is a writer and independent producer based in Los Angeles. She recently helped to produce Boobah: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, and has written and produced short films that are in various stages of post. She graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Dramatic Writing and works at a film and television production company in addition to her indie endeavors. Jessica prides herself on having all of the world’s hardest jobs—philosopher, assistant, girl, Pisces. Her next project is a neo-noir comedy about you and all of your friends.

Olivia Hunt is a New York based writer from Philadelphia. She is a Goldwater Fellow at NYU’s Lillian Vernon House for Graduate Studies in Creative Writing (Nonfiction) and holds a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Her plays have been produced by HERE Arts and Rattlestick Theater, developed by La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, Playwrights’ Center, The Tank, and IRT Theater, and recognized by the O’Neill, KCACTF, Local Theater, and Oxford University Dramatic Society. Her essays have been published by Confluence Art & Research Journal, ANGLES magazine, and Roots.Wounds.Words. Her work aims to examine and create radical intimacy. Olivia is also a Bespoke Jewelry Designer at Frank Darling NYC.

is the Production Assistant on The Misanthrope and a rising senior at New York University, where she is studying playwriting.

Brandi Powell is a New York-based writer and producer from West Virginia. A graduate of New York University, she majored in Dramatic Writing and earned a minor in producing. She is now a producer for Tenth Planet Productions, specializing in documentary and music special production. Her projects at Tenth Planet include The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (Disney+/ABC/Hulu, 2023 & 2024), The iHeart Radio Music Awards (FOX, 2023 & 2024), A Grammy’s Salute to The Beach Boys (CBS/Paramount+), and Foo Fighter’s Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert (CBS/Paramount+), which spanned two live shows in London and Los Angeles. Brandi has also been an Associate Producer for Behind the Music (Paramount+) and the Emmy-nominated Drew Barrymore Show (Syndicated). When she’s not trying to overtake the world, she enjoys staring lovingly at her dog, Ringo, turning her love of reading into a competition, and running half-marathons she signed up for as a joke.

is a Los Angeles-based writer from Aspen, Colorado. She wrote, directed, starred in, and produced Boohbah: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, which sold out the Asylum Theater in New York City. She is currently writing for an upcoming mini-series. In her free time, she is working on a novel and a television pilot.

During her time at NYU Tisch, where she received her BFA in Dramatic Writing, Molly wrote a feature film called “Holy Smokes” which earned her the esteemed Venable Herndon Award for Excellence in Screenwriting.

is an Ethiopian-American writer and actress based in NYC. Named an “up and comer” by Broadway World, Mahalet’s writing has been produced by Project Y Theatre Company and the Brooklyn Comedy Collective.

Mahalet graduated from NYU Tisch with a BFA in TV writing. Fresh out of college, she landed a job as a writer’s production assistant on an HBO Max Limited Series. Mahalet is currently directing and starring in Little Rooms, a new short film. In her free time, Mahalet performs sketch across NYC with her comedy group: the Pencils of Color.

is a writer and dancer whose work centers young women in various stages of development grappling with feminism in the digital age, the difference between sexual performance and autonomy, and the general beauties and microtraumas of being socialized as a girl :,)

She graduated from the NYU Tisch Department of Dramatic Writing in 2020, where the faculty granted her the John Golden Award for Excellence in Playwriting and where she was the only undergraduate finalist for the Goldberg Play Prize. Since graduating, her work has been showcased and developed at The Kennedy Center, Clubbed Thumb, and Rattlestick, and she's received honors from organizations such as New Dramatists and Playwrights Realm. She is currently working on commissions for Adventure Theatre MTC and South Coast Repertory, and has an upcoming production of her play Marble Rooftop, Emma Has Church at Broken Nose Theatre in Chicago. When she’s not writing, Eliana can be found working the box office at Rattlestick Theater, pole dancing, or watching Dance Moms.

is a writer and theater artist from Cincinnati, Ohio.

In 2018 she graduated from the School for Creative and Performing Arts with an artistic diploma in Creative Writing. She received her B.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in Dramatic Writing.

Frances has been named a National YoungArts winner, nominated as a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, published by Samuel French, and earned recognition through the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and the Overture Awards. For the past several years she has been directing children’s theater at the Liberty Exhibition Hall, where she is also the Assistant Artistic Director.