Round Up On Technology

Dec 01, 2023

Clockwise from left: Hilary Bluestein-Lyons, Shalanda R. Sims, Nabra Nelson, Matthew Libby, Buddy Hannah, Germono Toussaint, Lisa Every and Jenn Ruzumna

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Nabra Nelson

is a playwright from Egypt, Nubia, and California. Her plays have been produced and developed in Seattle, Milwaukee, San Francisco, and Minneapolis. She is a founding member of Dunya Productions and Heard Space Arts Collective, leads the Nubian Foundation, and is the co-host of the Kunafa & Shay Theater Podcast. nabranelson.wordpress.com/playwriting

Germono Toussaint

is an accomplished composer, playwright, and producer. With a career spanning two decades, his artistic journey has led to developmental opportunities at Tofte Lake Center, The Sheen Center, SimonSays Entertainment, The Tank, Hi-Arts, Musical Theatre Factory, the Obsidian Theater Festival, and CultureHub.

Hilary Bluestein-Lyons

(she/they) is a playwright, screenwriter, poet, stand-up comic, director, comedy improviser, and actor. Their plays, Call My Dead Wife and HisStory, are published through Next Stage Press. Hilary lives in Los Angeles, CA and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and Honor Roll! an advocacy group of women+ playwrights over 40.

Matthew Libby

is a writer based in Brooklyn, by way of Los Angeles. He is a 2022-2023 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow and has won the Alliance/Kendeda Prize and Neukom Award. He studied cognitive science and creative writing at Stanford, before receiving his MFA in dramatic writing from NYU Tisch.

Lisa Every and Jenn Ruzumna

(REwrights) began their creative partnership twenty years ago. As playwrights, notable work includes Happy, Happy, Happy… and The Fifth Wave both produced at Macha Theatre Works. Currently, Jenn and Lisa are Artistic Associates and Resident Playwrights at Seattle Public Theater. They believe that art elevates and connects us all and sharing stories onstage is the best way they know how to express the fragility, uncertainty, and hope of being human.

Shalanda R. Sims

is a happily married wife, proud mother, multi-disciplinary artist, and native Oregonian. She is the founder and executive director of World Stage Theatre, a Dramatists Guild, American Guild of Musical Artists, and Actors Equity Association member, and has penned several plays and a children’s book. @shalandarenaessance www.shalandasims.com

Buddy Hannah

is a playwright, director, and actor based in Kalamazoo, MI. As a playwright he has written such plays as Caught Up in The Circle of Life, Rev. Hype, Who Stole Those Church Hats, and When We Get to Christanna Creek. His directing credits include Of Mice and Men and Death of a Salesman.