John Hendel's plays wrestle with the New Dread. They have been seen in the Hollywood Fringe Festival, the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, and the NY Artists, Unlimited International CringeFest. He is a multi-time participant at the Last Frontier Theater Conference in Valdez, AK, as both a playwright and an actor. He went viral on Twitter once and is now a meme. He got his playwriting MFA at Ohio University.

IG: hendyhendel

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Devin Porter is a playwright, poet, fiction writer, and dramaturg. His works analyze and examine the areas of race, social class, and identity. Devin has worked professionally with Columbia University*, Negro Ensemble Company, Alter Theater, Forward Theater Company*, Barrow Group Theatre Company, Fantasy Theatre Factory, The Playground Experiment, Caesar Ford Theatre, and The School of Thinking Making. Devin’s publications include Fjords Review, Conium Review, High Plains Register, Nzuri Journal of Umoja Community at Coastline College, Crack The Spine*, RavensPerch, and the PGE Faces of America Anthology. In 2020, Devin was a part of the AlterLab First Acts Cohort with Alter Theater in San Rafael, California. Devin holds a B.A. in English from the University of Albany, where he was a three-time Spellman Academic Award Winner. Also, he holds an M.A in Theatre with a focus on Dramatic Writing. Devin is a member of Howl Playwrights based in Rhinebeck, NY, a part of Alter Theater’s Literary Committee, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

www.newplayexchange.org/users/28895/devin-porter

Catherine Weingarten is a friendly jewish chick from an obscure area of Pennsylvania!

Catherine’s summer camp play “Are You Ready to Get PAMPERED!?” had a reading at 59E59 with Less than Rent and also was part of Dixon Place’s Bingo Lounge. Some of her other plays include: Pineapple Upside Down Cake (KCACTF:national semi-finalist), Janis and the Big BAD World (Semi-finalist at Wide Eyed Productions), A Roller Rink Temptation (NOLA Fringe), This Car Trip Suckss ( Piper Theater Productions Emerging Artist Reading Series), and Love Potion Number Slut (Tiny Rhino).

She has been involved with Abingdon Playwrights Group as well as New Perspective’s Women’s Work Short Play Lab. She is the recipient of the Scott McPherson award. She has been a reader for New Georges and is a current reader for Rattlestick. BA: Bennington College MFA: Ohio University

IG: cwweingarten

www.catherine-weingarten.squarespace.com

Amanda Rockhold is a writer whose goal is to capture the raw human spirit in her work, speaking to humanity in ways that evokes change, empathy, and understanding. Although born in California and currently living in Texas, she has spent most of her life in Ohio. There she produced and directed her full-length play Dancing in Riddles in partnership with Silver Scene Players, in addition to acting in and directing several theatrical productions.

Amanda studied and was a teaching assistant for one year in the MFA Playwriting program at Ohio University. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Communications Arts with minors in the performing arts and journalism from Urbana University. She is a member of the Dramatist Guild and is excited to bring new works to Dallas.

IG: arockhold7 | FB Page: @AmandaRockholdWriter

Wendy-Marie Martin earned her M.F.A. Playwriting from the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University and holds a B.F.A. in Acting as well as a graduate certificate in directing new work. She has performed, written, taught and directed theater in the U.S. and Europe for almost twenty years. Her work has been produced in Germany, The Netherlands, Australia, Ireland, Japan and across the United States as well. Wendy-Marie is founder & Executive Producer of The Red Eye 10s International Play Festival, which features original work for young audiences. Wendy-Marie is currently pursuing her PhD in Interdisciplinary Arts/Theatre at Ohio University with a focus in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, TCG, ATHE, The Playwrights’ Center and a board member for the International Centre for Women Playwrights. To see more about her work as a playwright, please visit her website at www.wendymariemartin.com

Will was born in Richardson, Texas but raised in the small town of Sperryville, Virginia. There, he found his love for the arts, including music and theater. When he wasn’t practicing trombone or trying to convince his uninterested classmates to listen to ska, he was writing dramatic monologues and comedic one-acts for his drama class. In the summertime, he would do small plays with the local theater group.

In 2016, Will moved back to Dallas with his parents, and he helped them open their restaurant District 9 Draught Haus. Now as an adult and in a much larger city, he discovered a new interest in stand-up comedy. These days, he mostly writes stand-up material, and short comedic sketches.

Klae Bainter is a Seattle-based playwright who is currently pursuing his MFA in playwriting at Ohio University. His work uses poetic language to examine the grotesque nature of people, their values, and the spaces they hold sacred. He developed work with Cleveland Drafts Literary Festival (2018), and even did a little performing with Manhattan Project (Cleveland, Ohio) His play “Bullshit” was part of the 2019 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival at Convergence Continuum (Cleveland, Ohio) He received his BA (cum laude) in English Literature, with a Creative Writing focus from the University of Washington. Currently, he lives in Athens, Ohio, with an obnoxious orange cat.

IG: klaebainter

www.newplayexchange.org/users/38310/klae-bainter