blueprint (series A)

PLAYWRIGHT

Jessica Moss is a performer, writer and producer from Toronto, Canada. She currently lives in New York City, where she is a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at The Juilliard School. She is the creator/performer of solo shows Modern Love (Next Stage Festival, Toronto), and Polly Polly (Theatre Mischief at Toronto and Edmonton Fringe; Patron’s Pick, Best of Fringe, Ed Mirvish Award for Entrepreneurship). She is a contributing writer/performer to the collectively created Swoon! (Toronto Fringe) and TEASE (Crows’ Theatre East End Performance Crawl). Her full-length plays include Next to Him (RBC Tarragon Emerging Playwrights Contest Shortlist, Second Prize in Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition, Finalist for Tangent Theatre Tivoli’s NEWvember, Finalist for the SafeWord Theatre New Play Contest), I Will Miss You When You’re Gone and Cam Baby (Toronto Fringe New Play Contest Winner 2015).

DIRECTOR

Jennifer Skura Boutell (she/they) is an American theatremaker and artist whose work has been presented in USA and Europe and described as "vibrant, vital, and hilarious" as well as "absurd and brutal." She is also the founder of FADlab, a writing residency for fictionalized auto drama, currently at Windmill Arts in Atlanta, GA. Jennifer holds a BFA in theatre, an MFA in creative writing, and through a merit-based grant for continued learning, is working on an MA in mental health counseling at Agnes Scott College. Her plays are published by Next Stage Press. It is Jennifer's passion to help enhance the lives of others by sharing her creative education through effective collaboration in telling impactful stories.

PLAYWRIGHT

James is a member of the Nylon Fusion Theatre Company in New York. His plays have been produced or developed at theaters across America and around the world including the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (selection and six-time semifinalist), Lark, PlayPenn, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, hotINK Festival, Irish Repertory, CAP21, Samuel French Festival, Victory Gardens, Hudson Stage Company, Abingdon, New Repertory, Lyric Stage, Detroit Rep, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Seven Devils, Telluride Playwrights Festival, Ashland New Plays Festival, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Colony Theatre, Theatricum Botanicum, Circus Theatricals, and Arkansas Rep. They have been published by Dramatic Publishing, Smith & Kraus, Brooklyn Publishing, Applause Books, Next Stage Press, and Original Works Publishing.

DIRECTOR

A member of both Actors' Equity Association and Screen Actor's Guild, Sam R Ross has over fifty years of experience in theatre including Off Broadway, Regional Theater and other professional theaters from New York to Los Angeles. Sam has been seen in over 110 productions including many world and regional premieres. Sam has also appeared in over a dozen film and TV shows. As a playwright his adaptations and co-adaptations with VanguardRep have been seen across the country. Sam is also an award-winning director and lighting designer of over 20 productions.  

As an artistic director, Sam has been integral in the foundation of multiple successful companies including Down Right Theatre in Atlanta, GA, Kudzu Productions and Vanguard Repertory Company - both in Los Angeles, CA. He is also the founder and Executive Director of Windmill Arts.

Sam has a B.S. from the college of Charleston and an M.P.A. from Georgia State University and has done graduate work in acting at the prestigious Trinity Repertory Conservatory in Rhode Island.

PLAYWRIGHT

Marylou DiPietro’s plays have been produced in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and Boston. She performed her one-woman show, In Love with Cancer, in the 2019 United Solo Festival. An excerpt from the play was performed in the 2021 Women’s Writes Festival in London. A monologue from the play was published in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2021. The film adaptation of her play Black Butterflies was a semi-finalist in the 2024 Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards. She has her master’s in Theater Education from Emerson College and is a member of the Dramatist Guild.

DIRECTOR

Christopher is an Atlanta based multihyphenate theatre artist, he is passionate about the vital need for theatre in the city of Atlanta. While working primarily as an actor he also works as a Director, writer, and dramaturge. He is a board member of Working Title Playwrights, and also runs an acupuncture clinic with his wife called The Point of Health Wellness Center.

PLAYWRIGHT

Katherine Swan is a playwright who lives in Chicago. Her plays include Some Other Woman Like Me, a finalist for the Henley Rose Award and semi-finalist for The Bay Street Theatre New Play Festival. Her plays have been performed and developed at A Red Orchid Theatre, The Road, The William Inge Theatre Festival New Play Lab, the Reboot Festival, Playground Chicago, and other theatres nationally and internationally. Her work has been anthologized by Smith & Kraus in their collections Best Ten-Minute Plays and Best Women’s Monologues. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Playground Chicago Writers Pool.

DIRECTOR

Charis Sellick is an Atlanta actor, director, dramaturg and filmmaker and she is so excited to be directing this new work! Last summer she was in the Suzi award winning production of the 'The Wash' and this summer she will be directing a development workshop in Theatrical Outfit's launchpad festival. She is a recent graduate of the Working Title Playwrights Dramaturgy Intensive.

PLAYWRIGHT

Amy Tofte is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter who won a Nicholl Fellowship in screenwriting from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She has been in residence at the Autry Museum of the American West, Brush Creek, The Kennedy Center, Headlands, and Yaddo with work produced/developed throughout the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, and twice at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild. MFA, CalArts.

DIRECTOR

Obie Outlaw (they/them) is a multi-hyphenate Artist currently creating in Atlanta, GA. They’re also a Tarot reader and astrologer. Obie’s most recent projects include: Working Title Playwrights Table Read of their play THE R WORD; performing in Dr. Faustus (Resurgence Theatre), Flay’s Anatomy (Limelight Theatre & ATL Fringe Festival), & Valentine’s Puckin’ Puppet Show (Center for Puppetry Arts); and directing at Essential Theatre’s Southern Fried Bake Off. Outside of Theatre, Obie is passionate about their pet cats, their daily yoga practice, and emboldening their community to create a more liberated world together.