Dig Deep Writing Team
Michelle Uyemura has been acting, directing and writing in the theatre for over 40 years. She has spent the past 20 years raising her family while developing and producing plays out on the Eastern Plains of Colorado. Dig Deep was written with the encouragement, inspiration and help of her family. She would like to thank everyone involved with the New Music Project for working so hard to provide this opportunity to new playwrights. It’s an extremely valuable experience and is very much appreciated.
Lucy Larcom Writing Team
Filipino-American playwright/composer AJ Layague (she/her/hers) has degrees in music from Stanford University, CalArts, and UC San Diego, and studied playwriting at the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute at East West Players in Los Angeles. Her play Cowgirl Katarungan’s Recipe for Adobo received a 2022 Finalist Prize in the Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language Competition at Synecdoche Works as well as a 2023 Larking House Theatre Company Playwrights Intensive workshop and reading. She is also a 2023 Puffin Foundation Artist, a four-time semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Music Theater Conference, and premiered new work at the 2023 PanAsian NuWorks Festival in NYC. In 2024 she has had works premiered by StageWorks Theatre Group and Conundrum Theatre and published in Smith & Kraus's The Best Men's Stage Monologues 2024.
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Zelda’s Girls Writing Team
SHELBY MERCHANT (she/her) is a young Playwright, Composer, Lyricist and Performer from Denver, CO. She has had several works put on at Ohio University, where she recently graduated with a double BFA. Shelby's writing often explores the female experience, queer identities, and the harrowing mundanity in the passage of time. Zelda's Girls is her first full length musical, and her play When There was Music is available on New Play Exchange.