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Paul Bright founded the Gaslight Theater in Lockhart, TX to bring serious plays to his rural community. He transitioned to film work, and wrote/directed/produced five feature films that are in international distribution. He now lives in New York City, but will return to Austin in August to shoot his sixth feature film.

David Copelin is a playwright, dramaturg, and translator. His dark comedy Bella Donna won Best Play at the Toronto Fringe Festival in 2005, and has been produced several times since. His period farce The Angel Capone just had its premiere in Toronto. David’s version of Jarry’s Ubu Roi was done at the Yale Repertory Theatre, and is produced frequently on college campuses. David has been a dramaturg for the Mark Taper Forum, Arena Stage, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and ArtSpark. He has taught theatre at NYU, the University of California at Davis, UT Austin, and St. Edward’s University. David is currently Treasurer of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. He lives and writes in Ashland, Oregon.

Adrienne Dawes is a playwright from Austin, Texas currently living in Chicago, IL where she completed the Core Writing Program  at Second City. Adrienne collaborated with American Theater Company for two educational outreach projects, wrote sketches for The Playground Theater’s first Sketch Lab as well as Fighting Neverland, a sketch revue produced for Second City’s Donny’s Skybox Theater. Her first musical Never Have I Ever premiered in Second City’s de Maat Studio Theatre in October 2010.  Adrienne is currently directing/producing a new improvised paranormal comedy web series titled web series “Completely Normal Activity” (developed with Private Portions) slated for release June 14th 2011 and finally finishing her play Am I White. She blogs at http://adriennebcdawes.wordpress.com

Linda Ayres Frederick, Phoenix Theatre’s Artistic Director www.phoenixtheatresf.org since 1985, has enjoyed a diverse career as an actor, producer, director, critic and playwright in Bay Area Theatres with additional performances in NYC, Edinburgh, France and National Theatre Conferences. A member of AEA, AFTRA,  the SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle (writing for SF BayTimes), and the Dramatists Guild, Linda is twice a Shubert Playwriting Fellow with numerous productions and publications in Bay Area Festivals including Best of SF Fringe 2010 Award. Next up: SF Fringe 2011 at the EXIT Theatre in September.

Michael John Garcés is a playwright, performer and director based in Los Angeles, where he is the Artistic Director of Cornerstone Theater Company.

Lynne Kaufman has had twenty plays produced at such theaters as The Magic Theatre, Theatreworks and Marin Theatre Company in California, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Abingdon Theatre (NYC), the Fountain Theatre (LA), Florida Studio Theatre and The Echo Theatre (Dallas). She is the recipient of an NEA/Kennedy Center Grant for New American Plays, the Glickman Award for Best New Play in San Francisco, TheatreWorks Award for Best New Play in California, the William Inge Festival Award, the Writers’ Digest Award, the Audrey Skirball-Kennis Award and Dramalog Awards. Lynne’s plays have been published by Dramatists Play Service and Dramatic Publishing.  Daisy in the Dreamtime was selected as one of the best plays of the year by drama publisher Smith and Krause.  She is the author of three published novels and many short stories.

Jacqueline E. Lawton completed her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin in May of 2003. Since then, she has worked diligently to remain actively involved in theatre as an actress, dramaturg, playwright and teaching artist. Currently, she resides in Washington, DC.

Kendall Marie Lynch is a writer who followed her heart to California, though she left parts of it in Texas and Tennessee.  She received her Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting in 2006 from the University of Texas at Austin, and her plays have been produced across the country.  In 2007 her play, Aisle 7, was chosen as runner-up for the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, an annual award recognizing plays and performance texts created by women that present a feminist perspective and contain significant opportunities for female performers.  Her first screenplay, Forward/Backward, has won festival awards at home and abroad (AZ, France) and will continue to run the festival circuit.  She has several screenplays, plays and web projects currently in the works.  Lynch is also an actor who loves the stage, the camera and doing funny voices.  She is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work focuses on family, sex, America, food and more.

Marisela Treviño Orta received an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. Her plays have been read at the 2005 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), 2006 [Inside] the Ford Summer Reading Series, 2007 Primer Pasos: Un Festival De Latino Plays, 2007 BAPF, Marin Theatre’s 2007 Nu Werkz, and 2008 In The Rough. Her first play Braided Sorrow won the 2006 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize in Drama, received its world premiere in 2008 at Su Teatro in Denver, CO. and won the 2009 Pen Center USA Literary Award in Drama. Marisela is a member of the 2010-2011 Playground writers pool and recently concluded a three year residency at the Playwrights Foundation in San Francisco, CA.

Jennifer Pasion is a Dallas actress, painter, singer, and undercover introvert. She loves witnessing the development of new works, and some of her very favorite (recent) jobs have been staged readings of new scripts. In recent months she has had the opportunity to meet, observe, and work with several local playwrights, and she is delighted by the depth of talent possessed by her friends and colleagues. She also loves storytelling, spoken word performances, and fried chicken.

Katie Pearl is co-artistic director of PearlDamour, a collaborative alternative performance-making team with Lisa D’Amour.  She also develops new work and directs plays with collaborators for theaters around the country. She is occasionally based in Austin.  www.pearldamour.com.

Molly Rice is a playwright/composer whose work has been developed and produced in NYC (Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Rattlestick, Women’s Project, ART, NYTW, HERE, Tisch Graduate Acting Program) and nationally (ART, Trinity Rep, McCarter Theater, Salvage Vanguard,
Strand Theater, Vortex, Montana Rep). Heinemann Press, Clarkson Potter, the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Press, Salvage Vanguard Press, Perishable Press, Austin Script Works Press, Head’s Tart, Kenyon Review, Austin Chronicle and DEVICE.com have published her work. Current projects: Canary, a musical developed by Rattlestick Theater and Playwrights Horizons with director Rachel
Chavkin and musician Ray Rizzo; The Agee/ Walker Project, with Chavkin
and composer Stephanie Johnstone; the book for Futurity with the band The Lisps (premiering at American Repertory Theater in 2012) and The Saints Tour, a site-specific play
featuring local musicians and community service organizations, slated for
production in 2012 by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Molly received her
MFA in Playwriting from Brown University, under the instruction of Paula Vogel.
She teaches Advanced Playwriting at Marymount Manhattan College and Site-Specific Theater at Brown.

Leticia Rodriguez has written, directed and produced several successful local theater works, and was Founder and Director of performance company, Performance Encounters. She is an entertainer in dance, theater and music, and currently performs classic Latin boleros, mambos, cha-cha and sones in central Texas.  http://leticiarodriguezperforms.com/

Caridad Svich is a US Latina playwright, translator, lyricist and editor whose works have been presented across the US and abroad at diverse venues including Denver Center Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Women’s Project, Repertorio Espanol, INTAR, 59East59, McCarren Park Pool, 7 Stages, three times at Salvage Vanguard Theatre in Austin/TX, Teatro Mori (Santiago, Chile), ARTheater (Cologne), and Edinburgh Fringe Festival/UK. She has been short-listed for the PEN Award in Drama three times, including in the year 2010 for her play Instructions for Breathing. Among her key works: 12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs), Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man’s Blues, Any Place But Here, Iphigenia…a rave fable, Fugitive Pieces, The House of the Spirits (based on Isabel Allende’s novel), In the Time of the Butterflies (based on the novel by Julia Alvarez), Magnificent Waste, Thrush, The Tropic of X and the multimedia collaboration The Booth Variations. She was profiled in American Theatre magazine. She has edited several books on theatre and performance including Trans-Global Readings and Theatre in Crisis?(both for Manchester University Press) and Divine Fire (BackStage Books). She has translated nearly all of Federico Garcia Lorca’s plays and some of his poems, and works by Julio Cortazar, Lope de Vega, Calderon de la Barca, Antonio Buero Vallejo and contemporary plays from Mexico, Cuba and Catalonia. Her works are published by TCG, Smith & Kraus, Playscripts, Arte Publico Press and more. She is alumna playwright of New Dramatists, founder of NoPassport theatre alliance & press, associate editor of Routledge/UK’s Contemporary Theatre Review, contributing editor of TheatreForum, and Drama Editor for Asymptote international translation magazine. She’s been a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow at Harvard University, NEA/TCG Playwright in Residence at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre, TCG/PEW Playwright in Residence at INTAR. She is a member of PEN American Center, The Dramatists Guild and is an entry in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino History. She trained for four years with Maria Irene Fornes, and also holds an MFA in Theatre-Playwriting from UCSD. Website: www.caridadsvich.com

John Walch’s plays have been commissioned, produced, or developed at The Center Theatre, The Public, Manhattan Theatre Club, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Theatre Royal Haymarket in London, Playwrights Theatre, Kitchen Dog, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Urban Stages. Awards: Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays; ATC’s Osborn Award; the Charlotte Woolard Award recognizing a promising new voice, and three Austin Critic’s Table Awards. John is the former Artistic Director of ScriptWorks. He now lives in Brooklyn, NY where he is a third-year resident playwright of New Dramatists. He was the 2010 playwright in residence at Alabama Shakespeare Festival.