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Meet Our Wrighters!
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Grace (BFA 4 Theatre Arts) is a graduating Theatre Arts student with a double major in History from Flower Mound, Texas. Previous credits include Strawberry Jam (Director), Is God Is (Asst. Dramaturg), Indebted (Dramaturg), When Did the Sky Turn Purple? (Playwright), Las Wavys (Asst. Director), One More for the Road: Hit and Run (Stage Manager), Straight White Men (Asst. Director), and Welcome to the Fruit Basket (Ensemble). Grace serves as the Managing Director for Prototypes, where she follows her passion for new works. She is also the Secretary for ST*RS, which you should totally donate to. She would like to thank her family and friends for their continued support in all her artistic endeavors.
Grace Archer
"The Trolli Problem"
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Isaiah Zavion Boozer (BFA 3 Playwriting) is a multifaceted artist, playwright, director, actor, videographer, filmmaker, accolade achieving screenwriter, a 2021 United States Presidential Scholar semifinalist (appointed by the White House), an alumnus of the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, a 2021 National Young Arts winner as an actor, a 2022 TEDx Speaker, a 2022 Kennedy Center Directing and Playwriting Intensive graduate, a 2023 Broadway Advocacy Coalition Cody Renard Richard scholar, a 2023 Sundance Young Arts Fellow, and amongst other things, current playwriting student at DePaul University.
Isaiah Boozer
"Touch Me My Exodus"
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Willa Colleary (BFA 2 Playwriting) is from Los Angeles, California. Past TTS credits include A Public Reading of An Unproduced Screenplay About The Death of Walt Disney (assistant director) and Truebird (performer/writer). She is a California Arts Scholar and was a recipient of the second annual ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence award.
Willa Colleary
"The Rot Part 1"
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Joseph Frantzen (BFA 4 Theatre Arts) is a German-Born American director, actor and writer from Oak Park, Illinois. He has directed productions of A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, Next to Normal, Sight Unseen, and the upcoming web-series Margaret Is Not Fine. Past Wrights of Spring credits include Her Father's Daughter and A Keyhole as director and Masks Off as a reader. Other selected TTS credits include Moscow(x6) (AD), She Kills Monsters (AD), Bernhardt/Hamlet (AD), At Home At the Zoo (Peter), One More for the Road (Performer/Deviser), and Alpha & Omega: The Musical (Garth).
Joseph Frantzen
"Unconditional"
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Emily Haslam (BFA 2 Playwriting) grew up in the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Utah. She recently worked as an actor in the Theatre School’s, Memo. Her work primarily consists of themes discussing familial relationships, power dynamics, and gender roles.
Emily Haslam
"Rat's Nest"
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Flores Maria (BFA 4 Theatre Arts) is a Trans Latino artist living in Chicago who is currently focused on developing new work. Previously she worked on Killing of the Gentlemen Defender as an assistant Director and Together this time as a stage manager.
Flores Maria
"Cigarettes at a Funeral"
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Iona McGregor (BFA 4 Playwriting) (she/they) is a Scottish-Persian American playwright from Madison, Wisconsin, primarily focused on telling elevated stories through comedy, chaos, drama and romance.
Iona McGregor
"Brightwood Academy for Boys and Girls"
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Jordan Dunne (BFA 1 Playwriting) is a first-year playwright who has been writing since she was in diapers. With binders full of short stories and full-length scripts, she prefers starting all her work on paper. She constantly experiments with her style; every piece is perpetually different from the last. Her favorite genres are horror and psychological thriller, but as Jordan has grown, she started writing more realistic pieces and uses her real life and, views of the world in her work.
Jordan Dunne
Debutante Ball(The Trial)
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Perse (BFA 3 Playwriting) is a third year Playwriting major and creative writing minor from Los Angeles, where they have directed their original plays at both high school and community theatre levels. Theatre School credits include "Witch" (Assistant Director), "Her Father’s Daughter" (Assistant Director), and "burn my body before they find it" (Playwright) which was read at Wrights of Spring in 2023. Their writing aims to intertwine humor and despair when asking the age-old question: “Wouldn’t it be crazy if this happened?”
Perse Grammer
"Left Unheard"
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Emma Burkey (she/her) (BFA 3 Theatre Arts) is a writer, director and actor in her third year at The Theatre School and is minoring in Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies. This is her second Wrights of Spring and she is so excited (and nervous) to be sharing this play. Emma has served as an assistant director for "Henry IV" and "Witch", and a deviser/performer in MEMO at TTS. Emma is studying with the Prague Shakespeare Company this summer and interning with Rivendell Theatre Ensemble. She would like to thank her playwriting class, Carlos, and her supportive friends and family.
Emma Burkey
"Walls"
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Ethan (BFA 4 Playwriting) is a writer sometimes from Jacksonville Florida finishing up a degree in Playwriting and a minor in Screenwriting. He is focused on collaborating with his long time writing partner Marcell Doubert in a series of projects post graduation.
Ethan Venzon
"joy."
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Grace Everett (she/her) (BFA 3 Playwriting) is an award-winning playwright and performer born and raised in Dallas, Texas, and she now lives in the heart of Chicago where she is a junior Playwriting major at TTS. Grace enjoys writing character-driven plays with queer-femme plots, and though she didn't do it on purpose, MEDIAN is a love song to her home state. Grace also does arts accessibility work, and she is passionate about acting, singing, disability activism, content creation, and pointing out every dog she sees around Chicago. www.GraceEverett.org @GraceEverett (IG) @TheatreWithGrace (TT)
Grace Everett
"Median"
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Ivy McPherson (BFA 2 Playwriting) is a 2nd year playwright from St. Louis, Missouri. Her work mainly focuses on themes of gender, trans identity, love, and sexuality.
Ivy McPherson
"ELLA"
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Leo Wescott Larson (BFA 2 Playwriting) is a playwright, director, producer, and actor, originally from Wichita KS. After growing up as an actor in Wichita’s theatre scene, Leo founded his own theatre company, Kansas Lion Productions in 2021. He served as Artistic Director before moving to Chicago to study Playwriting.
Leo Wescott Larson
"Rite"
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Daniel Driessen (any pronouns) (BFA 3 Theatre Arts) is a third year theater arts major here at DePaul. They've participated in every Wrights of Spring for each year they've been here and are excited to show off what they've got one more time.
Daniel Driessen
"The Diner at the End of the World"
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Meredith (BFA 1 Playwriting) is a writer from the American South who primarily spends her time writing about being from the American South; otherwise, she enjoys smoking cigarettes in the sunshine, drinking diet soda, and asking people about their rose, bud, and thorn of the day.
Meredith BlackCreek
Debutante Ball(somewhere, in the middle of nowhere)
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Connor (BFA 3 Playwriting) is very excited to be taking part in his third Wrights Of Spring new works festival! Outside of theater, Connor enjoys all forms of writing, video games, and immersive design, which he practices alongside The Benefactors. He hopes you'll also enjoy his work on this year's Playwright Central, and is still trying to get you to forgive him for breaking your mom's expensive vase that one time.
Connor Yokley
"Get Down"
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cLily Kate Cobb (BFA 2 Playwriting)is a writer, singer, and performer from Charleston, South Carolina. She is excited to be here and thankful for all who support the Wrights of Spring creatives!
Lily Kate Cobb
"Thong Play"
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CJ Willette (She/Her) (BFA 4 Playwriting) is a Chicago-based Playwright from St. Louis, Missouri who’s work centers around the intertwining of black experiences through concepts of dystopia, whimsy, and grandeur. Her play May 32nd is a semifinalist for the 2024 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. She is a member of the Cody Renard Richard Cohort and an alumni of the Broadway Coalition Advocacy. She serves as a Development Director for Do Process Theatre. Her plays Highly Unlikely, Runner’s Digest, and May 32nd have been developed through the Wrights of Spring New Play festival with The Theatre School at DePaul University. CJ is pursuing a BFA in Playwriting from The Theatre School at DePaul University, expected 2024. Her play May 32nd will receive a public workshop through DePaul University's 2024 Wrights of Spring festival. For more information about her work, please visit https://newplayexchange.org/users/84697/cj-willette.
Caylah Johnson
"May 32nd"
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Gena Treyvus (BFA 4 Playwriting) is a writer from Brooklyn and a senior earning her BFA in Playwriting from The Theatre School at DePaul University. Some of her plays include Strawberries at the Datcha and Operation #23: Steal the Mona Lisa, both of which received workshops and readings at the FreshPlay Festival at MCC Theater. Strawberries at the Datcha was a finalist for the Jewish Plays Project’s Annual Playwriting Contest, and the play is featured in their first-ever podcast series. Gena’s play 21 North was produced as a Studio at The Theatre School this year and she's excited to revisit and edit the script for Wrights of Spring to further continue its development. Gena currently works as a preschool Hebrew School Teacher, and in her free time, she likes to read and crochet.
Gena Trayvus
"21 North"
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Ryen Jones (BFA 2 Playwriting), a playwright with a BFA from New York City, resides in Lincoln Park, Chicago, at the moment. Her achievements include receiving honorable mentions for her poetry writing from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards before attending, in addition to being featured twice as a playwright and winning the Worldwide Off-Broadway Plays Festival for her original works.
Ryen Jones
"In the Garden"
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Hello! As a writer (BFA 3 Playwriting) my goal is first and foremost to entertain so be sure to let me know what you thought after the show. I'm always looking for new projects to involve myself so if you see me around don't be scared to say hi. And if you liked the show, be sure to check me out at JDMedia on Youtube.
Chris Lawson
"Back to School"
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Gene (BFA 1 playwriting) is from Lincolnwood, IL. Recent works include "to be loved is to be changed" a lab at The Theatre School. In addition to Wrights of Spring, they're putting on a play they wrote titled "Uno!" through Prototypes at the end of May. They'd like to thank their friends for putting up with them being cray cray, as well as their family for supporting them to no end. They'd also like to thank God for making them soooo cool and soooo sexy.
Gene Berg
Debutante Ball (Body Reported)
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Beddie Slatkoff (Any pronouns) (BFA 1 Playwriting) is a 22 year old from Chicago and current BFA 1 majoring in playwrighting at TTS. They got an Associates in Arts from Oakton Community College before transferring to DePaul. He started writing poetry and plays in high school, and has spent a lot of time practicing other artistic crafts also, such as for example and including, painting, sewing, sculpting, making many things all of the time. Beddie enjoys long walks on a cold beach and eating beans straight from the can.
Beddie Slatkoff
Debutante Ball(most people want to feel good most of the time, probably)
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