MEHRNAZ TIV

Mehrnaz Tiv explores her first-generation identity, Iranian femininity, sexuality, and family through her writing and dramaturgy. Her work has been developed with City Theatre, Asia Society, Noor Theatre, the Tank, the Women’s Theater Festival, Permafrost Theater Collective, Full Circle Theater Collaborative, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, and Breaking and Entering Theatre Collaborative. She is currently a member of the SWANA Writer’s Co-op at Playwright’s Horizons and TAG at the Tank. BFA: New York University Tisch School of the Arts. mehrnaztiv.com. Member of the Dramatists Guild.

SABINA SETHI UNNI

Sabina Sethi Unni is a public theater artist, director, performer, composer and writer obsessed with creating performances in unusual open spaces: from vacant lots, to open streets, to the beach, to early childcare centers, to community gardens, to public parks, to piers, to online. For more: www.sabinasethiunni.com.

MINNA LEE

Minna Lee (they/them/she/her) is a Hmong-Vietnamese American playwright and animator. Their work includes My Home on the Moon (World Premiere San Francisco Playhouse directed by Mei Ann Teo; Playwrights Foundation 2024 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist and Honorable Mention) and ACTING STRANGER with Andrew Schneider and Fox Whitney (Co-production On the Boards and LA Performance Practice). They are currently developing an installation with the Assembly Theater’s Deceleration Lab, a new play with Pipeline Theatre’s 2024 PlayLab, and filming a documentary with someone they met on Craigslist. Minna is a co-recipient of the 2024 Lanford Wilson Award, a 2024 MacDowell Fellow, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a 2022 Sesame Workshop Writers’ Room Fellow, and getting their MFA in Playwriting at Hunter College ’24. www.minnalee.net

JING DONG

Jing Dong is a theatre maker focusing on research-based interdisciplinary performance and socially-engaged art. She started making theatre as a writer, director, performer, and designer in two experimental theatre ensembles in Beijing. In NYC, she has initiated performance projects that investigate personal memories and social historical context, and experiment across disciplines. Her works have been shown in theatre venues, tents, parks, and on streets. Her recent/current projects include The Art of Losing with University Settlement, Immigrants Ask Immigrants with Korean Art Forum,  Who would you ask for directions? and Slow Dance.

ANYA RICHKIND

Anya Richkind is an empathetic, emotional, rationalizing, introverted, extroverted mystery unto herself who loves analyzing why people act and speak the way they do, reading before bed, and watching the reality TV shows Survivor and The Challenge. In her writing, Anya is compelled by the relationship between the lonely, the mundane, and the extreme. Playwriting honors include winning Brooklyn College's 2020-2021 Creative Writing Award and Brooklyn College's Himan Brown Award for Creative Writing, being a finalist in the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, the Bushwick Starr Reading Series, the Leah Ryan's Fund for Emerging Women Writers, and the Cutting Ball Theater's Variety Pack Series, and being a semi-finalist in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the Seven Devils' Playwrights Conference. Anya's work has been produced by Andy's Summer Playhouse, the Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival, Brooklyn College, Guild Hall, Corkscrew Theater Festival, The Barrow Group Theatre, Yale College, The New School for Drama, The Tank, and The American Conservatory Theater's Young Conservatory. Anya was first bitten by the playwriting bug in 8th grade, when students were allowed to submit ideas for the class musical. “Write about what you know,” they always say, which is how Anya came up with her idea: a musical called Jack’s, which revolved around a Texan family who runs a bio-diesel truck stop, the English family who moves to town, and the evil uncle who drives a Hummer and is eventually undermined by his once loyal cadre of lady motorcyclists, who, deep down, actually care about the environment A LOT! Anya graduated with a BA from Yale University and an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College. www.anyarichkind.com

EMMA RICHMOND

Emma Richmond has made theater with and at HERE, The Tank, Columbia University, Colt Coeur, and Audible, amongst others. She is currently the Programs Manager at Clubbed Thumb, and was The Tank’s 2022-23 Producing Fellow. She holds a BFA from The New School of Drama with a minor in Interdisciplinary Science. She also co-founded and currently leads Trove, a theatre and live arts collective (troveirl.com).

CARA HINH

Cara Hinh (they/she) is a queer, fat, Việt theatre maker and a hoosier. Select credits include Transfer direction of Sanctuary City at Arena Stage and Berkeley Rep, Little Women at Perseverance Theatre, Buried Ruins with the Sống Collective, love you long time (already) at Atlantic MixFest. cara has been a Drama League Fellow, member of the ‘20-22 Roundabout Directors Group, a Directing Apprentice at Actors Theatre of Louisville, SDC Observer on Hadestown and a Fellow at Baltimore Center Stage. carahinh.com

FRANCESCA SABEL

Francesca Sabel is a NYC-based director specializing in new play development. Her work tries to be easy to enter and difficult to leave, emphasizing off-kilter rhythms, uncanny architectures, and structural surprise. In addition to developing her own work at venues like the Atlantic Theater Company, BEDLAM, Studio Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, and New York City Center, she has assisted (mostly on world-premieres) for directors including Caitlin Sullivan, Knud Adams, and Steve Broadnax. Previously, she led casting and community engagement as Studio Theatre’s Creative Producer. She is a member of the TAG, the Tank’s artist group. BA: Brown University.

KALLAN DANA

Kallan Dana is a is a writer originally from Portland, Oregon. She received her MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University. Her plays include RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR (2023 O’Neill NPC Finalist, 2023 Bushwick Starr Reading Series Finalist, 2024 Fault Line Theater Irons in the Fire Semifinalist), LOBSTER (2024 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival Finalist) Lying (2022 Princess Grace Award Semifinalist), Love Story (2022 Bramble Theater Unfinished Works Festival Winner), The Great Hunger (The Tank), and Playdate (Dixon Place, funded by Jerome Foundation Grant). She is a member of the 2023-2024 Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers’ Group, a New Georges affiliated artist, and a founding member/leader of the writer-director group TAG at The Tank. She also makes work with her company Needy Lover. Upcoming: RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR. World Premiere Production with The Hearth and The Connelly Theater Upstairs, December 2024. Workshop Production with Bramble Theater in Chicago, February 2025. LOBSTER. University Premiere Production, Northwestern University, March 2025.

HANNA YURFEST

Hanna Yurfest is a director and producer. She has produced and developed work with/at Powerhouse Theater, Times Square Arts Alliance, The Tank, The Garment District Alliance, The Mitchell Center at University of Houston, visual artist Pedro Reyes, writer Nick Flynn, and the Interbalkan Festival of Ancient Drama. She is a founding member/leader of TAG at The Tank and creates work with her theater company, Needy Lover. She studied American Studies and Theater at Skidmore College. Needylover.com

MAX MOONEY

Max Mooney (he/him/she/her) is a Queer playwright, director, stage manager, producer, dramaturg and theatre educator who works primarily in New York City and the greater Philadelphia area. Max graduated from NYU Tisch's Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, studying directing and playwriting. As a playwright, his work has been seen and workshopped at Playwrights Downtown, The Wild Project, the Fresh Fruit Festival, The Tank, Rooted Theater Company and Garden Level Theater. Within all of his practices, Max focuses his energy on developing language-based new work in collaborative settings that find the intersections between poetry and theater. His plays literalize metaphors as an act of demystifying the poetic, leading the audience to ask questions of sensation instead of meaning. He believes in the highly theatrical, maximalism as a way into the heartbreak of tiny moments, actors having their backs to the audience and stepping on stage being an inherently silly act. Currently, Max is the Director of Programming at Sanguine Theater in Brooklyn. Currently, Max is the Director of Programming at Sanguine Theater in Brooklyn and the Associate Producer at Concrete Temple Theatre.