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Last year I started a podcast to highlight the work of local playwrights in the Boston area. In each episode, I produce an excerpt of a full-length play by the featured playwright and do an in-depth interview about their work and career. @bospodplay

Greg Lam
Boston, MA

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Greg Lam

is a playwright, screenwriter, and board game designer who has recently moved to the Bay Area after a lifetime in the Boston area. He is the co-creator of the "Boston Podcast Players" podcast (bostonpodcastplayers.com) Boston's virtual podcast stage for new works by local playwrights. He is the co-founder of the Asian-American Playwright Collective.

Arianna Rose

is an award-winning playwright and musical theatre writer whose works have been produced nationally and internationally in nineteen states and in Canada, England, and Germany. 2020 Dramatists Guild Regional Ambassador for the South Florida Region.

Diana Burbano

was named as part of the Los Angeles Times’ La Vanguardia. She is a Colombian immigrant, a playwright, an Equity actor, and a teaching artist. Diana has been awarded the Advance Gender Equity in the Arts Grant 2022, the Bay Area Rella Lossy Award, the Long Beach Arts Council Professional Artist Grant 2019, 2020, and was a 2021 Jane Chambers Awardee for excellence in Feminist Playwriting. She currently represents Southern California on the Dramatists Guild council.

Nandita Shenoy

is an actor-writer living in New York City. Her play Washer/Dryer has been produced multiple times across the country including an off-Broadway run in which she also starred. Her play Baby Campis currently in development, and her Rage Play (Kilroys List 2020) was in production with Flux Theatre Ensemble in New York City when the coronavirus hit. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab, and the Dorset Theater Festival’s Women Artists Working Group. BA: Yale University.