​​Dominique Morisseau (she/her) is the author of The Detroit Project (A 3-Play Cycle): Skeleton Crew (Atlantic Theater Company/Broadway, Tony Award nomination for Best Play), Paradise Blue (Signature Theatre) and Detroit ’67 (Public Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem and NBT). Additional plays include: Bad Kreyòl (Signature Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club), Confederates (Signature Theatre), Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theatre), Sunset Baby (LAByrinth Theatre), Blood at the Root (National Black Theatre) and Follow Me To Nellie’s (Premiere Stages). She is the Tony Award-nominated bookwriter on the Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations (Imperial Theatre) and is currently working on her latest, Hippest Trip – The Soul Train Musical (ACT). TV/Film: co-producer on “Shameless” (Showtime), the film adaptation of the documentary “STEP” (Fox Searchlight) and consultant on the Netflix animated feature, “Tunga.” Awards include: PoNY Fellowship, TEER Trailblazer Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Audelco Awards, NBTF August Wilson Playwriting Award, Wyndham Campbell Prize, Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, OBIE Award (two), Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, one of Variety’s Women of Impact for 2018 and a MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow. In 2022, Dominique was awarded the key to the city by the Mayor of Detroit.

James Bohnen (he/him) co-founded Remy Bumppo Theatre Company and served as artistic director from 1996 – 2012 directing more than 30 productions during his tenure, including plays by Tom Stoppard, Athol Fugard, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Caryl Churchill and Gore Vidal. He has directed more than 20 productions at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, WI, including 11 plays by Shakespeare, four by Shaw and three by Stoppard. He has also directed at Court Theater, Huntington Theater, The Old Globe, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Seattle Rep, among others. James founded Arcadia Books in Spring Green 15 years ago and Remy Bumppo’s name was inspired by his Labrador Retriever, Natty Bumppo. 

Jordan Harrison (he/him) was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Marjorie Prime. The play had its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons and its Chicago premiere at Writers Theatre after premiering at the Mark Taper Forum/CTG in Los Angeles. His play Maple and Vine premiered in the 2011 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville and went on to productions at American Conservatory Theatre and Playwrights Horizons, among others. Harrison’s other plays include The Grown-Up (2014 Humana Festival), Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizons), Amazons and their Men (Clubbed Thumb), Act A Lady (2006 Humana Festival), Finn in the Underworld (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Futura (Portland Center Stage, NAATCO), Kid-Simple (2004 Humana Festival), Standing on Ceremony (Minetta Lane), The Museum Play (Washington Ensemble Theatre) and a musical, Suprema (O’Neill Music Theatre Conference).

Harrison is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, the Kesselring Prize, the Roe Green Award from Cleveland Play House, the Heideman Award, a Theater Masters Innovative Playwright Award, the Loewe Award for Musical Theater, Jerome and McKnight Fellowships, a NYSCA grant and a NEA/TCG Residency with The Empty Space Theater. His children’s musical, The Flea and the Professor, won the Barrymore Award for Best Production after premiering at the Arden Theatre. A graduate of Stanford University and the Brown MFA program, Harrison is an alumnus of New Dramatists. He is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians and The Playwrights’ Center. Harrison wrote for the Netflix original series “Orange is the New Black.”