Agyeiwaa Asante (she/her) is a Ghanaian-American playwright and administrator from Maryland. Some of her full-length plays include, DAINTY (BOLD NYC’s 2020 Festival, Mosaic Theatre, Playwrights Realms Scratchpad series), AGAPE; or The Church Play (Cygnet’s Finish Line Commision, Round House’s Capital New Play Festival, Boston Court Pasadena’s Playwrights Group) and The Half-Sibling Play (Fire This Time Festival). She holds commissions for UMD’s NextNow Festival, Single Carrot Theatre and Round House Theatre. She is the 2020 recipient of The Bret Adams and Paul Reisch Foundation’s Ollie Award and a member of The Kilroys Web 2023 and The Playwrights Cohort at PlayPenn, Class of 2024-25. B.A. in Theatre from the University of Maryland, College Park. MFA in Playwriting at UC San Diego.

Nicholas Pilapil (he/him) is a Filipino American playwright. His plays include God Will Do The Rest (world premiere with Artists at Play & Latino Theater Company), The Bottoming Process (world premiere with IAMA Theatre Company, Victory Gardens Ignition Festival of New Plays), and if all that You take from this is courage, then I’ve no regrets (winner of the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival). His work has also been developed with Geffen Playhouse, Playwrights Foundation, Abingdon Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA, Theatre Rhinoceros, and The Workshop Theater, among others. His plays and essays are published by Samuel French, Smith and Kraus, Astringent Press, 1319 Press, and Kuwento Co. Nicholas is an alum of The Writers’ Room at the Geffen Playhouse, IAMA Theatre Company’s Emerging Playwrights Lab, and artEquity.

Chelsea Sutton (she/her) is a writer and theatre maker of what she likes to call gothic whimsy. She’s a PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, a Humanitas PlayLA award-winner, a 2015 O’Neill Conference Finalist, a 2018 Sewanee Writers Conference Playwright Fellow, and a graduate of the 2022 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop. The second production of her macabre steampunk adaptation of Pinocchio, Wood Boy Dog Fish (created with Rogue Artists Ensemble) was nominated for five Ovation Awards and five Stage Raw Awards and appeared in the inaugural season at the Garry Marshall Theatre. Her play The Abundance, written in Moving Arts’ 2023 MADlab, was a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Conference and was recently developed at the 2024 Valdez Theatre Conference Play Lab and the 2024 Kayenta New Works Lab. Kaidan Project: Walls Grow Thin, a piece she co-wrote with Lisa Sanaye Dring, was nominated for 8 Ovation Awards including Best Production (winner of 5). She co-wrote the Emmy-nominated 2020 Welcome to the Blumhouse Live, an interactive film event for Blumhouse/Amazon and The Alienist: Angel of Darkness, an award-winning virtual event for TNT + Little Cinema Digital. Also a fiction writer, her first flash fiction chapbook Only Animals is now available through Wrong Publishing, and her debut novella is forthcoming in 2026 from Split/Lip Press. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside. chelseasutton.com