Eugenie Carabatsos writes character driven scripts for the stage, screen, and ear. Her work plays with structure, memory, and is oftentimes about how companionship allows for resilience in unstable worlds. Her plays have been published by Concord Theatricals, Heuer Publishing, Brooklyn Publishers, Original Works Publishing, and Stage Partners. Her work has been produced or developed by places such as Trustus Theatre, Landing Theatre, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Red Theatre, Midtown Direct Rep, and iDiOM Theatre. She is the winner of KCACTF’s Harold and Mimi Steinberg Award, one of the Landing Theatre’s New American Voices Playwright 2021, Seven Devils Finalist, O’Neill Semi-Finalist, and Winner of the BroadwayWorld Award for Best Play in South Carolina 2013. Her work has also been featured in a number of festivals and community theaters throughout the country.

Her writing for the screen has won grants through the Sloan Foundation, won the Cinequest Short Screenplay Contest and New York Screenplay Contest. She is a Finalist for the Humanitas Student Comedy Writing Contest, BlueCat Feature Semifinalist, Screencraft Semifinalist, and Quarter-Finalist for PAGE and Final Draft Big Break.

She graduated with her BA from Wesleyan University in 2010, and her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2016. When she’s not writing, she teaches at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.

Donald Tongue (resume) is a New England playwright with four published plays to his credit.  His most produced work, Void, has been produced in Boston and Los Angeles.  School Portrait Monologues was produced in New Zealand. Fishbowl was part of the 2010 short play festival in New York City at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre, where it was held over for an extended run.  My Neighbor, the Poet, a play about Robert Frost, was commissioned and produced by theatre KAPOW in October 2010. A Time, Twice Upon, was developed as part of a playwrights’ collaborative sponsored by theatre KAPOW. Scene Changes was a featured work in the Page to Stage Encore production, Concord NH, produced at the Firehouse Center for the Arts 2012 New Works Festival, Newburyport MA, and produced at the Leddy Center for their 2015 Showcase Production series, Epping NH. Candid Candidate was produced at the Leddy Center for their 2016 Showcase Production series, Epping NH, and was later produced in October 2016 at the Hatbox Theatre, Concord NH. The Truth Will Spring Yuh was produced at the 2014 NHCTA Festival, Concord NH, and received its premiere full production in April 2017 at the Hatbox Theatre, Concord NH.Donald is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, and founder and Managing Director of New World Theater.

Jared Eberlein (Playwright) worked for nearly a decade as an actor in New York and regional theater before turning his focus to the page. He is the bookwriter and lyricist of The Facts of Life – The Musical (Pace University) and The Man in the Iron Mask (EAT, 13th Street Rep & The Jerry Orbach Theater, NYC) both collaborations with composer, David Mallamud. Jared’s play, Fall with Me, is the 2019 WINNER of Dayton Playhouse’s FutureFest. It was also chosen for the 2019 Garry Marshall Theater New Works Festival (Burbank, CA) and was a finalist for Capital Repertory Theatre’s Next Act! Summit 8 (Albany, NY). His other plays include: Precious Thieves (Lab Theatre Project, Tampa, FL.), Jack: a love story (Snorks & Pins, NYC) and The Heir of Pretending (Workshops/Reading with: Theater-On-The-Lake and New World Theatre). His 10-minute play, Click! (A Travel Motif), directed by Christopher Burris, was a top-ten finalist in the 2018 Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Play Festival (Vineyard Theater, NYC). He served as Playwright-in-Residence for the Choate Rosemary Hall Summer Theatre Institute from 2010-2012, where his TYA plays (Children of) October Ever After and Just Begin premiered. In 2017, he was appointed Director of Theater Programs of Northfield Mount Hermon School. Jared was a 2018 Playwriting Fellow with the New World Theatre (Londonderry, NH). His play, I’ll String Along with You, written during that fellowship, has been published in New World Theatre’s 2019 anthology: UnParalleled. Jared is a graduate of Drew University. He holds an M.F.A. in Writing for Stage and Screen from the New Hampshire Institute of Art and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.

Cynthia Arsenault, a psychologist by day, writer by night, is a former director, whose play workshop group, aptly named Group, encouraged her to take up the pen. Six years later, she is published in Best 5 Minute Plays for Teens, Best 10 Minute Plays of 2017, A Solitary Voice, Best Women’s Monologues of 2019 and on Monologuebank.com. There have been over 100 productions of her short plays at such New England venues as the Firehouse Center; Boston Playwrights Theatre; Cohasset Drama; Hovey; Our Voices; Acme; Image; Company Theatre; Acton 3, Fresh Ink, the Boston Marathon and The Actors Studio of Newburyport—as well as in most other states, and Canada, London and Australia. Under The Rug is her first full-length play. New Play Exchange

David Beardsley serves on the Board of Directors for Playwrights’ Platform, a collaborative for Boston-area playwrights and actors. He is a member of Dramatists Guild of America, New Play Exchange, and the Playwrights’ Collective at New World Theatre (Londonderry, NH). He was a 2018 finalist for New World Theater’s Masterclass Playwright Fellowship. His plays have been or will be performed in New York, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Florida, New Mexico, Michigan, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Ireland, and Australia.

Jeanne Beckwith is a published and practicing playwright who has worked in theater as a director, actor, stage manager, etc. for her entire adult life, but playwriting has always been her main focus and passion. Her play, A War Story at the Rialto, is published by Playscripts, Inc., and she has had short plays included in several collections.

Over the years, Jeanne has had her work done from San Francisco to Istanbul. This past November, her full-length play, The Late Rosie Callaghan, was read in the NEWvember New Plays Reading Festival in Dublin, Ireland. A short play, “Happy Trails,” was produced in late January 2018 by Lucky Penny Productions at the 8X10 Play Festival. Another short play, “Perfect Mate” was read in the Flash Play Festival at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando. Most recently, her play, “The Existential Marionette,” was selected by the New Jersey Rep to be part of their Brut Festival this coming September.

Jeanne holds graduate degrees in theater from Indiana University and the University of Georgia. She is a member of the Dramatist Guild and sits on the board of The New England Theater Conference and the Vermont Playwrights Circle. She lives in Roxbury, Vermont and teaches English & Theater at Norwich University.

James C. Ferguson is an award-winning writer whose plays have been produced throughout the United States as well as in the UK and New Zealand. He has written two novels, numerous screenplays and a number of projects for television and the web. James is also the co-writer and director of the well-reviewed feature-length independent motion picture Happy Holidays, available through numerous digital platforms and on DVD through TLA Video. For additional info. go to his web site – www.scalepluspoints.com or you can find him on Twitter @scalepluspoints. He is also on Instagram where he mostly posts pictures of his one-eyed cat. He’s adorable (the cat, not the playwright). No, seriously. He also has two children (the playwright, not the cat) but they’re not nearly as cute so you won’t see as many pictures of them.

Walter A. Freeman is a teacher, freelance writer, and drama director who has been working in school and community theater for over three decades. His original play The Final Reel, co-authored with William Ivers and his adaptation of Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus have both been produced in Nashua NH. He has published poems in the Cube literary magazine, written a collection of short stories and a novel on The Trojan War. His short story The Last Tree on the Planet won second place in the Pennsylvania Manuscript Contest. He has also authored study guides for William Golding’s Lord of the Flies for MaxNotes, and Elie Wiesel’s Night and Michael Shaara’s The Last Full Measure for Random House. Walter is a founding member of New World Theatre’s Playwrights’ Collective.

William Ivers is a teacher and writer whose work has been featured in various publications, including The Plaidswede Pulp Fiction Anthology, specifically in the Western and Fantasy genres. His play, An Unexamined Life, won the 2017 Nor’Eastern Playwriting Contest and was a finalist for the 2018 International New Works of Merit Contest. It was published in New World Theatre’s It’s Academic collection and was produced at the Hatbox Theatre in July of 2018. His full-length play, Places You Go, was selected for a script-in-hand production as part of New World Theatre’s “Putting It Together” play development series. An avid musician, his recording projects have received positive reviews in regional magazines, and he is currently at work on a new EP. He lives in Hooksett, NH with his wife and children.