Past Br!nk Playwrights
Past Br!NK Br!Efs Playwrights

Alayna Barnes
All of the Everything, 2018
Alayna Jacqueline is a Minneapolis-based playwright, born and raised in Buckeye Nation. She’s a creative instigator with the Twin Cities Playwright Cabal. In her absurd experimental writing, she loves to turn figurative into the literal. Alayna’s plays include Empty Houses, Persephone’s Spring, Drapetomania, and It’s Too Cold for You Here. She received her MFA in creative writing from Goddard College.
Cast & Crew
Directed by Mallory Metoxen
Featuring Chantae Miller, Marcel Arlston, Hannah Shay, & Jarrod Langwinski
Prompt: "Pictures of Parity"

Rachel Bykowski
Bodies, 2018
Rachel Bykowski writes plays to explore the many facets of womanhood. Her plays have been featured at the Kennedy Center with The National New Play Network (NNPN), was a top 20 finalist for CulturalDC’s Source Theatre Festival, and received Honorable Mention for the Jane Chambers 2017 Student Playwriting Award. She received her BFA from DePaul University’s Theatre School and MFA from Ohio University. www.rachelbykowskiplays.com
Cast & Crew
Directed by Grace DeWolff
Featuring Kara Penrose & Cara Johnston
Prompt: "Perseverance is Stubbornness with a Purpose"

Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
End of an Era, 2018
Winner of the Southern Playwrights Competition, Kelly’s plays have been produced or developed by the Barter Theatre (VA), Something Marvelous (Chicago), Renaissance Theaterworks (Milwaukee), The Bechdel Group (NY), Raíces Theatre Company (Buffalo), Teatro Vivo (Austin), Something Something Theatre (Tucson), Outpost Repertory Theatre (Lubbock) and Jacksonville State University. She is a proud Member of the Dramatists Guild.
Cast & Crew
Directed by Suzan Fete
Featuring Deborah Clifton & Izetta Rees
Prompt: "Pictures of Parity"

Maria Pretzl
Juniper Flies, 2018
Maria Pretzl, earned her BFA in Film Production and BA in Theatre Studies from UW-Milwaukee and studied playwriting under Will Dunne at Chicago Dramatists. She co-founded Traveling Lemur Productions, LLC in 2015. Writer/director of the award-winning short film Super Dad!. Writing Credits include Roommates (Cooperative Performance), Super Dad! (Chicago Dramatists). Directing Credits include Nightmare Boy (UWM), She Kills Monsters (Village Playhouse).
Cast & Crew
Directed by Trevor Rees
Featuring Paula Garcia, Adam Qutaishat, & Ashley Rodriguez
Prompt: "Perseverance is Stubbornness with a Purpose"

Lineve Redlin
Savior's Grace, 2018
Lineve Redlin is a Wisconsin native who began to find her love of theatre at a very young age. Lineve graduated from UW-Milwaukee with her BFA in Acting in 2010. She currently lives in Whitefish Bay with her husband Jon and two children, Benvolio and Adayla. She would like to thank her family and friends for their support.
Cast & Crew
Directed by Reva Fox
Featuring Trevor Rees, Samantha Martinson, & Madeline Wakley
Prompt: "Slow Down, Happiness is Trying to Catch You"

Parker Sterling
That Beautiful Nothing, 2018
Parker Sterling is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins writing program, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Kenyon Playwrights Conference and the Meisner program at Artistic Home Chicago. Her photography and writing have appeared in The Nebraska Review, The Formalist and Anti Poetry. Recent stage and film credits include “Viv” in Jumpers for Goalposts for Pride Films and Plays and “Hard Gal” for The Shade Shepherd (2019). She is thrilled and grateful for the opportunity to be part of Br!NK Br!efs 2018.
Cast & Crew
Directed by Erin Nicole Eggers
Featuring Madeline Wakley, Chris Goode, & Ben Parman
Prompt: "Slow Down, Happiness is Trying to Catch You"

Kelly Bancroft
Did you think I would forget you? 2017
Kelly Bancroft lives in Youngstown, Ohio, where she earned her MFA in Creative Writing. Her poetry and prose have appeared in a variety of journals. Two of her one-act plays have been produced in Youngstown and Pittsburgh - ARRIVING AT BESSIE and LOVIE’S SPRING. A short documentary based on ARRIVING AT BESSIE recently won a spot at the Cleveland International Film Festival and was featured on jezebel.com. She is currently working on a full-length play.
A woman goes about her day after learning of the planet's impending doom.
Cast & Crew
Directed by Jake Brockmann
Featuring Shannon Nettesheim
Prompt: "Fools Rush In"

Claudia Haas
The End of the Road, 2017
Claudia has had over 1100 productions in all fifty states and on five continents. Honored with 18 playwriting awards, her works have been developed through the Bonderman Symposium and the William Inge Festival among others. She’s been fortunate to have many of her plays published. She lives in White Bear Lake, MN with ducks in her garden.
Beth and Letia are on a road trip to scatter their late mother’s ashes. But a fork in the road changes their plans. They end up on a road to nowhere with no idea how to back to somewhere.
Cast & Crew
Directed by Catie O'Donnell
Featuring Brittany Curran & Danielle Levings
Prompt: "Fools Rush In"

Emma Kiel
Twenty-Seven Years, 2017
Emma Kiel is a playwright and director from Neenah, Wisconsin. She is currently pursuing her bachelor of arts in drama at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. As a writer, she has had work produced at UWSP and has contributed original work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The night before her daughter’s wedding, Deborah discovers something that could tear her life and family apart. Twenty minutes before the ceremony, her daughter finds out too. As the big moment approaches, the only thing that’s certain is that nothing will ever be the same.
Cast & Crew
Directed by Erin Eggers
Featuring Shannon Nettesheim, Audwin Short, & Elaine Wyler
Prompt: "Fools Rush In"

Colleen O'Doherty
Bold Dorothy, Retired. 2017
Colleen O'Doherty is a writer based out of Omaha, NE. She is currently getting her MFA in play writing at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She teaches creative writing in schools and prisons through the Nebraska Writers Collective. She has had work staged with UNO and Shelterbelt Theater in Omaha, NE. Her poetry has been published in Burnt District. She dedicates her play to all the hard-working teachers and other working-class heroes she knows.
Strong-arm and Indestructible are two superheroes trying to start a superhero non-profit. They initially doubt that Dorothy, a retired teacher, has what it takes to make their team the best. They're about to learn a lesson about true heroism. Can they learn it in time to defeat evil and save the day?
Cast & Crew
Directed by Christopher Elst
Featuring Cara Johnston, Nathanael Press, Elodie Senetra, & Michelle Waide
Prompt: "Fortune Favors the Bold"

Gwendolyn Rice
I Hear Everything, 2017
Gwendolyn Rice is a professional writer and playwright based in Madison, Wisconsin. Among other freelance projects, she currently reviews theater and performing arts events for Isthmus and The Capital Times, and has also taught playwriting workshops for Children’s Theater of Madison, Renaissance Theaterworks, and the Milwaukee Rep. She is a member of Chicago Dramatists, the American Theater Critics Association, and the Dramatists Guild.
A man with a rare hearing condition is tormented by the sounds of daily life. His refuge is working in a special — very quiet — section of the Newberry Library. Much to his surprise, one day he meets his match, a woman who struggles to be heard.
Cast & Crew
Directed by Suzan Fete
Featuring Joe Picchetti
Prompt: "Fortune Favors the Bold"

Karen Saari
A Robot, a Clown and a Turban, 2017
Karen Saari’s full-length play IN A CLEARING received a staged reading in June at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, was a 2017 finalist for the ATHE Award for Excellence in Playwriting, and was a 2015 Wisconsin Wrights winner. She’s a frequent writer/raconteur for Madison’s That’s What She Said story-share, member of Playwrights Center and a mother of two.
Spend a day in the life of a robot, a clown and their co-workers in an otherwise mundane office environment. This stew of oddballs will make you laugh and maybe even cheer as they prove that when we have to, anyone can find love and anyone can get along.
Cast & Crew
Directed by Mark Boergers
Featuring Danielle Levings, Nathanael Press, Elodie Senetra, & J. Keegan Siebken
Prompt: "Fools Rush In"

Lillian Schley
Dog Heroes, 2017
Lillian Schley’s play VOWS was included in Cooperative Performance Milwaukee’s 2017 One Act Festival and a short film adapted from her play DON’T LEAVE ME HANGING has been shown at film festivals throughout the country.
Two dogs struggle with the effects of sudden Internet fame on their friendship.
Cast & Crew
Directed by Mallory Metoxen
Featuring Brittany Curran, Cara Johnston, & Rachel Zembrowski
Prompt: "Fortune Favors the Bold"