Anna Ziegler has written the plays Actually (produced at Manhattan Theatre Club, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Geffen Playhouse, London’s Trafalgar Studios and more; L.A. Ovation Award winner for Playwriting for an Original Play), the widely produced Photograph 51 (directed on the West End by Michael Grandage and starring Nicole Kidman; WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Play; Chicago Tribune’s #1 play of 2019 and a “Best of the Year” play in The Washington Post and UK's The Telegraph), Boy (Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award nominee), The Wanderers (upcoming at The Roundabout, City Theatre and The Ernst Deutsch Theatre (Hamburg); previously produced at The Old Globe; Theater J; Gesher Theater (Israel); Craig Noel Award winner for Outstanding New Play), The Last Match (Roundabout Theatre Company; The Old Globe; Writers’ Theatre; City Theatre), and A Delicate Ship (New York Times Critic’s Pick). She holds commissions from, among others, Roundabout Theatre Company, Second Stage Theatre and Grove/Whitman. Oberon/Bloomsbury Books has published a collection of her work entitled Anna Ziegler: Plays One; a new collection, Plays Two, is forthcoming. Recent: Photograph 51 at Melbourne Theatre Company and Ensemble Theatre (Sydney); The Great Moment at Seattle Rep (world premiere); Antigones at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference; The Janeiad at Cape Cod Theatre Project and Ojai Playwrights Conference. She is developing television and movie projects with Paramount, Defiant by Nature and Leviathan Productions. Photograph 51 is available on Audible and in Bloomsbury’s Modern Classics series. More at annabziegler.net.

Kristoffer Diaz is a playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and educator. His play The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Other full-length titles include Welcome to Arroyo’s, Reggie Hoops, Hercules, and The Unfortunates. His work has been produced, commissioned, and developed at The Public Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Geffen Playhouse, ACT, Center Theatre Group, The Goodman, Second Stage, Victory Gardens, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival, among many others. Awards include the Guggenheim, Jerome, Van Lier, NYFA, and Gail Merrifield Papp Fellowships; New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award; Lucille Lortel, Equity Jeff, and OBIE Awards; and the Future Aesthetics Artist Regrant, among others. As a screenwriter, Kristoffer has developed original television pilots for HBO and FX, written for the first season of Netflix's GLOW, and adapted the musical Rent for FOX. Kristoffer teaches playwriting at New York University. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists and a member of its Board of Directors, and a current officer of the Dramatists Guild Council. 

Sarah Schulman is a playwright, novelist, nonfiction writer, screenwriter and AIDS historian. She is the author of 20 novels, nonfiction books, and published plays.  A Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting, she has had three productions: Carson McCullers (Playwrights Horizons/The Women's Project, director Marion McClinton), Manic Flight Reaction (Playwrights Horizons, director Trip Cullman, w/ Deirdre O'Connell) and a theatrical adaptation of IB Singer's Enemies, A Love Story (Wilma, director Jiri Ziska, w/ Morgan Spector).  Her plays have had workshops and readings at The La Jolla Playhouse, The Cleveland Playhouse, The Goodman, The Vineyard, Rattlestick, New York Theater Workshop, ART, Trinity Rep, The Roundabout, The Sundance Theater Lab. Recent Developments: Sarah's play  The Lady Hamlet  had a joyous and rollicking run at The Provincetown Theater directed by David Drake, starring Jennifer Van Dyck. Her play Roe Versus Wade: A Mirror Is Not A Window will have a developmental reading at Northwestern University, directed by Lisa Peterson and dramaturged by Tanya Palmer, Shimmer - a new musical with composer Anthony Davis and lyricist Michael Korie is being workshopped at Yale this Spring.