Wesley Leon Aroozoo (Singapore) - "Kissing Faces"

Wesley Leon Aroozoo is an artist, educator and curator from 13 Little Pictures, Pinball Collective and Studio Thirteen, based at the Goodman Arts Centre in Singapore. He is a Master of Fine Arts graduate from New York University Tisch Asia and Nanyang Technological University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. His works span from literary, theatre to film in over 90 festivals such as The International Film Festival Rotterdam and The Sapporo Film Festival. He is a published author with "Bedok Reservoir" (Math Paper Press, 2012). He is currently working on his second literary work.

Paul Charlton (UK) - "The Echo Effect"

Paul Charlton trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now called Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). He was a member of the Royal Court writers group in 2009 and their invitation group in 2010. He was a member of BBC writersroom10 in 2011. His sketch show "The Ginge, the Geordie and The Geek" - co-writes and stars - will have its first series aired on BBC2 in the coming months 2013. He has won two Fringe First Awards for his plays "Love, Sex and Cider" and "Crush" - the latter was also nominated for the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award before embarking on a sell out national tour produced by Iron Shoes theatre company and directed by Ria Parry. Paul has a long standing relationship with Live Theatre Newcastle (producers of West End and Broadway hit "The Pitman Painters") having written many short plays and youth theatre plays for the theatre. He has just finished a new play - seed funded by the BBC - exploring the British youth justice system. His play "Little Fish" was longlisted for the Bruntwood prize 2011.

Nick Cheesman (UK) - "Prime"

Nick Cheesman is a South London based writer and has written and directed plays all over the UK. He started his career as a playwright whilst studying for a BA in Classical Civilisations at the University of Leeds; writing and directing Fuck Our Wives and Waiting and receiving rave reviews from local media outlets and enjoying sell out runs. Nick made his London debut last year with Grotto at the Old Red Lion Theatre, which was selected as part of the Writers Bloc Christmas showcase. In April, Prime enjoyed its London debut as part of the Stay on the Bus Productions Showcase at the Troubadour, Earls Court and will now be making its transatlantic debut as part of the TimeWave festival. Currently, Nick is working on a number of projects including; Eromenos and Penny for the stage, Falstaff Court for television and Miscall for BBC radio. He is currently an MA student in the Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media course at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Gary Duggan (Ireland) - "The Transformation"

Gary Duggan is an Irish playwright and screenwriter. He won the Stewart Parker Trust Award for his first play Monged. Other plays include Dedalus Lounge and Trans-Euro Express, which have toured throughout Ireland and performed internationally. Gary's most recent play Shibari is an Abbey Theatre Commission for the 2012 Dublin Theatre Festival. Gary has also co-written Amber, a major four-part TV drama for RTE (Ireland's national network).

Alan Dunnett (UK) - "To Boldly Go"

Alan Dunnett is the MA Screen Course Leader at Drama Centre London, Central Saint Martin College of Arts and Design. His poem-film "Let In" was screened at several festivals and he has since gone on to make "Wake" - https://vimeo.com/60531117. His poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies including Stand, The Rialto, Other Poetry, London Grip, The Recusant, The Methuen Book of Theatre Verse and The Robin Hood Book. There have been several competition short-listings, most recently prize-winning at Norwich (2013) and Nottingham (2012). His translation of Ana Eulate's "Kinds of White" appears on The CD Songs Now, available on Meridian Records. (alandunnett.co.uk/index.htm)

Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros (US) - "Open Arms"

Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros is the author of Mean Time (Julliard and Vineyard Theatre workshops, dir. Daniel Aukin), Omnium Gatherum, (Humana Festival, Off-Broadway, BEST PLAYS of 2004, Pulitzer Prize for Drama Finalist 2004), The Argument (w/ Melissa Leo, Vineyard Theatre), Mother of Invention (Williamstown Theatre Festival, dir. Nicholas Martin and Steppenwolf Theatre Co. dir. Anna Shapiro), My Thing of Love (BROADWAY w/ Laurie Metcalf, Steppenwolf Theatre Co., Jefferson Award, dir. Terry Kinney), Supple in Combat (w/ JohnMahoney, Steppenwolf Theatre Co.). Her one-acts include: I Never told Anyone (McCarter Theatre commission, dir. BD Wong), The Airport Play (EST Marathon ‘05), and Two Jews in their Seventies and Open Arms, both to be featured on Playing for Air on NPR. She also developed a half hour comedy for HBO with co-writer Carl Capotorto and Executive Producers Will Scheffer and Mark Olsen. She is a graduate of NYU Tisch and member of PEN and Actors Studio. Her work is published by Samuel French and Smith and Kraus.

Sheri Graubert (UK) - "Humanogram"

Sheri Graubert is thrilled to be collaborating with LoNyLa again. Her play, Prozac & Other Miracles was part of LoNyLa's Velocity Lab 2012. Sheri is an actress and prize-winning playwright. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, England and Australia. She has had readings all over the place, including the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska, and Theatres Against War, WBAI Public Radio, New York. Her play, Parental Consent, is published in Best American Short Plays, 2010, [Smith & Kraus] and Magnolia Day is published in Best American Short Plays, 2011. Her children's play, Rick Spacey and the Space Cadets, commissioned by Only Make Believe (founder Dena Hammerstein), is regularly performed in in NYC hospitals. Her play, Tesla, is currently being produced off-broadway in New York City. As an actress, she has worked with Cheek by Jowl, the National Theatre (UK), the English Shakespeare Company, and the Joseph Papp Public Theatre in New York City. (www.sherigraubert.com)

Zainabu Jallo (Nigeria) - "Caught in the Blank"

Zainabu Jallo has also worked as a Journalist and just recently published Onions Make Us Cry a play which has put her on the shortlist for the NLNG Literary Prize 2010, a prize considered the biggest literary prize in Nigeria for people who have distinguished themselves in their fields with their literary work. Under the Connecting Futures young writers she was attached to a Newspaper house to generate and write stories about young people and education, environment, social and informative issues that affect them. She was nominated by the British Council to cover Contacting The World, an international youth theatre project in Manchester UK. In 2007, she participated in 'The New Writing in Drama' 2-year project, a workshop for young writers facilitated by the Royal Court Theatre UK in conjunction with the British Council, aimed at developing skills of a young generation of playwrights in Nigeria. A year later, she was offered a place on the international residency programme at the Royal Court Theatre. It was at this residency she began to write the play Onions Make Us Cry. She lived briefly at Global Arts Village, Delhi India where she was on a literary fellowship. Her writings have been published in several anthologies and theatre magazines. Zainabu has two published plays and a collection of open style poetry. She continues to write abstract essays which she debuted with as a writer.

Maksym Kurochkin / John Freedman [Translator] (Russia) - "Circuit Breaker"

Maksym Kurochkin is recognized as one of the most imaginative playwrights in Moscow today. He is the recipient of the Boldest Experiment of the Year award from the Moskovsky Komsomolets daily for Kitchen, the Moscow New Drama award for the futuristic comedy Titus the Irreproachable, and the Russian Anti-Booker award for experimenting with new avenues in drama. Russian critic Yelena Kovalskaya named Kitchen one of the top 20 Russian plays in the first decade of the century. The Moscow Times named his Repress and Excite the best play of the 2006-7 Moscow season. English translations of that play and Vodka, Fucking, and Television, his trailblazing work from 2003, were published in TheatreForum magazine. A translation of The Schooling of Bento Bonchev was published in Performing Arts Journal. Titus the Irreproachable, translated by Noah Birksted-Breen, was a featured reading at the Russian Theatre Festival in London in February 2010. John J. Hanlonʼs translation of Mooncrazed was presented at the HotINK festival at NYU in January 2010. In 2012, Breaking String Theatre of Austin, TX, staged both The Schooling of Bento Bonchev and Vodka, Fucking and Television, prompting Austin Chronicle critic Robert Faires to remark on these plays' "irreverence, imagination, and immediacy."

John Freedman has translated 50 Russian plays, which have been performed in England, the United States, Canada, Australia and South Africa, including five major plays and a half-dozen dramaticules by Maksym Kurochkin. His play Dancing, Not Dead won the new play competition conducted by The Internationalists in 2011, and his short play Five Funny Tales from Buenos Aires was an entry in the 2013 Long Distance Affair skype theater project produced in New York by Pop Up Theatrics. With Jennifer Johnson and the Double Edge Theatre company he co-authored that American theatre's production of The Firebird in 2010. He has published and/or edited nine books about Russian theatre, and for two decades has been the drama critic of The Moscow Times. He was the Russia director of The New Russian Drama project at Towson University, 2007- 2010, and the director of the U.S.-government supported New American Plays for Russia program, 2010-2013.

Neil LaBute (US) - "Special Delivery"

Neil LaBute: Writer/Director. Theatre includes: Bash: Latter-Day Plays (Douglas Fairbanks Theatre, Almeida Theatre); The Shape of Things (Almeida Theatre, Promenade Theatre); The Distance from Here (MCC Theatre, Almeida Theatre); The Mercy Seat (MCC Theatre, Almeida Theatre); Filthy Talk for Troubled Times (MCC Theatre); Fat Pig (MCC Theatre, Trafalgar Studios); Autobahn (MCC Theatre); Some Girl(s) (Gielgud Theatre, MCC Theatre); This is How it Goes (Donmar Warehouse, The Public Theatre); Land of the Dead/Helter Skelter (Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Bush Theatre); Wrecks (Everyman Palace Theatre, The Public Theatre, The Bush Theatre); In a Dark Dark House (MCC Theatre, Almeida Theatre); The Break of Noon (MCC Theatre, Geffen Playhouse); Reasons to be Pretty (MCC Theatre, Almeida Theatre); In a Forest, Dark and Deep (Vaudeville Theatre, Profiles Theatre); The Heart of the Matter (MCC Theatre); Woyzeck - adaptation (Schauspielhaus Zurich); Things We Said Today (Profiles Theatre, Sala Beckett); The Furies/The New Testament/Romance (59E59); The Great War (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Taming of the Shrew - additional scenes (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Short Ends (Open Fist Theatre); The Money Shot (The Cape Cod Theater Project); Lovely Head (Spoleto Festival-Italy, Fringe Festival-Madrid, La Mama); In The Beginning (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Theatre Row); Miss Julie - adaptation (Geffen Playhouse); Reasons to be Happy (MCC Theatre). Film includes: In the Company of Men; Your Friends & Neighbors; Nurse Betty; Possession; The Shape of Things; The Wicker Man; Lakeview Terrace; Death at a Funeral; Some Girl(s); Some Velvet Morning; Tumble (short); After-School Special (short); Sexting (short); Denise (short); Double or Nothing (short); Bench Seat (short); Sweet Nothings (short); BFF (short). Television includes: Bash: Latter-Day Plays (Showtime), Full Circle (Directv). Fiction includes: Seconds of Pleasure (Faber & Faber).

William Leavengood (US) - "Paige900"

William Leavengood is a two-time O'Neill playwright and alumnus of Circle Repertory. His Off-Broadway credits include SPECIAL on Theatre Row; LITTLE MARY at the Sanford Meisner Theatre; THE HEAD at the Chelsea Playhouse; THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY, directed by Casey Childs, at Primary Stages; and FLORIDA CRACKERS, directed by John Bishop, which premiered as part of Circle Repertory's 20th Anniversary Season. William's short play, STEVE, was presented at the Town Hall Theatre in New York as part of BRAVE NEW WORLD: The American Theater responds to 9/11, and subsequently made into a short film starring Fisher Stevens. His farce, WHAT IS ART?, opened the Reflections Festival of New Plays at the GeVa Theatre, and was later produced at the Court Theatre, Los Angeles, starring Beverly Hills 90210's Ian Ziering. In Florida, WEBB'S CITY: THE MUSICAL at the Mahaffey Theater; CROSSING THE BAY at the Janet Root Theater; AMERICAN ROAD at the Gorilla Theater; and FOOD & SHELTER at American Stage and LOURDES OF THE FLIES at The Palladium Theater.

Jonathan Lewis (UK) - "Off the Hook"

Jonathan Lewis' first play as a writer, which he also directed at The Soho Theatre, Derby Playhouse and at The Donmar warehouse, was Our Boys for which he won The Writers Guild Award for Best New Fringe Play, TAPS new Television Writer Of The Year, and he was nominated for the The Lloyds Bank Playwright Of The Year. Our Boys has recently been revived at The Duchess Theatre in London's West End to great acclaim. He has also written and directed A Comedy Of Arias at The Pleasance, Edinburgh and as part of A Pick Of The Fringe season at The New Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End, as well as his own play All Mouth at The Menier Chocolate Factory; and two productions of Pitch Perfect at the Tristan Bates and at the Tabard Theatre. More recently he has co-written and performed the highly successful one man show, I Found My Horn at Hampstead Theatre as well as theatres and festivals up and down the country and in Copehagen, New York, LA and at The Laguna Beach Playhouse. He has written extensively for Television and has a short film to his name, which he wrote and directed, Beggar's Belief.

Kara Manning (US) - "Paradise"

Kara Manning's plays have been performed or developed via the Royal Court Theatre, Out of Joint, Hampstead Theatre, the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, MTC, Atlantic Theater, MCC Theater, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley (2012 New Works Festival), Playwrights Horizons, Women's Project, etc. Her play Sleeping Rough was recently produced by New York's Page 73 Productions (receiving a Drama Desk nomination for Best Featured Actress). Kara is very pleased to be a part of LoNyLa's inaugural TimeWave. She is the 2007 recipient of the Princess Grace Award in playwriting, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a member of MCC Theater's Playwrights Coalition, a recipient of an EST/Sloan Commission and a Princess Grace Foundation Special Projects Grant. Kara was shortlisted for the BBC Drama Production Writers Academy and is an alumnus of the Royal Court's International Residency and the Women's Project Playwrights Lab. She also works for WFUV/The Alternate Side and is literary manager of the Irish Repertory Theatre. Graduate of Columbia University's MFA program in playwriting.

Lachlan Philpott (Australia) - "Body/Double"

Lachlan Philpott is a Sydney-based writer. His plays have been widely performed in Australia. He was writer in residence at Red Stitch Theatre, Melbourne [2006] Griffin Theatre Company Sydney [2010]; Playwright's Foundation, San Francisco [2012] and is one of the writers in the Traverse 50 at The Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh this year. In late 2013 he will undertake a residency at The Playwrights Centre in Minneapolis and The Lark in New York. His play Silent Disco is currently in development for a feature film. In 2012 this play was awarded Best Play in the Australian Writers Guild Awards - the only peer judged awards in Australia. Lachlan is currently under commission with Perth Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, Australian Theatre for Young People and Canberra Youth Theatre.

J Dakota Powell (UK) - "Sex, Flap & Jazz"

J Dakota Powell's plays include: Bliss Moon, The Impostor, Savage Light, Blackwater, Harry Black. Harry Black was produced in the Ensemble Studio Theatre's New Work Series. Blackwater was selected for the National Playwrights Conference, O'Neill Theatre Center and by John Guare for the Lincoln Center Reading Series. The Impostor was twice nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and received an Honourable Mention for the Jane Chambers Playwrighting Award. Powell has been produced by the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Philadephia Theater Company's New Works Series, Circle Repertory Theatre Lab, the Ensemble Studio Theatre and Duke University's New Works Series; she has been commissioned by South Coast Repertory Theatre, Talking Wall Pictures and PBS Great Performances. Powell is a winner of the Writer Guild of America, East screenwriting fellowship (NYC) and the Scriptapalooza TV pilot competition (LA). She completed a two-year conservatory program at the Ensemble Studio Theatre (NYC) and directed a few shorts whilst attending Graduate Film at NYU.

Steve Serpas (US) - "Nestling"

Steve Serpas' most recent work includes the web series, Before We Go To Sleep (www.beforewegotosleep.com), an official selection in the 2013 LA Web Festival and the 2013 New Media Film Festival. Other credits include Xenogenesis (1998 Garland Award for Best Play from Backstage West), Smoke The Baby, semi-finalist in the 2012 Ashland New Play Festival; Andrea Lane, presented at Ensemble Studio Theatre LA's 2012 WinterFest; Sweet Colinda (Winner of the Native Visions/Native Voices Award at LSU); and Dogtown (1994 Jeff Award-winning production.) Other produced plays include Green Air, Harvestide, and Waning Crescent Moon, which is published by Samuel French. Steve studied at NYU/Tisch's Dramatic Writing Program and has worked with American Blues, The Blank Theatre Company, CAP 21, Chicago Dramatists, Eclipse Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Prop Theatre, The Road Theatre, Sacred Fools, Shattered Globe, Strawdog, Victory Gardens, and Point Zero Pictures, which produced his 2008 short film, La La Loco Baby. Affiliations include member of L.A.'s The Playwrights Union; member of the Playwrights Unit, Ensemble Studio Theatre LA; former resident playwright of Chicago Dramatists; and member of The Dramatists Guild.

David Simpatico (US) - "Carpe Diesal"

David Simpatico's work has been presented at numerous theatres, including Lincoln Center, NYC Town Hall, Edinburgh Fringe, the Hammersmith Apollo (London), Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the New York Shakespeare Festival, the New York Theatre Workshop, English National Opera, the Boston Conservatory of Music and Franklin Furnace. Using the safety net of comedy to explore life-and-death issues, his work examines man's struggle to claim his place in a chaotic universe. Upcoming events: The Waiting Room (Half Moon Theatre's Ten Minute Play Festival, Poughkeepsie, Spring 2013); Diesal Jeans, one act play with TimeWave Festival, June 2013 (performed and live streamed between London and Los Angeles); and a concert presentation of the full length opera, The Transfiguration of Alan Turing (w/composer Justine Chen; American Lyric Theatre, NYC, Spring 2013); and a dual language production of The Screams of Kitty Genovese, with music by Will Todd, as part of the Montreal New Music Theatre Festival in August 2013. David writes, directs, edits and stars in Zombie Hideaway, a webisodic series, and Rev. Jimmy's Lake of Fire, both featured on his new Youtube channel, Noise Ball.