Contributors

Grace Burdick
Grace, a lifelong performer, is a NYC based Actor, Dancer and Choreographer. She holds a BFA in Dance from UC Santa Barbara, where she received first place in the Corwin Awards for Outstanding Choreography. She most recently starred in the feature film Her For Us (grubpresents) which had a decorated festival run in 2023. 

 Lee Harrison Daniel
 Lee Harrison Daniel (they/them/theirs) is a Brooklyn-based theatre maker writing about transformation, cosmic happenings, and the moment before. Their work has been produced by RE/VENUE NYC, IHRAF, The Brick, The Tank, Water House Collective, The Spade Collective, and First Kiss Theatre Company, where they currently serve as co-artistic director.

Mikhail Dorfman
Mikhail is a Baltimore-based designer and photographer.

Marshall Gibbs
Marshall Logan Gibbs is a Baltimore-based playwright with several produced plays: SCAM ARTIST and NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY (Truest Ethos Theatre Company), MONSTER OR #ME TOO, BRUTE (Maryland Theatre Collective), MY DAUGHTER IS A DEMON (Community College of Baltimore County & Eclectic Full Contact Theatre) and ABSTRACTED (Dover Little Theater). Critics have called their characters "relatable, human despite their flaws, and fully fleshed out" and their dialogue "110% believable." They are a genderfluid, queer, neurodivergent artist, and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. 

Natasha Joyce
Natasha is a writer and performer based in the Pacific Northwest, though she currently owns zero flannel. Her work can be found in Points in Case, Slackjaw, Westwind and on Substack. She received an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA and works in media accessibility.

Shaawan Francis Keahna
Shaawan Francis Keahna is a writer, lapsed film bro, and enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Minnesota Ojibwe. His first chapbook, Mayday, was published by Bottlecap Press in 2023 while he was a writer-in-residence at Cranberry Lake Biological Station. He won a 2024 Rubys award in literary arts from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation. Baltimore is his home.

Sydney Kurland
Sydney Kurland is an NYC-based writer and performer. Recent writing credits include: Somebody In Bumf*ck, Montana Loves Me (Finalist: Goldberg Play Prize; Workshop: NYU Tisch; Presentations of excerpts: EPIC Players, Purple Light Productions), I Would Say George Costanza Is My Spirit Animal But I Won't Because That's Not Politically Correct (Current Semi-Finalist: Jewish Plays Project), In The Time It Took To Complete A Half-Assed Attempt At A Calc Worksheet (Production: Broke People Play Festival; Finalist: Spectrum Theatre Ensemble), On The J-Train, a short musical (Book Writer; Reading: NYPL for The Performing Arts). Sydney is a company member of EPIC Players, the Brooklyn-based neurodiverse theatre company with whom she performs often.  

Buddy LaBelle
A queer and neurodivergent voice that just wants to be heard, Buddy is a senior with a Comprehensive Theatre Major at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He is set to graduate this spring and is excited to start working more experimentally in the theatre world. Outside of theatre, Buddy also enjoys photography, poetry, and is fascinated with bees.

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Trans human assigned alien at birth.
I AM A
Game Designer, Artist, Amorphous Blob of Flesh Colored Paste
I’d love to draw your teeth

Louis DeVaughn Nelson
Playwright, Choreographer, Dramaturg...Louis DeVaughn Nelson (aka DeVo) is a proud Black/Queer interdisciplinary artist whose creations have been presented in USA, Europe, Australia, and Asia. His writing has been published in several blogs, anthologies, and journals including "The Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora". He is a member of The Dramatist Guild of America and was the co-recipient of The Carlo Annoni Prize for LGBT Plays in 2022 for the translation of "Happy Reincarnation!" by German artist Christoph Schlemmer and is a NYFA Queens Art Fund 2024 Grant Recipient. He has been presenting work as the collective Hokum Arts since 2006, with the mission “say something new. make something happen.” He has a passion for conceptual art, absurdist theatre, new media, and several genres of horror. He lives in New York City.

Ania Upstill
Ania Upstill (they/them) is a queer and trans performer, director, theatre maker, teaching artist and clown. A graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre (Professional Training Program), Ania’s recent work celebrates LGBTQIA+ artists with a focus on gender diversity. Ania frequently creates work under their company Butch Mermaid Productions (BMP), including Antonio! in 2023, a new punk pirate musical about Shakespeare’s queerest character. Other BMP shows include Too Much Hair, a musical cabaret about gender euphoria (2022), Into the Bush, a queer circus-theatre project (2021), Proud Voices, an audio festival that played internationally in three major cities (2020, 2021) and Transhumance, Ania’s solo clown show about the experience of being transgender (2019). Outside of BMP, in 2023 they performed in War and Play, a clown show about the war in Ukraine in the Criminal Queerness Festival by National Queer Theater, as well as devising and performing in Today’s Mess, a clown show about diversity, at Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theater Off-Off-Broadway. Other projects include producing a drag installation in the Auckland Botanic Gardens (2022) and directing and directing Queer ballet Sapphic Lake (2021). Performance credits include In Many Hands (Brooklyn Academy of Music); Thou Shalt Not (Thinkery & Verse); and R+J: A Genderqueer/Female Reimagination (Hypokrit Productions).

Gavin Witt
Gavin Witt has been making, shaping, and teaching theater for a long, long time—in Chicago, DC, Baltimore, and around the country. Most often as a dramaturg, professor, director, and creative producer as well as sometimes a translator, adaptor, actor, and (more recently) writer. In addition to nearly 20 years as associate artistic director at Baltimore Center Stage, he’s taught on faculty at University of Chicago, DePaul, Swarthmore, and locally at Johns Hopkins/Peabody, Notre Dame of Maryland, and Towson.