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Our Writers

Our Playwrights in 2010 (alphabetical order)

Christopher Chen
Elana McKernan
The Five Lesbian Brothers
Enrique Urueta

Past Playwrights

Christopher Chen (The Hundred Flowers Project)
Having received his MFA in playwriting from San Francisco State University, Mr. Chen has already garnered national recognition for his work at Silk Road Theatre, Theatre Mu, and The Lark Play Development Center.  In the Bay Area Mr. Chen’s work has been developed and produced by The Playwrights Foundation, Central Works Theatre Ensemble, and the Asian American Theatre Company.  Breaking ground in Chinese-American cultural exchange, Mr. Chen’s Into the Numbers was produced by the Beijing International Fringe Festival, as one of the first public stagings in China about the Nanking Massacre.  His work has been seen at the Belarus Free Theatre, in addition to being translated into Russian and Chinese.

Info on The Hundred Flowers Project

Elana McKernan (The Lysistrata Project) Please see Elana's bio on our Resident Artist page.

Info on The Lysistrata Project

The Five Lesbian Brothers (The Secretaries)
The Five Lesbian Brothers are Maureen Angelos, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, and Lisa Kron. The Brothers came together as a theater company in 1989 after performing together in various other combinations at the Obie award–winning WOW Cafe Theatre in New York City’s East Village. Together the Brothers have written five plays, Voyage to Lesbos (1990), Brave Smiles (1992), The Secretaries (1994), Brides of the Moon (1996), and Oedipus at Palm Springs (2006), which was written by Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, and Lisa Kron.

The Brothers’ work has been presented Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway by New York Theatre Workshop, the Joseph Papp Public Theatre, the WOW Cafe Theatre, Downtown Art Company, Performance Space 122, Dixon Place, La Mama, the Kitchen, and the Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris. They have toured to London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Houston, Columbus, Seattle, Philadelphia, Boston, and the deep woods of Michigan. Their plays have also been produced by other companies throughout the United States and, believe it or not, in Zagreb, Croatia.

The Brothers are the recipients of a Village Voice Obie Award, a New York Dance and Performance Award ("Bessie"), a GLAAD Media Award, and a New York Press Award as Best Performance Group. An anthology of their plays entitled Five Lesbian Brothers/Four Plays was published in 2000 by Theatre Communications Group and was nominated for a Lambda Literary award.

info on Crowded Fire's production of The Secretaries

Enrique Urueta (Forever Never Comes)
Colombian-American, by way of Virginia and San Francisco, Enrique Urueta will receive his MFA in playwriting from Brown University in May 2009. His plays have been developed or produced by Brown University/Trinity Repertory Theatre Consortium, American Repertory Theatre, Aurora Theatre, The Queer Latino Artists Coalition, Playwrights Foundation, Impact Theatre, The Lark Play Development Center, Golden Thread Productions, and The Queer Cultural Center, where he is currently the playwright in residence. His play The Danger of Bleeding Brown gained Honorable Mention in the 2007 The Pen Is A Mighty Sword Playwriting Contest. He is a recipient of the Creating Queer Communities grant, a Theatre Bay Area CASH Grant, The Global Age Project Award 2007, and the Theater Bay Area New Work Fund Grant 2008.  He is a proud member of NoPassport, a pan-American theater coalition devoted to the advocacy of Latino/a and hemispherically-minded work.  He is a current finalist for the Yale Drama Series Playwriting Award.

info on Crowded Fire's production of Forever Never Comes