Daryl Lisa Fazio is a playwright, actor, and theatre graphic designer based in Atlanta. Off-Broadway: POPart: The Musical (New York Musical Theatre Festival); Greyhounds. Regional: The Flower Room, Actor’s Express world premiere; Split in Three, Aurora Theatre, Florida Rep world premiere; Freed Spirits, Horizon Theatre commission and world premiere. Her musical, lift (with composer Aaron McAllister), was awarded a slot in the NAMT Festival of New Musicals in New York City, as well as being developed, the York Theatre and Coastal Carolina University. Developmental workshops: Emory University, Truman State University, 7 Stages, Working Title Playwrights, The Weird Sisters Theatre Project, Florida Rep’s PlayLab, and New Stage Theatre. Daryl is a professional member of the Dramatists Guild. BA Theatre: Northwestern University. MFA Graphic Design: University of Memphis. Daryl hails originally from Mississippi, and her commitment is to writing complex and challenging roles for women of all ages, races, and classes, often with a focus on the Deep South.

Kathryn Walat’s play Creation premiered, the Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena, for which she was nominated for an LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Playwriting. Her Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen premiered Off-Broadway, the Women’s Project, and was published in New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2007; and her politically resonant Bleeding Kansas premiered, the Hangar Theatre (Ithaca, NY) and received a Francesca Primus Citation from the American Theatre Critics Association. Other productions include See Bat Fly (Brown-Trinity Playwrights Rep), Ancient Gods of the Backwoods (New George’s Germ Project, NYC), Know Dog (Salvage Vanguard, Austin), Johnny Hong Kong (Perishable Theatre, Providence), and the On the Road anthology project (Actors’ Theatre of Louisville). As a core member of the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, Romeo & Naomi Ramirez was developed as part of their Ruth Easton New Play Series, and her Small Town Values appeared, PlayLabs; both plays were also recognized on the Kilroy’s List. Kate has been in residence, such places as the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Lark Play Development Center, The Orchard Project, and Yaddo; and commissioned by MCC Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, and New Georges (where she is an Affiliated Artist). As an opera librettist, her work has been produced by Chicago Lyric Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, and twice, the PROTOTYPE festival in New York. Her latest play, Southern Haunt, appeared in fall 2016 in the Threshold New Play Festival, Actor’s Express. A former resident of Savannah, she now lives in New York, and teaches playwriting, the State University of New York/Albany. BA: Brown University, MFA: Yale School of Drama.

Kimberly Monks is a third-year MFA Acting candidate and emerging playwright, UC San Diego. She graduated from Vanguard University of Southern California in 2015. UCSD Theatre credits: La Bete, Damascus, Native Son, The Taming of the Shrew, Are You There?, What of the Night, A Raisin in the Sun. Regional Credits: Incurable: A Fool’s Tale (Guthrie Theater, 2017 Guthrie Experience), Wild Goose Dreams (La Jolla Playhouse). Kimberly is more than excited to be embarking on such a journey with Synchronicity Theatre for her playwriting debut. She plans to continue giving a voice to the marginalized and the silenced by telling stories that must be told.