Navigating the Playwright-Director Relationship

Alma is a playwright and the founding artistic director of Brown Soul Productions, a theatre providing a platform that nurtures and amplifies the voices of women of color through the development and production of new creative works. She is the Playwright Mentor for the TSGP 2021 Director and Playwright Incubator/Mentor Program.

Amy Poisson is primarily focused on world premiere plays by female+ artists. Selected work includes 17 Minute Stories, Macha’s Livestreamed Season, The Fifth Wave by Jenn Ruzumna and Lisa Every; Blood Water Paint and Smoke & Dust by Joy McCullough; Sheathed by Maggie Lee (2019 Gregory Award winner for Outstanding New Play; 2019 Gregory Award nominee for Outstanding Actress in a Play); Happy, Happy, Happy… by Jenn Ruzumna and Lisa Every; Plays by Maggie Lee: The Flight Before Xmas at Macha and Seattle Public Theatre, A Hand of Talons, The Clockwork Professor and The Tumbleweed Zephyr produced by Pork Filled Productions.

Carolynne Wilcox is a Seattle-based actor and playwright whose plays have been produced both locally and regionally, most recently a virtual production of Clytemnestra, as well as virtual (with TSGP!) AND actual productions of A Series of Small Cataclysms (co-written with Jen Smith Anderson). Other TSGP projects have included a production of her play Loom, and an appearance as Leonato in the virtual production of Much Ado About Nothing. favorite recent roles include Ana in The Clean House, Carmen in Juan Palmieri, and La Muerte in Blood Wedding. Other recent, virtual roles include Frida Kahlo in Spanish(!!!) in Humberto Robles’ Frida Kahlo: Viva La Vida with Latino Theatre Projects, and Maggie in Honoring Choices with Grief Dialogues. She looks forward to touring Frida to Mexico and Latin America once things open up!

Drew David Combs is an actor and playwright based in Seattle. He is a proud member of Parley playwriting group, which has staged several of his scripts such as Mount Saint Nothing and Little Brother’s Body. Favorite onstage credits include Josh in the Intiman’s John Baxter is a Switch Hitter, Adam in Boy with fantastic.z, and Ben in Parley’s microproduction of Death in the Digital Age.

Maggie Lee is a Seattle playwright who creates imaginative new worlds on stage in genres like science fiction, horror, and fantasy, with productions in Seattle, New York, Seoul, Chicago, and San Francisco.

She is currently the Resident Playwright at Macha Theatre Works, a board member of Rain City Projects (an organization supporting PNW playwrights), and a member of the Dramatists Guild. Her plays are available on New Play Exchange and published by Mneme Press (mnemepress.org).

Megan Brewer is a London-based theatre director originally from Seattle, WA, USA. She has worked in multiple countries, including the United Kingdom, United States, and Russia. She primarily directs and facilitates devised pieces, adaptations, new plays, and physical theatre. Megan has an MFA in Theatre Directing from East 15 Acting School and has previously trained at GITIS in Moscow, Russia and UW in Seattle, USA. You can check out her previous work at megancbrewer.com.

Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth is the Creator and Artistic Director of Parley, a playwrights’ group. Education: UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, PCPA. Teaching: Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Alliance Theater, New York Film Academy, Seattle University, SMU, Freehold Studio/Lab, Freehold’s Ensemble Training Intensive; Engaged Theater Residency at WCCW. Her plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, and elsewhere. As a director, she has helmed over 70 world premieres in the last seven years.