Mia Raye Smith is an international award-winning writer and solo performer who transforms solo performance into a platform for national dialogue, drawing on lived experience to address social issues. Born in Detroit, Michigan, with African American and Creole heritage from Louisiana, Mia grew up in Queens, NY, where she developed over 19 multicultural characters. She studied at the William Esper Studio and developed her first solo play, I Am Hope, in Emmy Award-winning writer Matt Hoverman’s Go-Solo Workshop; the show was a Critic’s Pick in NOW Toronto. Mia has toured her work across theatre festivals and college campuses nationwide and continues to create solo work that invites audiences into meaningful dialogue.

Nan Gatewood Satter’s Variations on a Theme in the Key of Dreams was presented at The Stissing Center for Arts and Culture in April 2025. Her comedies Yalu River and Dinner at Donovan’s have been seen at the William Inge Theatre Festival; Silver Spring One-Act Festival; Valdez Theatre Conference; and The Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, NY. Dinner at Donovan’s was produced in 2024 at the Theatre of Western Springs, and Yalu River was produced there in 2025. Extreme Relaxation debuts here at the 2026 Glass Ceiling Breakers Festival. Nan is a member of The Dramatist’s Guild and of HOWL Playwrights.

Lisa Morovic-Kimball studied theater at Kingsborough Community College, HB Studios and the Barrow. Productions include New Jersey Reparatory, Axial, Love Creek Productions, The Know, Candy Shoppe Theater, Rhinebeck Performing Arts Center, Half Moon Theater, Midtown International Theater and The Tank. She’s been published by Smith and Kraus, The Rip Rap Literary Journal and Clockhouse. Her full length, The Terror of Tulle, was a finalist in The American Bard Theatre in NYC. She workshops her plays at The Liberty Street Writers in Newburgh and Permafrost Theatre Collective in NYC.  She resides in the Hudson Valley with an array of rescued critters. 

Rofa Abayon is a local New York playwright and actress. Her plays have been featured in Westchester Theaters such as Theatre Revolution and Supporting Characters, and NYC Tribeca Performing Arts Center. She has performed with local Westchester theatre companies, including Axial, GoJo Clan, Theatre Revolution and Westchester Collaborative Theatre. 

Meghan Covington is a NY based actor, playwright, and producer with an affinity for the experimental. As an actor, Meghan has performed in NY at The Tank, Theater for the New City, The Brick, and River's Edge Theatre Co. Regionally Meghan has worked on the stages of The Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co, The Shakespeare Theatre, and Olney Theatre. As a playwright her work has been performed at The Tank, The Chain, The Equity Theatre Library, Lions Heart Theatre Co., Musco Art Center, River's Edge Theatre Co, and Phillipstown Depot Theatre. As a producer, Meghan serves at the Artistic Director of River's Edge Theatre Company.

Linda Bidwell Delaney (she/her) is an award-winning playwright from Yorktown Heights whose works have been seen locally at Glass Ceiling Breakers, the New Deal Creative Arts Centr, Axial Theatre, the Brewster Theatre Company. Ridgefield Theater Barn, Irvington Town Hall Theatre, Westchester Collaborative Theater and White Plains Performing Arts Center.  Other adventures include the Inaugural Capital Region Festival of Theatre,  Berkshires’ WAM Theater, Schenectady’s Proctors Theater, and the TANYS (Theater Association of New York State) Festival. She is a proud member of Honor Roll! and Dramatists Guild of America.  She tends to treat serious subjects, like politics and dating, with humor.