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Robert P. Arthur
Robert P. Arthur is a multi-award winning playwright, poet, and novelist whose plays and poems have been presented internationally. MORE

Valetta Anderson
Multi-Award-winning playwright, including the AT&T:Onstage Award. Previously Resident Teaching Artist at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre Institute for Educators and Teaching Artists. MORE

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Jack J. Berry
He got started writing plays relatively late in life when he was IN community plays but saw so many other plays that, in his mind, did not do any of those three things. He is the author of eight published plays…MORE

Roy C. Booth
He is a published author, poet, journalist and internationally awarded playwright with 57 stage plays published (Samuel French, Heuer, et al) with 825+ productions worldwide in 30 countries. MORE

Ludmilla Bollow
An award-winning actress, prize-winning playwright and published novelist. Plays performed in over 95 theatres in the U.S., plus numerous foreign countries, from China to South Africa. MORE

Chris Bullard
Chris Bullard is a native of Jacksonville, FL, who lives in Philadelphia. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Wilkes University. Kattywompus Press published High Pulp, a collection of his flash fiction, in 2017 and Grey Book Press published Continued, a chapbook of his poetry, this year… MORE

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Mickey Coburn
Renowned director, theatre educator and playwright. During her time as director of the Boston Children’s Theatre, she created the magical children’s plays published by Havescripts that consider economy – in space, time and cash. MORE

Todd Conner
Recipient of the Hendrix-Murphy Playwriting Award for his play The Grendelmas, first produced and directed at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. His adaptation and direction of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe set box office records at the Dallas Theatre Center.

Bonnie Culver
Award-winning author and playwright. Her works gained recognition at the prestigious Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Development Program. Her play Sniper was awarded the 2003 Perry Award for Outstanding Production of an Original Play. MORE

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John F. X. Delaney
John F. X. Delaney is an award winning playwright of ten plays from full length to “shorts”, including musicals. He is a member of the Virginia Playwrights Forum, where several of his works were developed. MORE

Cindy Rock Dlugolecki
Cindy has written eight plays that have been performed in various venues around central PA. Her script, VIOLET OAKLEY UNVEILED, has been performed in a number of theatres and museums in PA. MORE

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Gillette Elvgren
There have been approximately 8,000 performances of Elvgren scripts. He was head of the M.F.A. directing program at the University of Pittsburgh and staff director for the Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival. Presently he is a Professor in Theatre Arts at Regent University, Virginia Beach. MORE

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George Freek
George Freek’s plays have been produced on every continent, except Antarctica (where there are no theatres). His plays have been produced by many professional theatres, college and amateur theaters. MORE

Ed Friedman
Ed’s short plays have been staged throughout the NY metropolitan area by companies including, Gallery Players, EndTimes Productions, DarkNight Productions, Village Playwrights, Turtle Shell Productions and more…MORE

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Evan Guilford-Blake
He has won 44 playwriting competitions and is the only playwright to have twice won the prestigious Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival competition. He writes plays, prose and poetry for adults and children. MORE

Fr. Gerald Gurka
Playwright, Director, Priest. He holds a Masters Degree in Creative Writing as well as graduate degrees in Divinity and Pastoral Theology. Each year since 1980, he has written and directed versions of Passion Plays for Easter and Christmas Pageants.  MORE

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William Heyen
His poetry has appeared in TheNew Yorker, Harper’s, Poetry, The Atlantic, and in hundreds of other magazines and anthologies including, recently, The Oxford Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. He edited Etruscan Press’s first book, September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond.. MORE.

Robyn Hilt
She serves as the dramaturg and costumer for all Garden City High School Drama department productions. She graduated from Pittsburg State University in 2012 with her degree in English Education. In 2012-13, she served as a Fulbright fellow where she taught English at Deogin all boys high school in Mokpo, South Korea. MORE

Bobbi Hite
.B.A. Hite is Barbara Allen Hite, accomplished writer, teacher and Theatre Arts professional. She currently teaches at Tidewater Community College in Virginia. She earned Playwriting Fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and has won The Stanley Drama Award as well as the ACE New Plays Contest. Her full-length and one act plays have enjoyed numerous staged readings and productions. MORE

Michael J. Hotchkiss
Michael Hotchkiss has been a member of the Tidewater Dramatists Guild for over 15 years. During that time, he has had several staged readings of his works for special audiences. His radio play, The Island, was a winner in the Writer’s Digest contest for radio plays and he has published short plays in church magazines. MORE

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Jean H. Klein
Jean Klein has been a semi-finalist in the O’Neill competition; A one-act play Snapshots was a winner in the Kernodle Play competition at the University of Arkansas. Her play Lifeswap was produced at The Venue on 35th in Norfolk, Virginia in 2012 and at The Edge Theater in Belle Haven, Virginia. She holds an MA in English and an MFA in Fiction from the University of Iowa, and currently teaches in the MA/MFA Program in Creative Writing, a model low-residency program, at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania. MORE

David H. Klein
David H. Klein was a writer, perennial student, and professor of English. A specialist in the Classics, he enjoyed translating and adapting works that he loved for the stage from Katherine Mansfield to James Joyce. MORE

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Kathleen Lockwood McBlair
Kathleen Lockwood Mcblair holds a BFA in Theatre Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MA in the Old Dominion University Creative Writing Program. She was winner of the George Washington University Competitive English Writing Award, and has published her light verse. MORE

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Patricia Montley
She was one of 50 playwrights nationally commissioned by Center Stage to write a monolog for the “My America” series celebrating its 50th anniversary. Her work has been supported by a Kennedy Center Playwrights’ Intensive, by residencies at the Millay Artists’ Colony (NY) and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program (CA). MORE

Lorie M. Myers
Lori M. Myers is an award-winning writer of creative nonfiction, fiction, essays, and plays. Her plays and children’s musicals have been produced in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and other states throughout the Midwest; several have been published by Pioneer Drama and Blue Moon Plays. MORE

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Marj O’Neill- Butler
Marj O’Neill-Butler has worked professionally in theatre since her twenties. Besides being a playwright, She is also a professional stage director, stage manager, actor and a member of the Dramatists Guild and International Center for Women Playwrights. She is also a member of Actors Equity Association and SAG/AFTRA, professional unions for theatre and film. MORE

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Adrienne Pender
Adrienne Earle Pender began her writing career in 2001. Her first play, The Rocker, was a finalist in the Dayton Playhouse Future Fest 2002 Festival of New Works in Dayton, Ohio. The Rocker made its world premier in February 2004 at Theater in the Park in Raleigh, North Carolina. MORE

David Poyer
His work has been translated into Japanese, Dutch, Italian, and Serbo–Croatian. Poyer was a founding editor of The New Virginia Review, a board member of the Library of Virginia, and is currently a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and publisher at Northampton House Press. He teaches at Wilkes University. MORE

L. Elizabeth Powers
L. Elizabeth Powers is an award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter and playwright. Since the turn of the millennium, she has worked on numerous films and TV shows in various capacities of VFX. She has also worked in commercial production and post-production and made her own short films, including the award-winning “The Importance of Sex Education.”

June Prager
June Prager serves as Artistic Director of the Mirage Theatre Company based in New York City. She has directed Off-Broadway, Equity Showcase productions, and staged readings of many plays, in New York and regional theatres. Productions toured to university theatres including Temple University, Delaware University, Villanova University, and Philadelphia Community College. MORE

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Jan Quackenbush
Jan Quackenbush has written twenty-eight produced plays (staged in eight countries including Europe and Asia and translated into four languages), fourteen short one-acts in enacted readings, four produced musicals (one, Raisin’ Cain, commissioned by the Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis and another, Subclass Four Million: Serenades of the Southern Cross, showcased at the Banff Centre, Canada). MORE

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Robin Rice
Robin Rice is the author of over 70 plays – published and produced worldwide. Recent productions of full-length plays include ALICE IN BLACK AND WHITE (Off-Broadway/Louisville premiere), WOMEN w/o WALLS (Hollywood premiere), PLAY NICE! (Off-Broadway/Maryland premiere/ Wisconsin/Kennedy Center American College Theatre designee/recently published). MORE

Kay Rhoads
Kay Rhoads is a native Iowan who has spent her professional life as an administrator of programs and services at the state women’s prison. Much of her writing reflects the challenges and struggles of women but Kay also like to write about the funnier side of the human condition.. Her plays range from the dark drama of “The Burning Pile”, which has been produced in Buffalo and read in Athens, Greece as well as other cities. MORE

Juanita Rockwell
Juanita Rockwell is an award-winning playwright, librettist, lyricist, songwriter and director of new work in new forms, with over 100 projects worldwide including plays with and without songs; audioplays; chamber opera; puppetry; dance theater; gamelan opera; translation/adaptation; site-specific performance; and multi-author collaborations. MORE

David Rush
David Rush has had plays produced at Stage Left, Chicago Dramatists, George Street Playhouse, Delaware Theater Company, Mark Taper Forum, GeVa Theater, Chicago Jewish Theater and others. His awards include Jeff Awards, Los Angeles DramaLogue, Midwest Emmys.  MORE

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Marsha Sheiness
Marsha Lee Sheiness’ plays have been produced on television, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, regional, community, university, and high-school theatres across the United States. Her plays have also been produced in Japan, Canada, England, and New Zealand. MORE

Pamela Munson Steadman
Pam graduated from university with a BA in Elementary Education and taught fourth grade, as well as kindergarten for many years. She taught drama overseas, as well as being founder of many writing groups in the states, England, and Singapore.   Her family was lucky enough to live in England for four years and Singapore for eighteen months. MORE

Stephanie Sugioka
Stephanie Sugioka is a retired English professor with masters’ degrees in creative writing and Chinese literature and a Ph.D. in education. She has published a number of poems in literary magazines such as Calyx, The Sow’s Ear, and The Beloit Poetry Journal. Originally from Chapel Hill, NC, she now lives in Norfolk, VA. MORE

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Nikos Vlachos
His first play, THE BED, was workshopped with students and faculty from Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois and recently awarded first prize in the American Theatre Co-op (ATC)Fall 2003 Contest for Original Full-Length Plays and finalist in the 2004 Last Play Standing Playwriting Contest produced by Another Chicago Theatre Company.

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P. A. Wray
Over the years Wray’s plays have been featured in local new play festivals as productions and staged readings. Nat’s Last Struggle: a one act, one man solo piece received critical acclaim during Norfolk Summer Play Fest 2011 and was presented at The Earl Hamner, Jr. Theatre, Afton, Va. and Gateway Theater, Waynesboro, Va. in Oct. 2011. It was produced in July 2015 and presented at Generic Theater, Norfolk, Va. 

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Steven Young
Young is a classically trained actor with an MFA in directing and a certificate in Novel Writing from City University-London. He has appeared in or directed all but six plays from the Shakespearian canon. Currently, Young is an associate professor of theatre at Texas Woman’s University and lives in Dallas, TX. …MORE