Followed
A young woman on her way home late at night gets the inexplicable feeling that she is not alone.
Cast: Julie Katz

Playwright: Edith Weiss

Hometown: Mittelschefflenz, Germany

Current Location: Denver, Colorado

Edith Weiss is the author of ten published children's plays, productions include Unidentified Female Objects, Dancing with the Jihad, Hoping to See God, Checkmate, Holy Couch, and God's Religion. Favorite recent acting roles are Peggy in The Fourth Wall, Florence Unger in The Odd Couple, Female Version, and Grandmother in Moon Over Buffalo. Ms. Weiss is also an accomplished stand up comic whose shows have taken her from Alaska to Philadelphia, as well as three overseas tours entertaining the troops in Japan, Okinawa, Korea, Bosnia, Croatia and Macedonia.

Here To Serve You
An airline passenger becomes alarmed when he finds an abandoned shoe in the terminal. Can we feel secure without losing our freedom...or our minds?
Cast: Colin Fisher, Pearce Larson, Michael Mergo

Playwright: Barbara Lindsay

Hometown: Santa Monica, California

Current Location: Seattle, Washington

Barbara Lindsay’s first full length play, Free, won the NY Drama League's 1989 Playwrighting Competition and was subsequently given its premiere production in London in 1991. Since then there have been more than 100 national and international productions of her plays and monologues. She has taught writing in California, West Virginia, and Washington. Her new full length play I-2195 won the Women’s Playwrighting Award at the UM St. Louis and was produced there in Nov. 2005. Babs is a fifth generation Californian living in Seattle, WA, newly married, and ridiculously happy.

Moment
Hannah and Matt stumble upon an argument between a couple in a public park. A lot can happen in a moment.
Cast: Colin Fisher, Julie Katz, Michael Mergo, Nandini Sonnad  

Playwright: Matt Haldeman

Hometown: Abington, Pennsylvania

Current Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Matt Haldeman has taught public school in Washington DC, the Bronx, and a small village in East Africa. He graduated in 2007 from Harvard's Graduate School of Education and he is currently attending Harvard Business School. His short plays have been produced in theaters in places such as New York City, Boston, and Chicago. He is the author of A Matter of Interpretation, a book of short plays for children and he has written on education for various publications, including the Washington Post.

Run of the River
A father has one more chance to go fishing with his son.
Cast: Pearce Larson, Phlilip W. Weiss

Playwright: William C. Kovacsik

Hometown: Massapequa, New York

Current Location: Boulder, Colorado

William C. Kovacsik received his MFA in Playwriting from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was on the faculty from 1994-2001. His play The Masrayana won the Joseph Jefferson Citation Award as Best New Work in Chicago, 2005-2006. Scales of Justice received its premiere at the Long Beach Playhouse in 2002, and was published last year by Playscripts, Inc. In 2003, Pillar of Salt won the Lilly Foundation Hanover College Prize for plays dealing with spiritual vocation. Mr. Kovacsik is a recovering attorney and is currently working on a doctorate in theatre history at the University of Colorado.

Simultaneity
Natalie is being torn apart by her mother and her best friend, and the medication isn't helping. Everything happens too fast when everything happens all at once.
Cast: Chelsea Palano, Elizabeth Romanski, Hallie York

Playwright: Melanie Wallner

Hometown: New York, New York

Current Location: New York, New York

Melanie Wallner recently graduated from Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, where she was awarded the Citizenship and Character Award, Community Service Award, and the Acting Award. During her sophomore year, she participated in the year-long program, City at Peace, a worldwide nonprofit organization designed to teach teens how to resolve conflicts and become community leaders, using the performing arts as a tool. Last summer, she published four articles regarding the college process on the Huffington Post, and this year, wrote her first play, Simultaneity. She is thrilled to participate in the ID America Festival. Melanie is a freshman at NYU.

Soapbox
Two orators compete and try to explain society's ills to an innocent bystander.
Cast: Colin Fisher, Pearce Larson, Elizabeth Romanski  

Playwright: Carl Brandt Long

Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio

Current Location: Manassas, Virginia

Carl Brandt Long is a playwright, actor, and director in Northern Virginia. His plays, The Fairy Tale, Irena's Song, Soapbox, and The Apple have received productions across Virginia, in Cleveland, and in Iowa. Carl has appeared onstage in such roles as Cyrano (Cyrano de Bergerac), Oates (Terra Nova), Tybalt (Romeo and Juliet), and Bottom (A Midsummer Night's Dream). Directing credits include A Christmas Carol, Antigone, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Superhero
Leonard and Rachel find their superpowers in a demanding and discouraging world of evil cat ladies and landlords.
Cast: Michael Mergo, Nandini Sonnad

Playwright: Mark Harvey Levine

Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Current Location: Pasadena, California

Mark Harvey Levine's plays have been produced throughout the world, from New York to Prague to Casablanca. An evening of his plays, Aperitivos, has been playing in Brazil (translated into Portuguese) since 2005 and is currently on a National Tour there. Other evenings of his plays, Cabfare For The Common Man and C'est Levine, have played in Los Angeles, Boston and Indianapolis. His plays have been published in "Laugh Lines" (Vintage) and "Best Ten Minute Plays" 2004, 2006 and 2007 (Smith & Kraus). His Shades won Best Play and Audience Favorite in the 15 Minute Play Festival in New York.

To Darfur
Ryan is depressed about Darfur. With so much apathy surrounding him, how can he put his money where his mouth is?
Michael Mergo, Elizabeth Romanski, Phillip W. Weiss

Playwright: Erik Christian Hansen

Hometown: Monroe, Connecticut

Current Location: Monroe, Connecticut

Erik Christian Hansen graduated from Sacred Heart University in 2002. In 2004, The Eclectic Company Theatre produced his play After School Special in North Hollywood. His one-act play, Acronym, was staged for an AIDS benefit in South Carolina. The Gallery Players staged his play, The Sex of our Lives, as part of their 8th Annual Black Box Festival. In October of 2005, his play The Ethan Hawke Thing was staged for AT/WAS Theatre Company. In August of 2006, his play Cabin Echoes premiered at The Complex in West Hollywood. His play, Same Only Different was a semi-finalist for the 2007 O’Neill Conference.