Theater in Hollywood, in 2004. It received a LA Weekly Award nomination for Playwriting. Her play, Eddie Legs, opened at the Lillian Theater in Hollywood in May of 2005. Wildboy '74, appeared at the Soho Rep as part of the New York Intl. Fringe Festival in the summer of 2008. Most recently, Eva is the co-author (with Keythe Farley and Tony Bollas) of Stranger, a spaghetti western play in the style of Sergio Leone, which received its world premiere at the Bootleg Theater in the summer of 2009. Currently, Eva is a member of Zach Helm's Los Angeles-based company Teatro De Facto. Eva has spent the last three years performing, writing and directing a number of shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Hollywood, where she is a member of the popular sketch comedy group A Kiss From Daddy. She is a contributing writer for the Onion News Network, and wrote for the Comedy Central sketch pilot "This Show Will Get You High".

Carrie Barrett is a 2009 graduate of Northwestern's MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage program where she studied under playwrights Rebecca Gilman and Laura Schellhardt. Most recently, her dark comedy Focus Group Play premiered to critical success at Katselas Theatre Company after a successful run in their LAb Works New Play Festival. Her play, The Burden of Not Having a Tail, was selected for the 2010 National Playwrights Conference at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and will be produced by Sideshow Theatre Company in Chicago in Summer 2013. The Fabulist was the 2009 recipient of Northwestern's Agnes Nixon New Play Award. Her plays also have been workshopped and developed at Gotham Stage Company (NYC), Steep Theatre (Chicago) Northwestern University, Chicago Dramatists, American Theatre Company (Chicago) and through Remmy Bummpo Theatre Company (Chicago). Her improv and sketch comedy has been produced at i.O Theatres (Chicago and Los Angeles), Second City and various national and international festivals. Carrie currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband where she is a member of Katselas Theatre Company's PlayLab led by Shem Bitterman.

Mickey Birnbaum's play Big Death & Little Death inaugurated Woolly Mammoth's new Washington D.C. theatre in 2005. It has been produced subsequently in Providence, San Francisco, Los Angeles; and Houston . The play was nominated for a 2006 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, and was a 2006 PEN USA Literary Awards Finalist. His play Bleed Rail premiered at the Theatre@Boston Court in Los Angeles in 2007, and won a 2008 Garland Award for Playwriting. In 2006, Mickey spent two months living in William Inge's boyhood home in Independence, Kansas as the recipient of a Inge Fellowship. He has written numerous children's plays for L.A.'s celebrated non-profit, Virginia Avenue Project. He has written screenplays for Universal, Paramount, Columbia/Sony, DreamWorks, Interscope, Warner Brothers, and Leonardo di Caprio's Appian Way Productions, and recently completed a screenplay in collaboration with director Steven Shainberg (Secretary, Fur). He is a member of the 2009 Center Theatre Group Writer's Workshop.

Deron Bos' plays include Very Simple, The City She Wants Me, Putting the Days to Bed, Kate and Anne Marie, Little America, Flagstaff, 707 Pine, and 21 SHOTS. He developed Very Simple as part of Page 73's Residency at Yale (2012.) His work has been produced and developed at Circle X Theatre in Los Angeles, Page 73 and Soho Rep in New York, and Printer's Devil Theatre in Seattle. He has been published by The Brooklyn Review and Rain City Projects. He earned his MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College, where he studied with Mac Wellman.

Jami Brandli's play Technicolor Life was awarded the 2010 John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award and developed at WordBRIDGE and the Ashland New Plays Festival. A finalist for the Princess Grace Award and the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Technicolor Life will receive a reading at New York Theatre Workshop this fall (2012). The Sinker premiered at HotCity Theatre and was nominated for a Kevin Kline Award for "Outstanding New Play." This spring, BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!) was a MainStage selection at the 2012 Great Plains Theatre Conference and received a Holland New Voices Award. Her latest play, M-Theory, is being developed at Rogue Machine Theatre. She is also an ongoing contributing writer for Loyola Marymount University's productions of "Hidden Heroes: Service to the World." In addition, she was a contributing writer for the Elliot Norton Award-Winning production of PS: Page Me Later, a finalist for the Disney ABC's TV Writing Fellowship, and a Visiting Playwright for the 2009 ATHE Conference. Her short plays are published with Smith & Kraus. Jami lives in Pasadena, CA, with her husband, Brian Polak, where she's at work on scripts for both stage and screen and a novel. For her day job, she teaches dramatic writing at Lesley University's low-residency MFA program in Boston. www.jamibrandli.com

Jonathan Ceniceroz is a native of Los Angeles and grew up in the San Gabriel Valley, the setting for a number of his recent works. Past theater productions include "Burning Palms" and "BIG BRO/lil bro" at Company of Angels and the short films Der Fisch and Mousy Brown. He is developing a new play "The Former Mrs. Janeway" in the CTG Writers Group 2012/3. Holds ba/mfa from UCLA and Brown University.

Jihan Crowther's plays have been read, produced and developed at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, New Georges, 52nd Street Project and New York Theatre Workshop in New York; the Edinburgh Fringe Theatre Festival in Scotland; Theatre 503, The Oval Theatre, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, The Actors' Centre, The Space, University of London – Goldsmiths College in London and Eastern Bloc in Montreal, Quebec. She was a New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellow, a former New York Theatre Workshop Emerging Artists Fellow and an alumna of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Youngblood. She has an EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation commission and is an Affiliate Artist at New Georges Theater as well as a member of their multidisciplinary artists' collective, The Jam. She received her MA in Writing for Performance at the University of London – Goldsmiths College and her BA in English/Creative Writing from James Madison University. Jihan is a proud member of the Playwrights Union.

Padraic Duffy has worked at theaters throughout L.A., including The Met Theater, The Echo Theater Co., Sacred Fools Theater Co., Theater of Note, Cypress College, The Road Theatre, and Ensemble Studio Theatre LA. His full-length plays include The Illustrious Birth of Padraic T. Duffy, Feet, The Mechanical Rabbit, Tell the Bees, Something is Hidden Inside the Couch, Past Time, Beaverquest! The Musical!, Puzzler, and Copy, which received its world premiere at Theatre of N.O.T.E in May 2012. He is a proud member of the Playwright's Union and The Sacred Fools Theater Company, serving as the Managing Director of the latter.

Larissa FastHorse's produced plays include Average Family, Teaching Disco Squaredancing to Our Elders: a Class Presentation, and Cherokee Family Reunion. She has been under commission with Cornerstone Theatre Company, Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, AlterTheatrer, Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences, Native Voices at the Autry and Mountainside Theatre. Larissa developed new plays with Arizona Theater Company and the Center Theatre Group Writer's Workshop. Larissa was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Distinguished New Play Development Grant, AATE Distinguished Play Award, Sundance/Ford Foundation Fellowship, Aurand Harris Fellowship, and numerous Ford Foundation and NEA Grants. She is published with Dramatic Publishing and Plays for Young Audiences. In her spare time, Larissa returns to her previous life as a ballet dancer through choreography. www.hoganhorsesutdio.com

Dorothy Fortenberry is a Los Angeles-based playwright, originally from Washington, DC. Her work has been developed by Arena Stage, Ars Nova, Geva Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Page 73 among others, and produced by Center Rep, Chalk Rep, Red Fern Theatre, and The Management. She is a winner of the 2011 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and a two-time Finalist for the O'Neill Conference (for her plays Status Update and Mommune). She has received an EST/Sloan commission, a fellowship to the MacDowell Colony, a residency at the Djerassi Program, and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She is currently working on a commission from Yale Rep. Dorothy is an alumna of Youngblood and a founding company member of Tilted Field. MFA, Yale School of Drama. More info and the occasional soulful photograph at www.dorothyfortenberry.com

Sigrid Gilmer writes from a place that believes in the alchemy of live bodies on stage; her plays are dark, funny, personal musings and perversions of cultural norms that joyfully give the finger to the status quo. Her work includes: Harry & the Thief, It's All Bueno, The Hub of the Universe, Black Girl Rising, Axiom and The Great White Way. Sigrid has worked with Katselas Theatre Company, Cornerstone Theater Company, Watts Village Theatre, Company of Angles, and Clubbed Thumb Theatre Company. Ms. Gilmer has studied theatre at Cal State LA and Cal Arts and in Japan, Rwanda and Iowa. Her current obsessions include: American history, paying attention and true crime. Sigrid is a member of Cornerstone Theater Company and resides in Los Angeles.

Marek Glinski, a Chicago native, is a playwright and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. Recent West Coast performances of his plays include: Mammoth Gorge and The Parakeet, the Swastika, and the Anniversary Present at Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA; This Little Piggy at Elephant Theatre; and Saint Barbara, which was first presented in the 2005 National New Play Showcase at Stanford University and two years later at the Cypress College Summer Play festival. Saint Barbara was a semi-finalist for the 2010 Eugene O'Neil National Playwrights Conference. His play The Devil's Sonata won the 2001 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for Dramatic Writing. It was produced by Visions and Voices Theatre Company at Strawdog Theatre, Chicago, spring 2003. His play Utah was a finalist for the Humana Festival Heidman Award for short plays in 2001. It was performed at the Turnip Festival in New York City and at the Heartlande Theatre Company Play-by-Play Festival in Oakland, Michigan, that same year. A number of other plays have been produced at small theatres in Chicago. Mark has also written and performed material for various cabaret shows and comedy reviews in Chicago. www.markglinski.com

Prince Gomolvilas's plays include Big Hunk o' Burnin' Love, The Theory of Everything, and the stage adaptation of the Scott Heim novel, Mysterious Skin, which have been produced around United States, in the U.K., and in Singapore. He received the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Drama; Julie Harris/Janet and Maxwell Salter Playwright Award; International Herald Tribune/SRT Playwriting Award; East West Players' Made in America Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement for the Asian Pacific Islander Community; grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation; and a screenwriting fellowship from The Chesterfield Writer's Film Project, a program sponsored by Paramount Pictures. He has toured around the country with musician Brandon Patton as part of the critically acclaimed, storytelling, song-singing, bingo-playing duo, Jukebox Stories, which has also been presented at the National Asian American Theatre Festival. He recently finished writing a new play in the 2011-2012 Center Theatre Group Writers' Workshop, and he currently is developing a feature-length screenplay for award-winning filmmaker PJ Raval.www.princegomolvilas.com

Jennifer Haley is the winner of the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for The Nether, which will see a world premiere by Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Spring 2013. Her other plays include Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, which premiered at the Actors Theatre of Louisville 2008 Humana Festival and continues to see productions nation-wide, Froggy, a graphic novel play in development with The Banff Centre and American Conservatory Theatre, and Sustainable Living, which recently appeared at the Ojai Playwrights Conference. Her work has been developed and presented at the Sundance Theatre Institute, O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Lark Play Development Center, Summer Play Festival in New York, PlayPenn Playwrights Conference, Lincoln Center Director's Lab, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and the Page 73 Productions Summer Residency at Yale, among other venues.  She is a former fellow of the MacDowell Colony and Millay Colony for the Arts, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University. Her work is published by Samuel French, Playscripts, Inc and Espace 34. www.jenniferhaley.com.

Aaron Henne's plays include King Cat Calico Finally Flies Free! (published by Original Works Publishing), Record Storm Spreads Ruin! (commissioned by the Los Angeles History Project) and Sliding Into Hades, which received the 2008 LA Weekly Awards for Playwriting and Production of the Year. Aaron has served in script development capacities for Culture Clash, The Colony Theatre, Center Theatre Group and The Theatre @ Boston Court, where he serves as Co-Literary Manager. His exploration of machines and their relationships to humanity, Body Mecanique, was developed and produced by LA Contemporary Dance Company (LACDC). Aaron's work has also appeared at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. His multimedia adaptation of a 12th Century epic poem, collision/theory's Blood Red Lost Head Dead Falcon: The Nibelungen, was a partner in the LA Opera's Ring Festival LA. Mr. Henne's exploration of Kafka's "The Castle", A Man's Home, and his clash of science and mysticism, Mesmeric Revelation, were both developed and produced by Central Works in Berkeley, CA. His playwriting process book, You Already Know, is available through Writ Large Press. He teaches writing for the Playwrights' Program at The Robey Theatre Company, runs the writing studio, Wordstrut, and is the Artistic Director of theatre dybbuk. Aaron is a proud member of The Playwrights Union. www.aaronhenne.com

David Holstein's plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sydney, and Edinburgh. His new musical adaptation of The Emperor's New Clothes (with Alan Schmuckler) recently premiered to rave reviews at Chicago Shakespeare. His comedy The B-Team premiered at Dad's Garage Theatre in Atlanta in 2009 with upcoming productions in Denver and Washington, DC. It is also available in print with Original Works. His one-act Anne Frankenstein: The Musical won audience and finalist awards at Sydney's 2008 Short and Sweet Festival. His Edinburgh hit True Genius went on to productions in New York and Los Angeles and is now published with Original Works. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and is currently writing for two television shows: Showtime's hit series Weeds (Writers Guild Award nomination) and TeenNick's Gigantic.

Lisa Kenner's Lisa's produced short plays include the girls (Boston Theatre Marathon) and orangutan & lulu (Estrogenius Festival/NYC). Lisa's full-length play Chambers was a 2011 finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, The Lark, and WordBRIDGE. A monologue from Chambers was presented at the 2011 TCG Conference. In 2010, Lisa was a Guest Artist at The Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive in Washington, D.C. Her work has been presented and developed at SWAN Day Boston, The Blank Theatre, The Road Theatre Company, Theatre of NOTE, The Jewish Women's Theatre, among others. Lisa is currently pursuing her MFA at Lesley University's low-residency program for Stage and Screen. For her day-job, she produces cool cultural events for the national non-profit, Reboot. A graduate of Wesleyan University and a Boston native, Lisa lives in Eagle Rock with her husband,actor Chet Grissom.

Eric Loo was born in Los Angeles, attended college at Santa Clara University and has an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. His play On the Subject of Lilla was a finalist for the O'Neill in 2011 and a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award. His play The Snake Charmer had a workshop at Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice in June 2011. His plays have been developed and produced in both New York and Los Angeles. Eric has also developed TV pilots at various production companies. He's also an adjunct professor in playwriting at Santa Clara University. In his spare time, Eric does P90X, Groov3, Insanity and takes hip hop dance classes to get rid of his writer's body.

Ruth McKee's plays include Hell Money, a runner-up for the 2009 Yale Drama Series Award; Stray, winner of the 2008 Stanley Drama Award, recent readings at Abingdon Theatre, New York, Black Dahlia Theatre, Los Angeles, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York; The Nightshade Family, produced in the 2007 Summer Play Festival (SPFNYC), readings at Playwrights Horizons, NY and Alliance Theatre, Atlanta; Otherwise Engaged, Actors Theatre of Louisville; Full Disclosure, Security Check and Mail Returned, Six Figures Theatre Company; The Noise Room, HB Playwrights Foundation; 500 Words and Long Term Parking, published by Playscripts Inc. Originally from Canada, by way of Bangladesh and Kenya, Ruth has a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU, an MFA in Playwriting from UCSD, and currently lives in Los Angeles where she is a founding member of Chalk Repertory Theatre.

Meg Miroshnik's plays include The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls (Or, девушки), The Droll {A Stage-Play about the END of Theatre}, and The Tall Girls, a play about high school girls' basketball in the 1930s. The Tall Girls was presented as part of the 2012 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference (directed by Hayley Finn). The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls was a finalist for the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the winner of the 2011-2012 Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award, and premiered at the Alliance Theatre in February 2012 (directed by Eric Rosen); in a Russian translation by Maria Kroupnik, the play is the winner of the Masterskaya na Begavoi and was produced by the Moscow Playwright and Director Center (directed by Ilya Shagalov). Her adaptation of the libretto for Shostakovich's opera Moscow, Cheryomushki (re-orchestrated by Gerard McBurney, conducted by Alexander Platt, and directed by Mike Donahue) premiered at Chicago Opera Theater in April 2012. Her work has been developed or produced by the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Center Theater Group, Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Rep, the Sallie B. Goodman fellowship at the McCarter Theatre Center, Alliance Theatre, the Kennedy Center, Lark New Play Development Center, Yale Cabaret, the Carlotta Festival at Yale, Perishable Theatre, WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory, One Coast Collaboration, and published in Best American Short Plays, 2008-2009 (Applause, 2010).

Brett Neveu's upcoming productions include Red Bud with The Royal Court Theatre, Odradek with The House Theatre and Do The Hustle with Writers' Theatre.  Recent past work includes productions with Writers' Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, A Red Orchid Theatre, TimeLine Theatre Company and American Theatre Company.  He is the recipient of the Ofner Prize for New Work, the Emerging Artist Award from The League of Chicago Theatres, an After Dark Award for Outstanding Musical (Old Town with Strawdog Theatre Company) and has developed plays with companies including The New Group, The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Victory Gardens and is a resident-alum with Chicago Dramatists.  He is also an ensemble member of A Red Orchid Theatre, a member of The Playwrights' Union and a 2009-2010 member of the Center Theatre Group's Playwrights' Workshop.  Brett has been commissioned by The Royal Court Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Goodman Theatre, TimeLine Theatre Company, Writers' Theatre, Strawdog Theatre, Writers' Theatre and has several of his plays published through Broadway Play Publishing and Dramatic Publishing.  Brett has taught writing at Northwestern University, DePaul University, Second City Training Center and currently lives in Los Angeles.

Brian James Polak is a transplant from Boston, where he was a founding member of the award winning Alarm Clock Theatre Company. In 2006 he won an Eliot Norton Award as co-writer of PS Page Me Later. His short play Reverse Evolution is published by Smith & Kraus in the anthology Best 10-minute Plays of 2009. He has a short story in the anthology "The Commonplace Book of the Weird" and embarrassing childhood poetry in "Mortified: Love is a Battlefield." His play Painkillers appears in "What It Means To Be a Grown-Up: The Complete and Definitive Answer." Brian's play Underground was recently part of PLAY/ground, Boston Court's New Play Festival. He is currently pursuing his MFA in Dramatic Writing at the USC School of Dramatic Arts.

Larry Pontius is a playwright whose work includes multiple New York productions, produced plays in Chicago, throughout the Midwest, and internationally. Recipient of the Michener Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin, where he received an MFA in Playwriting, Pontius' produced work includes an Off-Broadway production of Umbrella by Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan; Fallout by Working Man's Clothes Productions and The Lunar Adventures of Dar and Matey by Stolen Chair Theater, On The Night of Anthony's 30th Birthday Party, Again at the Manhattan Theatre Source, On Sunday Morning, by Collaboraction in Chicago; American Autobahnics at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. The Connection is Made and Running Out of Time were both ACTF Regional Ten-Minute Play Finalists. He was a 2009-2010 Dramatists Guild Fellow. He studied at Dell'Arte, The International School of Physical Theater, and received the Nicholas Meyer Scholarship for Playwrighting from the University of Iowa, where he received a BA with Honors. Pontius' work as television writer includes the international version of the acclaimed anthology series New York Stories, the international production of Qaatil, a 13-part murder mystery, and international drama series Khaandaan (Family) going into production in early 2011.

Steve Serpas' most recent work includes Smoke the Baby, semi-finalist in the 2012 Ashland New Play Festival; Andrea Lane, presented in Ensemble Studio Theatre L.A.'s Winterfest 2012; Touching Delilah, produced by Sacred Fools Theatre's "Fast & Loose" series, July 2011; and The Last Look Back, presented at Ripe Reads at L.A.'s Lounge Theatre, May 2012, and The Playwrights Union's 2010 New Works Festival. Credits include Xenogenesis (Garland Award for Best Play, Backstage West), Sweet Colinda (Native Visions/Native Voices Award at LSU), and Dogtown (Jeff Award-winning production.) A BFA graduate of NYU's Dramatic Writing Program, Steve has worked with American Blues, The Blank Theatre Company, CAP 21, Eclipse Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Prop Theatre, The Road Theatre, Shattered Globe, Strawdog, Victory Gardens, and Point Zero Pictures, which produced his 2008 short film, La La Loco Baby. Current projects include the web series, Before We Go To Sleep, debuting Fall 2012. In addition to The Playwrights Union, affiliations include founding member of The Naked Theater Project; Member of the Playwrights Unit, Ensemble Studio Theatre LA; former resident playwright of Chicago Dramatists; and member of The Dramatists Guild. www.beforewegotosleep.com

Jeremy W. Soule is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where he double majored in Dramatic Writing and Drama, with an emphasis in directing. He received both the Senior Achievement Award and Artist and Scholar Award his senior year for his thesis play, The Match, and was a member of Youngblood, Ensemble Studio Theatre' professional young playwright group. His play, Heartbreak of the Last Handwriting, was commissioned by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2000 and subsequently produced on the EST's mainstage. He has also served as writer and director on several theatrical projects at HERE, La Mama and Altered Stages in New York. He has been commissioned to write original screenplays Michigan Takedown (for Robert Cort) and Taylor Made (for Mickey Liddell). He has been a staff writer and producer for 20th Century Fox Television's Desire and Watch Over Me, which aired full seasons on MyNetworkTV in 2006. He moved to Los Angeles after being a resident of Brooklyn, NY for ten years. He is originally from Brewster, Massachusetts.

Julie Tosh holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University where her thesis play Skirt won the Mary Marlin Fisher Playwriting Award. She is a two-time recipient of the Shubert Foundation Fellowship, an ANA Alliance Scholar, and a finalist for the Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Award for Program Rose, her screenplay on robotics, which was also awarded the 2012 Djerassi Residency Award/San Francisco Film Society Screenwriting Fellowship. Her feminist manifesto Lifeboat won first runner-up in the One Minute Play Contest hosted by The Playwrights' Center/Ameriprise Financial Ivey Awards and was aired on NPR. Tosh has been a fellow at Sewanee Writers' Conference and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and she was a Core Apprentice at The Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis. She is published by Samuel French. Tosh lives in Southern California and makes her living writing film adaptations for published books. For the latest see www.julietosh.com.

Lolly Ward's recent play Mate: the Untouchable Bobby Fischer was developed at the Actors' Gang theater in Los Angeles. As a member of The Actors' Gang since 2000, Lolly has collaborated with George Bigot, Simon Abkarian, and Tracy Young, among others, and won an LA Weekly Award for The Seagull. After opening Tim Robbins' Embedded in Los Angeles, she toured with it to London and New York, where Robbins also directed a film of the play at the Public Theater. She won Stanford Magazine's 2008 fiction contest with her short story, "How to Change Someone's Life, Not Your Own." She has a Bachelor's and Master's in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University, where she studied with John L'Heureux. More at www.lollyward.com.

Jennie Webb is an independent Los Angeles playwright whose plays, including Yard Sale Signs, Remodeling Plans, The Complete Story of the War, Men & Boxes, Tilting, Buying a House and Unclaimed Assets, have been presented on stages and in/at/around alternative venues throughout the U.S. and internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her works have been published by Heinemann Press and International Centre for Women Playwrights, and supported by the now defunct A.S.K. Theater Projects, The Playwrights Center in Minneapolis' PlayLabs, the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights and The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga, California, where she is currently playwright-in-residence and runs "Botanicum Seedlings: A Development Series for Playwrights." She is a resident playwright at LA-based Rogue Machine Theatre (where Yard Sale Signs premiered), co-founder and an instigator of the LA Female Playwrights Initiative (LA FPI), and a member of the EST-LA Playwrights Unit. She also works as a freelance arts writer, and was chosen to receive a 2010 Women in Theatre Red Carpet Award. More at www.jenniewebbsite.com.

Wendy Weiner's play about Hillary Clinton, Hillary: A Modern Greek Tragedy with a (Somewhat) Happy Ending received its New York premiere in 2008, produced by the Obie-winning theater company New Georges. Previously, Hillary had a workshop at New York's Public Theater and a staged reading in Los Angeles. Great Highway, a play she wrote with Octavio Solis, was a finalist for the O'Neill Theater Conference and received its premiere at the ArtAttack Theater in Ashland, Oregon. Major Label, her play about a female punk rocker, has had readings at Ensemble Studio Theater and NYU's Hot Ink Festival. Wendy's four solo pieces: Give Me Shelter, Searching for the '60s, Defying Freud and Elements of Style (all directed by Julie Kramer), have been presented at many venues in New York and San Francisco, including HERE's American Living Room Festival, the New York Fringe Festival and PSNBC. Her plays have been published by Dramatists Play Service and Smith & Kraus, and her writing has appeared in magazines such as American Theatre, Bitch: A Feminist Response to Pop Culture, and Theatre Bay Area. Wendy received her MFA in dramatic writing from NYU in 2007. She is currently working on a new play, writing a TV movie about teen girls for the Disney Channel and Alloy Entertainment (the producers of TV's Gossip Girl and Vampire Diaries), and developing a new romantic-comedy webseries with Alloy Entertainment.

Steve Yockey is a roaming member of Atlanta-based Out of Hand Theater. His projects with the company include HELP! and Cartoon. In 2008, Octopus opened at Actor's Express and then in an extended run in San Francisco, co-produced by Encore and Magic Theatre. He has been a regular fixture at Dad's Garage including the short play cycle Sleepy and the adults-only Skin - both commissioned & directed by Kate Warner. Dad's Garage and Berkeley's Impact Theatre produced Large Animal Games in late 2009 and this season Impact rolls out the dark comedy Disassembly directed by Desdemona Chiang. Large Animal Games, Octopus, Cartoon and subculture (short plays) are available from Samuel French. Steve is currently developing The Thrush & The Woodpecker with South Coast Rep and afterlife - a ghost story that will receive a National New Play Network rolling world premier across the season at Southern Rep, New Rep and Edgemar. Other plays include: Wonder, Heavier than... and Phaedra. Steve holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (2008). He is a recipient of a Coca-Cola Artist Residency to teach dramatic structure at Emory University. After completing a yearlong NNPN playwriting residency at Marin Theatre Company, Steve now lives/works in Los Angeles, CA.