ryan adelsheim

Ryan Adelsheim is a new play dramaturg, producer, and scholar. Their current research focuses on the aesthetics and politics of unfinishedness in American queer and trans theater, dance, and performance, with writing appearing in or forthcoming in Theater, Performance Response Journal, and Modern Drama. Recent artistic credits include New Harmony Project conference dramaturg, co-adaptor for Affinity based on the novel by Sarah Waters with director Alex Keegan, dramaturg and researcher for soldiergirls by Emil Weinstein and Emily Johnson Erday, and producer on Emerging Playwrights Commissions with Audible Theater. Ryan received their MFA and doctorate from Yale Drama and they are currently an assistant professor of theater history and performance studies at the University of Iowa.

Lexy Leuszler

Lexy Leuszler has developed works with Melis Aker, Florencia Cuenca, Georgina Escobar, Jaime Lozano, Eliana Pipes, Hansol Jung, Lina Patel, Brian Quijada, Tatiana Pandiani, and Jacinta Clusellas. As Literary Manager for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, she established the NMTC Incubator program alongside Alexander Gemignani. She has taught with Actors Theatre of Louisville, Court Theatre, Steppenwolf Theater, the National Theater Institute, Connecticut College, and the Kennedy Center.  Member of The Pack, the 2023 Kilroy’s Web and American Theatre Magazine's Role Call: People to Watch list. She is the Co-Artistic Director of the WildWind Performance Lab at Texas Tech University. 

Naysan Mojgani

Naysan Mojgani is a freelance dramaturg and Artistic/Dramaturgical Advisor at Round House Theatre. Naysan has worked on new and classic work with theatres around the country, including La Jolla Playhouse, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Theatre Squared, Signature Theatre, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Lookingglass Theatre Company, and Arena Stage, and has taught at UC San Diego, George Mason University, and Loyola University New Orleans. Naysan holds a PhD in Theatre & Drama from UCSD, and a BA from Carleton College. He currently lives in New Orleans with his wife and children.

Sierra Rosetta

Sierra Rosetta (she/her) is an Indigenous theatre artist and scholar from the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Nation. She creates work rooted in Ojibwe stories, Indigenous dramaturgy, and decolonizing theatre practices. In 2024, she was named a TCG Rising Leader of Color and received the KCACTF National Dramaturgy Award in 2023. Her work has been seen at La Jolla Playhouse, Native Voices, Goodman Theatre, Hedgepig Ensemble, and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. She is the Literary Associate at Native Voices and always champions new work by Indigenous playwrights. A PhD student at Northwestern University, Sierra also writes plays, including From the Old Wood Forest and A Century of Sparrows.