Grant MacDermott (Playwright) Jasper won the TRU New Voices Award in 2018. Other plays include: The Play About The Head Transplant (Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi Finalist 2019, Wordsmyth Festival Semi-Finalist 2019), without you but also with you too as well (Play Penn Semi finalist 2017) An Independent Study on Race and the Brain (O'Neill Playwright's Festival Semi-Finalist 2014, PlayPenn Semi-Finalist 2015), and Like a Queen or Whatever (Project Y, Jersey City Theater). His most recent ten-minute play A Departure was named one of the Best 10-Minute Plays of 2019 and has been published by Smith and Kraus. Other works include: Dinner (Project Y, published by Indie Theater Now), Kings Richard (Boston Theatre Marathon), Sit Down, Daisy (Nylon Fusion Theatre, Barrow Group), What Men Do Alone On Islands (Come As You Are Festival), 10 Reasons Why Hamlet is Totally Gay (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). He has been a part of Interim Writers Writing Collective, Project Y Writers' Fellowship, and Athena's Writing Fellowship. He is originally from New Jersey.

Cris Eli Blak is an award winning and internationally produced writer for the page, stage and screen. He worked with Yonder Window Theatre Company on their Creative Crusade project. His work has been produced, performed and/or published around the world, from Off-Broadway (Urban Stages), West Coast (Common Ground Theatre, Left Edge Theatre, Breath of Fire Latina Theater Company), Collegiate (Columbia University, Academy of Arts University and Wellesley College), London (The Quean's Theatre), Australia (Melting Pot Theatre), and Ireland (Eva's Echo). He continues to strive to create work that reflects the world that we live in, with all of its different and diverse colors, creeds and cultures through work with organizations such as TEDxBroadway and Fine Arts Forward.

Brett Bullard (he/him) is an award-winning actor and writer currently based in New York City and alumni of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA NY) Company. Brett is the proud recipient of the Max Fischer Award for Acting and has premiered his plays in various theaters in New York and West Virginia. He has felt most fulfilled when working with friends on projects he truly believes in, such as queer and progressive theatre. That being said, Brett is thrilled to be working with the compassionate creative team at Yonder Window to introduce his new dark comedy “Mud”.

Ellis Stump (she/they) is a NYC-based but globetrotting Columbia University Playwriting MFA (2020-23), dark comedy theatremaker, screenwriter, psychiatric interviewer, and queer Jewish optimist from rural Lancaster, PA. They’ve lived in India, written teen-oriented television in Berlin, and earned full-length off-Broadway productions, awards (1st Place Vaclav Havel Library Foundation 2019; Athena Project Finalist 2020), and entirely-funded playwriting residencies from Canada to Prague. This fall brings professional company productions of their plays at NYC Westbeth Artists Community 50th Anniversary and University of Toronto’s international symposium. Always ambitious, Ellis holds five degrees from Penn State Honors College 2019.

Originally from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Megan moved to New York to train at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After graduating, Megan began working as a freelance Producer and Production Manager in New York City. Megan joined the Yonder Window Theatre Company (YWTC) team in 2018 as the Assistant to the Artistic Director where she worked along side Artistic Director Katie McHugh to produce The Dream Project 3.0, Montreal, an industry reading of Jasper by Grant MacDermott starring Abigail Hawk, Jessica Pimentel, and Hisham Tawfiq, and YWTC's annual New York Teen Shakespeare Intensive. In 2020 Megan became the Administrative Producer at Yonder Window. In September 2020, Megan produced The Birth Control Series, a collection of new work by artists about their unique experiences with contraception. The series was produced, filmed, and live-streamed remotely by artists in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Megan is also the Co-Creator and Producer of A Night Of Play, a monthly play reading party supporting a diverse community of theatre artists (Brooklyn, 2018-2019). Megan recently completed the CGO Institute Diploma for Creative Producing course (UK) and co-founded The Fifth Producer, a collective and support network for Early Career Producers that advocates for better inclusion, diversity and sustainability in the theatre industry. Megan is a dual resident of France and the US.

Lily Welsh is a recent graduate of Sarah Lawrence College where her main focus was theatre and writing. She graduated with a BA in liberal arts in spring 2021. She has been performing since the age of three and has made great strides as she grew into a hopeful professional. She is also an alumnus of the British American Drama Academy, having participated in their semester abroad program. She has done shows in London with BADA, in New York with Sarah Lawrence College, Shining Studios, various community groups, and more. The extensive theatre program at Sarah Lawrence College allowed Lily to discover her talents in acting, playwriting, devising, directing, and even stage combat, while her time in London aided her in refining her skills. Currently, her main theatrical focuses are acting and playwriting. Lily’s play, Cope in Wonder, has been produced by Sarah Lawrence College as part of their fall season. She has also had plays produced by such companies as Loud Colorful Filth and Soundstage. In Spring 2021 she became the recipient of the David Lindsay-Abaire Award for excellence in Playwriting.