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Ida Cuttler, from San Francisco, California. She received her MFA in playwriting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale (‘25) where she wrote Moe is a Dick and Running Play. Other writing and performing credits include Comfortable Shoes, The Infinite Wrench and WILDCATS, the last of which was nominated for a Chicago Jeff award in 2023. Ida was a company member of The Chicago Neofuturists from 2015 to 2021.

Alex Lin is just a girl from Jersey. Plays seen at Roundabout, Second Stage, NYTW, MTC, Primary Stages, the O’Neill, Rattlestick, Working Theater, Ojai, South Coast Rep, New Harmony, Two River, Playwrights Realm, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Central Square Theatre, Amphibian Stage, and Theater Mu. Guest lectures at CMU, Rutgers, and Union College. As an actor, she has performed at NYTW, Actors Theatre of Louisville, New Victory, Fault Line, HVSF, Ma-Yi, Jewish Plays Project, Amphibian Stage, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Ojai, and Commonwealth Shakespeare. Stavis Award winner, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist, and Weissberger Award nominee. Colt Coeur Resident Artist, Rattlestick Van Lier Fellow.  Juilliard.

Ally Merkel is a Brooklyn-based playwright. She writes funny language-obsessed plays for fast talkers. Ally has developed plays with the Under Construction Playwrights Group at The Road Theatre Company and with The COOP’s Clusterf**ck vol 3 working group. Ally is an alumna of Theater Masters’ National MFA Playwrights Festival “Take Ten” (2024) and of the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals program (2022). She is a 2024 National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist and a 2023 Seven Devils Conference finalist. Her short play Carrots, about a teenage boy who wants his best friend to bite off his finger, has a forthcoming publication with Concord Theatricals. Ally’s work has also been seen at The Tank, The Fled Collective, New Perspectives Theatre Company, and The 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues. She has a BA in political science from Kenyon College and is currently pursuing an MFA in dramatic writing at NYU.