WEATHER
by Kristen Scharold
KRISTEN SCHAROLD (Playwright) is a playwright and essayist living in the Catskills of New York. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Litt Magazine and The Millions, among others.
NATE NETZLEY (Director): Resident Director for Serials NYC; Stage Manager: Cyclops: A Rock Opera (The Tank), The Royal Pyrate (Polyphemus Productions) | natenetzley.com
CAMERON MITCHELL MASON (Derek): Actor, writer (Amazon Prime, YouTube), comedian, host (McCormick Spice). White People Won’t Save You: a podcast investigating white savior films and re-centering Black/POV narratives.
LEXIE SHOWALTER (Jenny) is an NYC-based actor. Last seen as Cinderella/Bella in Murder on the Links at the Players Theater. lexieshowalter.com
PATRICIA M. LAWRENCE (Linda): Off-B’way and Regional: Dowager Empress in Anastasia; serial killer Amelia Dyer in Blood on My Mother’s Apron; Swing for Ahrens & Flaherty musical Knoxville. patriciamlawrence.com
ERIN NOLL (Megan): (they/them), Mercury Store Acting Company since 2021. Recently: Fefu & Her Friends (Farm Hands), Heaven is a Place in the Sky (Trove), Law & Order (NBC). @baddad_x
RANDY SCHEIN (Robert): Off-Broadway: October 7: In Their Own Words. Television: Billions, Bull, Ray Donovan, Sex and the City. Film: The Secret, America, Cerulea. Thank you to Kristen, Nate and the cast. Contact: [email protected].
ETHAN FOX (Stage Directions): Director, writer, media designer. Recent works: The Pillowman, Cardboard: A Musical Fable, Serials, The Group. Training: ASU, University of Manchester. @efox_4
AGENT OF CHANGE
by Addie Ulrey
ADDIE ULREY (Playwright/Director) is a geographically-polyamorous, multidisciplinary writer and theatre maker currently living in Detroit, MI. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College and was an original company member of Ragged Wing Ensemble in Oakland, CA, with whom she wrote and produced new works between 2010-2020. Addie’s plays have been seen in NYC at The Tank, the Exponential Festival and Theatrelab. She has been in residence at the New Harmony Project (2024) and the index freiraum artist residency in Zurich, Switzerland (2022). Awards include the Rona Jaffe Playwriting Fellowship, the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust and a 2024 developmental commission from the Hearth Theater. Recurring themes in Addie’s work include chosen family, belonging, activist culture and the mechanisms of social change. Addie is a student of the small, the slow and the inefficient. She aims to make work that embodies a resistance to values of speed and scale, creating irretrievable, intimate and deeply local experiences. addieulrey.com
JOHN WILLIAM WATKINS (Customer): Off-Broadway: Death Of Rasputin, Sleep No More, Midnight Coleslaw. TV: Law & Order: Organized Crime, The Blacklist. John is with BAM Management!
AKAINA GHOSH (Server) (they/them) received their MFA in Graduate Acting from NYU Tisch in 2025. Their specialties include music composition, devised theatre and ensemble performance. akainaghosh.com
PRETTY PRIVILEGE
by Gloria Majule
GLORIA MAJULE (Playwright) is a storyteller born and raised in Dodoma, Tanzania. She seeks to tell stories that bring multiple Black voices together from across the world and are accessible to Black audiences no matter where they are. She writes for and about Africans and the African diaspora. Gloria has been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship and commissions by Audible and Atlantic Theater Company. She was a finalist for the Sundance Cultural Impact Residency. Her work includes My Father Was Shot in the Back of the Head (Relentless Award Finalist), Culture Shock (Leah Ryan Prize Winner) and Uhuru (Blue Ink Award Featured Finalist). She has been awarded residencies by Yaddo, Art Omi, The New Harmony Project, and New York Stage and Film. Gloria’s work has been developed by the American Playwriting Foundation, the Alley Theatre, Vassar’s Powerhouse Theater and The New Group, among others. BA: Cornell University; MFA: Yale School of Drama.
DRIA BROWN (Director/Producer) is a Black, queer art Doula, creative producer, facilitator and artist whose practice is deeply rooted in a Black maternal doula lens.
SHAYVAWN WEBSTER (Caramel) was last seen as Windy in the Netflix original movie Happiness For Beginners. She is a proud alumnus of NYU’s Graduate Acting Program.
JANELLE McDERMORTH (Coffee) is a multi-platform creator from the Bronx, New York and graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. She recently starred in We’re Gonna Die at Second Stage Theater.
SEARCH ENGINE
by Raffi Donatich
RAFFI DONATICH (Playwright) is a writer and performer. Her feature screenplay Poetic License recently wrapped production with Maude Apatow directing. Cooper Hoffman, Andrew Barth Feldman and Leslie Mann star. She is currently staffed on LuckyChap and Fake Empire’s Sterling Point, created by Megan Park for Amazon. She is also developing a TV series entitled Sex Act with Jeremy O. Harris and Lena Dunham producing under her Good Thing Going banner. Previously, she worked on Jeremy O. Harris’ plays Slave Play (NYTW, Broadway) and Daddy (Almeida). In 2020, she was awarded Yale University’s Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellowship for Poetry.
KARMA MASSELLI (Director)
MICHELLE KARIUKI (Friend)
MIA FOWLER (Googler)
ARJUN BIJU (Other)
2025 OOB Festival Credits
Festival Sponsor
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2025 Festival Judges
Douglas Carter Beane
Eleanor Burgess
Matt Cox
Emily Feldman
Zora Howard
Kristin Leahey
Margaret Ledford
Jill Rafson
Susan Soon He Stanton
Anne Washburn
Alexis Williams
Leah Nanko Winkler
Honorary Playwrights
Rachel Bonds
Miranda Rose Hall
Lauren Yee
Festival Co-Artistic Directors
Garrett Anderson
Casey McLain
House Manager
Tyler Mullen
Box Office Manager
Rosemary Bucher
Marketing Team
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Ranana Chernin
Festival Support Staff
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2025 Submissions Readers
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Special Thanks
Sean Flahaven, Bill Gaden, Concord, City Theatre Miami, Dramatists Guild of America, National New Play Network
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