Ann Timmons started out her theatre career as an actor, performing on regional stages, Off-Broadway, television, and movies. Her play It’s My Party! premiered at Dallas’ Echo Theatre in fall 2021. Echo Theatre also commissioned a new play, Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper, and produced its World Premiere in May, 2024. Other plays have been performed in many venues—Off-Broadway and national tour: Off the Wall: The Life and Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Washington, D.C: Becoming Calvin; National tour: Beyond Shadowlands; Virginia tour: The Jamestown Adventure Express; Page-to-Stage at The Kennedy Center: A Very Present Presence, and Bigger Than All of Us. Ann has an MFA in Theatre (Acting) from the University of Illinois, and is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA, the Dramatists Guild, and Honor Roll! www.anntimmons.com. Ann lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Jean Koppen is an award-winning playwright and founding member of Pipeline Playwrights. Her plays have been presented at the Kennedy Center's Page to Stage Festival and produced across the country including at Keegan Theatre (D.C.), the Capital Fringe Festival (D.C.), SkyPilot Theatre (LA), and The Alumnae Theatre (Toronto). Jean’s short play Capsmittment was Active Culture’s 2012 playwriting competition winner, and Got a Light? was a finalist in City Theatre’s 2019 National Award for Short Playwriting. Jean's full-length Unprotected was a Trustus Playwrights' Festival Finalist and a semi-finalist in Unicorn Theatre's Plays in Progress series. Jean's play The Best Worst That Can Happen is available for purchase and licensing through Next Stage Press. Jean is an alumnae of the Kennedy Center Playwrights Intensive, a member of Honor Roll! and a Dramatist Guild member. www.jeankoppen.com

Patricia Connelly is an award-winning playwright and director. Her most recent play, Heartland, was produced by Pipeline Playwrights in 2022 at Joe’s Movement Emporium. Her play, Around the Snake Turn, was selected and presented as part of the Baltimore Playwrights’ Festival in 2023. Her play, Princess Margaret, was produced as part of the Women's Voices Theater Festival in Washington DC in 2015. Other produced plays include: The Penny or the Stone, (Robert Bone Memorial Playwriting Award); What Happens in This Town; All the Sins of My Past Life; Harriet; and, Night Sky. She has had short plays presented and produced in Capital Fringe Festivals, at the Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage festivals, at MetroStage in Alexandria, VA, by PlayZoomers (online), at Keegan Theatre, and, internationally, as part of Short + Sweet (Australia). Patricia has a MA degree in Theater from the University of New Mexico and an MFA in Creative Writing (Playwriting) from Goddard College. She has participated in the Playwriting Intensive at the Kennedy Center; she is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America; she is a co-founder of Pipeline Playwrights; and she is a member of Honor Roll.

Nicole Burton's plays include Swimming Up the Sun, Fred & Frieda, Dirty Questions, and Starman, Wish Me Luck. They've been produced at Source Theater, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, MetroStage, the Greenbelt Arts Center, the University of District of Columbia, House of Ruth Homeless Shelter, and the U.S. Capitol. In the 1980s, as resident playwright of Everyday Theater, she co-authored six plays about gentrification and violent crime in Washington, D.C. She's also the author of Swimming Up the Sun: A Memoir of Adoption and the novel, Adamson's 1969. A member of the Dramatists Guild, Nicole lives in Riverdale Park, Maryland.

Crystal Adaway is a playwright, screenwriter, and former teacher. Her first screenplay, Bangers & Mash, was a finalist in the Virginia Film Office’s Screenwriting Competition. Her plays include The Christmas Card, produced for the DC Capital Fringe Festival, and her dark & twisty, award-winning The Wish, presented at the Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival. Her monologue, “Barbara,” is published in She Persisted: One Hundred Monologues by Women over Forty. Crystal is an alumna of the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive and a member of Honor Roll! and The Dramatists Guild. A freelance editor and graphic designer for more than 25 years, she operates WorthyNotes Writing & Editing: worthy-notes.com.