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The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Melíza Gutierrez as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Fall 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. Poetic form and melancholic language drives this play into a realm beyond voyeurism – witnessing. VAL/VALENTINA take us through memories of adolescence, home, and family. Spanning loss by ICE, terminal illness, and internalized racism, this play is someone growing up, and us understanding why. Our congratulations and thanks to Melíza.

The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Dan Caffrey as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Fall 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. A parallel story, a parody on ignorance, a group of people talking about nothing as destruction tears through the city. Kaiju touches on large conversations, while contextualizing these small words in larger-than human action. Caffrey explores how comfort, passion, and anger can make anyone a monster.

The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Ali Keller as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Fall 2021 Writer’s Intensive. Resonating with the overworked person in all of us, Keller highlights how the never-ending clockwork of life grates on our psyche: the repetition of everyday life in a cubicle; the conversations that always begin with “Apparitions, this is LILY”; the schedule that doesn’t give a lunch break, let alone time to put the ghosts to rest. And then a life-or-death not-ordinary situation shows up in the office, changing everything.

The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Alyssa See-Tho as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Fall 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. With charm, wit, and care, See-Tho crafts a play of the second coming. Exploring Maren and Josie's shifting partnership as they are faced with an unexpected pregnancy invites us to explore the impact of family, belief, and identity on love. The skill that See-Tho has in making honest characters is why we have faith in this play cycle.

The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Alicia Margarita Olivo as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Spring 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. Alicia has a masterful hand with character and relationships; the play's interaction with surrealism only heightens the intense emotions felt by Belén and Andy as they navigate the twists and turns of their relationship. Our congratulations and thanks to Alicia.

"The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Tina Esper as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Spring 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. Neighbor Jane is a delightfully tense play that follows two women who break free of their assumed paths and forge their own way. Tina plays with the obfuscation of truth to great effect over the course of the play. Our congratulations and thanks to Tina.

The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Alexis Elisa Macedo as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Spring 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. Picked up is a highly theatrical look at the past, present, and future memories of a Mexican-American family. Alexi's deft hand with time and inter-family tension amounts to a play that is engaging and fulfilling for an audience. Our congratulations and thanks to Alexis.

"The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Gillian Beth Durkee as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Spring 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. The Prying is an engaging examination of friendship as three women find their paths crossing after traumatic experiences leave them in search of healing. The play explores what is required for trust, and what we sacrifice when we betray our friends. Our congratulations and thanks to Gillian."

The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Zoe Kamil as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Spring 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. Zoe Kamil creates a dangerous character, who causes others to succumb, resist and heal. This play resounds past the "hot topics" of feminism into an unapologetic exploration of womanhood and its expenses, and how those interact with race. Our congratulations and thanks to Zoe.

The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Ali Keller as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Spring 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. Ali plays with the surreal nature of capitalism as a customer service agent with the ever-present need to please is matched with her nemesis, a mega-Karen. It is a welcomed exploration of the unrealistic demands capitalism and patriarchy place on women in the service industry. Our congratulations and thanks to Ali.