Lori Felipe-Barkin is a playwright, performer and voiceover artist based out of NYC and Miami who works in English and Spanish. She is the Page 73 Fellow for 2025 and is part of their 2025 Writers Group. Flor Underwater, her three-act play, received a developmental reading at The Flea. It was also selected for the 2020 Play Penn New Play Conference, received an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Terrence McNally Award, and was a finalist for the 2023 Risk Theatre Award, the 2023 Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition, and the 2024 Royer Award. She has had play readings at Playwrights Horizons for Out There in the West, and at INTAR Theatre and Iati Theater for Ama. Egg. Oy Her short play, The Peepholeman, premiered at BAM as part of the 2024 Weasel Festival. She holds an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College.

Bee Kanofsky is a Jewish, Transfeminine, and Queer literary artist. She makes work that expresses her lifelong searching for community, connection, and an understanding of the past. She has been a multi-award nominated and winning experimental poet, librettist, filmmaker, and playwright. She has had her plays presented at the O’Neill Theatre Center in Connecticut for two consecutive years, the TADA! Theatre in New York City for her play Being Seen, the Randall Theatre in Philadelphia for her play Painted Peppers, and now the Drake Theatre in Philadelphia for Fields of Flowers. 

She has also collaborated on musical theatre songs for her friend’s musical animated series, Der Schwarzwald in addition to a musical adaptation of Painted Peppers, a Harriet Tubman musical, among other musical projects. 

She has also been featured in multiple collections of poetry including RUCKUS magazine, Echoes Down the Stairwell, and The Performer Charter Arts newspaper, international and local film festivals, musical-writing competitions for the National American Musical Theatre Alliance, and as her class’s graduation speaker for 2025. When she’s not writing she loves to take walks with her dad and collects walking sticks along the way. Bee lives with her family and her two cats Horchata and Mochi. 

She graduated Lehigh Valley Charter Arts this school year and she is going to attend Bard College in the fall.

L Feldman is a queer, feminist, GNC playwright, professor, and circus artist. They make work that is brave, kinetic, epic, and intimate. L has been nominated for the Herb Alpert Award, Wasserstein Prize, Steinberg Award, Blackburn Prize, and New York Innovative Theatre Award. They’re ongoingly grateful to have been an alum of the Yale School of Drama, an Orbiter 3 member, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries winner, a Playwrights’ Center Core Writer, and currently a Venturous Playwright Fellow. Their body of work can be found at www.laurenfeldman.com or www.newplayexchange.org

Andrew Saito was Mellon Resident Playwright at Cutting Ball Theater, has had multiple productions, and is commissioned by Asian Arts Initiative and Montalvo Arts Center to write and develop Harlem Canary/Tokyo Crow, with support from NPN, MAP Fund, the NEA, Playwrights Foundation, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and PlayPenn. He has developed plays with Crowded Fire, the Playwrights Center, East West Players, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, etc. He graduated from the Paramount Writers Mentoring Program, and staffed on The Lost Symbol. He received his MFA from The Iowa Playwrights Workshop.

Chaz T. Martin is a playwright, screenwriter, and dramaturg. They graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama, where they were first exposed to the sheer terror of having their scripts not only read aloud, but performed in front of people. It went well. Their short script, Melissa, was one of five projects selected for Tribeca Film Institutes’s Through Her Lens program in 2019, and is currently in development as a feature. They are currently based in Philadelphia, where they’re the Literary Manager for InterAct Theatre Company and a member of The Foundry at PlayPenn in the 2022-25 cohort.

Zahra Patterson is the author of Chronology (Ugly Duckling Presse), winner of a Lambda Literary Award. Their work can be found in The Yale Review, Wasafiri, Belladonna’s chaplet series, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, Mount Tremper Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, The Pratt Center, and many individuals.

Lex Thammavong (they/she) is a playwright and singing actor with a BFA in Musical Theatre with a minor in Creative Writing from the University of the Arts. They're so excited to graduate from The Foundry! They're also a graduate and co-facilitator of PAPA Playwrights Project, a member of Delaware Shakespeare’s Artistic Squad, and have performed at various theaters in Philly and Delco. As a multidisciplinary artist, Lex loves telling provocative, cerebral, and darkly funny stories that push conventions of form.