David Adjmi is the recipient of the 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2010 Whiting Writers' Award, and the 2009 Kesselring and Bush Artist Fellowships. Plays include 3C (Rattlestick Theatre Company, New York), Stunning (Woolly Mammonth, Lincoln Center Theater), The Evildoers (Yale Rep, world premiere), Elective Affinities (Royal Shakespeare Company and Soho Rep, piece by piece productions, and Rising Phoenix Repertory), Caligula, and Strange Attractions (Empty Space Theatre).
Young Jean Lee is an OBIE award-winning playwright and director who has been called 'the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation' by the New York Times and 'one of the best experimental playwrights in America' by Time Out New York. She has written and directed nine shows in New York with Young Jean Lee's Theater Company and toured her work to over twenty cities around the world.
Katori Hall is from Memphis, Tennessee. Her play The Mountaintop was first produced to great acclaim at Theatre503, London, in June 2009, and received a transfer to the Trafalgar Studios, London, the following month. It won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2010, and opened in Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, New York City, in October 2011. Her other plays include Hurt Village (Classical Theatre of Harlem Future Classics Reading Series, BRIC Studio, 2007), Hoodoo Love (Cherry Lane Theatre, New York, 2007), Remembrance (Women's Project/World Financial Center site-specific work, 2007), Saturday Night/Sunday Morning (Classical Theatre of Harlem Future Classics Reading Series, The… Schomburg Centre, New York, 2008), WHADDABLOODCLOT!!!, The Hope Well and Pussy Valley. Her numerous awards include the 2007 Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, a 2006 New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting and Screenwriting, a residency at the Royal Court Theatre in 2006, and the 2005 Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting award.
Christopher Shinn (b. 1975) is an American playwright from New York. He has had a number of play produced in the UK, including Four (Royal Court Theatre, 1998); Other People (Royal Court Theatre, 2000); Where Do We Live (Royal Court Theatre, 2002); The Coming World (Soho Theatre, 2001), and Dying City (Royal Court Theatre, 2006). In 2008 he was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. Most recently he took part in the Bush Theatre's staging of the Bible, Sixty Six Books.