LEFT OVERS
by Roni Ragone
RONI RAGONE (Playwright): Night Night, Roger Roger (published by Dramatic Publishing Company; University of California, Santa Barbara + 13 additional productions around the U.S.). Up Strung Down (Amplify, The Tank: Moonlight Series, SheNYC semifinalist 2025, New Works Festival finalist). We’re All Girls Here (Top 30 in 47th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, West Texas A&M University, University of Evansville & more). my barricade (2025 House of Rooted Festival, 48th OOB, The Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2025 Smith & Kraus Inc. [monologue only], Doubles). Left Overs (Precarious Nights [UK debut!], Boston Theatre Company’s Queer Voices Festival, Cry Havoc: Playlist). Heading North (OUT/PLAY: Summer Shorts). “Brothers in Arms” (Capital Q Festival). Co-founder of Fresh Binder Productions.
MARTAVIUS PARRISH (Director): Broadway: Into the Woods (Tony Nomination: Best Revival, Best Direction of a Musical), Once Upon a Mattress. 2024 Drama League Fellow. MartaviusParrish.com
MCALLISTER STOWELL (Max) is a recent transplant here in NYC, and they’re honored to participate in this festival alongside such talented artists! // University of Evansville ’23 // mcallisterstowell.com.
JOHN TORRES (Ernest) is a lifelong theatre actor and director who always enjoys the opportunity to help bring original plays to life in festivals such as this one.
ANGEL VILLALOBOS (Stage Directions) is an artist from LA. He likes plants and rainy days. BFA, BA: UCSB. Salud!
THE MEET & GREET
by Sarah Groustra
SARAH GROUSTRA (Playwright) is a Brooklyn-based, Massachusetts-born playwright and theatermaker and an alumna of Kenyon College (2022). sarahgroustra.com // @ladypoachedegg.
KATIE ROYSE GINTHER (Director) is an NYC-based producer, director and performer. They’re the artistic director of Kitchen Sink Theatre Company and love making theatre that uplifts queer and trans stories!
NIJAYÈ OWENS (Emily) is passionate about acting and creating. She is thrilled to be a part of The Meet & Greet. Previously played Hildy in Kitchen Sink Theatre Company’s Pandora’s Shut-The-Box Game.
AARON DIX (Justice) believes that the true spirit of the Muppets died in 2004 when they were officially bought by Disney. He’s never been on Broadway.
MOTHER’S DAY
by Betsy Anne Huggins
BETSY ANNE HUGGINS (Playwright) is an educator, director and playwright based in Louisville, Kentucky. Her short plays have been read, developed and produced by Louisville Fringe Festival, This Bridge Theatre and Squallis Puppeteers. Her play Mother’s Day was selected for the 2024 Midwest Dramatists Conference. A career teaching artist, Betsy has taught playwriting with Actors Theatre of Louisville and Alabama Shakespeare Festival, guest lectured at Hanover College and University of Monticello and led playwriting workshops for Auburn University, Alabama State University and Troy University.
ZAC CAMPBELL-HOOGENDYK (Director) is a theatre artist living in Louisville. He is beyond excited to bring Betsy’s play to the OOB Festival. Never without Kasey and Luna.
MEG CAUDILL (Actor) hails from Appalachia but currently lives in Louisville, KY where she works as an actor, director and teaching artist for various local theatre companies.
LOGAN FORD (Actor) started working with Amios in 2010 and was a frequent contributor to their monthly short play series Shotz! as both a writer and actor.
LYNN R. GUERRA (Actor) is a multidisciplinary artist whose current biggest project is keeping a newborn alive. Synchronicity is poetic. Thanks Zac, Betsy and Zach!
THIS BRIDGE THEATRE (Producer) originally produced Betsy Huggins’ Mother’s Day during our version of AMIOS’ Shotz! We are committed to supporting Louisville’s already vibrant community of Theatre Artists.
VIDALIA UNWIN (Director) is a playwright, director and sketch performer with her group Show! The Show. Her full-length plays include Domesticate and Punk Snot.
archy and mehitabel one last time
by J.R. Stephens
J.R. STEPHENS (Playwright/Director/Stage Directions) is a New England-based playwright whose work explores mortality, memory and human connection through characters poised at life’s thresholds and navigating the pull of change. An active member of the Dramatists Guild of America, his plays include Testament of the Body (Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival), A Quiet Light (10:4:TENN; Sharon Playhouse) and Sunset from the Atlantis (National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences). In addition to writing, Stephens is a performer, educator and librarian, all of which inform his interest in storytelling, history and the preservation of overlooked voices.
BILL HUGHES (August) has worked in theatre for over fifty years. His works have been seen and heard at regional theaters, with several plays receiving productions off-off-Broadway.
KATHERINE ALMQUIST (June) has had the honor of working with J.R. many times, including under his direction playing Marlene Dietrich in Pam Gems’ Marlene – her favorite role.
GODBIRD
by Nurit Chinn
NURIT CHINN (Playwright) is a playwright from London currently based in Brooklyn. Her plays have been developed at the Alliance Theatre, BAM, the Center for New Jewish Culture, the Royal Court Theatre and others. She is a 2024/25 New Jewish Culture Fellow, a 2025 Alliance/Kendeda finalist and the Playwright-in-Residence at Centro Primo Levi, where she is also under commission. Nurit is the Co-Director of Exponential Festival 2026. MFA: Brooklyn College, Playwriting.
LESLIE GAUTHIER (Director) is a playwright/actor, sometimes director! She holds a BA in Performance & Directing from Fordham and an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College.
PATRICK K. DOOLEY (Birdman): Theatre credits span from East Village basements to Lincoln Center. TV/Film: The Noel Diary, You, The Last O.G., Gotham, etc. @patofbutter
ARIELLE SHIRI (Deb) is an actor originally from Montreal. Recent credits: Three Sisters, Dance Nation, Prayer for the French Republic. MFA Acting, Brooklyn College, 2025. arielleshiri.com
ANDREW HARDIGG (Hugo) is a Brooklyn-based actor + writer from Massachusetts. He has originated roles in productions by Young Jean Lee, Jaclyn Backhaus and Lee Sunday Evans.
TRACY CARNS (Stage Directions) is an NYC-based playwright; MFA Brooklyn College 2024. Her plays have been developed/presented by La MaMa, BAM, BC/Playwrights Horizons, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and others.
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) is the director and founder of Shorts Movie Theater and produces free summer Shakespeare in Herbert Von King Park’s Amphitheater with the support of NYFA.
MICHELLE KARIUKI (Friend) is an actor in theatre and film working regularly at NYC’s independent venues. She is a producer of Neighborhood Film Festival.
MIA FOWLER (Googler) is a New York-based actor, writer, and director. Recent credits: cityscrape (Good Apples Collective), Much Ado About Nothing (Utah Shakespeare Festival), Dumb Money (Sony).
ARJUN BIJU (Other) is an actor from San Jose. Credits: White Bitches in Delhi (Williamstown), Indeed, Friend! (Clubbed Thumb), There She Goes (FOX), Totally Spies (Max).
2025 OOB Festival Credits
Festival Sponsor
Concord Theatricals
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
Julian Harper Galkin
Jeremiah Hernandez
Courtney Kochuba
Ally Varitek
Imogen Lloyd Webber
Festival Production Coordinators
Julian Harper Galkin
Lane Ruble
Festival Fire Guard
Ranana Chernin
Festival Support Staff
Ella Andrew, Max Bahneman, Shaina Gilks, Rachel Levens, Liz Minski, Nate Netzley, Kristen Rea, Erin Sabat, Rachel Smith, Ally Varitek
2025 Submissions Readers
Max Bahneman, Caroline Barnard, Jim Colleran, Oli Gordon, Jeremiah Hernandez, Ben Keiper, Leona Koo, Rachel Levens, Amy Rose Marsh, Debbie McLean, Liz Minski, Gabriela Morales, Tyler Mullen, Nate Netzley, Jac Norris, Brianne Partington, Theresa Posorske, Kristen Rea, Dominic Russo, Erin Sabat, Meg Schadl, Rachel Smith, Jackson Used, Faith Williams
Special Thanks
Sean Flahaven, Bill Gaden, Concord, City Theatre Miami, Dramatists Guild of America, National New Play Network
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