James Armstrong is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. His plays have been performed by such theaters as The Attic Ensemble (The Four Doctors Huxley), the Abingdon Theatre Company (Foggy Bottom), the Epiphany Theater Company (A Christmas Carol), and Playwrights Forum (The Metric System). His one-act play "The Mysteries of the Castle of the Monk of Falconara" is included in The Best American Short Plays: 2005-2006 published by Applause. Website
Monica Flory is a Brooklyn-based playwright, director, and teacher. Her newest play, Afterlight, will be produced by Threads Theater Company at the Midtown International Theater Festival in July. Recent productions include Last Summer at Poly Prep CDS; Once Upon a Pandora's Box at the New Acting Company; Third Wheel at Manhattan Comedy Collective and Emerging Artists Theatre; Jungle Book at Youth Theatre Northwest, Southern Oregon University, and New Acting Company; La Llorona at University of Maryland Baltimore County; Wild Thing at the New Acting Company; and Scratch at Theatre-Studio, Inc. Her plays are published by Playscripts and Smith & Kraus. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Website
Jena Tesse Fox is the smallest member of the EMG Playwriting Group. By day, she writes for a travel magazine. By night, she reviews theater and cabaret for BroadwayWorld.com and Cabaret Scenes magazine (which has earned her a voting membership in the Drama Desk Awards). Somewhere in between day and night, she enjoys playwriting, and was the first student to graduate from Wells College with a full-length play as her thesis.
Elana Gartner has written award-winning play Because of Beth as well as other dramas including Ernie Evan, Spinning, Pilar's Brother, Cortex Kin, Tag on Toe, Peanut Butter and Jelly, Baby M, Invisible Lines, The Queen's Circle, Much Ado About Coffee (a collaboration), Arthur's Rug, Vespers, Mind Games, If I Had Known and Platonic. Ms. Gartner founded the EMG Playwriting Workshop which has fostered a supportive community for playwrights since 2004. Ms. Gartner helped to edit a second edition of "You Can Write A Play!" by Milton E. Polsky. She has worked with Second Stage, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Williamstown Theater Festival, Cherry Lane Theater and Connecticut Repertory Theater. Ms. Gartner is a graduate of Oberlin College with a degree in Creative Writing and has been a member of the Dramatists Guild since 1999. Website
Lorraine Goodman is best known as a professional performer, appearing on Broadway in The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Les Misérables; and Terrence McNally’s Master Class, where she performed the role of Sharon - originally played by Tony-award winner Audra McDonald - with all three Broadway Marias. This experience led to the creation of her first novel, entitled Diva Wars, currently seeking publication. Other writing credits include: a new translation of Die Fledermaus, and the radio program, "At the Opera House" for the Intouch Radio Network for the Blind, which combines lively narration of beloved operas with musical highlights. Her one-page play, "The Urn" was recently featured in John Chatterton’s "Zero to Sixty One-Page Play Festival." Her column on NYShowBiz Pets is featured on Examiner.com. Ms. Goodman has also directed several professional productions of operas, plays and new, old and adapted musicals. This spring she directed 2 new plays for the Strong Kids Campaign at the YMCA (one of which won Best Play) and scenes from Anastasia at the Hodes Black Box Theater. Website
Mark Loewenstern is an award-winning writer of plays, teleplays, web films, and musicals for children. His scripts include: Carnality, a Heideman Award finalist, produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville and published in “30 Ten Minute Plays for Two Actors”; A Doctor’s Visit, winner of the Samuel French One-Act Festival and published in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, Series #27; The Nastiest Drink in the World, winner of the Anna Zornio Prize for Best Children’s Play; and Holiday Rumble, an animated web video which has received over 290,000 views on www.atom.com. Mark studied theater at the University of Pennsylvania and Kings College London.
Duncan Pflaster is the author of several critically-acclaimed plays, including the multi-award-winning fantasies Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants and Eternity: Time Without End, as well as The Starship Astrov, The Thyme of the Season, Suckers, The Empress of Sex, Sleeping in Tomorrow, Admit Impediments, The Wastes of Time, Dik and Jayne Are Not The Same, Amazing Dædalus, book and lyrics for the musical Eskimo, Wilder & Wilder, and a panoply of shorter pieces that have been seen in festivals all over the place. He is also an award-winning actor and theatre reviewer. Monkey! Website
Jane Prendergast's short plays, Siblings, The Diers, The Coven and Popul Vuh have been produced by numerous theatre companies and her full-length play, The Goldberg Ground was included in NYU's hotINK Festival with Tony-award winning Richard Easton in the role of Bach. She has had staged readings of her full-lengths, Act of Peace, Sitting on the Frog and Memories are Made of This. She has also written Echoes, 1938; Music; and What's Your Sign?. Her playwriting mentors include Lezley Steele, Austin Flint and Eduardo Machado. She has produced and directed Hamlet and Trojan Women in the park performance, as well as her own pageant, El Popol Vuh. In real life, she is a musician, choral singer and director and maintains a private teaching studio.
Ken Scudder is co-founder and head writer of the award-winning sketch comedy troupe The Mistake. He has performed as an actor and stand-up comic in New York and Los Angeles, including in a number of plays which left him saying “I can write better @#$#@$ than this.” So, he is. Ken is currently working on pieces that examine communication between old lovers and comedy partners, identity in the age of the internet, and the dehumanization inherent in advertising, as well as a play cycle based on the songs of John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band album.
James Armstrong is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. His plays have been performed by such theaters as The Attic Ensemble (The Four Doctors Huxley), the Abingdon Theatre Company (Foggy Bottom), the Epiphany Theater Company (A Christmas Carol), and Playwrights Forum (The Metric System). His one-act play "The Mysteries of the Castle of the Monk of Falconara" is included in The Best American Short Plays: 2005-2006 published by Applause. 
Monica Flory is a Brooklyn-based playwright, director, and teacher. Her newest play, Afterlight, will be produced by Threads Theater Company at the Midtown International Theater Festival in July. Recent productions include Last Summer at Poly Prep CDS; Once Upon a Pandora's Box at the New Acting Company; Third Wheel at Manhattan Comedy Collective and Emerging Artists Theatre; Jungle Book at Youth Theatre Northwest, Southern Oregon University, and New Acting Company; La Llorona at University of Maryland Baltimore County; Wild Thing at the New Acting Company; and Scratch at Theatre-Studio, Inc. Her plays are published by Playscripts and Smith & Kraus. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild. 
Jena Tesse Fox is the smallest member of the EMG Playwriting Group. By day, she writes for a travel magazine. By night, she reviews theater and cabaret for BroadwayWorld.com and Cabaret Scenes magazine (which has earned her a voting membership in the Drama Desk Awards). Somewhere in between day and night, she enjoys playwriting, and was the first student to graduate from Wells College with a full-length play as her thesis.
Elana Gartner has written award-winning play Because of Beth as well as other dramas including Ernie Evan, Spinning, Pilar's Brother, Cortex Kin, Tag on Toe, Peanut Butter and Jelly, Baby M, Invisible Lines, The Queen's Circle, Much Ado About Coffee (a collaboration), Arthur's Rug, Vespers, Mind Games, If I Had Known and Platonic. Ms. Gartner founded the EMG Playwriting Workshop which has fostered a supportive community for playwrights since 2004. Ms. Gartner helped to edit a second edition of "You Can Write A Play!" by Milton E. Polsky. She has worked with Second Stage, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Williamstown Theater Festival, Cherry Lane Theater and Connecticut Repertory Theater. Ms. Gartner is a graduate of Oberlin College with a degree in Creative Writing and has been a member of the Dramatists Guild since 1999. 
Lorraine Goodman is best known as a professional performer, appearing on Broadway in The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Les Misérables; and Terrence McNally’s Master Class, where she performed the role of Sharon - originally played by Tony-award winner Audra McDonald - with all three Broadway Marias. This experience led to the creation of her first novel, entitled Diva Wars, currently seeking publication. Other writing credits include: a new translation of Die Fledermaus, and the radio program, "At the Opera House" for the Intouch Radio Network for the Blind, which combines lively narration of beloved operas with musical highlights. Her one-page play, "The Urn" was recently featured in John Chatterton’s "Zero to Sixty One-Page Play Festival." Her column on NYShowBiz Pets is featured on Examiner.com. Ms. Goodman has also directed several professional productions of operas, plays and new, old and adapted musicals. This spring she directed 2 new plays for the Strong Kids Campaign at the YMCA (one of which won Best Play) and scenes from Anastasia at the Hodes Black Box Theater. 
Mark Loewenstern is an award-winning writer of plays, teleplays, web films, and musicals for children. His scripts include: Carnality, a Heideman Award finalist, produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville and published in “30 Ten Minute Plays for Two Actors”; A Doctor’s Visit, winner of the Samuel French One-Act Festival and published in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, Series #27; The Nastiest Drink in the World, winner of the Anna Zornio Prize for Best Children’s Play; and Holiday Rumble, an animated web video which has received over 290,000 views on www.atom.com. Mark studied theater at the University of Pennsylvania and Kings College London. 
Duncan Pflaster is the author of several critically-acclaimed plays, including the multi-award-winning fantasies Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants and Eternity: Time Without End, as well as The Starship Astrov, The Thyme of the Season, Suckers, The Empress of Sex, Sleeping in Tomorrow, Admit Impediments, The Wastes of Time, Dik and Jayne Are Not The Same, Amazing Dædalus, book and lyrics for the musical Eskimo, Wilder & Wilder, and a panoply of shorter pieces that have been seen in festivals all over the place. He is also an award-winning actor and theatre reviewer. Monkey! 
Jane Prendergast's short plays, Siblings, The Diers, The Coven and Popul Vuh have been produced by numerous theatre companies and her full-length play, The Goldberg Ground was included in NYU's hotINK Festival with Tony-award winning Richard Easton in the role of Bach. She has had staged readings of her full-lengths, Act of Peace, Sitting on the Frog and Memories are Made of This. She has also written Echoes, 1938; Music; and What's Your Sign?. Her playwriting mentors include Lezley Steele, Austin Flint and Eduardo Machado. She has produced and directed Hamlet and Trojan Women in the park performance, as well as her own pageant, El Popol Vuh. In real life, she is a musician, choral singer and director and maintains a private teaching studio. 
Ken Scudder is co-founder and head writer of the award-winning sketch comedy troupe