Heidi Armbruster Scarecrow: Dorset Theatre Festival, Next Act, Weidner Center, Page 73 (workshop). Mrs. Christie: Theatreworks, Dorset Theatre Festival, Primary Stages (workshop), Orchard Project (residency) and upcoming productions at Milwaukee Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, and the McCarter. Dairyland: Playmakers Rep, Chautauqua Theater Festival, and workshops at Playhouse on Park, Primary Stages, The Lark, Luna Stage. Murder Girl: Forward Theatre Company, CMilwaukee Chamber Theater (upcoming) and workshops at Page 73, TAP, Kansas City Rep. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Alleyway Theatre. Heidi was a member of the Working Farm at Space on Ryder Farm, Page 73 Interstate Writers, and a founding member of Women Artists Writing. Heidi is currently partnering on a new Bruce Hornsby musical “SCKBSTD” and is under commission to write “The Boys From Baraboo,” a new play about the Ringling Brothers. As an actress, Heidi has extensive theater, film, and TV credits.
Scarecrow was workshopped at Dorset Theatre Festival under the direction of Dina Janis in 2021 and received its world premiere in 2022 at DTF. It received a second production at Next Act Theater in Milwaukee, WI, directed by Laura Gordon.
Paloma Nozicka is a Mexican-American writer, actor, and award-winning filmmaker. Plays include Enough to Let the Light In (Contemporary American Theater Festival) and Both, which is currently in development with the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Screenwriting credits include “Enough to Let the Light In” (feature), “Horns” (feature), “Each Lovely Thing” (short), “HUGE” (short), “Sam Kelly” (short). Television acting credits include “The Irrational” (NBC); “The Red Line” (CBS); “Proven Innocent,” “Empire” (FOX); “Chicago Med,” “Chicago PD” (NBC); “The Secret Santa” (TLC); “Under employed” (MTV). Nozicka is a member of the 2023/24 Geffen Playhouse Writers’ Room. Both is an O’Neill finalist and will be produced next spring by Teatro Vista in partnership with Steppenwolf.
Jake Brasch (he/they) is a writer + performer + composer + clown and a recent graduate of The Juilliard School. His play The Reservoir is in co-production between the Geffen Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, and Denver Center. They recently won both national awards named for Paula Vogel — from the Kennedy Center and The Vineyard Theatre. Jake is the inaugural recipient of the Terrence McNally Recovery Commission and was recently named a finalist for the Alliance/Kendeda Playwriting Competition. He’s a proud alum of the Page 73 Writers Group and Youngblood at The Ensemble Studio Theatre. Jake is currently developing work with the Manhattan Theatre Club, Alliance Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Denver Center, South Coast Rep, The Acting Company, The Farm Theater, and the EST/Sloan Project. With playwright Nadja Leonhard-Hooper, Jake is a Co-Founder of American Sing-Song, a collective that writes and performs filthy hour-long comedic musicals. Jake has long worked as a birthday party clown in the Tri-State area and is developing a sitcom based on his exploits. He has three brothers, owns 18 pairs of glasses, and lives in Brooklyn with his brilliant husband, Tyler Brasch. BFA: NYU Tisch. jakebrasch.com.
Milo Cramer’s Obie-winning solo show School Pictures has been featured on NPR’s This American Life, and produced at The Wilma in Philadelphia, Latte Da in Minneapolis, and Playwrights Horizons in New York, where it was named the #1 show of 2023 by Sara Holdren in Vulture. Other works include Cute Activist at The Bushwick Starr with Clubbed Thumb (“a brilliant match of material and theater… a fable for our times” – NYT), Minor Character with New Saloon at The Public Theater / Under the Radar, and Business Ideas, originally developed by Clubbed Thumb and Mabou Mines, winner of the 2024 Kendeda Award at The Alliance Theater in Atlanta. Milo is a MacDowell Fellow, a UCSD MFA, and an Aries.
