Vinecia Coleman is a Twin Cities based playwright and actor. Her plays have been developed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Black Swan Lab, id Theater’s Seven Devils Playwrights’ Conference, Live Girls! Theater, and several others. Her awards include KCACTF National Partners of American Theatre nomination (The Red Pen), KCACTF invited production and John Cauble Short Play award national semifinalist (Home: The Place Where My Stuff Resides), and John Cauble regional semifinalist (But What Am I?). As an actor, she has worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pillsbury House Theatre, The Playwrights’ Center, Frank Theatre and more. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from Iowa State University and a Master of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Dramatic Writing and Directing from the University of Idaho.vineciacoleman.com/
Kayla Hambek
Kayla Hambek is a Minneapolis-based playwright and actor whose work has been produced across the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, as well as in Portland, OR, Buckingham, PA, and Washington D.C. Her work explores familial and other important, non-romantic relationships through a feminist, asexual lens; plays include butterfly(n.), The Dragonflies, Persuasion, Emma Abridged, Splinter, and Sprinkles. Kayla is the co-founder and Managing Director of Aethem Theatre, and has an MFA in Playwriting from Augsburg University.
Gemma Irish
Gemma Irish is a playwright, leader of workshops, and sometime performer from Minneapolis. Her plays, which explore everything from gay marriage to hellish workplaces to antique chairs to sugar daddies, have been seen in Minneapolis with Walking Shadow Theatre Company, Normandale Community College; Catalog Models; One-Minute Play Festival; BOOM! Theater; the Minnesota Fringe Festival; Transatlantic Love Affair; and the Bryant-Lake Bowl. Her work has been seen in New York at the Manhattan Theatre Source; Galapagos Art Space, and The New School. She has also written for Minnesota Playlist. She holds a BA in playwriting from Eugene Lang College, New School University and an MFA from Goddard College. gemmairish.com/
Alayna Jacqueline
Alayna Jacqueline is a Twin Cities-based playwright, director, and educator, born and raised in Buckeye Nation (Columbus, Ohio). Her plays include Empty Houses, One Tunneled Under the Looney Bin, Persephone’s Spring, Drapetomania, and Hope Won’t Escape the Box. Alayna’s work has been produced and/or developed at MadLab Theater (Columbus, OH), Garden Theater (Columbus, OH), Lincoln Theater (Columbus, OH), Pythian Theater (Columbus, OH), and Haybarn Theater (Plainfield, VT). While teaching at CATCO professional theater company, Alayna adapted fairy tales and children’s stories for Kabuki theater. She received her MFA in creative writing from Goddard College. alaynajacqueline.com/
Heather Meyer
Heather Meyer is a playwright in Minneapolis, MN. Her work is frequently seen at Brave New Workshop, most recently in the current show The Polarizing Express. Her plays have been performed in LA, NYC, Chicago, Minneapolis and Madison, WI. Heather is a frequent playwright at the Minnesota Fringe Festival and she is the creator of the sketch comedy game show Women’s History Month: The Historical Comedybration (with fabulous prizes). She has an MFA in Playwriting from Spalding University. heathermeyeronline.com/
Nissa Nordland Morgan
Nissa Nordland Morganis a playwright, actor and musician in Minneapolis, MN. Her plays The Fae and Incarnate were performed as part of the Twin Cities Horror Festival; The Fae was nominated for Best Original/New Work through TC Broadway World. Her Minnesota Fringe play Xena and Gabrielle Smash the Patriarchy was awarded the TC Arts Reader Critic’s Choice Award and won the Theatre in the Round Venue Pick. She’s been a mainstage cast member and writer at the Brave New Workshop. Her ten minute play Catnipped won second place at the MN Shorts Festival and her play What They Don’t Know was produced by Art’s Nest at the Phoenix Theatre. She has collaborated in devising new works with Umbrella Collective, The Winding Sheet Outfit, nimbus theatre and Four Humors. Nissa earned a BA in Theatre Arts from Southwest Minnesota State University.
Allison Vincent is an award-winning performer, director, writer, deviser, and educator based in the Twin Cities. She specializes in making theatre by weaving together humor and tragedy so audiences can contemplate some truth about the human condition. Allison’s work is characterized by physicality, humor, heart, and honesty. allisonvincentart.wixsite.com/
Katherine Glover (Member Emeritus)
Katherine Glover is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and pre-WGA TV writer. She moved to Los Angeles to switch careers in January of 2020, proving her hilarious comedic timing. Her first musical, Us Against Us (with composer Ben Emory Larson), was a semifinalist for the 2019 O’Neill National Music Theater Conference. Glover won a 2013 Ivey Award for playwriting, she was a 2015 Br!nk playwright with Renaissance Theaterworks in Milwaukee, and she was a selected writer for Nautilus Music-Theater’s nationally recognized Composer-Librettist Studio in 2017. She spent ten years as a freelance journalist, writing for Salon.com, The Associated Press, The Chicago Defender, MinnPost.com, and Sierra Magazine, among others. She lives with a pitbull rescue named Cookie.katherineglover.net
