WINTER MILLER (p#2)
Ms. Miller's plays include: IN DARFUR, the recipient of The Guthrie Theater and Playwrights' Center's Two-Headed Challenge 2006 commission under the mentorship of New York Times journalist and Pulitzer winner Nicholas Kristof and developed at the Guthrie Theater, the Playwrights Center Playlabs, Geva Theater's Hibernatus Interruptus and The Public Theater's New Works Now. The play was in performance as a workshop production at the Public April 13th-29th, 2007 for a sold out run and filled to capacity a reading at the 1800 seat Delacorte Theater on July 9th, 2007. Simultaneously, on July 9th, the Donmar Warehouse held a reading of the play. The play was read at London's Tricycle Theater on Dec. 2nd for a Day for Darfur. 2008 holds a production at Atlanta's Horizon Theater and benefit readings in LA, CO, MA and Canada. THE PENETRATION PLAY (produced by 13P); CONSPICUOUS (Commissioned and produced by Keen Company); CAKE AND ICE CREAM; GREETINGS FROM VIETNAM, WISH YOU WERE HERE; and a series of short plays. She is developing the musical SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH AMANDINE (Electric Pear, 2007, Theatreworks, 2006). Ms. Miller's work has been developed and/or produced by: The Public Theater, The Guthrie, The Donmar Warehouse, 13Playwrights, The Tricycle Theater, The New Group, Rattlestick, Playwrights Center, Geva, Theatreworks, Synapse, New Georges, The Hourglass Group, Dixon Place, HERE, DR2 and 52nd Street Project. THE PENETRATION PLAY is published by Playscripts, Inc. and excerpted in Smith & Kraus' "Best Stage Scenes 2005," and "Best Monologues 2005." Her monologue, "MOTHER TO SON" is published in Eve Ensler's anthology "A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer," (Random House 2007) and the anthology "The Best Women's Monologues of the Millennium (Applause 2008)." CONSPICUOUS is published by Playscripts and excerpted in "Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens" (2008). Ms. Miller recently returned from war-torn northern Uganda, where she wrote two short plays in conjunction with youth in refugee camps (commissioned and supported by Voices of Uganda) Her monologue "LIFELINES" is currently being performed at events by Allison Janney and was performed for a sold out crowd at the Waldorf by Liv Ullman. She is a reporter with Variety and has written for the New York Times. A graduate of Smith College, she holds an MFA from Columbia University and is a member of the Obie-winning 13Playwrights (13P).
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SARAH RUHL (p#10)
Ms. Ruhl's plays include The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize Finalist, 2005; The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2004); Passion Play, a cycle (The Fourth Freedom Forum Playwriting Award from The Kennedy Center, a Helen Hayes Awards nomination for Best New Play); Dead Man's Cell Phone; Melancholy Play; Eurydice; Orlando; and Late: a cowboy song. Her plays have been produced at Lincoln Center Theater, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, South Coast Rep., Yale Rep., Berkeley Rep., The Wilma Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Madison Rep. and the Piven Theatre, among others. Her plays have also been produced in London, Germany, Australia, Canada and Israel, and have been translated into Polish, Russian, Spanish, Norwegian, Korean and German. Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received her M.F.A. from Brown University where she studied with Paula Vogel. In 2003, she was the recipient of the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award and the Whiting Writers' Award. She is a member of 13P and New Dramatists and recently won the MacArthur Fellowship.
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KATHERINE RYAN (p#5)
Ms. Ryan is a New York-based playwright. Her work has been produced or developed by theatre companies including 13P, Annex Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, The Flea Theater, The Ontological Theater, Soho Rep, Target Margin, Vineyard Theatre and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Plays include DOT, MAGGIE COME DOWN, MARK SMITH, DESIGN YOUR KITCHEN, SPRINKER, THE KITCHEN STAFF, and an adaptation of Sophocles' WOMEN OF TRACHIS. In addition, she is a member of The Flea Theater's 'Pataphysics playwriting workshops committee, a former curator of Little Theatre at Tonic (OBIE grant, 2005) and a former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. She holds an MFA from Mac Wellman's program at Brooklyn College.
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LUCY THURBER (p#8)
Ms. Thurber is the author of seven plays: Where We're Born, Ashville, Scarcity, Killers and Other Family, Stay, Bottom of The World and Monstrosity. Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has produced three of her plays, Where We're Born, Killers and Other Family and Stay. The Atlantic Theater Company opened it's 2007/08 season with Scarcity. Bottom of The World was commissioned and workshopped by WET (Women's Expressive Theater, Inc.) at the Eugene O'Neill, the first Tribeca Theater Festival and The Public Theater. Monstrosity was workshopped at Encore Theatre Company (San Francisco). She was the recipient of the 2000-01 Manhattan Theatre Club Playwriting Fellowship and has been a guest artists at Alaska's Perseverance Theatre twice, where she helped to adapt both Desire Under The Elms and Moby Dick. She has had reading and workshops at Manhattan Theatre Club, The New Group, Primary Stages, MCC Theater, Encore Theatre Company, PlayPenn, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New River Dramatists and Soho Rep. She was one of three playwrights in residence at The Orchard Project, summer 2007. Her 10-minute play Dinner is published in Not So Sweet, a collection of plays from Soho Rep's 10 minute play festival. Scarcity was published in the December 2007 issue of American Theatre. Her produced plays are published by Dramatists Play Service. Thurber is a member of New Dramatists, 13P, MCC Playwrights Coalition and Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages. She is currently writing a new play under commission from Playwrights Horizons.
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ANNE WASHBURN (p#1)
Ms. Washburn's 13P Play, THE INTERNATIONALIST, has also been produced by NYC's Vineyard Theater, DC's Studio Theatre, London's Gate Theatre, and was workshopped by Hungary's Kretakor Szinhaz. Other plays include: APPARITION (Chashama, and The Connolly), THE LADIES (Cherry Lane, The Civilians, Dixon Place) I HAVE LOVED STRANGERS (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks), THE COMMUNIST DRACULA PAGEANT (Soho Rep Summer Camp, Defunkt Theater), and a translation of Euripides ORESTES. Her work has been published in American Theater, and in the collections New Downtown Now, New York Theater Review, and Plays For 4,5,6 Actors. She has been commissioned by The Civilians, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Yale Rep. Awards include a Bug & Bub, NYU's Goldberg Award, and MacDowell Fellowships, She is an associated artist with The Civilians, New Georges, and New Dramatists.
GARY WINTER (p#4)
Mr Winter's plays include At Said (PS 122-13P production #4); Golem and Dead Reckoning (Cherry Lane Alternative); Execution of a Reindeer and The Impotent General (Brick Theater); Ominous Bastard of Czsherpishnek (HERE); The Lake and Aeneas (The Flea); Jigsaw Nation (South Coast Rep and 2005 New York Fringe Festival, with Relentless Theatre Co.). Centrifugal Force was presented as part of Geva Theater's 2004 Hibernatus Interruptus Festival of New Plays and received a reading at Playwrights Horizons. Centrifugal Force was also a runner up for the 2002 Princess Grace Awards. At Said received a workshop in March 2005 at the Long Wharf Theatre. His play Cooler was workshopped at NYU in fall 2006 as part of their First Look @ New Plays series. Recipient of The Goldberg Award, Lark Theater Fellow, Dramatists Guild Fellow, Dasha-Epstein Fellow, and support from MacDowell Colony. Awarded a Spielberg Foundation Righteous Persons Fellowship to study Eastern European Jewry in Krakow. Gary occasionally reviews books, plays and art for the Brooklyn Rail and volunteers as Literary Manager of the Flea Theater in New York. He is a member of OBIE award winner 13P-13 playwrights who self-produce. MFA-NYU.
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Ms. Callaghan's plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwright's Horizons, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The LARK, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, and Moving Arts, among others. Sheila is the recipient of a 2000 Princess Grace Award for emerging artists, a 2001 LA Weekly Award for Best One-act, a 2001-02 Jerome Fellowship from the Playwright's Center in Minneapolis, a 2002 Chesley Prize for Lesbian Playwriting, a 2003 Mac Dowell Residency, a 2004 NYFA grant, a 2005 Cherry Lane Mentorship Fellow, a 2007 NYSCA grant, the 2007 Susan Smith Blackburn Award, and the prestigious 2007 Whiting Award. Her plays have been produced internationally in New Zealand, Norway, Germany, and the Czech Republic. She has been commissioned by Playwright's Horizons, South Coast Repertory, and EST/Sloan. Her full-length plays include SCAB, CRAWL FADE TO WHITE, CRUMBLE (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), WE ARE NOT THESE HANDS, DEAD CITY, LASCIVIOUS SOMETHING, KATE CRACKERNUTS, THAT PRETTY PRETTY; OR, THE RAPE PLAY, and FEVER/DREAM. Several of her plays are published by Playscripts.com and Samuel French, and her monologues can be found in various anthologies. She has taught playwriting at The University of Rochester, The College of New Jersey, and Florida State University, and she is currently on the faculty at Spalding University's MFA program in creative writing. Sheila is a member of the Obie winning playwright's organization 13P and resident of New Dramatists. Visit her at 
Ms. Courtney's plays have been produced or developed by Clubbed Thumb (ALICE THE MAGNET, DEMON BABY, PRICKED, SUMMER PLAY, DOWNWINDERS). The Public Theater and Birmingham Repertory (DEMON BABY), The Vineyard (ALICE THE MAGNET), The Flea (MOTHER'S COUCH), The Actors Theater of Louisville (OWLS), Her play QUIVER AND TWITCH was developed in the Soho Rep writers/directors lab, had a workshop at New York Stage Film and is currently being developed at the Vineyard Theater. Her latest play BLACK CAT LOST is a commission from Soho Rep. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell colony, a recipient of a NYSCA grant and a MAP Fund grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Her play OWLS is published by Smith and Kraus in Humana Festival 2001: The Complete Plays and DEMON BABY is published in two anthologies New Downtown Now and Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays from Clubbed Thumb. As an undergraduate, Ms. Courtney studied with Paula Vogel at Brown University and as a graduate student she studied with Mac Wellman at Brooklyn College. She currently teaches playwriting at Brooklyn College and is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb. She is also a member of 13P, as well as the co-founder of the Brooklyn Writer's Space and Room 58.
Ms. George's plays have been developed or staged at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, New York Theatre Workshop, The Playwrights' Center, Rude Mechanicals, Playwrights Horizons, and the Public Theater, among other places. She collaborated with LightBox on the multimedia play MILK-N-HONEY, which ran at 3LD in the fall of 2007. Support includes a MacDowell Fellowship, the Princess Grace Playwriting Award, a Manhattan Theatre Club Playwriting Fellowship, and the Jane Chambers Award. Madeleine is a member of the 2007-2008 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and she holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU. During the day she is the director of the Bard College satellite campus at Bayview Women's Correctional Facility in Manhattan.
Mr Handel received a 2007 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights. His play MILLICENT SCOWLWORTHY was developed at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference and produced in New York at the 2006 Summer Play Festival (SPF), for which he was awarded a residency and staged reading at the Donmar Warehouse in London. APHRODISIAC was developed at the Public Theater "New Work Now" Festival and produced in New York by 13P. APHRODISIAC was subsequently produced by Long Wharf Theater (New Haven), Theater Ninjas (Cleveland), and Curious Theatre Company (Denver). Staged readings include Soho Rep and the Royal Court Theatre. He has taught playwriting at The New School and Purchase College. His most recent play, THE KNIGHTS (AFTER ARISTOPHANES), was produced by Target Margin Theater in October 2007.
Ms. Healy's play HAVE YOU SEEN STEVE STEVEN was developed at the Sundance Theater Lab this past summer. It was subsequently produced by 13P, the Obie-award winning playwright collective (directed by Anne Kauffman). It will be produced by Red Eye Theater in Minneapolis in April '08. Her play THE NIGHT THAT ROGER WENT TO VISIT THE PARENTS OF HIS OLD HIGH SCHOOL GIRLFRIEND premiered in the 2006 EST Marathon of One-Acts plays (directed by Andrew McCarthy). NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL A STORM was the recipient of a workshop fellowship with MCC Theater (directed by Jo Bonney), and produced by Edge Theater Company, directed by Carolyn Cantor and featuring Marylouise Burke. DEAREST EUGENIA HAGGIS was developed at LAByrinth Theater's 2004 summer intensive and The Cape Cod Theater Project and published in the anthology: Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays by Clubbed Thumb. Her writing is published through Samuel French, Smith & Kraus, Playscripts and The Kenyon Review. She is an affiliated artist with the Obie-Award winning theater company Clubbed Thumb; a member of MCC's Playwrights Coalition; a member of 13P, a former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and a writing fellow at New River Dramatists. Ann Marie was awarded a 2006/07 Sloan Commission and a 2006 NYSCA commissioning grant. She was recently awarded a commission by Greasy Joan Theatre for their Contemporary Classics Series. She is currently studying with Paula Vogel and Bonnie Metzgar in the Playwriting MFA at Brown University.
Ms. Jarcho is a playwright, director, and performer. Her productions include TAKE ME AWAY (Il faut bržler pour briller festival, Paris, 2007), A SMALL HOLE (Performance Lab 115, FringeNYC, 2006), All I Do Is Dream Of You (Sophiensaele and English Theatre Berlin, 2006), Delmar (Berlin, 2005), THE HIGHWAYMAN (NTUSA performance space, Brooklyn, 2004), and NURSERY (Young Playwrights Festival, Cherry Lane Theater, New York, 2001). She was a writer-in-residence at the 2002 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference and won a Berrilla Kerr award the same year. She is board member of Young Playwrights Inc., a participant in Just Theater's New Play Lab, and a Resident Writer at the Playwrights Foundation in San Francisco.
Ms. Lee has directed her plays at the Public Theater (CHURCH), P.S. 122 (CHURCH; Pullman, WA), HERE Arts Center (Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven), Soho Rep (The Appeal), and the Ontological-Hysteric Theater (Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals). She has worked with Radiohole and the National Theater of the United States of America. She is a member of New Dramatists and 13P, a resident artist at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), and has an MFA from Mac Wellman's playwriting program at Brooklyn College. Her plays have been published in New Downtown Now, an anthology edited by Mac Wellman and herself, and in Three Plays by Young Jean Lee (Samuel French). Her play Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven was published in the September 2007 issue of American Theatre, and in will be published in a collection of all of her plays to be published by Theatre Communications Group in spring 2008. She is the recipient of grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Rockefeller MAP Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Her work has been invited to tour to venues in Vienna, Hannover, Berlin, Zurich, Brussels, Bergen, Oslo, Trondheim, Rotterdam, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, Columbus, Pittsburgh, and Minneapolis. She will direct her new play The Shipment at The Kitchen from January 8-24, 2009 and an adaptation of King Lear at Soho Rep in January 2010. She is the artistic director of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company (