About our Initiating Artists:
JENNY LYN BADER has written works produced across the U.S. and internationally. Her plays include Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library (Luna Stage), In Flight (Turn to Flesh Productions), None of the Above (New Georges), Manhattan Casanova (Hudson Stage), Equally Divine (Theatre at the 14th St. Y), and the audio play Tree Confessions (This is Not a Theatre Company, w/ Kathleen Chalfant). Short plays include Worldness (Humana Festival of New American Plays), Miss America (NY Int'l Fringe Festival/"Best of the Fringe" selection"), Communal Table (Gather by the Ghostlight/Broadway Podcast Network), and Beta Testing (Symphony Space). Honors include the Edith Oliver Award (O'Neill Theatre Center/National Playwrights Conference), "Best Documentary One-Woman Show" Award (United Solo/Theatre Row), Randall Wreghitt Award (Theatre Resources Unlimited), Athena Fellowship, and Lark Playwriting Fellowship (nominated by Wendy Wasserstein). She co-founded the multicultural theatre company Theatre 167 and is a summa cum laude graduate of Harvard University. www.jennylynbader.com
CINDY COOPER is an award-winning playwright whose works have been produced in the U.S, Canada, Europe and Israel. Her work in New York has been performed at Primary Stages, Women’s Project (How She Played the Game), Wings (Strange Light; Slow Burn), Vaclav Havel Library Foundation, Lincoln Center Theater’s Clark Studio, Town Hall, Anne Frank Center USA (Silence Not, A Love Story), Center for Jewish History, WOW Café, New Circle Theatre, and in Chicago, DC, Boston, LA, Maryland, Florida, Montreal, Budapest, and elsewhere. I Was A Stranger Too, supported by an Alliance for Jewish Theaters grant, was a finalist in the Jewish Plays Project and the Trish Vradenberg Prize. She has worked with Women, Theatre and the Holocaust (Remember the Women Institute) for eight years. A two-time Jerome Fellow, her plays are in 17 volumes and have won awards from Pen & Brush, Samuel French, Malibu Int’l Festival, Quixote Foundation and others www.cyncooperwriter.net
JESSICA FEDER-BIRNBAUM is a playwright, author and theatre artist. Her plays have had readings, workshops and productions in New York, regionally, and virtually. Her plays and other writings appear in print and on-line. Recent readings/productions: Plays and Pizza Zoom Series (NYC), Coronavirus One Minute Play Festival (Queens Theatre, NYC), The Director’s Workshop Theatre of Western Springs (Illinois), Bechdel Group’s 9th Overnight Writing Challenge (NYC), Clutch Productions EmpowerHER Reading Series (Primary Stages Studios NYC), Burning Coal Theatre (Raleigh NC), 5 Minute Jewish Play Festival- Lawrence Family JCC (San Diego). Code Red Playwrights Gun Violence Initiative, Pump House Regional Arts Center, La Crosse Wisconsin. Project Y (Women in Theatre Festival/HONOR ROLL MONOLOGUE SLAM); Tiger’s Heart Players (Bronx NY) Round The Bend Theatre (Bedford Playhouse) Member: Dramatists Guild Honor Roll! LPTW (League of Professional Theatre Women), Advisory Board Clutch Productions.
DANA LESLIE GOLDSTEIN is a playwright, lyricist and librettist who has won the New England New Play Competition, Harold and Mimi Steinberg Playwriting Prize, Different Voices New Play Award, ACTF New Play Award and numerous development grants. Her work has been seen at Manhattan Theatre Club, Cherry Lane, Culture Project, Women’s Project, York Theatre Company, Theatre80, New Dramatists, Vineyard Playhouse, Brave New World, Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga, Clamour (FL), American Stage Company (FL), Left Edge (CA), Pacific Theatre (Canada), TischAsia (Singapore), Baggage Productions (Australia), Red Brick Theatre (U.K.), NYMF, on Ellis and Liberty Islands, at the UN, and more. Dana’s play “Daughters of the Sexual Revolution” and her collection “Birth, Death & Bourbon: 3 Short Plays by Dana Leslie Goldstein” are published by Next Stage Press. Member: BMI, Brave New World, Workshop Theater, PlayGround-NYC, Dramatists Guild. Agent: Michael Moore, Michael@MichaelMooreAgency.com
www.danalesliegoldstein.com
MIRIAM KULICK is an actress, director, teaching artist, and playwright. She performed her solo show Open Hearts, directed by Gretchen Cryer, on Theatre Row, at the Cherry Lane Theatre, and in the DC and Fort Lauderdale Fringe Festivals. Her other plays include Almost Tamed: Tales of Mayhem, Motion and Malarky (Square Peg Productions) and The Rock (Pigs Do Fly Productions), which she adapted into the short film of the same name. Her other theatre credits include Three Angels Dancing on a Needle (Best Actress, New Times Miami); writing and directing for Fly Away Balloon theatre; and performing at the Brick Theater, Nuyorican Poets Café, Primary Stages, and Actors Temple. Film/TV highlights: Night School, with Kevin Hart; Superstition, on SyFy directed by Mario Van Peebles; and HBO’S Ballers, with Dwayne Johnson. Miriam teaches at the Terry Schreiber Studio in NYC and at the Acting School of South Florida. She offers workshops to actors and Communication Workshops to non-actors. Miriam is a proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, a member of The League of Professional Theatre Women, (NYC), and the Dramatists Guild.
www.danalesliegoldstein.com
MIRIAM KULICK is an actress, director, teaching artist, and playwright. She performed her solo show Open Hearts, directed by Gretchen Cryer, on Theatre Row, at the Cherry Lane Theatre, and in the DC and Fort Lauderdale Fringe Festivals. Her other plays include Almost Tamed: Tales of Mayhem, Motion and Malarky (Square Peg Productions) and The Rock (Pigs Do Fly Productions), which she adapted into the short film of the same name. Her other theatre credits include Three Angels Dancing on a Needle (Best Actress, New Times Miami); writing and directing for Fly Away Balloon theatre; and performing at the Brick Theater, Nuyorican Poets Café, Primary Stages, and Actors Temple. Film/TV highlights: Night School, with Kevin Hart; Superstition, on SyFy directed by Mario Van Peebles; and HBO’S Ballers, with Dwayne Johnson. Miriam teaches at the Terry Schreiber Studio in NYC and at the Acting School of South Florida. She offers workshops to actors and Communication Workshops to non-actors. Miriam is a proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, a member of The League of Professional Theatre Women, (NYC), and the Dramatists Guild.
pictured, L to R: Miriam Kulick, Jessica Feder-Birnbaum, Dana Leslie Goldstein, Cindy Cooper, Jenny Lyn Bader
