MEET OUR MADLAB PLAYWRIGHTS FOR CYCLE THIRTEEN!
Michael David is a playwright with 17 full-length plays, more than 300 stage productions, and an unusually broad résumé that includes writing, directing, acting, designing and producing. He is a recipient of the Max K. Lerner Playwriting Fellowship, and his work has been produced throughout California, from Los Angeles to San Francisco, San Jose, Santa…
Michael León is a playwright and filmmaker who centers Latiné characters in darkly comic stories where the absurd meets the personal. His short film, CRABS IN A BARREL, was an official selection at several festivals and eventually won the HBO Latinx Short Film Competition, giving it a home on MAX. He is the recipient of…
Isabella Dionne Madrigal (enrolled Cahuilla, Turtle Mountain Chippewa) is a writer/director/actor and Harvard alum. She is a 2026 Sundance Institute Graton Fellow, a 2025 Sundance Native Lab Fellow, the Co-Director of the Luke Madrigal Indigenous Storytelling Nonprofit, a winner of the Yale Young Native Playwrights Contest, and a 2025 Native Theatre Project Missing and Murdered…
Stirling Nix-Bradley is a writer/actor from Los Angeles, California. He is an Alumni of LACC Theatre Academy. His work has been and continues to be produced on stage and screen.
Katherine Vondy is a writer and director working in theater, film, and literature. A recipient of the Davey Foundation Theatre Grant, Kat’s plays have been developed and produced with the Athena Project, Salt Lake Acting Company, The Blank, The Larking House, Clamour Theatre Company, Campfire Theatre Festival, HBMG Foundation, Paper Wing Theatre Company, Midwest Dramatists…