Current Writing Fellows

Mia is a member of New Dramatists and the Ma-Yi Writers Lab. She was a member of the inaugural 2010-2011 Civilians’ R&D Group in Brooklyn; as a member of this group, she wrote her new play Page Not Found. She is the recipient of a 2012 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts fellowship and a 2011 TCG Global Connections grant to support a pansori collaboration with a South Korean musical theatre artist. Her play Exquisite Corpse received Honorable Mention for the 2011 Jane Chambers Award. Her work has been developed by the Icicle Creek Theatre Festival, Inkwell, the Magic Theatre, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Mu Performing Arts, and the Brandeis Theatre Company. She received a Sloan commission, a Creative Arts Council grant, and a residency at the Millay Colony. MFA, Brown. MPhil, Univ. of Dublin–Trinity College. BA, Yale.

J.C. is a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at The Juilliard School and the winner of the LeCompte Du Nouy Prize from Lincoln Center. His plays include Pookie Goes Grenading, Into the Clear Blue Sky, The Natural Line, This World is Good, Wicked Fox and many others which have been seen/staged/developed throughout the country at theatres such as Crowded Fire Theatre Company, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Bay Area Playwrights Festival & South Coast Repertory, where he is currently under commission. His trilogy about the end of the world, This World and After, was just produced by Sleepwalkers Theatre in San Francisco in 2010-11. He blogs daily at Rants, Raves & Rethoughts and tweets @jclee1230.

Ethan’s plays have been seen and heard in New York, Los Angeles, Edinburgh (Scotland) and Berne (Austria) at theaters including the Public, the Lark, 3LD, HERE, the Ohio, New York Stage and Film, Dixon Place, the WPA, the Complex and the Powerhouse.  Ethan is a winner of a NYFA grant and a Drama-Logue Award for playwriting. He has been a Kesselring prize nominee and a member of the Public Theater’s inaugural Emerging Writers Group.  Ethan is currently working on a commission from True Love Productions to write the book and songs for an original musical.  Most recently, he received a “New York Voices” NEA grant from Joe’s Pub, for which he will premiere an original song cycle in 2011 with his band, Ethan Lipton & his Orchestra. Having released four albums and been named “Best Lounge Act of 2009” by New York Magazine, the band has played throughout New York (Joe’s Pub, Bryant Park, Celebrate Brooklyn, Ars Nova) and beyond (MASS MoCA, Camden Opera House, VAE) and been featured on radio shows such as NPR’s “Weekend Edition” and “The World.” As a performer, Ethan has collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Matt Berninger of the National, Elevator Repair Service and dance company El Gato Teatro. A graduate of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, Ethan was raised in the San Fernando Valley and now lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn, with his wife, photographer Heather Phelps-Lipton.