Meet the 2011-2012 Playwrights-in-Residence

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Katalina Mustatea, Playwright- Caleb is Pregnant

Hometown: New York, New York. Katalina is the author of three full-length plays, most recently The Model, which was first read at Naked Angels before premiering at the Incubator Arts Project’s New Performance Series last August. As a director, she’s staged innovative interpretations of master American playwrights in Germany and New York with the experimental theatre group she founded in 2008, InOktober Productions. InOktober’s dance re-imagining of the early Eugene O’Neill one-act FOG (2010) appeared at HERE Arts Center, and Katalina recently contributed the text for Nu Dance Theatre’s Dorian C.

Natalie Zutter, Playwright- Drinks/ The Sincerest Form

Hometown: San Rafael, California. Natalie is a playwright, pop culture blogger, and comic book writer who returned to the city of her birth to attend NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her concentration from Gallatin is Serialized Storytelling and Internet Culture, which means her work draws from influences as disparate as Nietzsche and Joss Whedon. Playwright credits include Twits and Drinks/The Sincerest Form, Osawatomie, Kansas (dir. Amara Dieter), and Spock Nudes (dir. Gamaliel Valle Rosa). By day, Natlie’s the Associate Editor at celebrity/entertainment site Crushable and a contributor for the sci-fi/fantasy blog Tor.com. She also co-writes the webcomic Leftovers, a weekly horror-comedy about a ragtag NYC food truck battling zombies and bringing food to apocalypse survivors. Natalie is currently co-writing the theatre piece for The Lucrece Project’s Prometheus Mediated, a collaborative reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Prometheus through the teachings of media scholar Marshall McLuhan. Follow her on Twitter and on Tumblr.

Alex Landers, Playwright- Annabelle Stops Eating

Hometown: Chicago, Illinois. Alex is a playwright and artist working through themes of obsession, nostalgia, femininity, and excess. She completed her graduate studies in Writing for the Stage and Screen at Florida State University in August 2011. Alex’s work has been performed at the Conradi Studio Theatre at FSU and recognized by the American College Theatre Festival. A real cinephile, her film criticism has found her a presenter at both Notre Dame and the University of Illinois, her alma mater. Other plays include a one-act about hoarding and The Beach Boys entitled Don’t Worry Baby and the full-length extravaganza A Jewish Family Picnic. Alex currently writes, paints, and creates in a tiny beach house in Waterford, Connecticut with her boyfriend and an adopted poodle named Rooster.