Judy Carlson Hulbert has been a magazine editor, an educational writer, and a PTA vice-president. She’s currently Artistic Director of The North End Children’s Theatre in Tacoma, Washington. She’s had nine children’s books published, had a musical revue run off-off-Broadway, and has written two musicals for families. Her one-act “Driving Daughter” and her full-length play about breast cancer, “Probably Nothing,” were recently produced in NYC.
Kerry Gildea is a former journalist who covered Congress and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., for 13 years before transitioning into corporate communications. Her short plays, "Paint By Numbers” and “Recruitment” each received staged readings at Theater J in Washington, D.C., last year. She currently is writing a two-act play about the evolving friendship of two teenagers against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Mollie Ramos Alaskan elementary school teacher by day and theatre enthusiast/playwright by night, shares her home in Valdez with her husband, twelve-year-old son, and two big black Labs. Her plays have been seen in Valdez, Anchorage, and Fairbanks, AK; upstate New York; and now Colorado. Last summer, she had the privilege of attending the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive in Washington, D.C.
Jan Henson Dow has won a number of national playwriting competitions and her plays are produced around the country. As a Professor at Western Connecticut State University, Dow directed the Playwriting Workshops and co-produced Western's Festival of New Plays. She received her M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her B. A. from Indiana University. She is the co-author of the book "Writing the Award-Winning Play" and is a member of The Dramatists Guild.
Janet Schlapkohl grew up in a small county-seat town in Iowa. She received a BS in Biology with minors in English, Chemistry and Education from Iowa State University. Schlapkohl and her husband have three grown children. Schlapkohl studied playwriting at the University of Iowa and received her master's degree in Education from the University of Iowa.
Judy Klass has had eighteen one-act plays produced, in NYC, Brooklyn, New Jersey, Vermont, Kansas, Ohio, California, South Carolina and Pennsylvania. One short play is about to have its fifth production in Chicago. Two of her full-length plays, TRANSATLANTIC and DAMAGE CONTROL, have been produced in NYC. Her short plays have appeared in the college textbook Access: Literature and the anthology The Art of the One-Act. She co-wrote the Showtime cable film IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES, based on the novel by Julia Alvarez. It’s out on DVD. For those interested in producing plays - and hearing country songs - look her up and give her a shout:
www.judyklass.com.
