Rita Anderson's (Lightning Girl, MNWL 2022) plays, including Early Liberty, Final Conversations, The 27 Club, and Woman Hollering Creek, have received hundreds of productions across the country. Rita won the Ken Ludwig Playwriting Award, served as a Dramatists Guild Regional Representative, and worked on the writing faculty at Interlochen.

 Amanda Andrei (Black Sky, MNWL 2019) was named one of three 2023 Rising Leaders of Color by the Theatre Communications Group. Her play Mama, I Wish I Were Silver, won the Jane Chambers Award in 2022 for Feminist Playwriting and was a Blue Ink Award Finalist in 2023. She writes epic, irreverent plays from the perspectives of diasporic Filipina women, and she co-translates from Romanian into English with her father, Codin Andrei. Her plays have been produced by and developed by Boston Court, La MaMa, Echo Theatre, Circle X, The Vagrancy, and Pasadena Playhouse. 

 Alica Daine Benning (Grief Tour, MNWL 2024) holds a BFA in Acting from USC and an MFA in Writing for the Screen & Stage from Northwestern University. She is passionate about telling stories that center mental health, trauma, dysmorphia, and nontraditional experiences of gender. She is currently based out of Phoenix, Arizona, where she teaches arts courses in local high schools with the help of her chihuahua, Wesley.

 Brendan Bourque-Sheil's (The Sparkle Wars, MNWL 2025) plays include DOGROSE PATROL (O'Neill Finalist, written with Madison Smith), SUNRISE COVEN (Stages Theatre, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Penny Seats Theatre), BETWEEN TWO CAVES (Landing Theatre, Garden of Voices), and THE BOOK OF MAGGIE (Finalist, Reva Shiner Comedy Award, Stages Theatre, Death and Pretzels Theatre Company). He has participated in the Stillwright Retreat and won the Writer's Colony's Real People Fellowship. For Alley Theatre's Department of Education and Community Engagement he's been a principal writer of 12 devised theatre plays for teens. He worked as Playwright in Residence and Literary Associate for The Landing Theatre where he hosted and produced The Landing Theatre New Works Podcast. For ten years, he has worked as a teaching artist for Alley Theatre, and a consultant in Creative Writing for the Kinder High School of Performing and Visual Arts. 

 Brandy N. Carie (How to Live Forever, MNWL 2023) is a writer and director based in L.A. Her work explores Americana, apocalypse, and what happens when nice girls get mad. Carie received the 2019 KCACTF Steinberg Playwriting Award for her post-apocalyptic play Tomorrow Game, which will be published by Samuel French. She received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Her short immersive opera The Beginning of Everything; A Love Story, was produced by The Off-Book Club in 2019 and released as an animated short film with New Opera West in 2022.

 Mark Evan Chimsky (The Pledge, MNWL Musical 2019) is the head of his own editorial consultancy. He has taught at NYU and Emerson College and is a contributor to The Huffington Post, The Good Men Project, and Thrive Global.

 Maddie Kovach (Grief Tour, MNWL 2024) received her MFA in Writing for the Stage & Screen from Northwestern University in 2022. She wrote her first play in Professor Ingrid De Sanctis’ playwriting class at JMU. Her play Study Group was produced her senior year and was a national finalist for the Gary Garrison Playwriting Award at KCACTF in 2018.

 Anya Martin's (The President's Pants, MNWL 2023) play, The President’s Pants, was developed at madison new works lab and went on to receive a semi-finalist nomination at the prestigious Eugene O’Neill Playwriting Festival in 2024. In May 2023, Martin’s Buoyant Sea premiered at the Pittsburgh International Children’s Theatre Festival. She earned her BFA from Carnegie Mellon and her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.

 John Minigan's (Sarai's Knife, MNWL 2025) Tall Tales from Blackburn Tavern, commissioned by Gloucester Stage Company, premiered there in 2023. (re)Dressing Miss Havisham, a commission from Hey Jont Productions, is in development after preliminary readings at the Dramatists Guild. The Clara Cipher, commissioned by Concert Theatre Works, is in development for a 2026 premiere. In the Scorpion's Nest (formerly Queen of Sad Mischance) won the 2022 Judith Royer Award from The Kennedy Center/ATHE, the 2022 Wigglesworth Award from Florida's Lab Theater, Gold Prize in the Clauder Competition for New England plays, and was an ONeill finalist. John's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow premiered in Boston in 2022 and has been produced in multiple venues around the country since. Noir Hamlet was an EDGE Media Best of Boston Theater 2018 selection, a Boston Globe Critics' Pick, an 2019 Elliot Norton nominee, and was produced at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe. He has developed new work with the Utah Shakespearean Festival, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Portland Stage Company, and elsewhere. John lives near Boston with his wife, the dance scholar, teacher, and choreographer Lynn E. Frederiksen. He is affiliate faculty at Emerson College and serves as Dramatists Guild Ambassador for the Boston region.

 Briandaniel Oglesby (Basement Demons and Trailer Saints, MNWL 2018) is now the Director of Theatre Arts in Austin, Texas, where he makes new work with and for teens, focusing on applying devising techniques to script-making. He has an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas, Austin and an MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from University California, Riverside.

 Kristen Lee Rosenfeld (Divided, MNWL Musical 2018) is a New York based composer and music director. She served as music director on the first National Tour of Spring Awakening and Band of Angels with collaborator Colman Domingo. Her music has been commissioned by Sprouts Children's Theatre, Red Fern Theatre, The Atlantic Acting School, American University and the Wooden O Theatre.

 Luanne Aronen Rosenfeld (Divided, MNWL Musical 2018) is a South Carolina-based playwright and lyricist. She has written the book and lyrics for Equal Time, Holly and Ivy, The Queen of Valleluna, Cardboard Castles, and Divided. She is drawn to stories that reflect the complexity and depth of human experience. She and Kristen are currently developing Chasing Gold Dust, a new musical that celebrates the women who conquered the Klondike.

 Dr. Alan Stewart (Of a Feather, MNWL 2022), a veterinary internal medicine specialist, was named a National Fellow to the Dramatist Guild in 2024-2025. Of A Feather, one of the two plays he submitted for his application, was developed through madison new works lab.