ABOUT The Playwright

MADISON WETZELL is a playwright currently pursuing her MFA at Brooklyn College, after spending years in the Bay Area. Her full-length work includes Mediocre Heterosexual Sex (Buffalo United Artists; Z-Space, Problematic Play Festival; Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival; Semi-Finalist, O’Neill Theatre Center National Playwrights Conference), The Lost Ballad of Our Mechanical Ancestor (Shotgun Players Champagne Reading Series; Winner, Risk Theater Modern Tragedy Competition) and The Body Play (Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival; Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Award; LezWritesBTQ Showcase, 3Girls Theatre; New Voices Series, Town Hall Theatre). Her short play, The Official Unicorn Hunters’ Guide, was the winner of ShortLived VIII at PianoFight. She has developed new work with Shotgun Players, Z-Space, Exquisite Corpse, Faultline Theatre, 3Girls Theatre, Town Hall Theatre, PlayGround, Soundwave, The Bechdel Group, Liar Liar Theatre, and The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep.

ABOUT The Director

PAIGE CONWAY is a director, AEA stage manager, and theatre educator from Flint, Michigan. She holds a BFA in Theatre, with a focus in Directing from Michigan State University. With over 12 years of experience as a competitive gymnast, it’s no surprise she found her niche in physical theatre and is passionate about the physical, mental, and emotional accessibility and safety it offers in a theatrical process. During the early phase of the pandemic, she began training as an intimacy choreographer through TIE (Theatrical Intimacy Education). Paige is also occasionally a playwright. In 2021 her play Tag received a virtual development process with Drafted: A New Play Workshop. She’s so glad to be with CPT and excited to be working with this wonderful community of artists. Some favorite credits include: Lungs (director, Kickshaw Theatre); Wrong River (stage manager, Flint Repertory Theatre); Dreamscape – the Collaboratory (director/devisor, Young People’s Theater); She Kills Monsters (producer/director, CHS Theatre Guild); Songs For a New World (stage manager; Flint Repertory Theatre); These Mortal Hosts (director, Williamston Theatre); Dr. Fox and the Impossible Cure for Death (stage manager, imaGEN Project – Wharton Center for Performing Arts); Milvotchkee, Visconsin (stage manager, Kickshaw Theatre); The Wolves (stage manager, Flint Repertory Theatre); The Wonderful, Wacky Witches Podcast (director/audio editor, CHS Theatre Guild).