The CNPDC is the result of a lot of zoom meetings, conference conversations, and emails between some very creative and passionate theatremakers and educators.  You can meet the folx responsible below.  This page will continue to grow as more collaborators come on board in official capacities!

Tiffany Antone is a playwright, director, and teaching artist, whose plays have been seen/heard in a lot of cool cities, including Los Angeles, New York, D.C., and Minneapolis.  Several of her plays have been O’Neil and Jerome finalists. As a theatremaker and producer, Tiffany has produced new play festivals and initiated several theatre-as-social-action initiatives through her companies Little Black Dress INK (a female playwright producing organization) and Protest Plays Project.  She has presented at conferences held by the Dramatist Guild, Mid America Theatre Conference, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, University of Iceland, and the Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education, and has published essays with HowlRound.com and for various other digital platforms.

When she isn’t in the classroom or the studio, Tiffany’s trying not to ruin the two small humans who call her mom.  Tiffany holds her MFA in Playwriting from UCLA and is a member of The Dramatist Guild, The Playwrights’ Center, and the Los Angeles Female Playwright Initiative.

Kristi Good (they/she) is a freelance dramaturg and theatre educator. Kristi truly digs new work development and regularly dramaturgs for the annual Mid-America Theatre Conference Playwriting Symposium. Their scholarship and interests lean toward theatre of trauma and uncovering suppressed narratives, specializing in topics related to LGBTQIA+, feminism, motherhood, trauma, grief, and “weird”plays.

Kristi has published articles in Theatre History Studies, Theatre Topics, and Etudes. Her most recent articles include a dramaturg’s manifesto on selecting translated scripts (supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute in 2015), a feminist microhistory of the woman responsible for Pittsburgh’s most notorious jailbreak, and a call to action for normalizing the disruption of reproductive health in academia.

Kristi has an MA in Theatre Arts from Villanova University and a PhD in Theatre & Performance Studies from University of Pittsburgh. They are the Accessibility Officer of Mid-America Theatre Conference and an active member of Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas.

LaRonika Thomas (she/her) is a professional dramaturg, scholar, and educator whose scholarship includes civic dramaturgy, Chicago theatre history, performances of cities and urban planning, new play development, and dramaturgy of the everyday.  She is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Washington College, where she teaches courses in dramaturgy, theatre history, and performance studies. 

Her chapter “Temple-Swapping in the City: The Spatial Imaginary and Performances of Place-Making in the Work of Theaster Gates” is included in Makeshift Chicago Stages: A Century of Theatre and Performance, published by Northwestern University Press.  Her essay, “Digital Dramaturgy and Digital Dramaturgs” is included in The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy. 

LaRonika currently serves as the Conference Planner-elect for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s (ATHE) Dramaturgy Focus Group.  She is also an active member and past officer of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) and American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS).

LaRonika has a PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park and worked in arts education, literary management, and dramaturgy in Chicago and in the Baltimore/DC area before returning to school for her doctorate.  She has presented her research through ATHE, ASTR, LMDA, MATC, ATDS, MAPACA, CSA, and CDC, among other organizations.  She tires quickly of plays that have living room couches in them.