Charity Ballard
Alexandra Collier
Andrea Kuchlewska
Dominique Morisseau
Kristen Palmer
Melisa Tien
Stefanie Zadravec
Click here for a list of Playwrights Lab Alumnae.
CHARITY BALLARD 
Contact: www.charityhensonballard.com
Charity is an actor and playwright who lives in New York City with her husband, Donald. Her first full-length play, The Quiver of Children (directed by Louis Scheeder and published in Out of Time & Place: An Anthology of Plays by the Women's Project Playwrights Lab, Volume 1 © 2010) was initially developed with the support of Voice & Vision Theater, where she was selected to be one of 2008’s core artists at their Bard College Retreat. Quiver, set in Chattanooga, was later selected to be a part of Voice & Vision’s 2008 Play Development Showcase at the Ohio Theatre (NYC). Her current projects include Muddy the Waters, originally produced by Women’s Project as part of Global Cooling at the World Financial Center, and is currently in development with Rising Circle Theater Collective; Pete the Girl, which is to be showcased in the 2010 PlayRISE Festival (Rising Circle, NYC), and the second play in the Quiver cycle, The Deep Things of God. She is also the author of Little Strong Girl (Screenplay), Memoirs of a Blactress (Screenplay), and Anniversary, a short piece. Charity’s television and stage credits include Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Rescue Me, Guiding Light, and Dance Mania Fantastic (winner of the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival –Short Film Category). Her stage credits include the American premiere of Luminosity (Playmakers Rep.), in which she won the 2004 Triangle Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Drama, Caesar and Cleopatra (Playmakers Rep.), Grace (Rising Circle), The Serpent Woman (Theater Mitu/ NYU) and many others. In addition to writing and acting, Charity conducts actor coaching and workshops on playwriting. Charity received her M.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and a M.F.A in Acting from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She is a member of SAG, AFTRA, Rising Circle Theater Collective, and Women's Project Lab.
ALEXANDRA COLLIER
Contact: www.alexandracollier.com
Alexandra is a playwright from Australia, based in Brooklyn, New York. Her plays include The Red Letterbox (Weasel Festival, East 13th St Theater), Holy Day (Telephone Festival, Overturn Theatre Ensemble), Underland (Page to Stage, Dixon Place), Deathless (finalist at Synchronicity, Atlanta as part of the SheWRITES series and developed at the Lark), The Will of the Cockroach (directed by May Adrales for The Australia Project, the Production Company.) She performed in the premiere of Still Waiting (La Mama, Melbourne), which subsequently toured to the Adelaide Fringe Festival and was awarded the RE Ross Trust National Playwrights Award, profiled in the Australian Scriptwriting Centre's collection of the best Australian plays of 2006 and in their Stand Alone monologue audition collection. Other awards, fellowships and grants include: MacDowell Fellowship, Ian Potter Cultural Trust travel grant (Australia), the Dame Joan Sutherland Award (New York) and Highly Commended in the Marian Eldridge Women's Writing Award (Australia).
ANDREA KUCHLEWSKA
Contact: www.andreakuchlewska.com
Andrea Kuchlewska's plays include Complete (FringeNYC & FringeNYC Encore Series; Bay Area Playwrights Festival; finalist, Princess Grace Award), Human Fruit Bowl (Prague Fringe Festival, winner Kreativni cena (Creative Award); Amsterdam Fringe Festival; Hong Kong Microfest), And So We Became American (FURY Factory Festival, San Francisco), Penultimate (Safe Mode Productions, NYC), Why (The Barrow Group, NYC), The Envelope (The Barrow Group, NYC), among others. Her work has also been developed or produced in San Francisco at The Z Space Studio, The Marsh, Venue 9, and Climate Theatre. Andrea is a recipient of a Theatre Bay Area CA$H Grant and the Tournesol Residency for Emerging Playwrights. She is a member of the 2010-2012 Women’s Project Lab, the Dramatists Guild, the League of Professional Theatre Women, and FAB Women at The Barrow Group Theatre Company. Andrea is also a former artist in residence at The Z Space Studio (San Francisco). She holds a BA in linguistics from UC Santa Cruz and an MFA in playwriting from San Francisco State University.
DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU 
Contact: dominiquemorisseau at yahoo.com
Dominique, writer and actress, is a current member of the 2011 Public Theater Emerging Writer’s Group and the 2010-2012 Women’s Project Playwrights Lab. Her play, Follow Me To Nellie’s, was developed at the 2010 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and produced at Premiere Stages in July 2011. Her produced one-acts include: Third Grade (FTT Festival), Black at Michigan (Cherry Lane Studio/DUTF), Socks, Roses Are Played Out and Love and Nappiness (Center Stage, ATH). Dominique’s commissions include: love.lies.liberation (The New Group) and Bumrush (Hip Hop Theater Festival). Dominique is currently developing a 3-play cycle on her hometown of Detroit, entitled “The Detroit Projects”. The first play in the series, Detroit ’67, was developed at The Public Theater and was a finalist for the 2011 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Dominique has worked as an actress with BET/Viacom, The Lark, Women’s Project, McCarter Theater, NYSAF, and MCC Theater. Her work has been developed with: the Kennedy Center, African Continuum Theater,
Classical Theatre of Harlem and published in NY Times bestseller- “Chicken Soup for the African American Soul”. Dominique is a Jane Chambers Playwriting Award Honoree, a two-time NAACP Image Award Recipient, a nominee for the Wendy Wasserstein Playwriting Prize, a finalist for the Leah Ryan Prize for Emerging Women Playwrights, and a runner-up for the 2011 Princess Grace Award.
KRISTEN PALMER 
Contact: krispalmer at gmail.com
Kristen is in the 2010-12 Women’s Project Lab and the 2010-11 Dramatists Guild Fellows Program. She is the recipient of a 2011 Connecticut State Individual Artist Grant from the Department of Culture and Tourism. She received the 2008-09 Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights’ Center. Kristen is an associate artist of New Georges and a Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab alumna. She was Playwright-in-Residence at the William Inge Center for the Arts and has designed and implemented arts programs to engage students in their own creative processes at schools, camps and treatment centers in NYC, Connecticut, Seattle, Minneapolis, London, Kansas, Atlanta and Washington DC. Her full-length plays include Sacrifice, The Stray Dog, The Melting Point, Local Story, The Heart In Your Chest, Departures, All the Girls Love Bobby Kennedy and Gloucester Point. They have been produced and/or developed with Rising Phoenix Rep, New Georges, Blue Coyote, The Playwrights’ Center, P73, Soho Rep, Circle X, FLUX, The Orlando Shakespeare Festival and others. Her short plays include Confidence, Quiet Killers, Esther, Writing the Girl, Something Decent, Disconnected, Children Cover Your Ears, Marina and the Pole, The Ruby Red Wrench, Verilee and Sad (co-written with Adam Szymkowicz). These have been commissioned and/or produced by FLUX Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Blue Coyote, Theatre of NOTE, Point of Contention, Six Figures Theatre Co, Printer's Devil, Boston Theatre Marathon, Bedlam Theatre among others. Kristen was a company member of Printer’s Devil Theatre in Seattle from 1998-2002. With Printer's Devil she directed the touring garage rock opera, Herbert Matthews Goes to the Sierra by Herbert Bergel, originated the role of The Girl in Heidi Schreck's Stray, co-curated the New Play Bonanza (12 plays in 12 weeks), curated and founded Squatter's Rights Nights, directed readings of plays by Sheila Callaghan, Julia Edwards and William Monigold, performed in workshop productions of plays by Dmitry Lipkin, Aaron Thomas, Kip Fagan, Herbert Bergel and David Vegh, served as stage manager on several projects and played clarinet in The Dimpled Midwesterners and on Rat Cat Hogan's album Vitamins & Calcium. She studied Dramatic Arts at Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds in West Yorkshire, UK where she earned a First Class Honors BA. She completed a MA at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study where she worked with the Creative Arts Team, studied playwriting and implemented a project-based thesis with 8th graders: Teaching Creative Writing through Drama. Currently she is pursuing an MFA in playwriting at Hunter College, and leading theatre and creative writing residencies in NYC public schools. She is working on a commission from Blue Coyote Theatre Group and developing two other plays with Women's Project and The Dramatists' Guild Labs. She is a writer and regular participant at FLUX Sundays.
MELISA TIEN
Melisa's plays have been developed and/or produced in New York City: Refrain (Wild Project), Familium Vulgare (Rising Circle/Theatre Row, New Dramatists, Subjective/Under St. Marks Theatre), Underdogs and Hi-Profile (NY Madness/Primary Stages Studios), Daughter of Heaven (Theater for the New City, Manhattan Theatre Club Creative Center), Ginger (Ensemble Studio Theatre), The Secret Life of the Office Worker (Theater at Riverside Church), Yes, Madly (Second Stage), The Hiding Place (59E59), Azad Nazem [Free Verse] (Manhattan Rep), and Odyssey (The Tank/Collective Unconscious); in Garden City, NY: Hindsight (Adelphi University); in Baton Rouge, LA: Hindsight (Hatcher Theater); in Aspen, CO: The Hiding Place (Theater Masters/Black Box); and in Mumbai, India: Daughter of Heaven (Mumbai University). She has presented work at the Women Playwrights International Conference and the Great Plains Theatre Conference co-founded by Edward Albee; she was a 2007 Winner of the Theater Masters MFA Playwright Award and a recipient of a 2011 residency at Byrdcliffe; and she has taught playwriting to kids via 52nd Street Project, Q Up, and Center for Talented Youth, and to undergraduates and grad students via Columbia University. Melisa holds a BA in English from UCLA, an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University, and a Culinary Diploma from the French Culinary Institute. She is a proud member of the New York Women’s Culinary Alliance, the League of Professional Theatre Women, and the 2010-2012 Women’s Project Lab.
STEFANIE ZADRAVEC 
Contact: www.szadravec.com
Stefanie’s plays have been produced/developed at The Kennedy Center, Play Penn, Theater J, The Working Theater, The Women’s Project, The Barrow Group, Bay Street Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse and Theater of the First Amendment. Honey Brown Eyes (Theater J, Washington D.C.; Working Theater, NYC) received the 2009 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play and was published in American Theatre magazine. The Electric Baby (Play Penn, Philadelphia) was a 2011 O’Neill Conference finalist and received the Women in Arts and Media’s 2011 Collaboration Award. Save Me received the Baltimore Playwrights Festival’s Carol Weinberg Outstanding New Play Award as well as the Phoenix Theatre’s National Playwriting Award. Collaborative work includes The Fear Project (The Barrow Group), 167 Tongues (Theatre 167), You Are Now The Owner This Suitcase (Theatre 167) and the upcoming We Play for the Gods (The Women’s Project). She has been awarded fellowships from The Dramatists Guild, Playwrights Realm and The Sewanee Writers Conference. Her short plays have been published in two PlaySource anthologies. Stefanie is a member of New Dramatists and the 2010-2012 Women’s Project Lab. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and twin sons.
|
