Cory Hinkle’s plays include Little Eyes, SadGrrl13, Phosphorescence, Cipher and The Killing of Michael X. He is a co-creator of Fissures (lost and found), which was co-commissioned by Actor’s Theater of Louisville and the Playwrights’ Center and premiered at the 2010 Humana Festival. Cory is a recipient of a MAP Fund Grant and two Jerome fellowships through the Playwrights’ Center where he is a Core Member. His play Little Eyes was produced in a Workhaus Collective production at the Guthrie Theater and other plays have been produced or developed at the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, American Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theater Festival, SPF Summer Play Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, Ars Nova, Illusion Theater, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Salvage Vanguard, P73 Productions, Hangar Theater, and Red Eye Collective, among others. He has been commissioned twice by the Guthrie to write a play for their graduating class of B.F.A. students (Tiny Disasters and Until We See Three of Everything). He is a former MacDowell Colony fellow, a former resident at the Hermitage Artists Retreat and the Tofte Lake Center, a recipient of a Jerome Travel and Study Grant and a member playwright of the Workhaus Collective. His work is published by Heinemann, Playscripts Inc. and Dramatic Publishing. He earned his M.F.A. in Playwriting from Brown University.

KIRA OBOLENSKY is a playwright and writer who lives in Minneapolis. New work includes Force/Matter, with Shawn McConneloug,  The Oldest Story in the World, created collaboratively with Theatre Novi Most; Cabinet of Wonder: an impossible history (Open Eye, Minneapolis. Gas and Electric Arts, Philadelphia Barrymore best new play nomination); Raskol (commissioned and produced by Ten Thousand Things Theatre and featured on critics’ end of year lists); and Modern House, finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburne Prize. Kira is a Guggenheim Fellow and has also received fellowships and grants from the Henson Foundation, NEA and Irvine Foundations, Bush Foundation, McKnight Foundation, and Jerome Foundation. She attended Williams College and Juilliard’s Playwriting Program and y completed an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing at Warren Wilson’s M.F.A. Program for Writers. She is the author of three published books about architecture and design and is the co-author of the national bestseller The Not So Big House. A Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, Kira teaches writing at Spalding University’s low residency M.F.A. program, at Goddard College's MFA Program in Interdisciplinary Arts in Vermont,  and also at the University of Minnesota.

Joe Waechter's plays include Lake Untersee, The Strangler, The Hoot Owl (an opera for headphones), and The Memory Library. His work has been developed or produced at Playwrights Horizons, Ars Nova, American Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Perishable Theatre, The 25¢ Opera of San Francisco, 24Seven Lab, and Electric Pear. His awards include a 2008-09 Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, the Weston Award in Playwriting, and a research travel grant to Iceland for an upcoming project. His play Dragonflies is available from Dramatics Publishing, and his articles have appeared in The Dramatist magazine. He received his M.F.A. in Playwriting from Brown University.