The Alcove

January

Matthew Libby – Jan 5

Matthew Libby is a writer and actor based in Brooklyn by way of Los Angeles. His plays include DATA (Lortel Theatre, Arena Stage) and Sisters (Northern Stage, Neukom Award). DATA was previously adapted as a digital production by Alliance Theatre in 2021.

Lucas Baisch – Jan 19

Lucas Baisch is a playwright and artist from San Francisco. His writing has been supported by the Goodman Theatre, The Playwrights’ Center, The Bushwick Starr, The Mercury Store, Cutting Ball, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, The Neo-Futurists, Chicago Dramatists, Links Hall, etc. Lucas is a recipient of the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Princess Grace Award, The Kennedy Center’s KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award, and a Jerome Fellowship. His plays have been published by Methuen Drama, Yale’s Theater Magazine, and 53rd State Press. Outside of theatre, his artwork has been presented at Elsewhere Museum, the Electronic Literature Organization, gallery no one, and the RISD Museum. www.lucasbaisch.com

February

Shahid Iqbal Khan – Feb 9

Shahid Iqbal Khan’s UK body of work includes Connections (Tara Theatre) and 10 Nights (Bush Theatre, Graeae/Tamasha). The Olivier-Award nominated 10 Nights was revived in a new production by Phizzical, which toured the UK in 2024 and 2025. He is currently working on commissions from Octagon Theatre, Almeida Theatre and Ardent Theatre. Shahid Iqbal Khan also writes regularly for audio. He is adapting the novel The Last of the Mohicans for BBC Radio 4, which will be broadcast in December 2025.

Nelson Diaz-Marcano – Feb 23

Nelson Diaz-Marcano is a theater maker, advocate, and community leader whose mission is to create work that challenges and builds connection. As Literary Director of the Latinx Playwrights Circle, he has helped develop over 100 plays in five years. His own plays have been produced Off-Broadway, as well as at theaters across the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

March

Sebastian Eddowes-Vargas – March 9

Sebastián Eddowes-Vargas (he/him/él) is a Peruvian theater artist and researcher, who focuses on queer stories and how these are shaped by the colonial histories of the Americas. He is author of several award-winning plays, including El Rancho De Los Niños Perdidos, Una Historia De (Poli)Amor, Debut (with Caro Black Tam), Nunca Estaremos En Broadway (with Rodrigo Yllaric), Hasta Que Choque El Hueso (with Mario Zanatta), and Can The Peruvian Speak? As dramaturg, he has worked on Expats Anonymous by Rachel Chin, directed by Alex Keegan (Yale Cabaret); Exposed by Laura Goodenow (Real Women Make Waves); and Between Two Knees by The 1491s, directed by Eric Ting (Yale Repertory Theatre). He is currently an M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama.

William Gregory – March 23

April

Jack Holden – April 13

Jack Holden is an actor and writer. His plays include Cruise (nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2022), KENREX, and the adaptation of Alan Hollinghurt’s novel The Line of Beauty (Almeida Theatre). His professional debut in theatre was in the award-winning War Horse.

Diane Exavier – April 27

Diane Exavier is a writer, theatermaker and educator working at the intersection of performance and poetry. Her work has been presented with The New Group, BRIC Arts, The Bushwick Starr, Bowery Poetry Club, Dixon Place, and more. Diane concerns herself with what she recognizes as the 4 L’s: love, loss, legacy, and land. Her play Bernarda’s Daughters premiered Off-Broadway in 2023, co-produced by The New Group and National Black Theatre. Her poetry collection, The Math of Saint Felix was recently published by The 3rd Thing Press. She is currently working on a Sloan Foundation new play commission in partnership with Manhattan Theatre Club. A 2021 Jerome Foundation Finalist, Diane lives and works in Brooklyn.

May

Ramiz Monsef – May 11

Ramiz Monsef is an actor and writer. His play The Ants was produced at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. He is co-author of the musical The Unfortunates (Oregon Shakespeare Festival and A.C.T. in San Francisco). He has worked as an actor in film, stage and tv, and he also performs with his hip-hop ground 3 Blind Mice.

Christian Parker – May 25

Christian Parker is a director, dramaturg, and former Chair of the graduate Theatre Program (2012-19) at Columbia University, where he also heads the Dramaturgy concentration. Christian’s career has been focused on the production and development of new plays. He has held leadership roles at Atlantic Theater Company, where he spent many years as Associate Artistic Director and Manhattan Theatre Club where he began his career as Literary Manager. For the past several years he has spent more time as a freelancer in addition to his teaching, and has worked all over the US at various regional theatres and play development centers. He is a graduate of Middlebury College (BA) and Columbia University (MFA).