A theater maker and cultural worker, Riti Sachdeva has been creating art in some form for over 25 years. Incorporating text, installation, and dance into her writing and performance, she straddles the conventions of U.S. theater, performance art, and international approaches to theater.

An alum of the The Public’s Emerging Writers Group and the Women’s Project, her plays have been developed by The Civilians, NNPN, U of Hawai’i, Working Theater, PWC, Centerstage, and Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. Sachdeva received the Kennedy Center’s Quest for Peace award for Parts of Parts & Stitches, a TCG travel grant to begin adapting Other Farmers’ Fields to the kathakali dance theatre form and a listing on the Kilroy’s List for The Rug Dealer. Acting highlights: National Hispanic Cultural Center, PopUp Theatrics, Honest Accomplice Theater, HBO, Disney, lotsa cool indie films, and Planet Connections Festival Outstanding One Act award for her solo show Scene/Unseen.

Eric Micha Holmes is a playwright whose work has been seen and developed at The New Black Fest, MCC Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, and The Lark among others. Residences, retreats, and fellowships include I Am Soul Playwrights Residency at NBT, Space At Ryder Farm, The Lark / NY Stage & Film Exchange, and LaGuardia Performing Arts Playwriting Lab. His mono-play, “Walking Next To Michael Brown: Confessions Of A Tragic Mulatto,” toured with Barrymore  Nominated “Hands Up: 7 Playwrights / 7 Testaments” to theaters including The National Black Theatre, The Brooklyn Museum Of Art, The Red Door Theatre, Crowded Fire Theatre, The Museum Of The Moving Image, The Hansberry Project, and Flashpoint Theatre. A radio adaptation was presented on Afternoon Drama on BBC Radio 4, winning the Sarah Lawrence Audio Fiction Award and The New York Festivals Award. MFA: The University of Iowa.

Morgan Gould is a writer/ director who has previously held staff positions at Playscripts, Inc., Lark Play Development Center, Cape Cod Theatre Project, and Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company. Morgan is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, a member at Ensemble Studio Theatre (where she recently directed Leah Nanako Winkler’s KENTUCKY in a 2016 co-production with P73), a New Georges affiliated artist, an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, the SDCF Observership Program, the Target Margin Theater’s Institute for Collaborative Theater Making, The Civilians R + D Group, the BAX AIR program, and the Playwrights Horizons Directing Residency Program. In 2012, Morgan started her own theater company, Morgan Gould & Friends, with 8 actors, 3 designers and a filmmaker. Their inaugural film project THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN WEBSERIES is coming soon. Morgan was the winner of the 2016 Beatrice Terry/ Drama League Residency Award for her play I WANNA FUCKING TEAR YOU APART, which had its world premiere at Studio Theatre in Washington, DC in February 2017, with Morgan directing. B.A. in Directing, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, M.F.A. in Playwriting, Brooklyn College. Morgan attends the playwriting program at Juilliard. She is currently at work on her new play about 5 white women in middle America on November 9, 2016 called ALL THE STUPID BITCHES. www.morgangouldandfriends.com

Deborah Yarchun is a NYC-based playwright. Her plays have been developed at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Great Plains Theatre Conference, Jewish Plays Project, Jewish Ensemble Theatre, The New Harmony Project. Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Red Eye Theatre, TheatreSquared, Williams Street Rep, and Workhouse Theater Company, and produced at Fusion Theatre, EstroGenius Festival, the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival, Playwrights Horizon’s Peter Jay Sharp Theatre by Young Playwrights Inc., and at theaters and universities across the United States and Canada. Deborah’s honors include two Jerome Fellowships at The Playwrights’ Center, an EST/Sloan Commission, The Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, the Kernodle New Play Award, the Richard Maibaum Playwriting Award, and the Iowa Art Fellowship. Her play Great White was an Honorable Mention for the 2016 Relentless Award. Deborah is the Fall 2017 Playwright-in-Residence at the William Inge Center for the Arts. M.F.A., University of Iowa.

Keelay Gipson is a multi-disciplinary artist including work as an activist, teaching artist, and award-winning playwright. He is the recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship (2016-2018) at New Dramatists and recently finished work as a Public Artist in Residence for the City of New York’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Administration of Children’s Services working with LGBTQ foster youth. His work has been seen/developed at the Wild Project, Poetic Theater Productions, HERE Arts Center, The Theater at Alvin Ailey, Pace University, Planet Connections Theater Festival, The University of Houston, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, The National Black Theater, Rattlestick Playwrights’ Theater, Amoralists Theater Company, Classical Theater of Harlem, New York Theatre Workshop and Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is a member of P73’s Interstate 73 Writer’s Group. His play UNTITLED RADIO PLAY was recently published in the anthology The Best American Short Plays 2015-2016, by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books | Hal-Leonard Books.