Zoë Rhulen is a Colorado-grown, New York-based playwright. Her writing is motivated by wildness, myths, monsters, food and sexuality. Zoë’s plays include What is a Girl For? (New Dramatists), Dirt (Princess Grace Award Winner), Six Red Seeds (Ojai Semifinalist), Mommy and The Pirate (Theater Accident), and Dirty Pretty (SPACE on Ryder Farm Semifinalist). Her play Medusa Prays was a Red Bull Theater Short New Play Festival Winner. Zoë is the 2025-26 Princess Grace Fellow at New Dramatists. Her work has been supported by Arts on Site, Curious Theatre Company, The Lark, New Dramatists, Rattlestick Theater, Red Bull Theater, Slingshot Theater Company, The Tank, and Theater Accident. She holds a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Benjamin Benne was named part of “LA Vanguardia: The Latino innovators, instigators, and power players breaking through barriers” by the Los Angeles Times. His produced plays include Alma (Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre, American Blues Theater, ArtsWest Playhouse, Curious Theatre Company, Central Square Theater, The Spot, Chance Theater, Passage Theatre Company), In His Hands (Mosaic Theater Company, First Floor Theater), Manning (Portland Stage), Wave After Wave (Actors Theatre of Louisville), and What / Washed Ashore / Astray (Pillsbury House Theatre). Additionally, his work has been developed by by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Great Plains Theatre Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Public, Roundabout Theatre Company, The New Group, Primary Stages, Playwrights Realm, Colorado New Play Festival, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, The Old Globe, and Two River Theater, among many others. He has been awarded Ojai Playwrights Conference’s Dr. Kerry English Award, Portland Stage’s Clauder Competition Grand Prize, American Blues Theater’s Blue Ink Playwriting Award, Arizona Theatre Company’s National Latinx Playwriting Award, and KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award, among others. He has been commissioned by South Coast Repertory and Seattle Repertory Theatre. MFA: David Geffen/Yale School of Drama. www.benjaminbenne.com
David Allyn’s plays have been produced as part of the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, the Hangar Theatre Lab, the Sun Dog Reading Series, and the NYC Fresh Fruit Festival. Baltimore City Paper described his play COMMENCEMENT as “simultaneously uproarious and touching.” He was a semi-finalist for the 2017 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and has won awards from Writers Digest, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Deep South Writers Conference. His book Make Love, Not War was optioned by HBO. He holds a B.A. from Brown University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. The New York Times has called him, “a wicked observer of self-conscious people at their less than best.” He teaches at Avenues: The World School in New York City. Most importantly, his daughter Jordan is an MFA candidate at the Yale School of Drama.
Dipti Bramhandkar is a Mumbai-born playwright and filmmaker, and a member of the LAByrinth Theater Company. Her film Joan’s Teeth, starring Kathleen Turner (Body Heat, Romancing the Stone), is beginning its 2026 festival circuit. In 2024, her immersive production Conjuring the King premiered with Juggerknot Theatre Company in Miami, earning the Silver Palm Award for Best Immersive Experience. She was awarded The Farm Theater’s 2023–24 College Collaboration Project Fellowship, during which she developed Soft Launch, premiering at Centre College, and The Ruminants, produced at Austin Peay State University, Middle Tennessee State University, Shenandoah University, and The New School. Her work has been featured in LAByrinth’s public Barn Series four times in the last five years. Islands of Contentment was produced by Hypokrit Productions and The Tank, with a cast including Daphne Rubin-Vega, Danny Pudi, Laura Gómez, Kalki Koechlin, and Suraj Sharma. As playwright-in-residence at Guild Hall, she was commissioned to write A Land Without Weather, featuring David Zayas, David Anzuelo, Chris McGarry, and Purva Bedi. Her audio plays Kishori’s Canteen and Learning to Swim are available on Audible, and her solo show American Rookie, produced by Luna Stage, continues to be invited for performances nationwide. Her short film The Choice, starring Bobby Daniel Rodriguez, has been selected for several film festivals. Bramhandkar holds a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.A. from Cambridge University (both in English literature).
