Nathan Alan Davis’ plays include The Refuge Plays (Upcoming at McCarter Theatre), Nat Turner in Jerusalem (New York Theatre Workshop), Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea (NNPN Rolling World Premiere), and The Wind and the Breeze (Cygnet Theatre). His plays have been commissioned and developed by The Public Theater, NYTW, McCarter Theatre, Arena Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Audible, Indiana Rep, The Lark, New Harmony, and Sundance. Awards and honors include a Whiting Award in Drama, the Stavis Playwright Award, a Steinberg/ATCA New Play Citation, a 2050 Fellowship, a Rita Goldberg Fellowship, the Blue Ink Award, and the Lorraine Hansberry Award. Nathan is a graduate of Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. He received his MFA from Indiana University and his BFA from the University of Illinois. He is a Lecturer in Theater and Berlind Playwright in Residence at Princeton University.

Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation) is an award winning writer and 2020-2025 MacArthur Fellow. Her satirical comedy, The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons/Geffen Playhouse), was one of the top ten most produced plays in America last season. She is the first Native American playwright in the history of American theater on that list. Additional produced plays include What Would Crazy Horse Do? (KCRep), Landless and Cow Pie Bingo (AlterTheater), Average Family (Children’s Theater Company of Minneapolis), Teaching Disco Squaredancing to Our Elders: a Class Presentation (Native Voices at the Autry), Vanishing Point (Eagle Project), and Cherokee Family Reunion (Mountainside Theater). In 2019 Larissa entered film and television by co-creating a series at Freeform. Since then she has set up a movie for Disney Channel and a series for NBC. She is currently in development as the creator for projects with Taylor Made Productions, Echo Lake, and other projects. Film and TV feel like coming home to Larissa who began her writer training as a Sundance Native Feature Fellow, Fox Diversity Fellow, ABC Native American Fellow, and an intern at Universal Pictures before she found her voice in theater. Over the past several years Larissa has created a nationally recognized trilogy of community engaged plays with Cornerstone Theater Company. The first was Urban Rez in Los Angeles. The second project, Native Nation, was the largest Indigenous theater production in the history of American theater with over 400 Native artists involved in the productions in association with ASU Gammage. Their current project, The L/D/Nakota Project is set in Larissa’s homelands of South Dakota. Her radical inclusion process with Indigenous tribes has been honored with the most prestigious national arts funding from Creative Capital, MAP Fund, NEFA, First People’s Fund, the NEA Our Town Grant, Mellon Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and others. Additional theaters that have commissioned or developed plays with Larissa include The Public Theater, Yale Rep, Guthrie Theater, Geffen Playhouse, History Theater, Kennedy Center TYA, Baltimore Center Stage, Arizona Theater Company, Mixed Blood, Perseverance Theater Company, The Lark Playwrights Week, the Center Theatre Group Writer’s Workshop, and Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor. Larissa’s additional awards include the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award for an American Playwright, NEA Distinguished New Play Development Grant, Joe Dowling Annaghmakerrig Fellowship, AATE Distinguished Play Award, Inge Residency, Sundance/Ford Foundation Fellowship, Aurand Harris Fellowship, and the UCLA Native American Program Woman of the Year. Larissa’s company, Indigenous Direction, is a consulting company currently working with Guthrie Theater, Roundabout Theater Company, Macy’s, and Brown University. She is vice chair of the board of directors of Theater Communications Group and represented by Jonathan Mills at Paradigm NY. She lives in Santa Monica with her husband, the sculptor Edd Hogan. www.hoganhorsestudio.com

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Zora Howard is a Harlem-bred writer and performer. Plays include STEW (2020 Drama League nominee for Outstanding Play, Page 73 Productions), AtGN, BUST, HANG TIME, and GOOD FAITH. Her work has been developed with SPACE at Ryder Farm, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Cape Cod Theatre Project, and Pipeline Theatre Company, among others. In 2020, her feature film Premature (2020 Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award nominee), which she co-wrote and starred in, opened in theaters following its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. She is the 2020-2021 Van Lier New Voices Fellow at the Lark. BA: Yale University; MFA: University of California, San Diego.

Sylvia Khoury is a New York-born writer of French and Lebanese descent. Her plays include Selling Kabul (Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theater Festival), Power Strip (LCT3), and Against the Hillside (Ensemble Studio Theater). She is currently under commission from Lincoln Center, Williamstown Theater Festival, and Seattle Rep. Awards include the L. Arnold Weissberger Award and Jay Harris Commission and a Citation of Excellence from the Laurents/Hatcher Awards. She is a member of EST/Youngblood and a previous member of the 2018-2019 Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop at The Lark and the 2016-2018 WP Lab. Her plays have been developed at Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theater Festival, Eugene O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference, Roundabout Theater Underground, Lark Playwrights’ Week, EST/Youngblood, and WP Theater. She holds a B.A. from Columbia University, an M.F.A. from the New School for Drama, and an M.D. from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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Mary Kathryn Nagle is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She is also a partner at Pipestem Law, P.C., where she works to protect tribal sovereignty and the inherent right of Indian Nations to protect their women and children from domestic violence and sexual assault. From 2015 to 2019, she served as the first Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program. Nagle is an alum of the 2013 Public Theater Emerging Writers Group. Plays include Miss Lead (Amerinda, 59E59), Fairly Traceable (Native Voices at the Autry), Sovereignty (Arena Stage), Return to Niobrara (Rose Theater), and Crossing Mnisose (Portland Center Stage), Sovereignty (Marin Theatre Company), and Manahatta (Yale Repertory Theatre; Oregon Shakespeare Festival). She has received commissions from Arena Stage, the Rose Theater (Omaha, Nebraska), Portland Center Stage, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Yale Repertory Theatre, Round House Theater, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

AMY FREED'S plays include Freedomland, for which she was nominated for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize; The Beard of Avon; The Psychic Life of Savages; Claustrophilia; The Ghoul of Amherst; Still Warm; Safe in Hell; Restoration Comedy; You, Nero; and Hell to Pay. Her work has been produced at American Conservatory Theater, California Shakespeare Theater, South Coast Repertory, New York Theatre Workshop, Seattle Repertory, Goodman Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Woolly Mammoth, and Yale Repertory Theatre, among others. She has been the recipient of the Joseph Kesselring Prize, the Charles MacArthur Award, and has won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award numerous times. Aurora Theatre Company commissioned a new play from Freed for the company's first Global Age Project new works festival. She currently teaches acting and playwriting at Stanford University.

Julia Izumi’s work has been developed and presented at MTC, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Bushwick Starr, WP Theater, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Seattle Rep, The COOP, NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights' Workshop, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Williamstown Theatre Festival, CAATA’s National Asian-American Theatre ConFest, and Pork Filled Productions. Honors for her work include the OPC Dr. Kerry English Award, O’Neill’s NPC Finalist, Kilroys List Honorable Mention, and KCACTF’s Darrell Ayers Playwriting Award. She is a current New Dramatists Resident. Current commissions: True Love Productions, MTC/Sloan, Playwrights Horizons. MFA: Brown University www.juliaizumi.com 

Benjamin Benne (he/him) is an itinerant playwright from Los Angeles County, whose playwriting career began right here in Seattle (where he resided from 2013-16)! Locally, his work has been developed and produced by Parley, Freehold Theatre, Umbrella Project, Playing In Progress' Snowglobed, Forward Flux, Annex Theatre, Theatre Battery, ACT Theatre, and Seattle Rep, among others. Most recently, his play Alma (Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre, American Blues Theater, Curious Theatre Company, Central Square Theater, The Spot; Upcoming: Chance Theater) was produced in ArtsWest's 2021/22 season. Other plays include What / Washed Ashore / Astray (Pillsbury House Theatre), In His Hands (Mosaic Theater; Upcoming: First Floor), and Manning (Upcoming: Portland Stage). His work has been seen and developed coast to coast in Los Angeles (Boston Court Pasadena), Orange County (South Coast Repertory), San Diego (The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse), Texas (Texas Tech), Denver (Denver Center for the Performing Arts), Minneapolis (Playwrights' Center), Indiana (New Harmony Project), New Jersey (Two River Theater), Connecticut (The O'Neill), and NYC (The Public Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Playwrights Realm, The Lark), among many others. He is a current member of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages NYC, a Playwrights' Center Core Writer, and was named part of "LA Vanguardia: The Latino innovators, investigators, and power players breaking through barriers” by the Los Angeles Times. M.F.A.: Playwriting, David Geffen/Yale School of Drama '22. benjaminbenne.com