workshop intensive FALL 2020
The Workshop Intensive is a weekly writer’s group that runs for 8 weeks, with a group of writers, and two facilitators/dramaturges. Writers submit an unproduced play, along with a statement of rewrite goals, and are then selected by the artistic staff. The script can be a first draft, or only partially finished, or something that has been worked on many times. We are agnostic as to form and content.
Marissa Joyce Stamps
(she/her) is a Haitian-American NYC-based actor, writer, and director whose mission is to celebrate and amplify Black and Brown voices through an Afrosurrealist lens. She was a playwright in the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals 2020 and is a writer for Our Digital Stories. She is a company member of The Anthropologists. Marissa has performed at and worked with The National Black Theatre, Ars Nova, The Fire This Time Festival, New Ohio Theatre, Playwrights Downtown, The Wild Project, BUFU, and more. | BFA in Drama + BA in Journalism: NYU | marissajoycestamps.com
ASHLEY LAUREN ROGERS
An award-winning writer, and trans rights activist. Literary Director for Step1 Theatre Project, Trans Theatre Lab fellow 2019, artist in residence at Middlesex County Vocational-Technical School 2018-2019. Works performed at Dixon Place, MITF, the Brick, Joe’s Pub. “Becky’s Christmas Wish,” Finalist for the City Theatre National Short Play Award, Miami, work produced in Wisconsin, Cincinnati, Maine, Iowa, New Jersey, Detroit, and Minneapolis. Creator The Is It Transphobic and The Right to Play Podcasts.
Audrey Lang
(she/her/hers) is a lesbian Jewish playwright born and raised in New York City. Her play You Have To Promise was featured in the 2020 Pride Plays and was a finalist for American Stage's 21st Century Voices New Play Festival. Audrey is a member of Ring of Keys and the Dramatists Guild as well as an alumna of the MCC Theater Youth Company Playwriting Lab and SPACE on Ryder Farm. B.A. Theatre Studies, Ithaca College. www.audreyglang.com
Jessica Durdock Moreno
is currently an MFA candidate in the Department of Dramatic Writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her first play “To Richard!” premiered at the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival, where it won the Encore Producers Award and was nominated for the Inkwell Theater Playwright’s Promise Award. She began her writing training at Los Angeles City College, where she won the 2019 Cinema and Television Department’s Best Screenplay Award for her television pilot “Filly.” She was selected as a finalist for the Theater Masters Take Ten 2020 Festival, and as a semi-finalist for the Athena Project’s 2020 Plays in Progress Series. She graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology (focus on North American Settler Colonialism).
Diana Burbano
is a Colombian immigrant, an Equity actor, a playwright and a teaching artist at South Coast Repertory and Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble. She was part of Center Theatre Group’s Writers Workshop for 2018-2019. Her play, Ghosts of Bogotá was commissioned by Alter Theater and premiered in the Bay Area February 2020.
Diana’s plays focus on female protagonists and social issues. Dianaburbano.com
Isabella Waldron
(she/her/hers) is a US/UK based actor and playwright. Her work centers around intergenerational stories and ferocious women. In quarantine times, Isabella's writing might have been seen in Our Digital Stories (SF Chronicle Critic's Choice) and as a finalist in Mixily Presents The Classics: Reimagined. She recently wrote a musical in one night alongside the 24 Hour Plays 2020 Nationals Cohort. Other plays include Jawbone, Things I Never Told the Stars, and Gentle, Angry Women. Isabella is a proud alum of the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and of Scripps College.
Jerrica D. White
is a Brooklyn based artist committed to telling stories that uplift the black narrative and explore freedom. In 2019, she was on the producing team of the Broadway revival of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Before COVID, her play Rape Game was scheduled to be featured at Dixon Place and part of New York Theatre Festival’s Summerfest in July 2020. www.ovrzlous.com.
Liz Amberly
has been published by Samuel French and Smith & Kraus and has had plays presented in NY at New World Stages, Workshop Theater, Algonquin Theater, The Barrow Group, True North Theater, Neighborhood Playhouse and American Globe Theatre among others, as well as regionally and in London. She was a semi-finalist in the Eugene O’Neill National Playwright Conference in 2019. She is an actress and screenwriter and also writes reading tips for Dolly Parton Imagination Library (published by Penguin Random House).
Aaron Coleman
is a New York City-based playwright and lyricist originally from Los Angeles. His play Uncle Remus, His Life and Times, as Told to Aaron Coleman was part of Primary Stages’ 2019 Drills reading series. Works include the Off-Broadway musical IMELDA written with East West Players (Pan Asian Rep, David Henry Hwang Theatre), and co-book writer for STAY FOREVER: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF DUSTY SPRINGFIELD (Renberg Theatre), produced at New World Stages as FOREVER DUSTY. Aaron has recently been a Finalist for NYTW’s 2050 Fellowship, the DGF Fellowship, and Playwrights’ Week at The Lark. He has an MFA in Writing from the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Emma Mueller
(she/her) is an actress, writer, and teaching artist in NYC. Emma has produced and starred in several of her own works with New York Theatre Festival, Uproar Theatre Corps and Stonestreet Studios. Emma writes stories about girl-to-womanhood and love in all forms. She is also a massive Shakespeare nerd. Emma holds a BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch with a minor in Applied Theatre.
Danté Jeanfelix
(He/Him) is a NY based playwright, performer and frequent connoisseur of Black Boy Joy. As a Puerto Rican, Haitian and Queer Black Boy, hailing originally from the ever so lively state of CT, his work focuses on the meaning of the word, duality. His play, Golden Boy Rises, has been workshopped at The Barn Arts Collective in Maine and in readings at The Atlantic Theater Company. Outside of playwriting, Danté regularly performs off-Broadway and regionally, where he has been featured in The New York Times and BroadwayWorld. Danté is excited to be making his playwriting debut with The Workshop Theater.
Jess Honovich
is a playwright, screenwriter and educator from Southern New Jersey. Her work has been produced and workshopped by Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dezart Performs, Longwood University, New York University, the New York Transit Museum, Project Y, and the Pittsburgh Opera. She is a LABA Artist Fellow Alum, a Jeffrey Melnick New Playwright Award Nominee, an O'Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist and Semi-Finalist, a Heideman Award finalist, a Bay Area Playwrights Festival semi-finalist, a Premiere Play Festival semifinalist, a 24 Plays: Nationals alum, a recipient of the Mary Marlin Fisher Award for Excellence in Playwriting, and a Theatre Masters winner. She holds a B.S. from New York University in Educational Theatre and a minor in Dramatic Literature and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University.