India Nicole Burton

India Nicole Burton (she/her/hers)

India Nicole Burton is a Chicago director, playwright, devisor and producer. She is a native of Akron, OH. She received her MFA in creative writing from The University of Nebraska-Omaha in 2022. India is a two-year recipient of the National New Play Network (NNPN) Producer in Residence program and a 2021 recipient of the NNPN Bridge Program Grant Award. She also received a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere for her Choreopoem entitled Panther Women: An Army for the Liberation. Panther Women was also Jeff recommended in Chicago 2023. It received two nominations for The Black excellence awards Chicago. India was a cast member of American Dreams, which was nominated for a Drama League Award in 2021. She was also a Room in the house 2021/22 Fellow at The Karamu House inc. India is currently residing in Chicago, where she is the associate producer of new work at Pegasus Theatre. a Playwriting Teacher for Court Theatre and the MEH Lewis Scholar at Chicago Dramatists.

Eli Oisin Campbell

Eli Oisin Campbell (they/them)

Eli is an MFA candidate and member of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. After a BA in Theatre and Spanish at the same university, they interned at Theatre Goodman and studied at Steep Theatre and Chicago Dramatists. Their work has been developed at 20% Theatre, Artemisia Theatre, and the Story Theatre, and their play Pleasure Play premiered at Dreamwell Theatre (Iowa City) in 2023. Eli's plays are dark and queer, with a tendency towards dry humor. They explore themes of transition, loneliness, and carnality, often against the backdrop of history. Their play Forgottonia will be read in the Iowa New Play Festival in May, and an untitled play will premiere at Dreamwell in Fall 2024. Eli is also a portrait photographer and besotted dog parent! 

Kristiana Rae Colón

Kristiana Rae Colón (she/her/hers)

Kristiana Rae Colón is a poet, playwright, actor, educator, producer, curator, creator of #BlackSexMatters, co-founder of the #LetUsBreathe Collective, and Writer/Producer on Showtime’s hit series The Chi. Her collection of poems promised instruments was the winner of the inaugural Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize and published by Northwestern University Press. Her plays have been produced in London, New York, and across the US. Kristiana is an alum of OpenTV’s Screenwriting fellowship where she is developing a series adaptation of her play suspension, a semi-finalist for American Theater’s Relentless Award. She is also an alum of the Goodman Theatre's Playwrights Unit where she developed her play florissant & canfield, which debuted at University of Illinois-Chicago in February 2018. She appeared on the fifth season of HBO's Def Poetry Jam. Kristiana’s writing, producing, and organizing work to radically reimagine power structures, our complicity in them, and visions for liberation.