Olayinka Bart-Williams
Play: BOOTY JUICE
From the East Bay Area California, Olayinka Bart-Williams is a sophomore at DePaul University pursuing a BFA in Playwriting! Her main goal as an artist is to expand understanding through widening the scope of lives shown, magnifying how people buy their cartons of milk rather than the impending doom of a world ending event. Writing credits include THERAPY (DePaul University), Spare Change (DePaul University), (Un)safe Space (Meisner Technique Studio), and The Domino Effect (Oakland School for the Arts)
GRETA HANSON
Play: Cave People
Greta Hanson (she/her) is a playwright, poet, and performer from St. Paul, MN. Her plays Folk Histories and Other Nonsense and On Love were performed as part of the Wrights of Spring and Prototypes festivals respectively. Greta writes about relationships, crafting people-centric stories that play with poetry and language.
From the East Bay Area California, Olayinka Bart-Williams is a sophomore at DePaul University pursuing a BFA in Playwriting! Her main goal as an artist is to expand understanding through widening the scope of lives shown, magnifying how people buy their cartons of milk rather than the impending doom of a world ending event. Writing credits include THERAPY (DePaul University), Spare Change (DePaul University), (Un)safe Space (Meisner Technique Studio), and The Domino Effect (Oakland School for the Arts).
Olayinka Bart-Williams
Play: BOOTY JUICE
Greta Hanson (she/her) is a playwright, poet, and performer from St. Paul, MN. Her plays Folk Histories and Other Nonsense and On Love were performed as part of the Wrights of Spring and Prototypes festivals respectively. Greta writes about relationships, crafting people-centric stories that play with poetry and language.
Greta Hanson
Play: Cave People
Ian is a playwright, musician, and performer from Portland, Oregon. His new play Ultraviolet was featured as a part of The Theatre School’s spring Prototypes Festival. Other works have been produced by Playwrights West and the Oregon Thespians Society.
Ian Lafrenz
Play: The Sleepwalkers
Josiah Taylor is in his second year at DePaul University as a Playwriting and History major. The writer of Two White Women of Different Persuasions Having Brunch in the Year of Our Lord Twenty-Twenty-Five and Kill the Polymath, Taylor uses his theatrical writing to explore different periods of history and the people who lived through them as well as to unpack and take a detailed dramatic lens at current struggles that interest him.
Josiah Taylor
Play: Ships at a Distance
Ian Lafrenz
Play: The Sleepwalkers
Ian is a playwright, musician, and performer from Portland, Oregon. His new play Ultraviolet was featured as a part of The Theatre School’s spring Prototypes Festival. Other works have been produced by Playwrights West and the Oregon Thespians Society.
Josiah Taylor
Play: Ships at a Distance
Josiah Taylor is in his second year at DePaul University as a Playwriting and History major. The writer of Two White Women of Different Persuasions Having Brunch in the Year of Our Lord Twenty-Twenty-Five and Kill the Polymath, Taylor uses his theatrical writing to explore different periods of history and the people who lived through them as well as to unpack and take a detailed dramatic lens at current struggles that interest him.
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Erick Arakelian
Play: The Seeking of Intelligent Life
Erick Arakelian is a Mexican American actor and playwright from Houston, Texas. He is currently a third year student pursuing a BFA in Acting with a minor in creative writing at DePaul University.
Play: ocean-man
Grace Wilson is an emerging director, actor, and playwright from Santa Barbara who transferred to The Theatre School at DePaul University this year to pursue her BFA in Theatre Arts with a concentration in directing. Having spent most of her life onstage and growing increasingly passionate about sharing female-centered stories, she is exhilarated to be in Chicago where theatre is so alive, and psyched to continue honing her craft as a writer and director at DePaul and onward!