ANNIE EVANS is an Emmy Award-winning writer, from New York. (Sesame Street, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, Discovery Channel, and more) In July 2023, she debuted her enchanting play, Annika’s Elephants at Tryon Fine Arts Center to the delight of audiences, young and—of a certain age. This beautiful collaborative show will open on Broadway at The New Victory Theater this spring and then move to London in the fall. Her plays have been produced around the world and at such theatres as Actors Theatre of Louisville, Manhattan Class Company, Circle Repertory Company, The Powerhouse Theater at Vassar, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Hudson Theatre, The Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, among many others. A graduate of Brown University, for many years she was the Literary Manager and produced a year-round reading series for New York Stage and Film Company. She has taught at Gotham Writers Workshop, The National Puppetry Conference and internationally for Sesame Street in Mexico, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Northern Ireland. She has also been a consultant for UNICEF developing international theater programs.

CATE ALLEN has been published and produced worldwide. Her short play Anything For You appears in numerous play anthologies and has been made into two short films. Full-length produced works include Lick at the 78th Street Theatre Lab in NYC, Dear Vienna at the Vital Theatre Co. in NYC, and Clearance, Dead Therapist, and Louise the Destroyer at the New Circle Theatre Company in NYC. Cate created the comedy fiction podcast series Wallace Sprague, Dog Psychiatrist and its companion series Jessica Darby, Zombie Lawyer about life in a small, sunny, surreal town (www.wallacesprague.com) where people just can’t seem to quit each other. She lives just outside of New York City in her own sunny surreal town and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, Lab405, and the New Circle Theatre Company.

CATHERINE GILLET’s published and award winning plays have been produced in numerous venues Off Broadway and around the country. Wyoming, the recipient of a grant from The Jerome Foundation, was produced in New York at the 78th Street Theater Lab and it was Playbill’s “Pick of the Week” for Drama for its entire run. Pumpkins for Smallpox is published in the anthology: Best Plays and Playwrights and was a finalist for the Louisville Actors Theater Heideman Award. Anomalies of the Heart was workshopped at Lanford Wilson’s Playwrights Retreat in Sag Harbor. Winter Spring Summer Fall and Joe&Angie were both produced at the Tryon Fine Arts Center and performed in their Amphitheater series. In addition to being a playwright, Ms. Gillet is also the Co-Founder of Shakespeare and Friends in Tryon, NC. where she has directed several staged readings and productions at the Tryon Little Theater, Tryon Fine Arts Center, Rogers Park, The Upstairs Artspace, The Gunter Theater, Attic Salt and the 92nd St.Y in NYC, including True West, Outside Mullingar, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Dancing at Lughnasa, The 24 hour Plays, Our Town, Enchanted April, The Light in the Piazza, A Dolls House Shirley Valentine, Lennon, the Mobster & the Lawyer and The Climate Change Plays. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild, and New Circle Rep Theater Company.

Darlene Cah is a writer and improv actor. She has written for and performed in various sketch comedy groups in New York. In North Carolina she has had readings of her short plays and monologues at The Hendersonville Theater. Her short and flash stories have appeared in several literary publications including Black Moon Magazine, Smokelong Quarterly, Red Earth Review, among others. Her awards include the Hub City Emrys Prize, Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition, Sidney Lanier Poetry Competition, and she was a Semi-Finalist in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story competition.