Writers

Kelly Davis received a Bachelors from Princeton University in 2005 and a Masters from NYU in 2008. During the last 10 years, she has worn the hats of performer, producer, playwright, and art administrator. She lives in un-gentrified Brooklyn, which she loves, although that means she carries mace in her purse. All she wants in life is to be 137 lb, one good male friend, and a nice hair salon. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK!

 

 

Jack Karp has had his short plays produced by Crosstown Playwrights, the Queens Players, Turtle Shell Productions, Flour City Theatre Company, and Where Eagles Dare in New York, the Marsh Theatre in San Francisco, and City Theater Company in Wilmington, DE. His most recent full-length play, Irreversible, has had staged readings with Crosstown Playwrights and The Tank in New York, and won the Theatre SLAM competition at The Tank in March 2009. His full-length play, Tell Me You Love Me, was produced by Bitter Sauce Theatre in San Francisco. Jack has also won the David Mamet Playwrighting Competition at the American Conservatory Theatre, Best Play at the 2008 Long Island City One-Act Festival, and he was a finalist in the 2008 Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival. Jack is founding member of Crosstown Playwrights, and a member of the Nylon Fusion Writer’s Collective and the Dramatists Guild.

 

 

Courtney Brooke Lauria currently resides in Astoria, NY. Her plays include Four Years Apart (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Bridge Theater, New York Stage and Film/Vassar College) And The Baby Makes Three, Co-Op The Musical (Ensemble Studio Theatre), The True Life Story of Tom Ritchford (The Brick), Take Me Away (The Kraine Theater), and Someday You'll Find It (The American Theater for Actors). She has participated in The Shstrng Prdctns One Minute Play Festival 3 years running (The Brick, The HERE Theatre). Her one-act play On The Surface was a finalist in the Samuel French Short Play Festival for 2007. Courtney is a member of Youngblood, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s collective for emerging playwrights under the age of thirty.

 

 

Kate Mulley graduated from Dartmouth College in 2005 with a degree in Theatre and History and received an MA in Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths College, London in 2007. She is the Literary Manager of NyLon Fusion Collective and facilitates their Writers Collective and is a Resident Playwright for Odyssey Productions. Her play The Lazarus Years was performed at the Red Room, New York, as part of JAMBOREE, a short play festival. Her play Sezze Sun was produced by Odyssey in the Capital Fringe Festival and at walkerspace in New York. Her play The Proxies was part of PLAYLIST, an evening of short plays at Theatre503, Etcetera Theatre, London. After participating in the Soho Theatre Young Writers Course, her play Cook’s Clock was selected for a staged reading at the Soho Theatre, London. Her play Fee received a staged reading at the Tristan Bates Theatre, London. She has worked for Nick Hern Books, Soho Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop and Hourglass Group and has published headlines in The Onion. She currently lives in New York and works at the Drama Book Shop.

 

 

B. Walker Sampson plays include: Absence of a House, Alceste, Assistance, Clear Across, Puppet Kafka, Roosevelt Island, Silent Steps: A Play with MacGuffins, They All Look Like Bats in the Dark, and What Do You Think of the Moon? His plays have been produced or developed by: Soho Rep, Theatre of NOTE, the Playwrights’ Center, Drama of Works, Conflict of Interest Theatre, Outsider's Inn Collective, Double Take Theatre, Audacity Theatre Lab, the Source Festival, BRIC, the Off-Off Broadway Play Festival, and HERE's American Living Room Festival. His plays, poetry, and articles have been published in Midway Journal, Saint Ann's Review, Brooklyn Review, Stirring, and American Theatre. He is a member of the Playwrights’ Center, was part of Soho Rep's 2004/05 Writer/Director Lab, and received his MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College in the program taught by Mac Wellman.

 

 

Alisha Silver began her varied theatrical career at San Francisco State University where she studied costume design and directing and got her BA in Drama. She spent two years in San Francisco directing with several local companies and began to adapt poems, short stories and other written works into theatrical pieces with strong dance and movement elements. She continued this work in New York where she produced and directed more than a dozen productions over the next four years. She joined the Michael Chekhov Theatre Company in 2005 and directed several Sam Shepard plays including Fool for Love, Curse of the Starving Class and Angel City. She studies playwriting under Tina Howe at Hunter College. She won the John Golden Award for playwriting (2007, 2008) the Thomas Barbour Memorial Playwrights Award (2009) and was a finalist for the Julie Harris Playwright Award, (2009) and the Trustus Playwright’s Festival (2010.) She is a member of TOSOS II and SilverLoop Productions.

 

 

Calla Videt recently finished working with London based company Complicite on their West End production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame. She is a member of New Perspective’s 2010- 2011 Women’s Work Lab and 2010 Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. Last June, she graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude in a special concentration combining physics and theater. During her time at Harvard, she directed, performed in, and worked on over 15 productions. Her final directorial project and senior thesis— The Space Between—premiered on the mainstage of the American Repertory Theater in April of 2009 and told the story of the making of the atomic bomb through the lens of the Orpheus myth. Calla has also directed productions of Moira Buffini’s Dinner, Complicite’s The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol, Sarah Kane’s Blasted (ass. director) and Complicite’s Mnemonic. She is the recipient of Harvard’s Louis Sudler Prize for the Arts and an Artist Development Fellowship.

 

 

Joseph Samuel Wright is a New York based writer, producer, and director. He is the Producing Artistic Director of Roots and Wings Theatrical (www.rawtheatrical.org), a member of the Nylon Fusion Writers Group, and a contributing writer to BroadwaySpace. His short plays Mary, Mary and Mommy Drinkest were produced as part of the twice annual Duct Tape and a Dream festival, his GLBT youth advocacy play Ours has been performed at colleges across East Tennessee, and his inter-disciplinary piece Constellation Nightglow played five shows at the Clarence Brown Lab Theatre combining drama, dance, media, and song into one cohesive play. For more information visit www.josephsamuelwright.com.