Candrice Jones is a playwright from Dermott, Arkansas, whose mission is to write love letters for women of the American South. A A Steinberg playwright, VONA Playwriting alum, and CalArts Critical Studies MFA recipient, she has been a fellow at the Playwrights’ Center and MacDowell. Her play, FLEX, was developed at VONA, Ground Floor, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, then received a co-world premiere at TheatreSquared and Theatrical Outfit. Since, it has been produced at Lincoln Center Theater and Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul. Candrice has received virtual commissions from People’s Light and Actors Theatre of Louisville. In the spring of 2022, Candrice’s play, A Medusa Thread (KILROYS 2023) was developed in UC Santa Barbara’s Launchpad Series. Candrice currently lives in New York where she is working on commissions.

Lauren Yee is a playwright, screenwriter, and TV writer born and raised in San Francisco. She currently lives in New York City. Her plays include Cambodian Rock Band (South Coast Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, City Theatre, Merrimack Rep) and The Great Leap (Denver Center, Seattle Repertory, Atlantic Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Arts Club, InterAct Theatre, Steppenwolf). Honors: Doris Duke Artists Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Whiting Award, Steinberg/ATCA Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters literature award, Horton Foote Prize, Kesselring Prize, Primus Prize, Hodder Fellowship, #1 and #2 plays on 2017 Kilroys List. New Dramatists, Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab, Playwrights Realm alum. TV: Pachinko (Apple), Billions (Showtime), Interior Chinatown (Hulu), Soundtrack (Netflix). BA: Yale. MFA: UCSD.

Kareem Fahmy is an NYC-based playwright and director from Sherbrooke, Quebec. His plays American Fast (winner of the Woodward/Newman Award), Dodi & Diana, and A Distinct Society have been produced nationwide. Other plays include Riparian States, Fountains of Youth, Pareidolia, The In-Between, and an adaptation of the acclaimed novel The Yacoubian Building. Commissions: Audible, Artists Repertory Theatre, Colt Coeur, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Foundation, Unicorn Theatre, inaugural recipient of The Next Forever Commission from The Civilians and Princeton University. He’s received fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, Bogliasco Center, Sundance Theatre Lab, Hermitage Artist Retreat, Stratford Festival of Canada, Banff Playwrights Lab, The Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Phil Killian Fellow), New York State Council for the Arts, and was named a Rising Leader of Color by Theatre Communications Group. Kareem has an MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University. www.kareemfahmy.com