Andrew Rincón is a Queer Colombian - American playwright and playwriting teacher. They write stories filled with imagination, epic plays that reshape myths of the Gods into modern queer parables (in English, Spanish and Spanglish). Their plays have been presented and developed with The Latinx Playwrights Circle, The Austin Latino New Play Festival, The Latinx New Play Festival (San Diego), Teatro Chelsea (Chelsea, MA), Out Front Productions (Atlanta). Andrew was a member of INKtank Lab for Playwrights of Color (2017) , 2017 Fornés Playwriting Workshop (Chicago). Winner of the 2018 Chesley/Bumbalo Grant for writers of Gay and Lesbian Theatre, and New Light Theatre Project’s New Light New Voices Award (2019). Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellow (19-20), MacDowell Fellow (Winter 2020). Skidmore College’s Visiting Playwright in Residence (21-22). Finalist in LGBTQ Drama for the 36th Lambda Literary Awards 2024. They have taught playwriting at various universities and educational settings; Skidmore College, Yale College, The Dwight Edgewood Project, Saint Ann’s School, The Yale Prison Initiative/ University of New Haven. Their play I Wanna **** like Romeo and Juliet had it’s world premiere in NYC at 59e59 Theatres (Fall 2022), is published by Concord Theatricals, and continues to be produced around the country. B.A Theatre Florida State University, M.F.A in Playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.

Keelay Gipson is an Afro-Surrealist writer and educator whose plays include ESTATE SALE (world-premiere Barrington Stage Company; commissioned by The Old Globe), demons. (Bushwick Starr/¡Oye! Group), kinfolk (O’Neill Finalist), #NEWSLAVES (Princess Grace Finalist, Seven Devils Finalist), DOT DOT DOT (Book; Music and Lyrics by Sam Salmond) based on the NYTimes best-selling Creatrilogy by Peter H. Reynolds (TheaterworksUSA). AWARDS: Laurents / Hatcher New Play Grant, New York Stage and Film Founders’ Award, Barrington Stage Spark Grant, Kernodle New Play Award. FELLOWSHIPS: Victory Gardens Playwrights Ensemble, Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists, Lambda Literary New Voices, Playwrights Realm, Dramatist Guild Foundation. RESIDENCIES: MacDowell, City of New York Public Artist in Residence (PAIR), The Hermitage Artist Retreat, Play Group @ Ars Nova. His work has also been developed/supported by Barrington Stage Company, Bushwick Starr, Laurents / Hatcher New Play Grant, Roundabout, The Old Globe, Artist Repertory Theater, Ars Nova, Playwrights’ Realm, Dramatist Guild Foundation, New Dramatists, Classical Theater of Harlem, and New York Theatre Workshop.