Aimee Doherty*, (Sherlock Holmes, et al.) Central Square: Car Talk: The Musical! Recent credits include: Thirst (Bridget) at Lyric Stage, Indecent (Halina/the Middle) at Wilburly Theatre, Addams Family Values (Morticia) at Wheelock Stage, and The Stranger (Edith) at the Barnstormers, and Merrily We Roll Along (Gussie) at the Huntington Theatre. Other regional theaters include: Shakespeare & Company, Company One, Umbrella Arts, Moonbox Productions, SpeakEasy Stage, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Ballet, New Rep, Greater Boston Stage, Gloucester Stage, and Theatre By The Sea, among others. Aimee soloed with the Boston Pops under the baton of Keith Lockhart and appeared in the film Don’t Look Up. She is a two-time recipient of the Elliot Norton Award and a three-time recipient of the IRNE Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical.  www.aimeedoherty.net  

Mfoniso Udofia’s plays, Sojourners, runboyrun, Her Portmanteau, and In Old Age have been seen at the American Conservatory Theater [A.C.T.], New York Theatre Workshop [NYTW], The Playwrights Realm, Magic Theater, National Black Theatre, Strand Theater Company, and Boston Court. She’s the recipient of the 2017 Helen Merrill Playwright Award, the 2017-18 McKnight National Residency and Commission at The Playwrights’ Center and is a member of the New Dramatists class of 2023. Mfoniso is currently commissioned by A.C.T., Hartford Stage, Denver Center, A.C.T., Roundhouse, and South Coast Repertory. Her plays have been developed by Manhattan Theatre Club, A.C.T., NYTW, The Playwrights Realm, McCarter Theatre, OSF, New Dramatists, PCS’s JAW Festival, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, The OCC, Hedgebrook, Sundance Theatre Lab, Space on Ryder Farm, Page 73, New Black Fest, Rising Circle and more.

Larissa Lury is a theater director, an associate professor at New Mexico State University, a deviser, and a former acrobat. She seeks artwork and experiences that open her to new ways of looking at the world around her, and strives to create those experiences for others. She’s directed and workshopped plays for companies including: San Diego Rep, Nashville Rep, American Shakespeare Center, The Assembly, Cherry Lane (Mentor Project), The Playwrights’ Center, Urbanite, Portland Center Stage, Southern Rep, InterAct, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Ma-Yi, The Playwrights Realm, New Jersey Rep, Keen Company’s Keen Teens, McCarter Theatre’s Youth Ink!, and Curious Theatre Company. Larissa’s grateful for the support she’s received for her work, including as a member of the inaugural group of National Directing Fellows, through The Drama League’s Next Stage Residency, a New Georges Audrey Residency, an LMCC Process Space Residency, as Resident Director at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and a chashama AREA Award recipient. She was a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, is a part of the National Alliance of Acting Teachers, and is a New Georges Affiliate Artist.  She received a BS from Northwestern University and an MFA from UC San Diego. She works to cultivate practices, processes and structures for our field that are as innovative, equitable, inspiring, productively malleable, supportive and humane as an industry built on creativity warrants (so if you’ve got ideas and want to talk about how to do that better, please reach out!).  larissalury.com

L M Feldman is a queer, feminist, GNC playwright who writes theatrically audacious, physically kinetic, ensemble-driven plays that are both epic & intimate. Plays that shift the prism, that quest & grapple. Plays about the women and queers in the shadows & footnotes & margins of history. Plays wrestling with voice & agency, opportunity & access, history & its wake. Plays that explode space & time & dramaturgical form. Plays that seek to create a truly COMMUNAL & TRANSCENDENT experience – for those both onstage and off. L’s work includes: S P A C E (Central Square Theater); HAND FOOT HAND  (Playwrights Realm); LIMBER (Emerson Stage); THRIVE, OR WHAT YOU WILL (American Shakespeare Center); ANOTHER KIND OF SILENCE (City Theater Company, Curious Theatre, The Vortex); SCRIBE, OR THE SISTERS MILTON, OR ELEGY FOR THE UNWRITTEN (Playwrights’ Center); THE EGG-LAYERS (New Georges/Barnard College); GRACE, OR THE ART OF CLIMBING (Denver Center); A PEOPLE (Orbiter 3); and TROPICAL SECRETS, OR ALL THE FLUTES IN THE SEA (Children’s Theatre of Charlotte). A finalist for the FEWW Prize and the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Drama, L’s work has also been nominated for the Herb Alpert Award, Wendy Wasserstein Prize, Barrie & Bernice Stavis Playwright Award, Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award, and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, among others. They couldn’t be more grateful for the validation each of these has offered. L is also ongoingly thankful to have been a fellow at MacDowell, the Playwrights Realm, New Georges, InterAct Theatre, and the Dramatists Guild; a winner of Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries; an alum of Yale School of Drama and the New England Center for Circus Arts; and part of the 2022-2023 Artistic Caucus. And they are over the goshdarn moon to be a Venturous Playwright Fellow through the Playwrights’ Center. As a circus artist, L performed duo trapeze at festivals around the world. They continue to work as an Artistic Coach/Dramaturg for circus artists around the country. L has lived in seven cities and is based in Philadelphia, where they write, collaborate, advocate, and teach.