KIRSTEN GREENIDGE Village Voice/Obie and PEN America/Laura Pels recipient Kirsten Greenidge is the author of THE LUCK OF THE IRISH, MILK LIKE SUGAR, as well as OUR DAUGHTERS LIKE PILLARS and COMMON GROUND: REVISITED, an adaptation of J. Anthony Lukas’ Pulitzer Prize-winning book about Boston’s desegregation efforts in the 1970s. A hallmark of Kirsten’s work is her focus on the nexus of race, class, and gender in the United States in the past and present. More recent work includes MORNING, NOON, AND NIGHT, commissioned by Company One Theatre as part of Kirsten’s Howlround/Mellon Foundation Theatre Residency; MATILDE: A FABLE, commissioned by Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Lucille Lortel Theatre and presented at La Jolla Playhouse’s 2024 DNA Festival; and the adapted libretto for THE ANONYMOUS LOVER, an adaptation of the original by Joseph Bologne, which premiered at Boston Lyric Opera and was most recently presented at Opera Philadelphia. Kirsten is an associate professor of theatre at the School of Theatre at Boston University, where she oversees the playwriting track of study and also serves as the school’s director. An alum of New Dramatists, Kirsten attended Wesleyan University and the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa, and is a resident artist at Company One in Boston. Upcoming commission work includes projects with Plays-in-Place and Boston Lyric Opera.

LAUREN SANDLER is the award-winning and bestselling author of three books, including the 2020 New York Times Notable Book THIS IS ALL I GOT: A NEW MOTHER’S SEARCH FOR HOME, for which she spent a year reporting in a Brooklyn shelter and followed one woman through her trials to find a stable home. Lauren began her journalism career at NPR before shifting into writing essays and narrative. Her writing on gender, race,  inequality, and religion have appeared in dozens of publications including The New York Times, Slate, The Atlantic, Time, and  New York Magazine. Lauren has been a Poynter Fellow at Yale, and has received arts fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the James Merrill House, Loghaven, and the Maison Dora Maar in Menerbes, France.

CRYSTAL MONEE HALL is a powerhouse singer/songwriter, actress, and vocal director/arranger/producer whose career spans roles on Broadway (RENT), TV (HBO’s HIGH MAINTENANCE and WALKER), movies (Disney’s WISH), and sold-out tours with Ben Platt and Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead). She has collaborated with an array of top artists, from providing backing vocals for Oleta Adams and Patti Austin, to performing with Thomas Rhett at Madison Square Garden and being featured in Cynthia Erivo’s PBS special. Crystal was named a 2025 Woman to Watch by the Broadway Women's Fund and was a recipient of The Lilly Awards’ “Go Write a Musical” award and the Black Theatre Coalition’s inaugural Composer Fellowship Award. Hall’s songwriting has been showcased in Kristin Chenoweth’s live concerts, and her latest EP IF YOU BREATHE has been praised by Billboard Magazine. Crystal is the composer of the new musical 3 SUMMERS OF LINCOLN, which premiered at La Jolla Playhouse in 2025. crystalmoneehall.com.

LORIN LATARRO Broadway: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, TOMMY, THE HEART OF ROCK AND ROLL, INTO THE WOODS, WAITRESS, MRS. DOUBTFIRE; The Met: LA TRAVIATA; Other: PETER PAN, THE PRODUCERS (The Chocolate Factory).