Elizabeth Bosjza, graduated from Stony Brook University's MFA dramaturgy program in 2004, and has
stayed on at Stony Brook as an adjunct faculty member. She teaches play analysis, American Theatre, and
Prevention Through the Arts as well as other courses. Ms. Bojsza received the Stony Brook University's
John Gassner Award for Dramaturgy in 2004. On days she is not teaching, Ms. Bojsza is fulfilling her
responsibilities as Literary Manager of Young Playwrights Inc, a non-profit theatre company founded by
Stephen Sondheim and dedicated to fostering the development of playwrights 18 years of age and younger.
She also works professionally as a dramaturg and director of community performance projects.
Linsey Bostwick, is a freelance video designer, production manager and educator. She
has worked internationally with performance company Big Art Group
(
www.bigartgroup.com) since 2002. She has also toured
with Cynthia Hopkins (
www.accinosco.com) and choreographer
Susan Marshall (
http://susanmarshallandcompany.org)
among others. She has been a guest lecturer at NYU Playwrights Horizons school, adjunct professor at Brooklyn
College, director at Vassar's Powerhouse theatre program, and teaching artist with many theatre company in
New York. Bostwick recently premiered her theatre/dance piece, Times Two, at the Mabou Mines space in New York.
She has collaborated on video design with Aaron Rhyne on the premiere of "Bonnie and Clyde" at La Jolla Playhouse
and "Jerry Springer the Opera" at Carnegie Hall among other projects. She is the resident video artist with
Lynn Thomson's America- in-Play. Bostwick holds an MFA from Brooklyn College in Performance and Interactive
Media Arts.
Kevin Cummines, a native of South Jersey, holds bachelor's degrees in Music Composition, Voice, and Ethnomusicology
from Indiana University, a Master of Arts from Rutgers - Camden, and an M.F.A. in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU
Tisch School of the Arts. He serves Saint Peter's College as Performing Arts Coordinator, and is Artistic Director
of the Roy Irving Theatre, Director of the McMullen Chorale, and Adjunct Lecturer for Fine Arts. Awards include the
ASCAP Max Dreyfus Award for Young Composers, and "Thesis with Distinction" from Rutgers for his research on sexual
self-destruction among gay men. Cummines' current research focuses on developing hip-hop based curricula on the college
level. He is a working musical theatre writer and performer, and is most recently celebrating the premier of his
"Symphony No. 1: The Peacock," performed by the Hudson Symphony Orchestra in October 2008. Cummines lives in Jersey City.
Laura Eason is the author of more than fifteen plays, both original work and adaptations. She is an Affiliated
Artist and Kitchen Cabinet member of New Georges, a playwright member of the Women’s Project Lab, and an Ensemble
Member and the former Artistic Director of Lookingglass Theatre Company, Chicago. Her plays have been produced in
New York by 59E59, Vital Theatre, The Thursday Problem/Working Man's Clothes, and Andhow Theater, and regionally
by Steppenwolf (three productions), Lookingglass (four productions), Two River, Walkabout, and Touchstone Theatres,
among others. Her plays have been developed in New York at MCC, New York Theatre Workshop, and New Georges, and are
published by Broadway Play Publishing where she was named playwright of the year in 2007. Eason is a graduate of the
Performance Studies Department of Northwestern University. Originally from Chicago, she now lives in Brooklyn, NY.
www.lauraeason.com.
Adam Gwon is a composer and lyricist recently named one of "50 to Watch" by
The Dramatist magazine. His
musicals include
Ordinary Days, Bernice Bobs Her Hair (w/ librettist Julia Jordan),
Ethan Frome (w/
bookwriter Michael Ruby), and
Lulu. His work has been seen at Primary Stages, the York Theatre, NYMF, NAMT,
New Dramatists, American Music Theatre Project, the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop, and many others. Gwon was
a 2006-07 musical theater fellow at the Dramatists Guild, and is a graduate of NYU/Tisch. He’s currently at work on
commissions from the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA and Broadway Across America.
www.adamgwon.com.
Rob Hartmann is a composer, lyricist, and bookwriter; he has been a member of the faculty of New York
University's Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program since 1999. His work has been produced across the country,
including in New York (Carnegie Hall), Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Seattle, and Nashville. Hartmann has
written over a dozen articles on theater for the
Encyclopedia Americana, including the revision and
expansion of Ethan Mordden's article on musical theater history. He has lectured on musical theater history at
Lincoln Center, and has also written a number of study guides for Broadway productions, including
Wicked,
Titanic,
1776,
Kiss Me Kate,
Amadeus,
Aida,
Jane Eyre,
42nd Street,
Copenhagen,
Into the Woods, and
Hairspray. Currently he is at work on the score of a new musical
about the Galveston hurricane of 1900, which will premiere at American Stage in Florida in the fall of 2009.
Laura Henry's plays have been produced or workshopped at theatres across the country that include the Hangar
Theatre, Cleveland Public Theatre, Centenary Stage Company, Echo Theatre, and OpenStage Theatre & Co. Laura has
received fellowships from Cornerstone Theater Company, the Edward Albee Foundation, and the Dramatists Guild. She
is a graduate of the MFA playwriting program at the University of California, San Diego, and is currently a teaching
artist for Theatre for a New Audience and Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey.
Leeanne Hutchinson, has been an actress with AIP from close to its beginnings in 2005, after Lynn Thomson
"discovered" her playing Euridice at the HERE Arts Center in AIP-Alum Stephanie Fleischmann and Kristin Marting's
musical adaptation of Orpheus. LeeAnne just wrapped her own short film as well as the independent feature One
Fall opposite Dominic Fumusa and Jim McCaffrey. She is also developing the role of Young Clarissa in Septimus
and Clarissa, Ellen McLaughlin's new stage adaptation of the Virginia Wolff novel "Mrs. Dalloway," at Classic
Stage Company, NYC. Favorite stage experiences include Blanche/A Streetcar Named Desire (WV Public Theater),
Helena/A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hamptons Shakespeare Festival), Mary Brenham/Our Country's Good (The Culture
Project), Bertha Dorset/Innocents (Ohio Theater, NYC), Alice/Vinegar Tom (Chelsea Rep), Rosalind/As You Like
It (Red Barn Theater, MA), Viola/Twelfth Night (Chelsea Rep) and RubyMae in T.Cat Ford's Pow'r in the Blood.
LeeAnne hails from Athens, GA, got her BA in Theater from Smith College, serves on the Board of Voice & Vision
Theater, and is a grateful member of both Actors Equity and The Actors Center Workshop Company, which is her
creative home.
David Johnston's plays have been performed and read at the New Group, Moving Arts, Rude Guerrilla, the
Neighborhood Playhouse, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre. Previous NYC productions
include
Busted Jesus Comix, an adaptation of
The Oresteia;
The Standards of Decency Project;
Happy Endings;
George Dubya and the Xmas of Evil (all with Blue Coyote Theater Group); and
Candy
& Dorothy, directed by Kevin Newbury. Member: Dramatists Guild, Blue Coyote Theater Group, Actors Equity, and
Charles Maryan's Playwrights/Directors Workshop. Playwriting awards include the Playwright Residency at the University
of Cincinnati, and awards from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation, the Berrilla Kerr
Foundation, Theater Oxford Ten-Minute Play Contest, and GLAAD. Publications:
The Eumenides, (Playing With
Canons, published by New York Theatre Experience, Inc.),
Leaving Tangier (Samuel French), and
A Funeral
Home in Brooklyn (Smith & Kraus.)
Andrea Lepcio's
Looking For the Pony will be presented in a "Rolling World Premiere" at Vital Theatre
Company in New York City and Synchronicity Performance Group in Atlanta in 2009.
One Nation Under was presented
by Three Chicks Theatre in August of 2008. Additional 2008 New York productions include
Dyke Patrol at New
Perspectives Theatre and
Tumble Jumble at Estrogenius. Lepcio holds an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie
Mellon University where she is a visiting faculty member. She is also Program Director of the Dramatists Guild
Fellows.
Kate McLeod's plays have been seen at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Looking Glass, and The Flea, as well as in
regional and New York festivals such as Midtown, Noor, Northern Writes, and Actors' Ensemble. Her plays have been
produced in London and Alaska. She has received playwriting residencies at Jentel Artists Residency Program and
Ledig House, and she is a member of America-in-Play. McLeod is a playwright, journalist, and author. Dramatists
Guild; MFA, Catholic University.
Kimberly del Busto Ramirez teaches composition, literature, and drama at LaGuardia Community College City
University of New York. Her plays have been presented at Breath of Fire Latino Theatre Ensemble (First Prize Winner,
New Works Festival), Repertorio Español (current finalist, Met Life Nuestras Voces National Playwriting Competition),
Kennedy Center, Teatro del Pueblo, WOW Cafe Theatre, Primary Stages Studios, Arthur Saleen Theatre, Southeastern
Theatre Conference, 21st Century Playwrights Festival, Hippodrome State Theatre, Latin American Theatre Today Festival,
and Great Plains Theatre Conference Featured Play Lab. Her work is published in
Theatre Journal,
Studies in 20th &
21st Century Literature, and
Collages & Bricolages. Kimberly holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from University of Georgia,
is completing a Ph.D. in Theatre at Graduate Center-CUNY, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild, International Centre
for Women Playwrights, and serves as co-founding Artistic Director of Dos Alas Theatre
(
www.dosalas.org).She is the wife of Nuyorican playwright Jason
Ramirez.
Molly B. Rice has been a finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights' Festival ('07), New Dramatists ('06, '07), the
Heidemann Award ('03, '07), the O'Neill (finalist '06, semifinalist '07), and the Princess Grace Award, and a
three-time semifinalist for PlayLabs. Publications: Heinemann Press, LMDA's
Review. Residencies: Voice &
Vision, Hangar Theater. Awards: Weston Award for Playwriting (Brown); nominee, Outstanding Original Short Play,
New York IT Awards; winner, Women's International Playwriting Festival. Memberships: Women's Project Lab,
Playwrights' Center. MFA: Brown University. Teaching: Brown, University of Rhode Island. Molly is currently Visiting
Assistant Professor of Playwriting at Kenyon College, taking the place of Wendy MacLeod for the year.
Sarah Stern, is the Associate Artistic Director of the Vineyard Theatre, an off-Broadway theatre company
dedicated to the development and production of new plays and musicals. She has directed, dramaturged, or
devised new work with New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, Voice and Vision, Exiles Theatre in Northern Ireland,
Summerscape/Bard College, Atlantic Theatre Company New Works, chashama, Cherry Lane, Cornell University, HB
Playwrights, NY Fringe Festival, and more. She is delighted to be part of America-in-Play, and to have an
outlet for her interest in American cultural history.
DeLora Whitney is the recipient of a commission from Mad River Theater Works; the resulting play,
The Lay of
the Land, is touring historic Ohio barns in Fall 2008. Her play
Adam & Evey was performed for FutureFest
2008 at Dayton Playhouse.
The Visit was a finalist in the 2008 33rd Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short
Play Festival; and
The Never Simple Truth was a semi-finalist for the 2008 O’Neill festival.
Malhado: The
Storm of a Century, conceived and developed with Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Actor/Director Lab, was produced at
the Strand Theatre in Galveston, TX. Whitney has served as the Readings and Workshops Coordinator for New York Stage
& Film and the Associate Program Director for the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology
Project. She received her M.F.A. in Playwriting from the New School and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.
