andrew kramer

Andrew Kramer (He/His/Him) is a playwright, director, and new play dramaturg originally from Cleveland, OH. He is the Literary Director of American Lives Theatre in Indianapolis, where he directed last season's production of Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery and this season's A Case for The Existence of God by Samuel D. Hunter. He is a graduate of Ball State University’s Department of Theatre & Dance and a proud alumni of the Emerging Writer’s Group at The Public Theatre. His work has been seen in Cleveland, Indianapolis, Chicago, Brooklyn, Kansas City, Lincoln, Louisville, Nashville, Houston, Williamsburg VA, New York City, Sacramento, Washington D.C, Cairns Australia and Bucharest Romania.

 

Dominique Rider

Dominique Rider is a Brooklyn-based transdisciplinary artist whose work seeks to answer the question: “What is a world unmade by slavery?” while attempting to analyze 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 producer with CLASSIX and an artist in residence at Duke University.

 

Ashley m. thomas

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. She is a proud alumna of the First Wave Urban Arts Scholarship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she graduated with her Bachelor of Social Work. Ashley 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.

 

Lexy Leuszler

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

 

tanya Palmer

Tanya Palmer is a dramaturg, creative producer, educator, and playwright who currently serves as the Assistant Dean and Executive Artistic Director at Northwestern University’s School of Communication, overseeing programming at the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts. Prior to joining Northwestern, she served as the Director of New Play Development at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago for 14 seasons and at Actors Theatre of Louisville for 5 seasons. Originally from Calgary, Canada she holds an MFA in Playwriting from York University in Toronto and an MA in Creative Writing from Concordia in Montreal. She currently lives in Evanston, Illinois with her husband Jim and their two teenagers, Harper & Theo.

 

Maren Robinson

Maren Robinson is Resident Dramaturg and a Company Member at TimeLine Theatre. She has worked on over forty productions and thirteen new plays or adaptations. Maren was an artistic intern at Steppenwolf and has worked with Broadway in Chicago, Court, Eclipse, Strawdog, Caffeine, Camenae, Lifeline theaters and the Chicago Humanities Festival. She holds a master’s degree in Humanities from the University of Chicago. She is a lecturer at The Theatre School at DePaul University, Associate Director of the Master of Arts Program in Humanities at the University of Chicago and the Chicago Metro VP of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.

 

Gavin Reub

Gavin Reub is a Seattle-based multidisciplinary director, producer, and dramaturg. He is the Artistic Director of The Seagull Project, for which he has directed at ACT Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Hugo House, Lewis and Clark College, and the Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Gavin was the Co-Founder of Umbrella Project, a new play accelerator. He was a founding member of the interdisciplinary group Cheat Day. He currently teaches at Path With Art, and Seattle University. He graduated from the University of Washington, is a member of artsEquity, a 2021 resident artist at Jack Straw Cultural Center, and a member of the 2014 Lincoln Center Directors Lab. For more: @gzreebz

 
 

Divinia Shorter

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, and host to the Collective’s podcast Bus Ride Talks. As a writer, her current focus is a YA novel and her full length play Queens. 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. University credits include UC Santa Barbara and Towson University.