Adrian Einspanier plays include Lunch Bunch (PlayCo and Clubbed Thumb; licensed by Concord Theatricals; in development for television with Film Nation), House Plant (New York Theatre Workshop’s Next Door; Lambda Literary Award Finalist), I forgot to tell you (published in The Brooklyn Rail), and DEBT (co-written with reid tang, in development with Breaking the Binary Theatre). A recipient of the 2023 Lotos Foundation Prize and Darren Aronofsky‘s Protozoa Pictures and LAMF’s Theater Fund Commission, Adrian will spend their time at Catwalk revising a new play about a group of Trader Joe's-esque coworkers in the early stages of forming a labor union.

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Affiliation: NYU/TISCH

Rebecca Hart is a writer & performer based in NYC. Recent performing credits include the original solo show commission “how to read tarot cards” (The Cell NYC, dir. Chloe Treat), a 3-month residency at the Rockwood Music Hall, and the Public Theatre 2019 National Mobile Unit Tour of SWEAT by Lynn Nottage. Her songs have appeared in How To Break (2014 NAMT, Sprkbox Festival Oslo 2015, Village Theatre 2023), The Civilians’ Rimbaud in NY (BAM) and Let Me Ascertain You (Joe’s Pub), Target Margin Theatre’s Uriel Acosta (Chocolate Factory LIC), Woolly Mammoth’s GLORIA (Best Sound Helen Hayes Co-Nom), and Hard Sparks’ The Cabaret at the End of the World (Best Original Music, NY Innovative Theatre Awards 2017). Written work includes book & lyrics for the musical IRON JOHN: an american ghost story ( NAMT 2019, O’Neill Incubator Residency, Theatreworks Silicon Valley New Works Festival, 2023 Natl Playwriting Foundation ‘Relentless’ Award Nom, Irish Arts Center, Manhattan School of Music, NYU Tisch/NSB.) and libretto for The Barren(s) (Kennedy Center/American Opera Projects; New Opera West ‘Fright Fest’). Her 2018 album The Magician’s Daughter was produced in part by renowned Kentucky songwriter/cellist Ben Sollee. She is an alum of Brown University and NYU’s The Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and is an Associate Artist with The Civilians.

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Affiliation: NYU/TISCH

Natalie Westgor is an American writer and actor living in London. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of St Andrews and received her BA in American Studies from Vassar College. Natalie trained as an actor with The Barrow Group, an off- Broadway theatre company. Her plays have been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the University of St Andrews, and for The Barrow Group’s “Restorative Stories” program. This is her first Catwalk residency. At Catwalk, Natalie will write and develop a full- length comedic play set in the Hudson Valley.

Now that Clio is no longer Nathan’s art professor, the couple can flaunt their relationship in public without fear, right? Disaster ensues after a night of too much natural wine when Nathan introduces Clio to his parents. How can their relationships survive after trust is broken? Youth and maturity are represented by New York City and the Hudson Valley and the characters will play in the space between, as liminal a space as the Metro North itself.

Affiliation: Vassar

Molly Rydzel (WGAE) was a staff writer and story editor on the Alejandro Inarritu series for Starz The One Percent. She was the head writer of the web series Assisted Living. (assistedlivingtheseries.com) She is a professor of screen and tv writing at New York University and Pace University. She is also responsible for the plays Everybody Dies (Robert Moss Theater, NYC) Certifiable (FringeNYC) and Serial Lover (Ars Nova/Sanguine TheaterCo.) She is currently developing a stage adaptation of Richard III with a grant from New York University. At the Catwalk residency, she will be working on a modern screenplay adaptation of Euripides' The Bacchae set in the Hudson Valley (because of the wine!) Logline: A SOMMELIER AND HER BAND OF FERAL FEMALE FRIENDS MAKE SACRIFICES TO THE GOD DIONYSUS TO FIND ECSTASY - AND GET REVENGE ON THOSE WHO HAVE WRONGED THEM.

Affiliation: NYU/TISCH