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".

Rachel Axler's plays include Smudge, which premiered at Women's Project in 2010, and Archaeology, which premiered at The Kitchen Theatre in 2009. Her work has been developed through the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, The Lark Play Development Center, Manhattan Theatre Club and The Playwrights Foundation, and published by Samuel French, The New York Times, and other, less reputable places. Rachel has held fellowships at The Dramatists Guild and The Lark, and is working on commissioned plays for South Coast Repertory and Lincoln Center Theater. Also a television writer, Rachel has written for Parks and Recreation on NBC, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central, for which she received two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program. Rachel received her BA from Williams College and her MFA in Playwriting from UCSD. Member: Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild of America.

Emilie Beck is a playwright and director. Her play Sovereign Body was one of six finalists for National New Play Network’s Smith Prize, as well as a finalist for the Ashland New Plays Festival. Sovereign Body was presented as a reading at the Road Theatre’s Summer Playwrights Festival in July. It will also be given a reading at Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey in their Forum Series in December, 2011. Her play Number of People premiered at the Piven Theatre in Chicago. The play was developed at Hartford Stage and Pasadena Playhouse with Edward Asner, and performed in a reading at the Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, with Len Cariou. Emilie was nominated for Garland Awards as Playwright and Director for And Let the Skies Fall at the El Portal Theatre. Her directing work has won Joseph Jefferson and LA Weekly Awards, and garnered Ovation and Garland nominations. As a performer, she has collaborated with Mary Zimmerman, Veronique Guillaud, Maurice Guillaud, and others, performing in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Paris, and she spent six months in Amsterdam in the improv/sketch hit, Boom Chicago. Emilie lives in Los Angeles and is Co-Literary Manager at The Theatre @ Boston Court. She was Associate Manager of Center Theatre Group until 2009, and continued to produce the Sherwood Award Program through 2010.

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.

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, A.S.K. Theatre Projects, The Met Theater, The Echo Theater Co., Sacred Fools Theater Co., Theater of Note, Cypress College and Ensemble Studio Theatre LA. His full-length plays include Tym & Brizz, 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! and Puzzler, which he will direct in its world premiere at Sacred Fools Theater in January 2011. He is a proud member of the Playwright’s Union, the Echo Theater Company and The Sacred Fools Theater Company, serving as the Managing Director of the latter.

Julia Edwards’ play Family Planning won the 2009 Los Angeles Ovation Award for BEST PRODUCTION (in intimate theatre). The production was produced site-specifically by Chalk Repertory Company. The Rats Are Getting Bigger received a reading in The Public’s New Work Now festival and was produced in the NYC Fringe Festival. She was commissioned by South Coast Repertory to write Lockdown for their Teen Players Troupe and the play was subsequently produced there. Her ten-minute play The Charade of the Zombies was a finalist for the Heidegger Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Ellie’s Third Eye and the Death of Dreams was a recent finalist at The O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Conference, and a semi-finalist at Playlabs. She has worked with LAByrinth Theatre Company (NYC), Salvage Vanguard Theatre (Austin), Printer’s Devil (Seattle), Collaboration (Chicago), Echo Theatre Company (LA), and LSU (Shreveport), among others. Julia studied Semiotics at Brown University and received an MFA in playwriting from UC-San Diego. She now lives in Pasadena, CA with her husband and two children. For more information about her plays, screenplays, and children’s books, please visit www.JuliaEdwards.com.

Ellen Fairey's play Graceland premiered at Chicago's Profiles Theatre in 2009 and the following year was produced by Lincoln Center’s LCT3. Graceland is featured in Smith & Kraus' Best New Plays of 2010 and received a 2010 Jeff Award for Outstanding New Work. Fairey’s Girl, 20 was named one of the Top Ten Plays of 2006 by the Chicago Tribune and nominated for two LA Weekly awards in 2007. Her plays Tuning in El Paso and Chill is Good were both award winners at Chicago's Collaboraction Sketchbook Festival '00 and '06. Other works have been read as part of Chicago Dramatists Saturday Series and her short play Aloha From Palm Springs was part of Edward Albee's Last Frontier Theatre Conference in 2004. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fairey is currently a staff writer on Showtime's "Nurse Jackie". Member: Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild of America.

Dorothy Fortenberry is a playwright and graduate of the Yale School of Drama. Her plays include Good Egg, Caitlin and the Swan, Bibles and Candy, and the play with music Large as Life and Twice as Natural. Her work has been developed at Arena Stage, Ars Nova, Geva Theatre, Perishable Theatre, Studio 42, and The Tank, and produced by The Management, Journeyman Productions, and Vital Theatre Company. She is the winner of the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama, and has been nominated for the PONY Fellowship, the Weissberger Award and the Wasserstein Prize. Her play Good Egg won the Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Prize, and was a Finalist for the Princess Grace Award; Good Egg will be produced this October by Red Fern Theatre in New York City. She has received an EST/Sloan commission, and was an artist in residence at the Djerassi Program this spring. This summer, she will be a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Dorothy is a proud alumna of Youngblood and a member of the Playwrights Union in Los Angeles. More info and the occasional soulful photograph at www.dorothyfortenberry.com

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

Gina Gold's plays include the one-act comedy How’s The Pressure? produced at the Friars Club of Beverly Hills; and Lemel and Tzipa, an adaptation of an Isaac Bashevis Singer story staged by The Jewish Theatre of the Berkshires. She is currently writing a full-length comedy, Floating. Gina is also a television writer, who, with writing partner Aurorae Khoo (Playwrights Union member), is on the staff of the new Fox comedy Running Wilde starring Will Arnett and Keri Russell. Gina and Aurorae were 2009 winners of the Writers Guild of America West TV Diversity Writers Competition. Additionally, Gina has written for the NBC sitcoms Coupling and The Fighting Fitzgeralds starring Brian Dennehy, and has authored numerous children’s books for Sesame Street, Baby Looney Tunes and other well-known franchises. She is an award-winning print journalist and humor essayist whose work has been featured on NPR, in The Washington Post, and First Magazine for Women.

Paul Grellong's plays include Dog Park, Warfare, and Power of Sail, all of which were first workshopped at the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep in Providence; Manuscript, which was produced at the Daryl Roth Theatre in New York City in 2005; and Radio Free Emerson (Winner: 2008 Elliot Norton Award from the Boston Theater Critics Association for Outstanding New Script), which was commissioned and produced by Rhode Island's Gamm Theatre. The Gamm has commissioned a new play, which he is co-writing with Artistic Director and playwright Tony Estrella. Paul was a member of Los Angeles' Taper / Center Theatre Group's Writer's Workshop for 2007-2008. His plays have been read and workshopped at Cape Cod Theatre Project, MTC, MCC, Trinity Repertory Company, Echo Theatre Company, and the Black Dahlia Theatre. Television credits include: NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (Nominee: 2008 Edgar Award, Best Television Episode Teleplay for his episode "Streetwise"). He graduated from Brown University.

Jennifer Haley's plays include Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Breadcrumbs, Froggy and The Nether.  Her work has been produced and developed by the Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival of New American Plays, Sundance Theatre Institute, the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Summer Play Festival, Page 73 and Naked Angels in New York City, Sacred Fools Theater Company in Los Angeles, PlayPenn in Philadelphia, and Refraction Arts in Austin, among other venues around the country. She has been published by Samuel French and Playscripts, Inc.  Ms. Haley holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University, where she was awarded the Joelson Prize in Creative Writing and the Weston Award for Drama.  She was a 2008 resident of the MacDowell Colony and Millay Colony for the Arts, and won a 2009 Francesca Primus Prize Citation from the American Theatre Critics Association. You can find out more about her at 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 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). His playwriting process book, You Already Know, is available through Writ Large Press. In 2010, Aaron continued his collaboration with LACDC with the presentation of a new piece commissioned by The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. His most recent work, collision/theory's Blood Red Lost Head Dead Falcon: The Nibelungen, a multimedia adaptation of a 12th Century Epic Poem, was a partner in the LA Opera's Ring Festival LA. 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, Writing Pad and runs the writer's studio, Wordstrut. 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.

SJ Hodges (formerly Susan Johnston) is a seven-time published playwright who completed her MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she received the Harry Kondoleon Playwriting Award. She's received a MacDowell Colony residency, Jerome Fellowship and was a Fulbright nominee. She's received an NEA grant, a MN State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant, a WV State Arts Grant and The Pilgrim Project Grant. She won the 30th Annual LA Weekly Annual Theatre Award for Playwriting for How Cissy Grew, published by Dramatic Publishing in July 2009. Cissy also received readings at FestivALL 2009 in WV and at The New Group in NY. SJ has also worked as a reporter for Interview magazine and as a writer for A&E's Biography series. Her first ghostwritten novel, Party Favors was purchased by Entendre Films with Susan attached as scribe. Her most recent ghostwritten novel, A Long Way Home, was purchased by Barricade Books and will be out in 2011. Her upcoming play, The Accident: An International Ghost Story, is being shot and pitched as a documentary series by the Indian company, 108 Production.

Rolin Jones' play The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. It received the 2006 Obie Award for Excellence in Playwriting. Productions of Jenny Chow include: South Coast Repertory, Old Globe Theatre, Yale Repertory, Studio Theatre (DC), Atlantic Theater Company (NYC), Portland Center Stage, San Jose Repertory, among others. His full-length play, The Jammer, received a Fringe First Award for Best New Writing at 2004's Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was also produced at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival. He has written several short plays for the Actor's Theater of Louisville's Humana Festival, including Sovereignty, Ron Robby Had Too Big A Heart, The Mercury and the Magic, Extremely, and Chronicles Simpkins Will Cur Your Ass. All of these were recently produced together under the title “Shortstack” at Wellfleet Harbor Actor’s Theatre. For the last four years, a writer/producer for Showtime's award-winning series, Weeds. He is currently in development with Showtime on an original pilot, Frontman. 6’2. 203 pounds, fighting the battle of the fat in Echo Park, California.

Lila Rose Kaplan is from New York, but she lives in California with a wonderful gentleman and two crazy cats. Her plays include We All Fall Down, 123, 100 Planes, Wildflower, Bureau of Missing Persons, Tink, Catching Flight, and Biography of a Constellation. Lila Rose’s plays have been seen at Second Stage, Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse/UCSD, Perishable Theatre, Mixed Blood, New Dramatists, PlayPenn, and The Lark among others. Lila Rose is a nominee for the Wendy Wasserstein Prize and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award. She is the recipient of The Kennedy Center’s National Science Award in Playwriting, The Shank Playwriting Fellowship, an EST/Sloan Fellowship, and the I.J. Kapstein Award in Playwriting. Lila Rose is a graduate of Brown University and she received her MFA in Playwriting from UCSD. Dramatists Play Service will publish Lila Rose’s Wildflower in the fall of 2010. Upcoming projects include a collaboration with Chalk Rep in Los Angeles, a workshop of 100 Planes at the Lark in NYC, and a commission from UCSB’s Launchpad. Lila Rose belongs to the Dramatists Guild of America and The Playwrights Center. She is a proud founding member of The Playwrights Union in Los Angeles. www.lilarose.org.

Lisa Kenner is an LA-based playwright and producer. In July 2010, Lisa was a Guest Artist at The Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive in Washington, D.C. Her play Chambers received a public reading at The Playwrights Union 2010 New Works Festival. Chambers will be produced by the Mad Scene Theatre Company in 2011, where she is the Playwright in Residence. Lisa's play Shelter was in consideration for the 2009 PlayPenn Conference. Her work has been presented at The Road Theatre, The Robey Theatre, Theatre of NOTE, and The Victory. Lisa's short play A Terminal Affair has been produced in several 10-minute play festivals in Southern California. As a producer, Lisa has worked on numerous award-winning shows. Most recently, she produced Theatre of NOTE's best-of-the-fest programming as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. In addition to being a proud member of The Playwrights Union, Lisa is a member of The Robey Theatre Playwrights Lab and Theatre of NOTE. A graduate of Wesleyan University and native of Boston, Lisa lives in Eagle Rock with her husband, actor Chet Grissom.

Aurorae Khoo is originally from Sacramento, California.  She currently teaches screenwriting at USC and last year was a visiting professor for NYU’s Graduate Film Program in Singapore.  She has a Gerbode Foundation Commission for a new play premiering in San Francisco summer 2009 and a commission from South Coast Repertory for another new play.  She developed an original pilot in Fox’s Diversity Program and has written produced episodes of JAG and Walker, Texas Ranger.   Aurorae’s plays have produced and developed around the country.

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 and will have a reading at the Lark Play Development Center in November 2011. Another workshop of his play Curse of the Asian Child will happen through NYU's Grad Collective's annual Fall Fest later this year. His plays have been developed and produced in both New York and Los Angeles. Eric has also developed TV pilots at various production companies. 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.

Winter Miller’s play In Darfur premiered in 2007 at The Public Theater, followed by a standing room only performance at the 1800-seat Delacorte theater, the first play by a woman performed there. In Darfur won the 2006 Guthrie Theater and Playwrights’ Center’s Two-Headed Challenge. Her comedy, The Penetration Play, was produced by 13Playwrights. She is developing the musical Something’s Wrong With Amandine as well as a commission about women who go to war. The group Voices of Uganda commissioned her to accompany them to war-torn Northern Uganda to write short plays with and for former child soldiers. Winter’s plays have been performed across the United States, and in London, Uganda and Canada. Her plays are published by Playscripts, some are anthologized. Known to commit acts of journalism, Winter has written for the New York Times and was columnist Nicholas Kristof’s researcher. She started out as an NBC Page. She holds a BA from Smith College and an MFA in playwriting from Columbia. Winter is a member of the Obie-winning collective 13Playwrights. www.wintermiller.com

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.

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.

Marco Ramirez has had work produced at The Kennedy Center, The Juilliard School, Actor's Express, The Arsht Center, and Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival (where he's twice received The Heideman Award). Other honors include a Helen Hayes Nomination, The Bryan Award for Drama from The Fellowship of Southern Writers, TCG's Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, and The Le Comte Du Nouy Prize from Lincoln Center. He trained at both NYU and The Juilliard School, and is currently a writer on staff for FX's Sons of Anarchy.

Janine Salinas moved to the United States at the age of eight from Lima, Peru and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her MFA from the University of Southern California’s Dramatic Writing Program in 2007. Her plays include Soledad, Pendejos, Las Mujeres Del Mar, Angel of the Desert and The Anatomy of Gazelles. Pendejos was nominated for the Princess Grace Award in 2006. Her screenplay, Tercio De Muerte, was awarded a Quarter Finalist position for the 2007 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting through the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Las Mujeres Del Mar was nominated for the Wendy Wasserstein Prize through the Dramatists Guild of America and was a Finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival in 2009. Angel of the Desert was the winner of the Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble’s 2009 New Works Festival as well as a part of East LA Rep’s on the pulse play reading series in September 2009. Her newest play, The Anatomy of Gazelles, was developed as part of the 2009-2010 Center Theatre Group Writers' Workshop. Ms. Salinas was recently named a 2010 MacDowell Fellow.

Steve Serpas' newest play, The Last Look Back, was presented in The Playwrights Union’s 2010 New Works Festival in May. His plays include Xenogenesis, Garland Award for Best Play from Backstage West, produced by Eclectic Theatre Company, Sweet Colinda, winner of the Native Visions/Native Voices Award at LSU and Dogtown, Jeff Award-winning production by Eclipse Theatre. Other produced works include Green Air, Harvestide and Waning Crescent Moon. He has worked with About Productions, American Blues, The Blank, CAP 21, Eclipse Theatre/Chilany Pictures, Ensemble Studio Theatre LA, Prop Theatre, Strawdog, Victory Gardens, Young Playwrights, Inc and Point Zero Pictures, which just produced his short film, La La Loco Baby. He is a resident playwright alum of Chicago Dramatists and a member of The Dramatists Guild. His short play, Myra's Big Plan, is part of the Road Theatre’s 2010 Summer Play Festival.

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's plays and screenplays include SKIRT (Mary Marlin Fisher Playwriting Award, Second Place David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award, Finalist for Trustus Theatre Playwrights’ Festival), REFUGE (adapted from the young adult novel by Jacqueline Kolosov), and PROGRAM ROSE (finalist for the Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Award). She is a two-time recipient of a Shubert Foundation Fellowship, a Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellow, a Walter E. Dakin Playwriting Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and an ANA Alliance Scholar. Currently a Core Apprentice for The Playwrights’ Center, her work has been produced or developed at KCACTF, Bricolage Theatre Company, Theatre Inspirato, and Carnegie Mellon University and has aired on WQED in Pittsburgh and National Public Radio. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Education from University of Pittsburgh. For the latest, please 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 member of the LA-based Rogue Machine Theatre, where Yard Sale Signs is premiering, and co-founder and an instigator of the LA Female Playwrights Initiative (LA FPI). 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.