Antoinette Nwandu (Playwright) is a New York based writer by way of Los Angeles. Her play FLAT SAM was awarded the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award and the Negro Ensemble Company’s Douglas Turner Ward Playwriting Award. WAITIN ON THE #17 and GUARD DUTY have been produced by The First Look Theatre Company; and BREACH was developed at The Public Theater’s Festival of New Works. In addition her work has been developed and produced by WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory, The Monarch Theater Company, and The Movement Theater Company, where she is a member playwright and co-founder, with Stacy O’Neill, of Moving Up/New Works, TMTC’s play development workshop. Nominations include The Weissberger Award, The Cherry Lane Mentorship Project and The PONY Fellowship. Antoinette graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and holds masters degrees from The University of Edinburgh, and NYU/Tisch. She is a member of the Dramatist Guild.
Jesca Prudencio (Director) is a theater director and designer based in New York City. Recent directed credits include The Girl in the Park (Fringe NYC), Traces of Eruption which she conceived and directed (TMTC 2010 Ladder Series), Where the Heart by Antoinette Nwandu (TMTC Go Green), and A Play for an All White Stage (Old Vic Theatre) as a 2010 directing recipient for the TS Eliot US/UK Exchange. Jesca has a BFA from NYU where she directed The Magic Cave of Salamanca, INFANCY, and BFE. She also directed original musicals Balik Puso and The Flipside both written and produced by the International Filipino Association. She is the Education Coordinator and Production Associate at Ping Chong & Company where she has assisted Ping Chong on various projects such as The Devil You Know (Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival) and Throne of Blood (BAM's 2010 Next Wave Festival).
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