KCACTF Region 1 Conference 57

Dr. Shawna Mefferd Kelty is a director, dramaturg, and chair of the Theatre Department at SUNY Plattsburgh (SDC Associate member and LMDA member). She teaches directing, dramatic lit (including Canadian Theatre, African American Dramas, and Contemporary Women Playwrights), history... Read More →

Cassie M. Seinuk is a Jewish Cuban playwright, AEA Stage Manager, visual artist and educator in Boston, MA. Her play From the Deep has won multiple awards including The Pestalozzi New Play Prize, the Latinidad Playwrights Award at the Kennedy Center, and was a recipient of the Boston... Read More →

Bridget Kathleen O'Leary is a freelance director, dramaturg and theater educator. Since 2022 she has been the Director of New Play Development for Moonbox Productions where she curates and oversees the annual Boston New Works Festival. From 2008-2018 she served as the Associate artistic... Read More →

Jackie Rosenfeld is the KCACTF National Playwriting Program Member at Large and is the Assistant Professor of Playwriting and Pedagogy at East Texas A&M University where she leads the New Play Development Initiative. Her plays have been produced in Texas and Colorado as well as New... Read More →

TJ Young is a Texas-born playwright and dramaturg based in Pittsburgh, where he serves as co-representative for the Dramatists Guild - Pittsburgh region. His plays include WE FLY, The Inseparables (Pittsburgh Public Theatre Commission), Isle of Noises (James Madison University Commission... Read More →