Clay & Water 2022

Erin K. Considine is an emerging Playwright from the Atlanta Area. Her first full-length play, PETE & WENDY, led to a continuing collaboration with Working Title Playwrights and the development of multiple scripts which have gained traction across the country. Highlights include: 2017 & 2020 Ethel Woolson Labs (Atlanta), 2018 Playwrights Voiced Festival (Laramie), 2021 New Year, New Works Festival (Palmbeach), 2021 Headwaters Festival (Creede), 2020 Garry Marshall New Works Festival (Burbank), 2021 Unexpected Play Festival (Atlanta), and many more. Erin was named a Finalist for the 2019 and 2021 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, a Semi-Finalist for the 2020 BAPF and the 2020 PlayPenn Conferences, and she was the Winner of the 2020 Tennessee Williams Festival One Act Play Competition and the 2021 Essential Theatre Play Festival. Fall of 2020 she was
the first Carey Perloff Fellow as part of the Eugene O’Neill Foundation. After treading the boards for over twenty years, Erin is overwhelmed and grateful for the opportunity to create stories that other artists bring to life.

Ty Halton is a California-based actor, director, and playwright currently residing in Fullerton, California. He graduated from California State University, Bakersfield in 2020 with his BA in English and Theatre and is currently pursuing his Masters of Fine Arts in Playwriting at Antioch University in Santa Barbara. His play, Temperance in Reverse, was selected for the Elephant Ears Reading Series with Elephant Room Productions in August of 2021, and will be receiving its first full production in 2022. His play, Obrouni, was produced at The Empty Space in Bakersfield, California and several of his plays have received staged readings at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. His work in other genres has been published in Orpheus Literary Magazine, Neon Mariposa, Afro Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors at The Empty Space in Bakersfield and teaches playwriting workshops to high school students.

Shashone Lambert Short was born and raised in Staten Island, N.Y., and has performed in theatre, independent films, and television. Not one to complain about the lack of work, Shashone began writing. She has been accepted into the writing program at the Writers Guild Foundation. Her full–length play Holy Intervention was invited to be a part of the Playwrights of Color Summit with Quicksilver Theatre Company,  National Black Theatre Staged Reading Series, Atlanta Black Theatre Festival Reading Series, and New African Grove Theatre Company New Works Series. She was accepted into the Playwrights Bootcamp with the Frank Silvera Writers Workshop, in which her Audio Theatre play, Dying to Party won first place. She has also written a webseries, Investments The Series and Short Films, Beautiful Killer, Butter–Fly, The Cure. All projects have been accepted into several film festivals and have won awards, including Best Webseries, Best Short Film, and Best Writer. She also has two upcoming Short Films as both an actor and writer, set to be released early 2021. Whether an actor or a writer, Shashone Lambert Short prides herself on bringing excellence to any project she’s blessed to be a part of. For more info please go to: www.Shashone.com and
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Jihye Kim is a freelance dramaturg and a deviser based in L.A and Seoul. Her interest and specialty lies in new play development, ensemble-devising, site-specific immersive works and literary translation (Korean to English). Her dramaturgy credits include the world premieres of Hoongu Kang’s Phonepari at Daloreum of National Theater of Korea, Kang’s Motherfucker Oedipus at Marry Hall Theater, Jung eun Hwang’s Termite in Desert at Seoul Metropolitan Theatre, Hwang’s Nosce, Jaerin Son’s devised puppetry piece This is NOT Shakespeare at Arko Art Center, Son’s augmented reality pop-up book theater, The Waves: Blue Nights Shattering published and exhibited at KOTE gallery in Insa art district of Seoul, Sujung Kim’s ensemble-creation Gongjoos: Publicly Owned Bodies, Egalia’s Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes with The New World Theatre Company, Jiyoung One’s site-specific immersive piece In and Out of the One: The Origin Story at Doosan Art Center, Jeein Song’s site-specific installation Disappearing Moments, Let’s Talk About it Tomorrow at Seoul Street Art Center. At the same time, she has been on the development team for Chil Kong’s Finding Christmas at Adventure Theatre MTC, Lyra Yang’s The Opticians, Paper Dream, The Peachlanders and Blue Moon as well as Hee-won Kim’s Sonata in the Manner of OCD and His Truth is Marching On. Jihye was a research dramaturg for Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s Snow In Midsummer and Cowhig’s upcoming project of The Death Defying Adventures of Frankie and Pete. In addition to her dramaturgy work, she enjoys teaching devising and solo performance workshop for non-professional performers.

Dramaturg: ASPHODELS (Women’s Voices Festival at Mad Cow Theatre); LEVIATHAN (Clay & Water 2021, Clamour Theatre Company); RANDY’S DANDY COASTER CASTLE, FACULTY PORTRAIT (3B Development Series at IRT Theater); JANE EYRE, CLOUD 9, SEDER (workshop), THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, THE PIANO LESSON, HAVING OUR SAY (co-pro with Long Wharf Theatre), A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Hartford Stage); BOMBER’S MOON (Williams Street Repertory); BENEATH THE GAVEL (Bated Breath Theater Company at 59E59); THE LILY’S REVENGE, THE SHAPE SHE MAKES (American Repertory Theater); BOXCUTTER HARMONICA (Minnesota Fringe Festival); BACK (Poetic Theater Productions). Assistant Dramaturg: QUEENS FOR A YEAR, ANASTASIA (Broadway try-out), ROMEO & JULIET, THE BODY OF AN AMERICAN, REAR WINDOW (Hartford Stage). Education: BA Marymount Manhattan College; MA Ohio University; MFA A.R.T./MXAT Institute at Harvard University. Employment: Publications Associate at Concord Theatricals.