featured reading roulette writers
DEBORAH CHAVA SINGER
Life Goes Splat
Deborah Chava Singer is originally from San Diego, California and currently resides in Vancouver, Washington. In 2019 five of her short plays were featured as A Night in the Mind of Deborah Chava Singer from OG Productions during the West Grandview Fringe Festival. Other recent plays: Chicken Burger With a Side of Awkward (Oregon Contemporary Theatre’s NW10), (In)security in Perpetuity (Gallery Players’ Annual Black Box New Play Festival) and Someday, Never (Celebration Theatre’s WriteHer Festival). Recently her writing appeared in print in Disabled Voices Anthology, Papeachu Review, Stonewall’s Legacy and Hashtag Queer 2. More credits at: www.latenightawake.com.
MARIE CARTIER
Romantic Second Date
Marie Cartier is a multidisciplinary theater artist born and raised in San Francisco. She is a collective member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and she was on the writing team for their inaugural radio play Tales of the Resistance as well as their TBA-nominated 2019 production Treasure Island. She is also a founding member of woman-run Bow & Arrow Circus Theater Collective, where you can see her in the upcoming virtual show, Green Winter: A Circus and Poetry Mixtape. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Social Work at CSU East Bay
RACHAEL CARNES
Kitchen Table
Playwright Rachael Carnes received a 2020 Oregon Literary Fellowship, and has had productions across the U.S., U.K., the Middle East, Canada and Asia, with recent invitations to the William Inge Theatre Festival, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Great Plains Theatre Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival. Rachael's work is seen in many literary journals - but her two kids and three dogs remain unimpressed.
TUWANDA MUHAMMAD
Ebony Problems
Tuwanda Muhammad is an Atlanta, Georgia-based playwright who is a member of Working Title Playwrights and the Alliance for Jewish Theatre. She writes plays to provoke conversations about culture and society. Tuwanda has performed at the Decatur Book Festival, OnStage Atlanta's Mother May?, Java Speaks, 100 Thousand Poets for Change and the MLK Day of Service.
RICH RUBIN
COVID’s Here, But So Are We
Rich Rubin's plays have been produced throughout the U.S., as well as in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Mexico. Full-length plays include PICASSO IN PARIS (winner, 2020 Julie Harris Playwright Award) and KAFKA'S JOKE (finalist, 2020 Woodward International Playwriting Prize). Member: Dramatists Guild, New Play Exchange, Portland's LineStorm Playwrights. www.richrubinplaywright.com
MERCILEE JENKINS
A Neighborhood View
Mercilee Jenkins is an award winning playwright, performance artist and poet. She presented her new solo performance piece, My First Boss at The Marsh International Solo Performance Festival this October. Her most recent play 10-minute play, Armistice At Home received a staged reading in 2019. She is a 2014 winner of Poets Eleven, San Francisco’s citywide poetry contest. Her one act play, Winning, is included in Best American Short Plays (2014-’15). She has performed solo pieces and presented plays at the 3Girls Theatre New Works Festivals, Stage Works, the San Francisco Theatre Festivals, Lit Crawl and The Marsh.