Kelley Curran—Off-Broadway: The DingDong (Pearl Theatre Co; Drama League Award Nomination – Distinguished Performance), ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore (Red Bull Theatre Co; Callaway Award – Best Actress, Lortel Nomination – Best Revival), Angels In America(Signature, Lortel Award – Best Revival), The Atmosphere of Memory (LAByrinth) Henry V (New Victory), Knives & Spoons Go On the Right (59E59), and work with The Drama League, Shakespeare Society and Public Theater. Selected Regional: Shakespeare Theatre of DC (D.C. Metro Arts Best Actress: Lady Percy, Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, opposite Stacey Keach), Shakespeare & Co, The Guthrie, Portland Center Stage, ASF, HVSF, The Barnstormers, and The Acting Co. Film: Dear Santa, Still On the Road. Training: Fordham, B.A. Additional honors: Princess Grace Award Nominee.  Kelleycurran.com

Shana Gozansky is a freelance director and teaching artist. Her work has been produced at Trinity Repertory Company, The Hangar Theatre, The Calderwood Arts Pavilion, The Bowery Poetry Club, Dickinson College, Manhattan Theatre Source, and The Red Room.  She has assisted on productions at Berkeley Rep, The Geffen, Manhattan Ensemble Theatre, Henry Miller’s Theater, and Trinity Repertory Company and has taught acting and directing at Brown University, College of the Holy Cross, the Hangar Theatre, and Trinity Repertory Company.  Shana holds a MFA in Directing from the Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company MFA Programs and a BA in Theater from Bard College, was an Artistic Associate at The Hangar Theatre, an Artist-in-Residence at chashama and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She  is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and is a Drama League Directing Fellow.

Best known as the Emmy-winning actor who charmed audiences of 12 season as Detective Greg Medavoy on NYPD Blue, for which he received an Emmy award, Gordon Clapp has enjoyed a distinguished career in television, film, and theater. in 1979, his career in film and television was launched with a leading role in the John Sayles cult hit, The Return of the Secaucus Seven. in 2005, he received a Tony nomination for his role as Dave Moss in the all-star Broadway revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. Since 2008, he has been working with playwright A. M. Dolan on the play This Verse Business, a one-man show about poet Robert Frost.

Melia Bensussen has directed extensively around the country since 1984, including productions at the Huntington Theatre, Merrimack Rep, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, Hartford Stage Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the New York Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Class Company, Primary Stages, the Long Wharf Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville (Humana Festival), People’s Light and Theatre Company (where she received a Barrymore nomination for Best Direction), Bay Street, and Playwrights Horizons.

Her highly regarded work with new plays has taken her to the O’Neill Theater Center, New York Stage and Film/Powerhouse, the Midwest Playlabs/The Playwrights Center, and other new play programs across the U.S. Ongoing collaborations with playwrights include such wonderful writers as Kirsten Greenidge, Annie Baker, Mat Smart, Ken Urban, Masha Obolensky, Jeffrey Hatcher, Lee Blessing, Richard Dresser, Willy Holtzman, Edwin Sanchez, Y York, and Jose Rivera, among others.

Raised in Mexico City, Melia is fluent in Spanish and has translated and adapted a variety of texts. Her edition of the Langston Hughes translation of Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding is now in its eighth printing by Theatre Communications Group.

Besides winning the OBIE award for Outstanding Direction, Melia was twice given Directing Awards by the Princess Grace Foundation, USA, including their top honor, the Statuette Award for Sustained Excellence in Directing. She is featured in
Women Stage Directors Speak by Rebecca Daniels (McFarland and Co.), and in Nancy Taylor’s Women Direct Shakespeare (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press). Her essay on Merchant of Venice was recently published in Jews, Theatre, Performance in an Intercultural Context by Brill Publishing.

A graduate of Brown University, Melia is Chair of the Performing Arts Department at Emerson College in Boston.

Laura Maria Censabella (Playwright) is happy to be back at Central Square Theater where her IRNE Award winning Best New Play (Small Stage Category) Paradise made its world premiere as part of CST’s Catalyst Collaborative@MIT program. Paradise has been produced by numerous theatres since then, most notably in Los Angeles at the Odyssey Theatre with Viola Davis and Julius Tennon as producers. She then wrote the screenplay for Vicangelo Films and JuVee Productions and an audio version of the play opened L.A. Theatre Works’ 2021/2022 season (available on Audible). Ms. Censabella is the recipient of the $10,000 Saroyan/Paul Human Rights Playwriting Prize for her play Carla Cooks The War, three grants in Playwriting and Screenwriting from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and two Daytime Emmy Awards. Other plays and musicals have been developed or produced at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays, WP Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Portland Stage, the New Harmony Project, Gulfshore Playhouse, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, The Playwright’s Laboratory in London, Northlight Theatre, The Working Theatre, Luna Stage, Passage Theatre, Mendocino Theatre Company and Urban Stages, among others. She directs the Ensemble Studio Theatre Playwrights Unit and teaches at the New School for Drama where she received the Distinguished University Wide Teaching Award. A graduate of Yale College with a B.A. in Philosophy, she is a proud member of Honor Roll! an action and advocacy group of women+ playwrights over 40. Ms. Censabella was a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook in 2023.