As a superstar Black female writer on the Hollywood fast track, Leslie’s career dreams are on the cusp of coming true. When her White former classmate Andrew shows up and cries plagiarism, their confrontation becomes a lively reckoning on representation, privilege, and who gets to tell what story in this taut, biting comedy. Can anyone be justified in masking another human being’s voice when correcting a wrong?

Inda Craig-Galván’s (she/her) work often explores conflicts and politics within the African-American community, with plays that are grounded in reality with a touch of magical realism that plays with time and memories. Produced plays include Black Super Hero Magic Mama (Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles) and I Go Somewhere Else (Playwrights’ Arena, Los Angeles); The Great Jheri Curl Debate will have its world premiere at East West Players (Los Angeles) in the Fall of 2022. Craig-Galván is the recipient of the Kesselring Prize, Jeffry Melnick New Playwright Award, Blue Ink Playwriting Prize, Jane Chambers Student Award for Feminist Playwriting, and Stage Raw Best Playwright Award. Her plays have been included on the Kilroys List and Steppenwolf Theatre’s The Mix. Craig-Galván holds an MFA in Theatre from University of Southern California.

When Susan is diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia in her 70s, her lover Mich must find her own way to let go. Surrounded by a chorus of lesbian elders, the couple lives out their relationship from courtship to final goodbye in a poetic journey through past and present. Spiritual and political urgency meet intimate connection in this silence-shattering story of caregiving, community, and honoring the requests of the dying.

Elana Dykewomon (she/her) is a long-time social justice activist, editor and teacher in Oakland, CA. She’s published eight award-winning books foregrounding Lesbian heroism, including the Lambda-winning Beyond the Pale, and received the 2018 Lee Lynch Classic Award for her first novel Riverfinger Women (1974). Most recently she co-edited with Judith Katz “To Be a Jewish Dyke in the 21st Century,” a Sinister Wisdom special issue. Her play is about love, dementia, right to die, caretaking and community, honoring her late spouse Susan Levinkind.

When they receive news that their estranged father Sami is dead, a fractured family is forced to confront years of pain in this luminously honest story. As Dina and Yusef return to their childhood home in Fremont to bury a man they hardly knew, they face an uprising of secrets and lies in a struggle for truth. As Sami’s spirit hovers between worlds, can grief act as a revolution for love?

Denmo Ibrahim (she/her) is an American playwright, children’s book author, and actor of Egyptian descent. Her recently released audio-immersive book Zaynab’s Night of Destiny (Fons Vitae , Commonwealth Theatre Center) will engage thousands of elementary and middle school students throughout 25 public schools in Louisville, KY in 2022. Her plays include the hybrid experience Brilliant Mind at Marin Theatre Company, BABA at Alter Theatre, Ecstasy / A Waterfable at Golden Thread, The Day Naguib Mahfouz Was Stabbed In The Neck And Almost Died a.k.a. The Selkie Play (Finalist: Sundance Theatre Lab, Finalist: NNPN’s Showcase of New Plays). Her work is currently in development with The Civilians’ R&D Group (Untitled: Little Palestine), The Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theatre (The Dream Fugue of May Ziyadeh), and Audible for a new ten-part historical drama on the life of Hatshepsut. Denmo holds an MFA in Lecoq-based Actor Created Physical Theater from Naropa University and a BFA in Acting from Boston University.

While mourning the death of their younger brother Marty, Jessica and Benny find themselves divided on the choice of putting their abuela, Yolanda, in a nursing home. When social distancing forces them to visit only from outside of her window, the millennial siblings must confront the pains of their past to heal their own shattered relationship across chasms of belief, the isolation of loss, and the complexity of parental expectations. This imaginatively poetic family drama dives deep into mourning and healing across three generations of unbreakable bonds.

Iraisa Ann Reilly (she/ella) is a Jersey-born artist passionate about bilingual stories. Select full-length plays include Good Cuban Girls (Teatro del Sol, at The Arden Theatre), The Jersey Devil is a Papi Chulo (Yale Drama Series Shortlist 2022, KCACTF) Madame Anastasia’s Crystal Ball (Semifinalist, Bay Area Playwright’s Festival 2021), One Day Old (Philadelphia Fringe, New York Classical Theatre Finalist, Rorschach Theatre Finalist), and A Beginner’s Guide to Interpreting Aphasia (writer/performer, Philadelphia’s Solow Fest). Her work has been developed with Theatre Exile, The New Harmony Project, The Chain Theatre and The Latinx Playwright’s Circle. Iraisa Ann is a Yes and Laughter Lab Finalist, 2022, and was semifinalist for the Page 73 Fellowship, 2019. As a Development Studio Fellow with NYU’S Production Lab, Iraisa Ann wrote her original screenplay, La Reina Del Bronx (Winner, Fusion Film Festival, 2022). MFA in Dramatic Writing, NYU, BA Theatre and English University of Notre Dame.

Three southerners explore whether the second chances they are desperately seeking might be found with one another. Witty and resilient teenage trans femme Zara, rough-edged builder Colt, and protective Muslim immigrant Kaysar are each on their own journeys through landscapes of hope, survival, trauma, and the persistent call of joy. When their paths intertwine, new possibilities emerge for what the trio might mean to each other in this fresh, deeply felt comedic drama about belonging.

Sharifa Yasmin (she/her) is a trans Egyptian-American director and playwright. She has completed directing fellowships with The Drama League, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Manhattan Theatre Club, Geva Theatre, and is a Eugene O’Neill national directing fellow. Sharifa’s favorite directing projects include The War Boys (Hangar Theater), 3:59AM (Actors Theatre of Louisville), In the Blood (Duende Productions), Mosque4Mosque (National Queer Theatre) and Beirut (Brown/Trinity Rep). Sharifa’s playwriting focuses on the intersection of Queer and Arab identities. Her plays have been produced with Uprising Theatre, Amphibian Stage, Trans Theatre Fest, Mirrorbox Theatre, Women’s Theatre Festival, taught at DePaul, Susquehanna, and Kansas Universities, and published in The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays. Yasmin was honored as the inaugural recipient of the SCDF Barbara Whitman Award in 2021. She currently serves as a member of The Drama League’s Directors Council, and is completing her MFA in Directing with Brown/Trinity Rep.