Sarah Gubbins is a Chicago playwright. Her plays include Fair Use, In Loco Parentis, The Water Play, and The Kid Thing. Her plays have been produced at Steppenwolf Theatre, Actor’s Express, and Next Theater. Her plays have been developed at the Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, the Goodman Theatre, American Theater Company, About Face Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, Next Theatre Company, among others. She was a finalist for the Heideman Award, the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award, and a semi-finalist for the 2011 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Sarah is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists, an Artistic Associate at About Face Theatre and the 2010-11 Carl J. Djerassi Playwriting Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a M.F.A. in Writing for the Screen + Stage from Northwestern University.

Rachel Jendrzejewski (yen-shzay-EFF-skee) has written, performed and/or otherwise collaborated on theatre, film, music, and public art projects throughout the U.S. and internationally. Her plays include Meronymy; Encyclopedia; Grace Note; Bacteria; Bluebird; and Harpsichord Capable of Playing at the Normal Level, and More Strongly. Her work has been developed or produced by Padua Playwrights/ArtShare L.A., Playwrights Horizons, American Repertory Theater’s New Voices Series, Rhode Island School of Design, Pell Chafee Performance Center, Granoff Center for Creative Arts, Theater Masters, the Conflux Festival, and the Listening LabOratory, among others. She has worked closely with Cornerstone Theater Company and Padua Playwrights in Los Angeles since 2004 and 2007, respectively; and from 2008-2009, she served as Assistant Coordinator of the UNESCO-declared Grotowski Year 2009 through the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, Poland. Honors include a Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, a residency at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Theater Institute, two residencies with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (Poland), and travel/project grants from the Brown University Graduate School and Creative Arts Council. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brown, where she studied with Erik Ehn and Lisa D'Amour. http://rachelka.com

Enrique Urueta's plays include The Johnson Administration, The Danger of Bleeding Brown, Learn To Be Latina, and Forever Never Comes. His plays have been developed or produced by The Queer Cultural Center, Playwrights Foundation, Lark Play Development Center, Impact Theatre, Golden Thread Productions, Crowded Fire Theater Company, and Stray Cat Theatre with forthcoming productions by Monkey Wrench Collective and The Lobster Theater Project. He has received a Theatre Bay Area CASH grant, a Theatre Bay Area New Works Fund award for Forever Never Comes and was selected by Sir David Hare as a runner-up for the 2009 Yale Drama Series prize for The Danger of Bleeding Brown. Learn To Be Latina received Aurora Theatre Company's Global Age Project award, won the inaugural Great Gay Play contest sponsored by Pride Films & Plays, and was named Best Ensemble Comedy of 2010 by the SF Weekly, which also named him Best Up-And-Coming Playwright of 2010. Southern Theatre Magazine identified him as one of "40 Groundbreaking Playwrights" who are "changing the U.S. theatre." He is a proud member of NoPassport, an on-line collective of theatre artists who advocate for cross-cultural theatrical exchange, with an emphasis on US Latina/o and Latin American theatre. BA: The College of William & Mary; MFA: Brown University.

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.