Ryan Adelsheim is a new play dramaturg, producer, and lecturer at Tufts University. Their current research focuses on queer and trans theater and performance, with writing appearing in Theater magazine, Performance Response Journal, and in Routledge's Dramaturgy and History anthology. An active artistic collaborator specializing in new work development, recent credits include co-adaptor for Affinity based on the novel by Sarah Waters with director Alex Keegan, dramaturg for soldiergirls by Emil Weinstein and Emily Johnson Erday, and producer with Audible Theater. Ryan received their MFA from Yale Drama where they are a doctoral candidate in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism.

Kimberly Colburn is a dramaturg, producer, and community builder. She has worked with Soulpepper Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Mixed Blood Theatre, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, The Playwrights Center, the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Musical Stage Company, Native Voices at the Autry, Los Angeles Opera and many more. As Literary Director for South Coast Rep, she co-directed the Pacific Playwrights Festival and led the CrossRoads commissioning program. She brings creativity to the corporate world through Protagonist Events, creating corporate events and bespoke team-building activities.

Ramón Esquivel is a playwright, director, dramaturg, and educator. His plays include Fallenstar: The Watchoverers, Watching for Sasquatch, ZEQ, ¡O Cascadia!, Dulce, The Girl Who Talks to Spiders, The Hero Twins: Blood Race, Nasty, Nocturnal, and Luna. His work is featured in four anthologies, Pieces of Mind: Ten Plays about Mental Health for Teens, Palabras del Cielo: An Exploration of Latina/o Theatre for Young Audiences, New Visions/New Voices: 25 Years/25 Plays; and I Have a Story: Plays from an Extraordinary Year. Ramón is a member of the Dramatists Guild, and is currently Assistant Professor of Theatre - Playwriting at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Emilia LaPenta is a freelance producer and dramaturg with 15 years of experience. As Director of Creative Development at Audible, she established and led the Emerging Playwrights Fund, commissioning 50 new plays and producing over 30. With an artist-driven approach, she is process-oriented, deeply collaborative, and experienced in all stages of creative development. Prior to working at Audible, Emilia was the Literary Director at McCarter Theatre where she worked on world-premiere productions by Rachel Bonds, Sharyn Rothstein, Nilo Cruz, Ken Ludwig, Heather Raffo, and more.

Sarah Rose Leonard is the Senior Dramaturg at the Ojai Playwrights Conference and the Co-Editor of 3Views on Theater. She has held literary staff positions at Berkeley Repertory Theater, Signature Theater, and Page 73. Recent production and development dramaturgy credits include Eureka Day (Broadway), The Lehman Trilogy (Denver Center), Vos (Two River, Ojai), Factory 812 (Rattlestick), This Much I Know (Roundabout, Aurora). Her day career is as the Senior Producer of Live Events and Strategy at KQED, the Bay Area’s NPR/PBS member station, where she brings journalism to life onstage.

Lexy Leuszler is a dramaturg, literary manager, and educator specializing in new work. She has developed works with Melis Aker, Florencia Cuenca, Jaime Lozano, Eliana Pipes, Hansol Jung, Brian Quijada, Erlina Ortiz, and Georgina Escobar, among others. She served as the Literary Manager for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center for four years, establishing the NMTC Incubator residency. Member of the 2023 Kilroy’s Web and American Theatre Magazine's Role Call: People to Watch list. Current projects in development include: Fly Me To the Sun (1st Stage), Azul: A Bilingual Musical (Joe’s Pub), Little Duende (NAMT, Rhinebeck), and Siluetas (Power Street Theatre). She’s also a proud member of The Pack. @leuszler @the_pack_company

Naysan Mojgani is a New Orleans-based dramaturg and producer. Most recently, Naysan was the Associate Artistic Director at Round House Theatre. Additionally, Naysan has worked with theaters across the country, including La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, TheatreSquared, CATF, and Lookingglass. Naysan has commissioned and worked with playwrights including: Lauren Gunderson, Morgan Gould, Lauren Yee, Idris Goodwin, Kenneth Lin, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Ken Ludwig, and Octavio Solis. Ph.D.: UC San Diego. For more on Naysan's approach and past work, please visit nmojgani.com.

Dominique Rider is a Brooklyn-based transdisciplinary artist whose work seeks to answer the question: “What is a world unmade by slavery?” while analyzing the layers of anti-blackness that maintain our world. Deploying theatre and performance as tools of Afropessimism, Dominique has developed and staged work with Portland Center Stage, Portland Stage, The Bushwick Starr, The New Group, The Park Avenue Armory, and more. Past fellowships/residencies include The Civilians R&D, The Atlantic, Hi-Arts, The National Black Theatre, TheaterWorks Hartford, NYSAF, BRIC Arts, Roundabout, and NAMT. Dominique is a Vision Resident at Ars Nova and an artist in residence at Duke University.

Divinia Shorter (she/her/hers) is a queer, Black Latina writer, dramaturg, and director freelancing in the DMV and beyond. She is the co-founder of Greatest City Collective, a non-profit focused on uplifting artists and the social causes they care about. She is currently focused on finishing her YA novel and and supporting the work of other writers with her intensive one-on-one dramaturgy practice. DC area credits include Round House Theatre, Studio Theatre, Rorschach Theatre Company, Imagination Stage, and Adventure Theatre. Off-Broadway credits include Roundabout Theatre Company. Regional credits include TheatreSquared, Nashville Repertory Theatre, and Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

Jeremy Stoller has dramaturged the development and premiere productions of new plays, musicals, TYA, and movement-based work. World premieres: Marin Gazzaniga's The Unbelieving (The Civilians), Peter Gil-Sheridan's This Space Between Us (Keen Company), Ken Urban's A Guide for the Homesick (Huntington) and Nibbler (Rattlestick); Birds of Paradise (Pioneer Winter Collective); L M Feldman's A People (Orbiter 3); Paper Canoe's Light ; Thomas Choinacky and John Jarboe's Beaut and R. Eric Thomas's Will You Accept This Friend Request? (First Person Arts Festival).
Cofounder, Beehive Dramaturgy Studio. BA, English – Drew University. MA, Gender and Sexuality Studies – CUNY. For more: beehivedramaturgy.com.

Carol Ann Tan is a Singapore-born director and dramaturg. She has worked with Court Theatre, Writers Theatre, TimeLine Theatre, Silk Road Rising, The Gift Theatre, Theater at Monmouth, Sideshow Theatre, First Floor Theater, PrideArts, The Comrades, SoloChicago Theatre, Haven Theatre, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Ma-Yi Theater, NYTW, and more. She is an artistic associate at Silk Road Rising and a 2017/18 Directors Inclusion Initiate at Victory Gardens, as well as a teaching artist for the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. MFA Directing: Brown/Trinity. carolanntan.com

Ashley M. Thomas, she/her(s)/herself, was born and raised in Harlem, New York. A writer and dramaturg—she is interested in exploring the intersections of culture, politics, and Beyoncé through a Black feminist lens. She’s a proud godmother of a fiery Aries toddler. She’s dramaturged classical works, plays in development, and solo shows. Ashley is an alumna of the First Wave Urban Arts Scholarship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she graduated with her Bachelor of Social Work. She recently graduated with her MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Yale School of Drama. Ashley enjoys a good fiction book, well-designed concert merch, and cooking for her loved ones.

May Treuhaft-Ali is a playwright and dramaturg from Queens, New York. Her dramaturgy credits include The Band’s Visit at TheatreSquared in Fayetteville, The Wish: A Manual For A Last-Ditch Effort To Save Abortion In The United States Through Theater, and Kiss by Guillermo Calderón at Haven Theatre in Chicago. She also served as Associate Director on the world premiere of Shhhh by Clare Barron at Atlantic Theater. As a playwright, her plays have been developed at Page 73, EST/Youngblood, Rattlestick, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, The Playwrights Realm, The Movement Theatre Company, MCC Theater, Barrington Stage, South Coast Repertory, Cleveland Play House, and the Cape Cod Theatre Project.

Luke Daniel White is a Brooklyn-based dramaturg focused on new work development. He has collaborated on various productions, readings, and workshops seen at Ars Nova, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Prelude Festival, Dutch Kills Theater Company, The Tank, South Coast Repertory, Cleveland Play House, and the FSU/Asolo Rep Conservatory. He is also a reader for Playwrights Realm and the New Harmony Project. M.F.A. in Dramaturgy from the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop. He proudly co-facilitates a monthly virtual playwrights workshop for his fellow graduates, cheekily named the Iowa River Rejects. lukedanielwhite.com for more.