Kate Rigg
November 2026 November 11:30-4:30 pm at LaMama Galeria on Great Jones St. Speak Up! Speak Out! Speak Up! (Ages 14-22) This FREE workshop unlocks the power of your imagination through guided exercises and improvised musical accompaniment. We will show you how to think about poetry, create theatricali
Ethan Luk
Ethan Luk is a writer born and raised in Hong Kong. His prose and poetry are published in Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Asia Art Archive, ArtAsiaPacific, Sine Theta Magazine, and The Adroit Journal among others. Morgan Jenness Playwrighting Fellow 2026.
Francisco Mendoza
Francisco Mendoza is an Argentinian writer currently living in Brooklyn, NY after spending several years in Brazil. Morgan Jenness Playwriting Fellow 2026.
Yasmeen Bou Chaaya
Yasmeen is a film and theatre writer, director and actress. Hailing from Mount Lebanon, with a layover in Paris where she earned her Master's in screenwriting and directing, she finally landed in the big apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur New York.
MIZUHO KAPPA
MIZUHO KAPPA is a choreographer and performing artist originally from Osaka, Japan, with a degree in Entomology.
Banna Desta
Banna Desta is an Eritrean and Ethiopian-American writer for the stage and screen who crafts stories about and for people of African descent.
Abigail C. Onwunali
Abigail C. Onwunali (she/her) is a Nigerian-American storyteller whose work spans playwriting, performance, and poetry. A graduate of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and an inaugural member of Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Mentorship Program, Abigail creates ritual-driven work that conjures
Leslie Gauthier
Leslie Gauthier (she/her) is a playwright and actress. She writes about mortality, desire, climate hope and climate grief to reveal and strengthen our collective relationship to the natural world.
William PK Carter
William PK Carter (she/he/they) is a puppet artist and quilter based in Central Valley, New York. She bridges the puppet and fine art worlds by fabricating wondrous creatures and fantastical musical vignettes that exist at the intersection of queerness and blackness.
Scout Davis
Scout Davis (they/them) is a queer non-binary performance artist/director.
