MAGIC IN ROUGH SPACES 2021

JULIA IZUMI’s work has been developed and presented at Manhattan Theatre Club, Clubbed Thumb, Bushwick Starr, WP Theater, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Seattle Rep, Barn Arts Collective, The COOP, NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights’ Workshop, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Williamstown Theatre Festival, CAATA’s National Asian-American Theatre ConFest, and Pork Filled Productions. Honors for her work include the OPC Dr. Kerry English Award, O’Neill’s NPC Finalist, Kilroys List Honorable Mention, and KCACTF’s Darrell Ayers Playwriting Award. She is a 2020/2021 New Georges Audrey Resident and an upcoming New Dramatists member. MFA: Brown University. www.juliaizumi.com

ELIANA PIPES is a playwright, actor, and filmmaker. She’s the recipient of the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women, the Leah Ryan Fund Prize for Emerging Women Writers, the National Latinx Playwriting Award, and a member of the 20/21 Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellowship cohort.  Her work has been developed or presented at the Playwright’s Realm Scratchpad Series, NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwright’s Workshop, Ars Nova ANT Fest, and the Fire This Time Festival. She received a BA in English from Columbia University, and has just completed the coursework on an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University.  More at www.elianapipes.com.

JULIA MARKS is an actor, writer, and theatre-maker currently based in Washington, DC. She graduated from the College of Charleston in 2017 with a BA in Theatre, and went on to train at The Gaiety School of Acting’s full-time professional actor training course in Dublin, Ireland. Upon graduating in 2019, she formed a theatre-making organization, iiiStates Collective, with two of her classmates from the Gaiety School. In February of 2020, she wrote, produced, and performed in her original show, Cove Creek Boys and Summer Girls, at the Scene and Heard Festival in Dublin. Her short plays Homing and For How Janelle Monáe Once Made Me Feel were selected and published by Fishamble, a Dublin-based theatre company, as part of their Tiny Play Challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. For How Janelle Monáe Once Made Me Feel was later produced by Fishamble as part of their Tiny Plays 24/7 online theatrical event. Over the summer of 2020, she was a member of  The Orchard Project’s Liveness Lab, and she participated in Rorschach’s Klecksography 2020, for which she wrote her short play, The New American Cookbook.”