Francisca is a Cape Verdean-American playwright, dramaturg and TV writer. Fellowships: 2020-2021 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow, The Public Theater’s 2020-2023 Emerging Writers Group, 2022-2023 Jerome Fellow with the Playwrights’ Center, The Apollo Theater’s New Works initiative 2023 Cohort. Plays: NOT-FOR-PROFIT (OR THE EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PLAY) (La Jolla Playhouse 2021 DNA New Works Series); CAN I TOUCH IT? (2022/2023 Rolling World Premiere at Company One Theatre, Cleveland Public Theatre, Rogue Machine Theatre); PAY NO WORSHIP (2023 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist); MINOR·ITY (Colt Coeur Commission). TV: HBO's Industry Season 3. BFA: New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. MSc: University of Edinburgh. www.frandasilveira.com

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's plays include The Comeuppance (Signature Theatre), Girls (Yale Rep), Everybody (Signature Theatre), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre), Appropriate (Obie Award; Signature Theatre), An Octoroon (Obie Award; Soho Rep, Theatre for a New Audience), and Neighbors (The Public Theater). He is a former USA Artists, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellow and a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama and Tennessee Williams Award. He currently serves as Vice President of the Dramatists Guild council and teaches at Yale University.

is a playwright and editor whose work both on and offstage addresses issues of labor, capital, and inequality through various aesthetic and material lenses. In 2021, they published No Play, a book of interviews with theater artists and workers about their work—employment, creative, personal, and social—and how they saw its value shift during the pandemic. She has also engaged in small scale advocacy around pay increases for playwrights regarding developmental workshops at various theaters around New York City. Currently, they are an artist-in-residence at the Public Theater through Creatives Rebuild New York, where in addition to developing new work and staging their play Jordans in 2024, they have also been engaged in internal and external conversation and advocacy around labor justice, playwright compensation, and collective action in the theater. 

C. Quintana (CQ) is a queer writer (she/any) with Cuban and New Orleans roots based on Canarsee and Munsee Lenape land in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. CQ's plays and musicals have been developed and produced nationwide. Most recently, Life Jacket Theatre Company named CQ the inaugural recipient of its 2023-2024 Trans+ Playwrights Commission, and this past summer, Audible released CQ's audio play THE 126-YEAR-OLD ARTIST, directed by Estefanía Fadul. As a television writer, CQ is a proud member of the Writers Guild of America East and a co-leader of the LGBTQ+ Salon. For more, visit www.cquintana.com

Emmanuel Wilson, a playwright, is the Co-Executive Director of Creative Affairs and Membership at the Dramatists Guild of America. He manages member service and programming for America’s professional playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists. Emmanuel also oversees the Guild’s industry outreach, strategy, and communications. He is the proud parent of Faith and Imani Wilson. #PayWriters