Carrie Rose is a flutist, composer, and teacher in the Washington, DC area. She is producer, composer, and performer for the Origins Concert Series in Silver Spring, Maryland-a hub for adventurous music seekers that features a world premiere of her compositions on each concert. The series, in its eighth season, is supported by the Arts and Humanities Commission of Montgomery County.
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Barry Brennessel earned degrees in English and French from the State Univetsity of New York College at Brockport, and a Master of Arts in Writing ftom the Johns Hopkins University.
During a 25-plus year career in communications, Alex Kasten has engaged audiences worldwide – visually, on the web, and in print. His work in sculpture grew naturally from an aptness for observation and interpretation that has been present throughout his life and career – from a childhood spent observing art and artists at work; through an academic interest in cultural Anthropology and the discovery of artifacts; to a professional career that spans multiple media.
-MFA in Poetry, Washington University in St. Louis, 2008
-BA in Creative Writing, Oberlin College, 2005
-Syracuse University in Florence, Italy, Poetry concentration, 2005 (Coluccio Salutati Prize for Academic Excellence)
-"The Need for Hiding," poetry, Dancing Girl Press
-Poems can be found in FIELD, Los Angeles Review, River Styx, Columbia Review, Bear Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere.
-Pizza & Poetry Writing Workshop @ Davis Library (teacher--spring 2018 & forthcoming @ Aspen Hill Library)
-Nominated: Pushcart Prize & Best New Poets, 2017
GWYDION SUILEBHAN is a writer and arts advocate who serves as both the Executive Director of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the Project Director of the New Play Exchange for the National New Play Network. A founding member of The Welders—a Helen Hayes Award-winning playwrights collective in Washington, DC—Suilebhan previously held the position of Director of Brand and Marketing for Woolly Mammoth. Earlier phases of his career included extensive work as a brand and technology consultant and in publishing, education, and journalism.
D.W. Gregory's plays frequently explore political issues through a personal lens. The New York Times called her "a playwright with a talent to enlighten and provok"' for her most produced work, RADIUM GIRLS, about the famous case of industrial poisoning. Other plays include MEMOIRS OF A FORGOTTEN MAN; MOLUMBY'S MILLION, nominated for a Barrymore Award by Philadelphia Theatre Alliance; THE GOODDAUGHTER, and OCTOBER 1962; anda new musical comedy, THE YELLOW STOCKING PLAY, with composer Steven M. Alper and lyricist Sarah Knapp.
Nicole Cox is a writer in the D.C. area. Her play, Office of the Speaker, had a staged reading at the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage Festival, and scenes from her play, Call Center, were showcased at the National l-Minute Play Festival. Her play, All Other Nights, won the Citizens Play Festival in Chicago and was selected by Paula Vogel and Dan O'Brien to be workshopped at the Sewanee Writer's Conference. Her play, Lift and Separate, was selected for the First Draft Series at Chicago Dramatists Theatre.
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Han Jeon currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland. As an artist, he incorporates his own experience in order to convey his inner minds and how he accepts the current art world. His interests derive from the interaction between the environment and with his own perspective, in which Han develops his own understanding of visual perception of cityscapes and base geometry of architecture. He graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art 2018, with BFA degree