Ana María Betancourt Ovalle is a Colombian award-winning journalist and producer based in New York City. She holds a MA in Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, with an emphasis on Arts and Culture Reporting. In 2025 she won the Nuevas Plumas Award of Narrative Journalism for her piece “El deporte más feo del mundo.” She is interested in covering stories about the intersection of identity, culture, gender, and Spanish-speaking communities.

Alexandra Jhamb Burns is a freelance arts and culture writer and audio producer whose writing has appeared in Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, the Brooklyn Rail, and Byline. Outside of her writing, she is an after school teacher in Brooklyn and a podcast obsessive.

Sammi Cannold is a Broadway, film, and television director who is one of Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30, one of Variety's 10 Broadway Stars to Watch, one of Town & Country's Creative Aristocracy, and a Drama Desk Award winner.  Last year, she made her episodic directing debut on Grey's Anatomy. In theater and opera, she has directed 15+ full-scale productions on Broadway and beyond. Additional: A.R.T. Artistic Fellow, Cirque du Soleil's Creative Cognoscenti, Sundance Writer’s Intensive & Theater Fellow, and work for CBS, ABC, Nickelodeon, and Apple TV+. BA, Stanford University; MA, Harvard University. www.sammicannold.com / @sammi.cannold 

Emily Chackerian is a Brooklyn-based dramaturg and theater journalist. She currently serves as Associate Editor on the Obie Award–winning team at 3Views on Theater and as the Artistic Assistant at Signature Theatre. Her writing has been published in The Brooklyn Rail, HowlRound, 1 Minute Critic, and more. For pop-culture musings, check out her newsletter, What I Liked This Week.

Douglas Corzine is a freelance arts journalist and critic whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, Town & Country, Interview, American Theatre, Jacobin, TDF Stages, and the Brooklyn Rail. Outside of his writing work, he is the 2025–26 TWDP Artistic Fellow at Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City.

Jude Cramer is an NLGJA Award–winning and GLAAD Media Award–nominated journalist and critic based in Brooklyn, with a focus on stories about entertainment, theater, and queer culture. When he’s not writing articles, Jude also works as a playwright by day and a drag queen by night. You can connect with Jude on LinkedIn and follow his work at judecramer.com.

John DeVore is a writer and editor who lives in Brooklyn. He’s written for Rolling Stone, Esquire, The AV Club, and others. His debut memoir, Theatre Kids, came out last year. 

Carolina Đỗ is a theatre maker, community organizer, and proud descendant of Vietnamese freedom fighters and refugees. Her writing has been supported by Soho Rep, JACK, The Movement Theatre, Ma-Yi, FGP Playground Playgroup, Episodic Theater Project, Orchard Project, MacDowell, The Hearth, Fault Line Theatre, Piper Theater, and Naked Angels. She is a Producing Artistic Leader of The Sống Collective, Creative Director of Mai House Studio and Betterfly Productions, as well as PlayCo’s Associate Director for Community Engagement.

Kate Douglas is a writer/performer and composer. Recent work includes The Apiary (New York Times Critic’s Pick, Outer Critics Circle Awards nomination), My Dog Is Dead (Ancram Center for the Arts), and Tulipa (New York Stage & Film). She is the 2024 recipient of a Jonathan Larson Grant for music and lyrics and the Next Forever Commission. Member of the Joe’s Pub Working Group; alum of the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program, Colt Coeur, and The Civilian R&D Group.

Gina Femia is an award-winning playwright and performer. Selected honors include The Kilroys’ List, Leah Ryan Prize, Doric Wilson Award, the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, and the Neukom Award in Playwriting. Gina is a former Core Writer with the Playwrights Center, and an Alum of EST Youngblood, Page73’s Interstate 73, and New Georges’ Audrey Residency. They write about being an artist in their substack, The Rejected Writer. Learn more: www.femiagina.com.

Danielle Frimer's plays include P. Pan et al., Monarchs, Mariana, and the award-winning a marriage is a story we tell and keep telling. Her work has been developed and performed at theaters nationwide and published in Smith & Kraus's Best Short Plays and The Cincinnati Review. Also an Emmy-nominated conversation designer, Danielle holds degrees from Yale and American Conservatory Theater and lives in New York's Hudson Valley with her wife and their rescue dog, Dory. daniellefrimer.com

Shoshana Greenberg is a lyricist, librettist, screenwriter, journalist, and singer based in New York City. Her musicals include Days of Rage and A Story No One Knows with Hyeyoung Kim, and Lightning Man with Jeffrey Dennis Smith. She has also written for American Theatre magazine, The Interval, and TheaterMania, and serves on the board of the Thornton Wilder Society. She hosts the musical-theater podcast Scene to Song.

Jen Gushue is a freelance theater writer with bylines in Town & Country, TDF Stages, New York Theatre Guide, American Theatre, and more. They run a blog called Calling Qs that covers the New York queer theater scene. They are also a Supervising Editor at Wirecutter.

Adam Gwon’s musical All the World’s a Stage was named last season’s Best Musical by the Off-Broadway Alliance Awards. His other shows include Scotland, PA and Ordinary Days, both of which premiered Off-Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company. IG: @gwonster / adamgwon.com

Durra Leung 柯杜華 is a Guangzhou-born, NYC-based multilingual writer and composer whose genre-bending work finds humor and heart in life’s absurdity. Most recent productions include The People vs. American Cheese (Thompson Street Opera Company, AOP-NYU Opera Lab), Hey Hey (Episodic Theatre Project), and the revised Thoroughly Modern Millie (Toho Company). His current project Durra Leung’s Lullabies for Motherf*ckers Trilogy follows three queer Chinese artists navigating love, identity, and self-worth in America across different decades. IG: @alldurra / durralueng.com

Nora Logan is a writer, playwright, and filmmaker. She runs PLAYTIME, a weekly newsletter with Off-Broadway listings and occasional reviews (submissions welcome). Her personal writing can be found at Serenity Never. playtime.substack.com; noralogan.substack.com

Peter Marks was chief theater critic for The Washington Post from 2002 to 2023. Prior to that he was a theater critic, culture writer, and national political correspondent for The New York Times. He’s served on the drama jury for the Pulitzer Prize five times, including three as chairperson, and co-hosts the theater podcast Marks and Vincentelli, with Elisabeth Vincentelli. This past summer, in London, he studied in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art’s Shakespeare acting program.

Billy McEntee is Theater Editor at The Brooklyn Rail and a 2025 Silvers Grant awardee. He teaches with The School of The New York Times each summer and also makes plays, including Slanted Floors and last year’s The Voices in Your Head, a Drama Desk nominee for Unique Theatrical Experience.

Georgie McKeon is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her writing has appeared in NYLON, Brooklyn Magazine, and some truly exquisite press releases. She also pens the charming, delightful, modest, humble Substack GEORGIE WORLD. When not scratching away, she’s planning parties, learning French, improvising, and thinking about taking tango lessons. Visit here to learn more about this darling creature.

Winter Miller is an award-winning playwright and founding member of the Obie-winning 13Playwrights. Select productions: When Monica Met Hillary, No One is Forgotten, Colored, In Darfur, The Penetration Play, and the opera No One Is Forgotten. In Darfur premiered in a sold-out run at the Public Theater, followed by an SRO performance at Central Park’s Delacorte, a first for a play by a woman. Winter wrote for The New York Times. Eartha Kitt once held her left hand for five minutes.

they/them. Broadway: Romeo + Juliet, Network. Off-Broadway: Practice (Playwrights Horizons), The Welkin (Atlantic), Grief Hotel (Clubbed Thumb/The Public), Mary Gets Hers (The Playwrights Realm), The Good John Proctor (The Connelly), Judgment Day (Park Avenue Armory), The Low Road (The Public), The Wolves (Lincoln Center/The Playwrights Realm), The Rape of the Sabine Women (The Playwrights Realm). TV: The Politician, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. BFA: NYU Tisch. Obie/Drama Desk awards. Affiliated artist of Clubbed Thumb.

Tyrone L. Robinson is an ASCAP Frederick Loewe Award–winning composer, writer, Broadway actor, and director of stage and film. His work has been heard at the Public Theater and David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. His first film, Un{H}armed, was an official selection of eleven film festivals nationwide including the New York Shorts, Big Muddy, and Harlem International Film Festivals. Tyrone’s Broadway credits include Disney’s Frozen, Swept Away, and Pirates! The Penzance Musical. IG: @TyroneLRobinson

Catherine Sawoski is a writer, critic, and bookseller based in New York City. She is a contributor to The Brooklyn Rail, Exeunt Magazine, The Harvard Review, Culturebot Arts and Media, and more.

Eben Shapiro is a writer based in New York City.

Howard Sherman is an arts administrator, writer, and advocate. He is managing director of the Baruch Performing Arts Center and has been executive director of the American Theatre Wing and O’Neill Theater Center, managing director of Geva Theatre, and general manager of Goodspeed Musicals. He is the US contributor to The Stage in London, where he wrote a weekly column for a decade, and has written for TheaterMania, American Theatre, and Stage Directions, among others. He is the author of Another Day’s Begun: Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” in the 21st Century.

Joey Sims has written for The New York Times, Vulture, American Theatre, Into, TheaterMania, Time Out, TDF Stages, Queerty, IGN, and many more. Joey is a senior critic at Theatrely and an alumnus of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Critics Institute. He runs a theater Substack called Transitions.

Tim Teeman is the theater critic of The Daily Beast. A multi-award-winning writer and editor, Tim previously worked at The Times of London for many years, including as the paper's Arts and Entertainment Editor and US Correspondent. He has also written for publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, and Town & Country, and is the author of the book, In Bed With Gore Vidal: Hustlers, Hollywood, and the Private World of an American Master. IG: @teemantim / timteeman.com

Dezi Tibbs (they/them) is a writer and dramaturg living in New York City. As a Black, genderqueer theater artist, they’re fascinated by intersectional identities, representation onstage, and the sociopolitical implications of the stories we choose to tell and how we tell them. “Dezi is the absolute real deal — inquisitive, direct, relentless in their pursuit of specificity and truth, expansive in their thinking, and absolutely bullshit-free” –Sam Pinkleton. dezitibbs.com, American Theatre, TDF Stages, Extended Play.

Bubba Weiler is a Brooklyn-based playwright and actor. His plays include Well, I’ll Let You Go and The Saviors, which will have its premier production at Atlantic Theater Company this summer directed by Jack Serio. He studied playwriting and acting at Playwrights Horizons Theater School at NYU. He has been in residency at Berkeley Rep’s Groundfloor and Mercury Store. As an actor, he played Scorpius Malfoy in the first American cast of Harry Potter and The Cursed Child on Broadway and was recently seen in Swing State at the Minetta Lane for which his performance was nominated for a Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, and Outer Critics’ Circle Award.

Mallory Jane Weiss is a playwright with a color-coded calendar. Her work has been developed at The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Clubbed Thumb, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Portland Stage Company, and Parity Productions, among others. Mallory is currently a member of the Page 73 writers' group. She was also a 2024 MacDowell Fellow and has been named a finalist for the Princess Grace Award and the Clubbed Thumb biennial commission; a semi-finalist for Page 73's Playwriting Fellowship and the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator; and a nominee for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. BA: Harvard University; MFA: The New School. www.malloryjaneweiss.com

Jisoo Hope Yoon is a writer and translator from Seoul working across fiction, theater, and video games. Alum: Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, BIPOC Critics Lab at the Public Theater. Winner of fiction prizes at Columbia Journal and Driftwood Press; novel translation forthcoming with New Directions in 2027. Video game writer at LINE Games. jisoohopeyoon.com

Jay Alan Zimmerman is an award-winning deaf creator of musicals (Off-Broadway & Lincoln Center), robot orchestras (Spotify), music visualizers (Google), art installations (Chashama Times Square), deaf music education systems (Teachers College), and his patented hearing visualizer (US Patent Office). He’s been featured in major media throughout the world and can be seen in his musical movie Brain.Storm., in the award-winning Music Magic documentary, and in the History Channel documentary 9/11: I Was There. www.ByJAZ.com