Dipti Bramhandkar

Dipti is a first generation Indian-American writer living in New York City. The Farm Theater has awarded her their 2023-24 College Collaboration Project. Juggernaut Theatre Company has commissioned a site-specific, immersive play in Miami for their 2023-24 season. She recently presented her third play selected for Labyrinth’s Barn Series, Love Lake. Her other recent work includes Is There Even Porn in India? which was workshopped in London with director Tim Supple, and presented in New York (with Sarita Choudhary, Kevin Corrigan, and Ajay Naidu.)  Islands of Contentment with Daphne Rubin-Vega, Laura Gómez, Danny Pudi and more, was produced by Hypokrit Productions and The Tank. Her solo show American Rookie had a sold out and extended run at Luna Stage and is now on tour.  Her pandemic-inspired short film, The Choice, was selected for multiple film festivals. She was the playwright in residence at Guild Hall. She has a B.A. from Cornell University and a M.A. from Cambridge University.

Lia Romeo

Lia is currently a playwriting fellow at the Juilliard School. Her plays have been produced off-Broadway and regionally around the country, and developed at the O’Neill, the Lark, and elsewhere. Her plays are published by TRW, Playscripts, DPS, and Broadway Play Publishing, and four of her plays have been recognized by the Kilroys List. She has a B.A. from Princeton and an M.F.A. from Rutgers/Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Deborah Zoe Laufer

Deb’s plays have been produced at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Playhouse, Geva, The Humana Festival, Everyman, Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and hundreds of other theaters around the world. Plays include Be Here Now, End Days, Rooted, Informed Consent (NYTimes critic’s pick), Leveling Up, Out of Sterno, The Last Schwartz, Sirens, Meta, The Three Sisters of Weehawken, Fortune, dozens of short plays, and the musicals, Window Treatment, and By Any Other Name, written with composer, Daniel Green. Deb is a recipient of the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, the Lilly Award, The ATCA Steinberg citation, and grants and commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, TheAlfred P. Sloan Foundation, The Edgerton Foundation, The National New Play Network, and theLincoln Center Foundation. Her work has been developed by The Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Theatre Lab, PlayPenn, The Cherry Lane Alternative, The Missoula Colony, LOCAL Theatre, Asolo Rep, The Baltic Playwrights Conference, and more. Her plays are published or recorded by Concord/Samuel French, Smith and Kraus, Playscripts, LA Theatreworks, and Premieres. She is a graduate of Juilliard, an alumna of the BMI Lehman ngel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, a member of Honor Roll, and a Dramatists Guild Council member.

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Jan Rosenberg

Jan's play Pluck was selected in 2023 for development at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Conference. Their plays include GUSHER! (O'Neill Finalist, Princess Grace Award semi-finalist, workshops at Seattle Rep & IAMA Theatre), How To Destroy An American Girl Doll, What's Wrong With You, and many others. Former playwright in residence at Stella Adler Studio & The Farm Theater. Jan has collaborated with Labyrinth Theater Company, The Cherry Lane, The Lark, The Actors Studio (PDU Member), and more. Their plays have been produced in colleges all over the country. B.A from The New School.

Padraic Lillis

Padraic is the founding Artistic Director of The Farm Theater. Member Labyrinth Theater Company. Two Thirds Home was produced Off-B’way and published by DPS.  Lights Up on The Fade Out was selected one of LA Weekly’s 10 Best Plays; Hope You Get to Eleven was "Best Solo Show" at the Planet Connection Theater Festival. His screenplay Hand Over Hand won Best Short Film at the Milan Int’l Film Festival.

Joey Palestina

Joey is a cross medium artist based in New York and Los Angeles. On the acting front, you can catch him as Sgt. Mikey Fries in David Simon's We Own This City and as Detective Harris on CBS's FBI.  He is also a LAByrinth Theater Company Member. He is the co-creator of electro-pop project Paultra Violet. Their debut album We've Already Happened drops this year. He wrote his first full length play WAVE_HEAD in 2020. It was produced as part of LAByrinth Theater Company's 2021 Barn Series Readings. Emerging Artist Theater recently produced his short play Land Of Peaches which was also showcased initially at LAB's 2021 Summer Intensive. He has also written monologues for the 24 Hour Plays and just recently, Guy Donalson, an audioplay in part with The Lovely Dark Podcast. Joey is co-creator of animated series, Mental Fläuse. A mashup of Monty Python and Kids In The Hall in cartoon form. He has an MA in Mental Health Counseling and BFA in Acting from Montclair State University. 

Kaethe Fine

Kaethe is a NYC native, playwright, poet, and actress, currently starring in the TV pilot, Do Nothings. Her Wollstonecraft Live! was published by Aurora Metro, London, 2022. She co-wrote the book for Therapy Rocks, NYMF 2010. Motivation for the Meat of Life, was produced at HERE's Livingroom Series and The William Redfield Theater. A Factor of 2, was part of LAByrinth Theater Company’s Barn Series, featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman. Other plays, Everywhere & Constant, The Monitor and Vows, were developed with The LAB, Ridge Theater, La Mama, etc., and RADA, in London. Kaethe was in The Chosen, a feature film with Rod Steiger and Maximillian Schell. She holds an MA in Writing for Performance, Goldsmiths College, London, and a BFA in Filmmaking, SUNY Purchase, where she made award-winning, super-8 short, Clearing, shown on PBS.