"UNKNOWN NUMBER" by Greg Mandryk

Jonathan Cook is heavily involved in the fine arts as an actor, writer, and filmmaker based in South Carolina. Many of his short plays have been produced in theatres around the World and and he is a six-time recipient of the Porter Fleming Literary Award in the playwriting category. Aside from playwriting, he has also written and directed several short films that have been presented in regional film festivals as well as distributed internationally on ShortsTV. He is also the host and producer of the radio theater podcast GATHER BY THE GHOST LIGHT. Launched in 2020, GATHER BY THE GHOST LIGHT is a collection of stage plays adapted to an audio only format performed by voice actors and edited with appropriate sound effects and music.

Christopher (He, Him, His etc) 49, from East Anglia, UK has been an amateur actor/director for many years as a hobby. He originally wrote many short stories, for fun, but now writes plays for stage and radio. He has now written over 30 pieces of various lengths with the aim to be as diverse a playwright as possible. His BEAR series of monologues have captured many imaginations, so he is now converting them into animations one by one.

Dana Hall (she/her) is a playwright, actor, and mental health therapist. She is a Lanford Wilson finalist, and The Theater Association of NYS (TANYS) awarded her Excellence in Playwriting. She was a finalist for the Morecambe Fringe John Clarke Memorial Prize for scriptwriting. A Finalist Winner in the Hear Me Out Monologue Competition and a finalist for the National Fellows Program for the Dramatists Guild Foundation. Her Edgar Allen Poe adaptation, Under the Floorboards, was named Outstanding Theatrical Adaptation, Gee-Rated Intertainment. Her plays have been published with Next Stage Press, Heuer, Stage Plays, & Smith Scripts. The New York Journal named her one of the 50 under 50 most influential creators. She is in the Dramatists Guild Institute's Certificate of Dramatic Writing program. She is also a member of the Dramatists Guild, League of Professional Theatre Women, Honor Roll!, and International Centre for Female Playwrights. DanaHallCreates.com

Jacquelyn Priskorn has been writing plays since she took her first class with playwright Kitty Dubin in 1997. She has had several plays and screenplays produced since that first class, including the award winning short film "The Guest Room" (shown at the Strasbourg Film Festival in France) as well as a screenplay, "Love & Plutonium", which is currently available on Amazon Prime. Her play "Love Shackles" was published in Quick & Painless: Saturday Night Lites 2004-2005 Season distributed by Original Works. "Glass Slipper, Size 8 ½", "The Rot", "The Reckless Romantic" and "Off Center" are currently available through Brooklyn Publishing. "Ida Invisible" is available through Next Stage Press. The one act version of "Barn Wood and Blue Roses" is available through Stage Partners.
Her short play "Off Center" won Best Play at the Oakland University Actor Showcase. And "Good Morning, Miriam" has received the Jury's Choice Award at the Detroit Fringe Forward Festival, Best New Play from New Plays From the Heartland, and The Chameleon Theatre Circle's 17th annual one act play contest.
As an actress, Ms. Priskorn began writing, mostly to create more roles and audition material for herself and women like her.

Devon McSherry has been involved in the arts for as long as she can remember. Music and theater was what brought her parents together and shaped her love of the arts. So much so that she went to college for musical theater and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BFA from Metropolitan State University of Denver. Wherever she went, Devon continued to perform but only began writing plays and short films a few years ago. After directing a short play in a festival and helping friends involved in the film community, she decided to go outside her comfort zone and write some short plays.

SCOTT C. SICKLES (he/him) is an LGBTQ+/ neurodivergent/ Korean American writer whose plays have been performed in New York City, across the U.S., and internationally in Canada, Australia, the UK, Hungary, Singapore, Indonesia, Lebanon, and Dubai. WHEEL OF FORTUNE REVERSED recently made its stage debut with Traffic Jam Theatre Co in Savannah, Georgia. PLAYING ON THE PERIPHERY: MONOLOGUES AND SCENES FOR AND ABOUT QUEER KIDS will have its world premiere with Whim Productions in Kansas City, Missouri, in August 2023. His other evening of short plays, HELLISH DELIGHTS, is available at Next Stage Press along with his full-lengths COMPOSURE, FROM THE TOP, MOONLIGHT & LOVE SONGS, and HAIRDRESSER ON FIRE. The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis’s world premiere of NONSENSE AND BEAUTY received an Edgerton New Play Award and was an ATCA Steinberg Award Finalist. Other full-lengths include: MARIANAS TRENCH (O’Neill finalist; Portland Stage); PANGEA (Garry Marshall Theatre); THE KNOWN UNIVERSE (Mixed Asian Media Fest); PERFECTING THE KISS: A MOCKUMENTARY FOR THE STAGE (Mind the Gap Theatre); INTELLECTUALS (Smith & Kraus); and SEASIDE TRAGEDIES (Seven Devils finalist). Sickles has also received five consecutive Writers Guild of America Awards for GENERAL HOSPITAL and eleven Emmy nominations.

Greg Mandryk is a playwright living in Cleveland, Ohio. His work has been produced throughout the United States.

Morey Norkin is a retired technical writer/proposal manager now living in Japan. He was a regular fixture in Annapolis, Maryland community theater from the late ‘70s to the mid-90s appearing often at Colonial Players, Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre, and Annapolis Theater Project, of which he was a co-founder. Morey made his debut as a playwright in 2019, with Last Laugh, a one-act play presented at Colonial Players as part of an evening of three one-acts under the umbrella title, Generations. Morey’s most produced 10-minute play, On Queue, was a finalist in the 2021 Stage It! 10-Minute Play Festival in Bonita Springs, FL, and was one of 10 to be produced during the festival. On Queue was also produced in 2022 by PlayZoomers, in 2023 by Prince Theatre’s Short Attention Span Theatre festival in Chestertown, MD, and will be part of Short & Sweet in Sydney, Australia in 2024. Morey’s only (to date) full-length play, Gold Paint, was a finalist in the 2021 Chameleon Theatre Circle new play contest and a quarterfinalist in the 2021 ScreenCraft Stage Play contest. His AI-inspired one-act play, Flight of Fancy, was part of Tiny Theatre's Tiny Spring Lineup for 2023. Morey’s 10-minute, earth-shattering, climate change comedy, Eden 2, was presented by The Magnetic Theatre in Asheville, NC in 2023, and will be part of the Mini Shenanigans podcast in 2024. Morey’s short satire, The Replacement, was awarded second prize in the inaugural Fern Street New Play Festival in West Hartford, CT in 2023.

In his spare time, Morey enjoys sharpening his table tennis skills and … Read More