Jeffrey James Keyes is the co-author of the New York Times best seller Killer Chef with James Patterson. He received his BA in Theatre Performance from Fordham University and his MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University. His theater credits include The End of Days (SoHo Playhouse/Fringe NYC), Southies (Samuel French OOB Festival), The Biltmore Academy (New York Madness, Prologue Theatre), Imaginary Friends (Samuel French OOB Festival), Immortal: The Gilgamesh Variations (Bushwick Starr), and Room 407 (59E59). As a producer, Jeffrey worked on the travel series Out in GayCities with Q.Digital and Lexus, the Sundance series Revealing featuring Joe Zee, and MTV's True Life. His short films 181 and Uniform were showcased at over 30 festivals. He received the 2022 Fresh Fruit Festival Audience Favorite Award for his short Christmas. His monologue Safe Word (The 24 Hour Plays) was nominated for Best Digital Entertainment at The Queerties and he was the inaugural recipient of PEN America’s L'Engle/Rahman Prize for Mentorship. His ghost story plays are currently being adapted into DRAMA - an aural experience (drama-pod.com), an audio fiction podcast through AKS Immersive. 

Hansol Jung is a playwright and director from South Korea. Productions include Merry Me (New York Theater Workshop), Wolf Play (Soho Rep, NNPN Rolling Premiere: Artists Rep, Company One), Wild Goose Dreams (The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse), Cardboard Piano (Humana Festival at ATL), Among the Dead (Ma-Yi Theatre), and No More Sad Things (Sideshow, Boise Contemporary). Winner of Lucille Lortel Award Best Play 2023, Obie Award for Playwriting 2024, Steinberg Award, Whiting Award, Helen Merrill Award. Commissions from The Kennedy Center, The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, National Theatre in UK, Playwrights Horizons, Artists Repertory Theater, Ma-Yi Theatre and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Her work has been developed at Royal Court, New York Theatre Workshop, Hedgebrook, Berkeley Repertory, Sundance Theatre Lab, O’Neill Theater Center, and the Lark. Hansol is the recipient of the Hodder Fellowship, Page 73 Fellowship, Lark’s Rita Goldberg Fellowship, NYTW’s 2050 Fellowship, MacDowell Artist Residency, and International Playwrights Residency at Royal Court. Hansol has written for Netflix Series Tales of the City and Apple+ Series Pachinko and has developed new projects for film and television with Bad Robot, Amazon Studios, Apple+ TV, Fifth Season Production and Kindred Spirit among others. She is a proud member of NYTW's Usual Suspects, Kilroys and a founding member of the new play collective The Pack. https://www.thepackcompany.org/

CQ Quintana [pronouns: she/any] is a queer NB writer with Cuban blood and New Orleans roots based on Canarsee and Munsee Lenape land in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. CQ’s writing centers on human connection and proclaims: “you are not alone.” Plays include: THE GENDERLESS PLAY EXPERIMENT (Carthage College New Play Initiative), BEASTGIRL with music by Janelle Lawrence (Kennedy Center), AZUL (Diversionary Theatre), SCISSORING (INTAR), EVENSONG (Astoria Performing Arts Center), ENTER YOUR SLEEP (Yale Cabaret), and more. In 2023/2024, Life Jacket Theatre Company selected CQ to develop a new verbatim play on trans joy (JOYFUL JOYFRIENDS) as the company’s inaugural Trans+ Playwriting Commission recipient and Audible named their audio play THE 126-YEAR-OLD ARTIST (available on the platform) one of the “8 Best Theater Listens of 2023.” CQ is the recipient of grants and fellowships from NYSCA, Café Royal Cultural Foundation, MacDowell, Van Lier New Voices, Queer/Art, and Lambda Literary. Most recently, the Granum Foundation selected an excerpt from CQ’s novel-in-progress, FAREWELL, FANTA SE, for its 2024 Prize Longlist. Television writing credits include AMC’s ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES, Fox’s ALERT: MISSING PERSONS UNIT (Seasons 2 & 3), and ABC’s THE BAKER AND THE BEAUTY. Visit www.cquintana.com or @cquintanatown for more info. 

Marcus Scott is a dramatist & journalist. Full-length works: TUMBLEWEED (finalist: 2017 BAPF & 2017 Austin Playhouse Festival of New American Plays; semifinalist: 2022 O’Neill NPC, 2022 Blue Ink Playwriting Award & 2017 Princess Grace Award), SIBLING RIVALRIES (finalist: 2023 Normal Ave’s NAPseries, 2021 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference & 2021 Judith Royer Excellence In Playwriting Award; semi-finalist: 2022 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, 2021 Blue Ink Playwriting Award & 2021 Princess Grace Award), THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD (finalist: 2023 Princess Grace Award at New Dramatists, 2023 Blue Ink Playwriting Award, 2019 Bushwick Starr Reading Series; semifinalist: 2024 BAPF, 2024 Fault Line Theater’s Irons in the Fire & 2024 O’Neill NPC), VINYL VANGUARD (Step1 R&D Series) and CHERRY BOMB (recipient: 2017 Drama League First Stage Artist-In-Residence, 2017 New York Theatre Barn's New Works Series; 2017 finalist for the Yale Institute for Music Theatre). Heartbeat Opera commissioned Scott to adapt Beethoven’s FIDELIO (Co-writer; Met Live Arts at the MET Museum, Mondavi Center at UC Davis, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, The Broad Stage, Rutgers Presbyterian Church, Baruch Performing Arts Center; NYTimes Critics’ Pick). Scott is the recipient of the 2024 Chelsey/Bumbalo Playwriting Award. He is also a 2024-2025 Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellows finalist, 2022 Many Voices Fellowship finalist, a 2022 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab finalist, a Top 30 finalist for the 2022 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, a 2021 NYSAF Founders’ Award finalist, and a 2021 Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award semi-finalist. His articles appeared in Architectural Digest, Time Out New York, American Theatre Magazine, Playbill, Elle, Out, Essence, The Brooklyn Rail, among others. BFA: State University College at Buffalo, MFA: NYU Tisch.

Kathleen Warnock is a Queens-based playwright and editor. Her work has been seen in NYC, regionally and internationally (in Ireland, England and Australia), most recently Rock the Line, produced by TOSOS at The Flea. She is Associate Artistic Director of The Other Side of Silence (TOSOS), NYC's longest-running professional LGBTQ+ theater. She is Ambassador of Love for North America for the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, NYC Ambassador for The Dramatists Guild, and a member of the Honor Roll for women playwrights. She is a member of the Queens District Attorney's LGBTQ+ Advisory Panel, and serves on Community Board 1 Queens. She also writes for Gay City News, and curates the long-running reading series "Drunken! Careening! Writers!" at KGB Bar (since 2004). She is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild.

Aurin Squire  is a playwright, reporter, and screenwriter from South Florida. He has been awarded the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, Seattle Public Theatre’s Emerald Prize for new plays, and fellowships at National Black Theatre and The Dramatists Guild. Squire wrote the book for "A Wonderful World: Louis Armstrong Musical" WHICH opened on Broadway in 2024 at Studio 54. His political satire “Obama-ology” was first developed at The Juilliard School’s summer workshop before going on to be produced in London, Los Angeles, and Dallas. Squire was also a writer on Miami New Drama's "7 Deadly Sins,"  which won a Drama League Award for Outstanding Interactive Theatre, and  “Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy” which he co-wrote with Billy Corben. In TV, Squire was the co-executive producer and writer on the tv dramas "The Good Fight" and  "Evil." He has been nominated for two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series, a BlackReel Award, and a WGA Award for his work on "This is Us."  He is a New Dramatists resident playwright, a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, and the Writers Guild of America.  He graduated from The Juilliard School and Northwestern University.

Gein Wong (they/them) is an interdisciplinary director and writer whose works focus on cultivating magic and collective agency. They opened Ai Wei Wei’s According to What exhibition with a 500-person performance art piece that honored the 2008 Sichuan earthquake victims. At World Pride, Gein commemorated the 45th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots with an immersive live art recreation of Stonewall.  In the UK, they collectively dug a gigantic crater size hole in the middle of Central London to see what was in Britain’s dirt, which garnered an Off West End Commendation for outstanding production.  Gein has been awarded the Ken McDougall Director’s Award and the LGBTIA+ Youth Role Model Lifetime Achievement Award from the Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity.  Gein's poetic play Hiding Words (for you), which delves into a secret language Chinese women created when they were not taught to write, is published by Playwrights Canada Press. Their second play Ocean Carving is a performance in water about mermaids.  In their free time, they can sometimes be found walking the runways at Paris and New York Fashion Week.