Zachariah Ezer is a playwright and an Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at Washington University in St. Louis whose work animates theoretical quandaries through theatrical forms. His plays include The Freedom Industry (Playwrights Horizons’ New Works Lab, The Playwrights Center, New York Stage & Film), Address the Body! (The University of Texas at Austin’s UTNT Festival, Kitchen Dog Theater’s New Works Festival, Echo Theater Company’s National Young Playwrights in Residence), The Single Raindrop (The Civilians’ R&D Group, The Fade to Black Arts Festival’s Ensemble Theatre Reading Series), Legitime (Fault Line Theatre’s Irons in the Fire), and Black Women in Tech (The Fire This Time Festival, PBS), among others. He is a Dramatists Guild Foundation Catalyst Fellow and is currently under commission from Manhattan Theatre Club/The Sloan Foundation and Theater J. He has received residencies from the New Harmony Project, Ryder Farm, and Aunt Karen’s Farm. His work has been published by Concord Theatricals/Samuel French, Smith & Kraus, American Blues Theater, and New World Theatre.

Pamela Morgan is an emerging playwright and author from the Midwest, whose work explores themes of gender, social justice, and feminism. Her plays have been produced across the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and India. Pamela received the Kennedy Center National Partners of the American Theatre Playwriting Award in 2024, the Kennedy Center Region V Rosa Parks Playwriting Award in 2023, and the Regional Full-Length Play Award in 2022. She was a finalist for the Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting Award and the Jane Chambers Excellence in Feminist Playwriting Award. Her play, Load-Bearing Walls, was named a semi-finalist for the 2024 Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference. Her Publications include Simply Skye (Amicus, 2023), Hungry (Smith & Kraus Publishers, 2022), Straight and Perfect (Smith & Kraus Publishers, 2022), All Kids Lie (Chicago Story Press, 2022), Love is a Battlefield (Chicago Story Press, 2021), Shapes in the Cloud (220 Publishing, 2016), and Mostly Me (HerStories Project Press, 2016). She is the proud parent of two incredible human beings, as well as a member of the Dramatists Guild and Honor Roll. Pamela holds a bachelor’s in Elementary and Special Education from Trinity Christian College and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Augsburg University.

Catherine Yu is a writer of plays and librettos. Her plays include In Spite of My Ambivalence (2024 Venturous nomination); In Love and Friendship (2023 Austin Film Festival Second Round); Le Jeté (2019 BAPF Semifinalist); The Day is Long to End (2018 University of Florida production); and The Sun Experiment (FringeNYC Excellence in Playwriting; Time Out NY’s Top Ten Nightlife and Music Events of the Week in August 2014). She has held fellowships at NYSCA/NYFA, MacDowell, Soho Rep, and New York Theatre Workshop. As an educator, she has worked as a university lecturer, a GED tutor for federal prison inmates, an ESL tutor in China and a tutor to elementary school children. A New Yorker based in Chicago, she is a resident playwright with Chicago Dramatists. Catherine was commissioned for librettos by Atlanta Opera and Strange Trace in 2023. She will be a 2025-2026 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. BA: Stanford University. MFA: New York University.