Minna Lee
PlayLab 2025 Playwright
Minna Lee is a writer and animator who takes audiences into whimsical worlds full of queer joy and strange magic. They are a recipient of the Dramatist Guild’s 2024 Lanford Wilson Award, and Audrey Resident at New Georges, and a member of Ma-Yi Theater’s 2025 Writer’s Lab. Their work includes My Home on the Moon (World Premiere at San Francisco Playhouse directed by Mei Ann Teo; Winner of the Sam Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Original Script), ACTING STRANGER co-written and performed with Andrew Schneider and Fox Whitney (On the Boards and LA Performance Practice) and Last Gold (2025 New Georges Audrey Residency, 2024 National Playwright’s Conference Semi-Finalist). Their favorite bug is an orchid mantis.
Project: Heart of Parasite
Contestants of a reality dating show arrive at Morpho Manor hoping to find love in paradise, but that dream is quickly threatened by genetically modified insects who have overtaken the estate. Written by Minna Lee and directed by Francesca Sabel, Heart of Parasite is a rom-com thriller that scratches at the itch for connection, or maybe that’s just lice.
Daniela Gonzalez y Perez
PlayLab 2025 Playwright
Project: Learning How to Squirt
Jesús I. Valles
PlayLab 2025 Playwright
Jesús I. Valles (they/them) is a queer Mexican immigrant writer-performer from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua/El Paso, Texas. Here, Valles wishes to echo Rasha Abdulhadi’s call to “you, dear reader, to refuse and resist the genocide of Palestinian people. Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now. The elimination of the Palestinian people is not inevitable. We can refuse with our every breath and action. We must.” In solidarity with the people of Palestine, of Congo, of Sudan, of Cuba, with every political prisoner here and everywhere empire threatens life, with every student movement rebelling against their state everywhere.
Project: [Name Redacted]
On the night of [date redacted], [Name Redacted]’s daughter disappeared on her way home from work. Years later, [Name Redacted] has sworn revenge on the men who took her daughter. She’ll confront them one by one, through any means necessary, and with as many wigs as her suitcase will allow, on a mission that is part revenge fantasy, part drag cabaret, part glamour fit.
Class of 2023
The Hills by Jonathan Alexandratos
There Are Black Roses Under the Sea by Cris Eli Blak
The Great American Holiday Crafting Show by Jeffrey James Keyes
Class of 2022
1898 by Nelson Diaz-Marcano
do this in [x] of me by Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin
Radclyffe and the Archivist by Kairos Looney
Class of 2021
Teach by Karina Billini
Good Hair by Phaedra Michelle Scott
A Silkworm Play by Minghao Tu
Class of 2020
righteous kill, a requiem by Nissy Aya
Red Clay Halo by Andy Boyd
BUST by Zora Howard
Untitled Cruise Ship Horror Play by Molly Beach Murphy & Erica Mann
Nasty Yatra by Utkarsh Rajawat
Chava the Giant & the Oldest Bird by Ran Xia
Class of 2019
Society by Skylar Fox & Simon Henriques
When Bees Last Whispered by Sevan K. Greene
Office Comedy by Sukari Jones
Coop by Sam Max
The Ortiz Twins Are Coming Home by Andrew Siañez-De La O
Let’s Hex the President by Kristin Slaney
Class of 2018
Five Hundred by Rick Burkhardt
Bundle of Sticks by J. Julian Christopher
feminine octagon [or, aristotle can eat me] by Amy Gijsbers van Wijk
Earth is Greedy by Jae Kramisen
House of Telescopes by Kairos Looney
Rise of the River by Divya Mangwani
wyrd by Matt Minnicino
Class of 2017
Bruise & Thorne by J. Julian Christopher
Heart of Duckness by A.J. Ditty
The Holdfolk by Freddy Edelhart
The Troll King by Aeneas Sagar Hemphill
Wunderkammer by Francesca Pazniokas
Trick of the Light by Charly Evon Simpson
Class of 2016
Princess Clara of Loisaida by Matt Barbot
Hags, Mopes, and the End of All Existence by Jen Browne
The Mermaid Parade by Gina Femia
The Puppet Show by Reina Hardy
Cracks by Jacob Marx Rice
Girl Becomes Bone by Callan Stout
Eleven Shades of Blue by Amy E. Witting
Class of 2015
Let Me Be Frank by Salty Brine
Untitled Time Dilation Play by Colby Day
The Convent of Pleasure by Sarah Einspanier
The Serpent in Quicksilver by Adam Fried
Pilgrims by Claire Kiechel
Nostalgia is a Mild Form of Grief by Jerry Lieblich
Hiding in Sanity: A Tragicomedy by Rachel Music
Proximity by Jeremy Wine
Class of 2014
Optimism, Or by A.P. Andrews
The Great Molly by Colby Day
Tom’s Nightmare by Andrew Farmer
Show of Hands by Jessica Fleitman
Mystery of Fucking by Scott McCarrey
The Carrion Man by Alex Malcolm Mills
I’s Twinkle by Nate Weida