Playwright Biographies

Azure D. Osborne-Lee is an interdisciplinary performer, artist, and teacher. Born and raised below the Mason-Dixon Line, Azure is a recent transplant to New York City. In 2005 Azure earned her B.A. in English & Spanish from The University of Texas at Austin and studied abroad at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Córdoba, Argentina. Before returning to school for a graduate degree in 2006, Azure worked as a professional actress at Zachary Scott Theatre in Austin, TX. In 2008 Azure earned an M.A. in Women’s & Gender Studies, also from The University of Texas at Austin. Since graduation Azure has been working as a freelance writer, performer, and teacher in Texas and New York City.

Jerome A. Parker is a native New Yorker from the Bronx. Recently his play, MIRACLE ON MONROE, received the Lorraine Hansberry Award from the Kennedy Center.
Other works include: ORIGINS OF US (Tim Robbins Playwriting Award); BALLAD OF SAD YOUNG MEN (Francis Ford Coppola One act Series, Best Short in the Downtown Urban Theater Festival); and HOUSE OF DINAH (Faces of the World Festival - Los Angeles Theater Center). Other projects in development: a theatrical adaptation of Jean Genet’s QUERELLE and the book to a jazz musical based on the poems of Walter de la Mare. Jerome received his BA in Theatre from Williams College, his MFA in Playwriting from UCLA and studied costumes at the Juilliard School. In 2008 he participated in the Eugene O’Neill Playwriting Conference as a fellow. In 2010 he was selected as a member of the Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group.

Steve Harper plays include Urban Rabbit Chronicles (nominated for the Weissberger award), The Truth About Magic (a musical), The Escape Artist's Children, almost not quite just about, The Laundry Channel (Juilliard workshop), and Wheelchair Pornography (Spectral Sisters Productions). Short pieces: Things are (Mostly) Crazy, This is Now (American Airlines Theatre - 24 Hour Plays), First Encounter (Falcon Theatre / L.A. - NBC diversity showcase), Actual Cost (Juilliard /100th Anniversary – published by The Kenyon Review Online), Iggie Imagines Marriage (John Houseman Studio/Dreamcatcher Rep.), and Abstract Purple (Baltimore Playwrights Festival). Readings and workshops: New York Stage & Film, Summer Play Festival/Naked Angels, New York Theatre Workshop, Tribeca Theatre Festival, New Professional Theatre, Red Harlem Readers, Jean Cocteau Rep, The Schomberg Center, Montevallo Literary Festival, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, The Round House Theatre, and The Playwrights Forum. Steve is a graduate of Yale, The A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard and the playwriting program at Juilliard. Awards include the Artistic Achievement Award from the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale, the Millennium Telly Award, the Le Compte du Nouy prize at Juilliard (two-time recipient), two Yaddo fellowships: the Skidmore Residency for Artists of Color (2006), and another in 2008, a MacDowell Colony National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2007) and the New Professional Theatre’s Writer Festival Grant (2009). When he’s not writing Steve teaches playwriting privately to classes and individuals and works as a creativity coach. He is currently at work on several projects. http://www.harpercreates.com

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