Susan M. Steadman: a longtime Dramatists Guild Member, has written for and about the stage throughout several decades as a professional theatre practitioner. Her wide-ranging works include The Cinderella Chronicles (YouthPLAYS 2012), performed in six countries. A ten-minute play, The Thing with Feathers, was workshopped at the Associations for Theatre in Higher Education's national conference in 2013; the longer version is a finalist in the St. Louis Actors Theatre's LaBute Festival in and will be performed in July 2014. Susan’s competition-winning dark comedies such as Filling Spaces have proven audience favorites. Her publications include Dramatic Re-Visions (ALA), a critically lauded reference work; magazine and journal articles; and contributions to such books as Notable Women in the American Theatre. With a Ph.D. in Theatre from LSU, she has taught at numerous universities, schools, recreation departments, and conferences. Along the way, she has staged nearly 70 productions; guided two improve troupes; and served as artistic director of a metro-Atlanta professional theatre. She is Executive Director of the Port City Playwrights’ Project in Wilmington, NC.
Matt Malloy: PCPP Secretary. “I’ve worked in the film industry in Wilmington, NC for 20 yrs., mostly in lighting, always aspiring to more. I feel like the right movie can do a lot of good in the world.”
Christopher Dayett: Acting: Pompeii: A New Musical, Peter Pan, Kiss Me Kate, Babes In Toyland, Disney's High School Musical. Playwriting: St. Brigid's Songs, A Christmas Carol: Slightly Abridged, Follow Your Dreams, Check, Please! Education: BA Theatre with Vocal Music Minor, BS Marine Biology, UNCW, cum laude. Resides in Wilmington, music/choir director for several churches, teaches/has taught music, show choir, theatre and filmmaking in local schools.
Nicole Farmer: Nicole Farmer was born in NYC. After traveling all over the US and abroad, she made her way back to New York City in 1983 and began her studies as an actress at The Juilliard School, and graduated in 1990. The daughter of Loren Edwin Farmer, actor and entrepreneur, and Donna Marie Parker, model and free spirit, Nicole has acted on stage and film for the last 30 years.
Brad Field’s four mock-melodramas were first produced aboard the Hiram College Showboat Majestic, touring the Ohio River. One of the plays, Lust, Lucre, and Liquor, is available from any bookstore. Plays staged in the Midwest, notably Choices and Thin Ice, won some prizes. Thin Ice received studio productions at the Cleveland Play House and the Madison (WI) Rep, venues which at the time used Equity actors. He has also published short fiction, novels, and academic articles on Shakespeare, Ibsen, O’Neill and Arthur Miller. In addition, he edited the anthologies Stages of the Drama and Modern and Contemporary Drama, both from St. Martin’s Press. Over the years he has been continuously distracted from theatre in the U.S. by chances to spend years abroad: a Fulbright, a sabbatical, even a job as a “foreign expert” teaching ESL in China. He spent several years in Japan and in what then was still Yugoslavia, where he directed a Croatian students’ performance of Our Town. Now he’s back at the keyboard again, with new material.
Claudette Cohen spent the winters of her early childhood in the Catskills and Hudson River Valley of New York. She spent almost every summer of her life in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina. She has earned degrees from Agnes Scott College, the University of Wyoming, and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Her first novel won UNCW's Outstanding Thesis Award in Fiction. Her work has won several awards, including the 2013 Doris Betts Fiction Prize, and has appeared in The Southern Anthology, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Cream City Review, Prime Number, storySOUTH, Lyric Poetry, Pirene’s Fountain, North Carolina Literary Review, and Mainstreet Rag, among others. She is currently exploring ways to make the multiple-prize-winning story, “The Mayor of Biscoe,” into a short, regional film.