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writes plays, musicals, and opera libretti. She’s best known for her play The Women of Lockerbie, produced internationally. A winner of the Campbell Opera Librettist prize, she has written ten opera libretti commissioned and produced by Glimmerglass, Chicago Opera Theater, Cincinnati Opera, Ft. Worth, and others. She is a Fulbright Specialist in opera and theatre with the US State Dept and recently led an opera writing workshop at the Seoul Institute for the Arts.

is an American playwright, journalist, librettist, novelist, poet, and screenwriter. Her plays include The Souls of Black Folk, Ava & Cat in Mexico, and an adaptation of Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, among others. Her operas with composer (and cousin) Anthony Davis include X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X and Amistad. www.thulanidavis.com

has a writing career that spans film, opera, music-theater, and stage. Her operas with composer Randall Eng include Florida and Before the Night Sky. Other work includes Oceanic Verses with composer Paola Prestini, and Heart of a Soldier with composer Christopher Theofanidis. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and Honor Roll! www.donnadinovelli.com

was a playwright and librettist who earned a Drama Desk Award and Tony nomination for his 1985 play As Is. His other plays included A Book of Etiquette, The Cherry Orchard Part II, Children’s Crusade, and Luna. With composer John Corigliano, he also wrote The Ghosts of Versailles, which premiered at The Metropolitan Opera in 1991. Mr. Hoffman died in 2017.

’s stage works include the plays M. Butterfly, Yellow Face, Golden Child, Chinglish, and The Dance and the Railroad, as well as the musicals Soft Power, Flower Drum Song, and Disney’s Broadway and international hits Aida and Tarzan. Called America’s most produced living opera librettist by Opera News, Hwang has written thirteen operas. Ainadamar, with music by Osvaldo Golijov, made its Metropolitan Opera debut in Fall 2024 and The Monkey King, with music by Huang Ruo, will premiere at San Francisco Opera in November 2025. He is a Tony Award winner, a Grammy Award winner, a three-time OBIE Award winner, and a three-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. A professor at Columbia University School of the Arts, he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2018 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Dramatists Guild in 2025.

is the Tony Award-winning author of The Humans, Sons of the Prophet, and Speech & Debate. For his work he’s received two Drama Critics Circle Awards, an OBIE and is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. He wrote and directed a film version of The Humans for A24 Films, which will be released in 2021. www.stephenkaram.com

co-chairs the DG Opera Committee with Deborah Brevoort. His opera libretti include the upcoming Harvey Milk Reimagined, composer Stewart Wallace, at Opera Parallele in San Francisco this spring, and The Grapes of Wrath, composer Ricky Ian Gordon, presented in concert recently at Carnegie Hall. Korie’s lyrics to musicals include the Broadway productions of War Paint and Grey Gardens, composer Scott Frankel. He received the Marc Blitzstein Award from the American Academy of Arts for his work in both musical theatre and opera.

has written thirteen full-length plays, seven musicals, six movies, two operas; directed two movies, one musical, and ten plays; been a Pulitzer finalist, received three Obies, The New York Film Critics Award, the Excellence In Literature Award from the American Academy Of Arts And Letters and three Tony nominations.

is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film Moonstruck. His play, Doubt: A Parable, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play; he wrote the libretto for an opera adaptation; and directed the film adaptation. He elected to the Council of the Dramatists Guild in 2006.

is a Canada-born, Brooklyn-based librettist and lyricist who has been called “the indie Hofmannsthal” (The New Yorker) a “Metastasio of the downtown opera scene” (The Washington Post), “an exemplary creator of operatic prose” (The New York Times), and “one of the most celebrated and sought after librettists in the world” (CBC Radio). His opera Angel’s Bone with composer Du Yun was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music. www.roycevavrek.com