Bronwyn Clark is a playwright and writing instructor whose plays have been produced in New York and Chicago. Her recent work with Crosstown Playwrights includes Tom Comes Home (Crosstown Playwrights Spring Forward, The Gene Frankel Theater, 2008) and Coffee and Toast (Who is Boris R. Tower?, Red Room, 2007). Her one-minute play The Oldest Argument in Illinois represented the Land of Lincoln in Clubbed Thumb’s “Pageant of the 50 States.” Bronwyn is currently working on two full-length plays, one about members of the Wobblies union who stood trial in 1918 for obstructing the war effort, and the other about water. She received her MA in playwrighting and sociology from NYU’s Gallatin School.

Jack Karp has had his short plays produced by Crosstown Playwrights, Boris R. Tower, the Queens Players, Turtle Shell Productions, Flour City Theatre Company, and Where Eagles Dare in New York, the Marsh Theatre in San Francisco, and City Theater Company in Wilmington, DE. His most recent full-length play, Irreversible, has had staged readings with Crosstown Playwrights and The Tank in New York, and it won the Theatre SLAM competition at The Tank this past March. His previous full-length play, Tell Me You Love Me, was produced by Bitter Sauce Theatre in San Francisco. Jack has also won the David Mamet Playwrighting Competition at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and Best Play of the 2008 Long Island City One Act Festival, and he was a finalist in last year’s Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival. Jack is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

Daniel McCoy is a playwright and performer living in New York City. His play Eli and Cheryl Jump was just seen at the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival. His play Sympathy was the winner of Highwire Theatre's 2008 Testing the Line new play competition and the play was subsequently workshopped by State of Play Theatre. Other full length plays, which have received various workshops and readings, include Group, Goddamn Gorgeous Mess, and Jobs and Men. His short plays, including The Downtown Daylight Project, My Three Dicks, Peek, and Hell: A Reunion, have been produced across the country at such theaters as The Elephant Theatre Company in Los Angeles, Source Theatre Festival in Washington D.C., Soul Invictus Gallery in Phoenix, AZ, StageQ Theatre in Madison, WI, and at such NYC theatres as The Flea Theater, Clubbed Thumb, 13th Street Rep, No Tea Productions, and with Crosstown Playwrights at The Red Room and Gene Frankel Underground. Daniel is an ensemble member of the New York Neo-Futurists and can be seen many a Friday and Saturday night performing in Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes) at the Kraine Theatre. He is a founding member of Crosstown Playwrights and a member-at-large of the award-winning Elephant Theatre Company. He was born and raised in Portland, OR.

Michael Niederman is the author of the plays The Kuptferberg Family Tragedy (New York Stage and Film), To Barcelona! (Ignited States), Alvin Saves The Day, Good Men, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays (Risley Theater), Running Across Amsterdam (American Theater for the Actors), and Chelsea, Alaska. (Lion Theater).
He is also the author of numerous short plays, including Every Man and Death From Above Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love America, which were featured at the 2007 Samuel French Short Play Festival. His new play, Freshman Fifteen, was read as part of Crosstown Playwrights Summer Reading Series at the Second Stage Theater. His script for the short film Proof of Birth won the Broadcast Educational Association Best Screenplay Award and Faculty Selects at the Columbia University Film Festival. His feature length screenplay, Saint Carlos of Gowanus also won Faculty Selects at Columbia University, was featured at the National Association of Independent Latino Producers Writer’s Lab, and is a finalist for the Sundance Film Festival Writer’s Lab. Michael is the Director for New Works at Ignited States, a member of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP), and is a founding member and producer of the Crosstown Playwrights.

Phlip Wilson is a grateful disciple of the other Crosstown Playwrights, bowing in their shadows and worshipping their miraculous work. His short plays Jelly Jenkins and Stanley Persepolis Discuss a Bad Idea and The Adventures of Dr. Ravish: A Roach in a Rodent's Clothes have both been produced by Crosstown Playwrights. His full-length The Giant and the Mite received a staged reading as part of Crosstown Playwrights Summer Reading Series at the Second Stage Theater. He is currently training to be a Sign Language Interpreter and encourages you to leave the dark ages where reading/writing and speaking/talking is considered literacy and challenge yourself to move from 2/3 literate to fully communicatively literate by taking a sign language class. Phlip thinks babies are stupid. Phlip loves Colleen. Phlip rides Shetland ponies on a galaxy of floating purple fabric, crying titanium tears.