Carolyn M. Dunn is a playwright, dramaturg, actor and director whose plays have been Equity produced on stages in Los Angeles and New York. She is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance and is the Director of Playwriting and Dramaturgy at California State University, Los Angeles, and advisor for the low residency MFA in Decolonial Arts Praxis at Goddard College

Eric Micha Holmes is an American dramatist whose work has been heard on Audible Inc. (Rapture Season: From a Glacier We Watch the World Burn), BBC (Care Inc.) and seen at the National Black Theatre (Mondo Tragic). He’s a Teaching Artist at The National Theatre School of Canada, Visiting Lecturer of Playwriting at Skidmore College, and Co-Lead and Faculty Member of Goddard College’s MFA Creative Writing Program.

Les Hunter is an award-winning playwright and theatre scholar whose academic work focuses on 20th and 21st-century American theatre and playwriting pedagogy. He was an inaugural Premiere Fellow at Cleveland Public Theatre and has been awarded an Ohio Arts Council Award for Individual Excellence in Playwriting. He is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Baldwin Wallace University.

Playwrights as Architects of Third Space:
The Dramaturgy of Japanese Traditional Performing Arts

Sarah Johnson is a dramaturg and scholar. Her research focuses on intercultural theatre, new play development and dramaturgical methodologies. She is the Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy, Head of Playwriting, and Executive Director of the WildWind Performance Lab at Texas Tech University.

The Dramaturgy of Nothingness

Abhishek Majumdar is an award-winning playwright, scenographer, and director working in Theater, Film, and Opera across Asia, Europe, and the USA. He is a professor at New York University Abu Dhabi and Program Head of Theater. His book Theatre across Borders is published by Bloomsbury as part of the Theatre Makers series.

Poetic Expressions in Kanaka Maoli Playwriting Praxis

Tammy Hailiʻōpua Baker is a playwright/director/scholar/educator from Kapa‘a, Kaua‘i whose work focuses on revitalizing Kanaka Maoli moʻolelo (Native Hawaiian history and narratives) through Hana Keaka, Hawaiian-medium theatre. Haili‘ōpua oversees the Hawaiian Theatre and Playwriting Programs at UHM and is a recent recipient of the Kennedy Center Medallion of Excellence.

On Disaesthetics in Hip Hop Dramaturgy

Wind Dell Woods is a playwright, scholar, and educator whose creative/scholarly work is situated in the fields of Black Study, psychoanalysis, and Hip Hop Theater, culture, and aesthetics. He holds an MFA in playwriting from Arizona State University and PhD in Drama & Theatre from University of California, Irvine. Currently he is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Puget Sound.

Context/Culture:
Understanding the Complex Dramaturgy of Black Theatre of the 19th Century

Dominic Taylor is an award-winning writer-director and scholar of African-American theater and whose work has been seen around the world. He is a graduate of Brown University with both a BA and an MFA. He is a Full Professor of Theater at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Decentering Humans

Arts & Climate Initiative USA Chantal Bilodeau is a Montreal - born, New York - based playwright and the founding artistic director of the Arts & Climate Initiative. Her work focuses on the intersection of storytelling and the climate crisis. In 2019, she was named one of “8 Trailblazers W ho Are Changing the Climate Conversation” by Audubon Magazine

Write Where You Are

Hank Willenbrink is an artist and scholar whose plays have been seen at The Brick (NYC), Sala Beckett (Barcelona) and elsewhere. His essays have been published in Ecumenica, Theatre Journal, TheatreForum, and Contemporary Theatre Review. He is currently working on a book project entitled Performing for the Don: Theatres of Faith in the Trump Era for Routledge.

Connecting to the Past, Constructing the Self:
Ethnoautobiography in the Filipinx Diaspora As a Model for Decolonial Theatre Practices

Luz Lorenzana Twigg is a Filipinx American playwright, poet, and dramaturg. Her writing explores diasporic identity, ritual, ancestral healing, and theatre as a living archive. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University where she studied under David Henry Hwang and Lynn Nottage.

Writing with Irene:
Sustaining the Fornés Playwriting Method

Mariló Núñez is a Chilean Canadian playwright, director, dramaturge and scholar. She is a 2021 winner of the Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Award in Theatre. She teaches playwriting using the Fornes Method and was founding Artistic Director of Alameda Theatre Company. She has an MFA in Creative Writing (University of Guelph) and is currently doing her PhD in Theatre & Performance Studies at York University.

Writing With Irene:
Sustaining the Fornés Playwriting Method

Anne García-Romero is a playwright, translator, and theater scholar whose work explores the intersections of U.S. Latiné, Latin American and Anglo cultures. She is a founding member of the Fornés Institute and an associate professor in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.

Oluwatoyin Olokodana-James is both an academic, and a renowned theatre practitioner with over two decades of active practice. Some of her scripts and libretti written for the stage and screen include: Seven Days, The Regent, Betrayers, Vengeance, A call Back, Alejo, Ayawena. She is the Creative Director of Ivory Ambassadors Theatre Company.

First People First:
Community-based Theatre Praxis in Native American/Indigenous Spaces

Techniques and Strategies of Vertical Theatre:
Decentering Investigative Playwriting

Dispersion

Poet and playwright Diane Glancy is one of the most produced Indigenous playwrights in the United States. Glancy’s latest books are Island of the Innocent, a Consideration of the Book of Job, 2020, A Line of Driftwood, the Ada Blackjack Story , 2021, Home is the Road, Wandering the Land, Shaping the Spirit,2022, and Psalm to Whom(e), 2023. She lives in north central Texas.

Collaborative Isaga

Butshilo Nleya is a Zimbabwean playwright, researcher, and artistic director who blends and bends Ndebele folk traditions with contemporary theatre. His PhD researches race, place, and migration and he serves on various artistic boards globally. He guest co-lectures MA in Playwriting at the University of York, Tisch School of the Arts, and the University of Sheffield. His work has been shortlisted for the Woven Prize, received readings at the Royal Court and Jermyn Street Theatre and was commissioned by York Theatre Royal, Theatre Temoin, and Royal and Derngate theatre.

Collaborative Isaga

Bridget Foreman is an internationally-performed playwright and academic whose work explores stories rooted in place and time. She regularly writes for a number of UK theaters and holds a PhD from the University of York, UK, where she is a Lecturer in Playwriting as well as leading the Theater Team working group on Diversification and Decolonization.

Unarcheology:
Anticolonial Queer Aesthetics and Putting Things Back in the Ground

Fargo Tbakhi is an award winning Palestinian performance artist and writer. His performance work has been showcased widely, including at the Arab American National Museum, OUTsider Fest, Capital Fringe, and elsewhere, and has been supported by the National Performance Network and the MAP Fund.

INDIGENEITY 101:
An Interview with Murielle Borst Tarrant
(Kuna, Rappahannock)

Sarah dAngelo is a theatre artist and educator whose creative interests favor non-Western and Indigenous modes of performance and storytelling. She is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University where she teaches performance and directs.