TOM ABERGER -- Tom is in his 2nd year as Production Manager at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and really enjoying it. Just opened after the quake based on 2 Murakami short stories and about to preview Argonautika, by Mary Zimmerman. And the Bay Area is just the right mix of California/New York sensibilities.

VANESSA ASPILLAGA -- Vanessa played Audrey opposite Richard Thomas in the New York Public Theater Shakespeare Festival production of AS YOU LIKE IT , at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park . She played Marela opposite Jimmy Smits in the 2003 Pulitzer Prize winning play ANNA IN THE TROPICS taking it from the McCarter Theatre in Princeton , NJ , to the Royale Theater on Broadway. She is also a playwright whose play hush was produced by INTAR Theatre's New Works Lab 2002. She is a member of LAByrinth Theater Company, a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, and an INTARTISTA at INTAR Theatre.

JOHN BAKER -- In January 2008, John will begin work as the assistant literary manager at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, CT, and in May he will receive his MFA in dramaturgy from the University of Iowa.

LEE BLESSING -- Just had Lonesome Hollow world-premiered at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival in July in Shepherdstown , WV with Hal Brooks directing. He is working on commissions with Denver Center Theater,the Cleveland Playhouse and InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia .

JAMES BOSLEY -- James Bosley has not told his cousins about his new play Broad Channel because, although he has disguised them, they'll know.

CUSI CRAM -- Won the 2004 Herrick New Play Prize for FUENTE which was developed at the 2002 Conference.

PATCH DARRAGH -- Patch Darragh returned to Williamstown this summer where he starred in two plays. He played the rockstar, Jonny, in the world premier of Dissonance, a new play by British import Damian Lanigan. And he played Doc Porter in the highly acclaimed revival of Crimes of the Heart , in actess Kathleen Turner's directorial debut. Crimes will move to the Roundabout Theater in New York in January. Currently Patch is headed to the Geva Theater in Rochester , NY to workshop a new play called The History of Light , written by Eisa Davis (short-listed for the Pulizer Prize for her play Bullrusher). After that he will join director Daniel Goldstein for a workshop here in NYC of a new play called Cry of the Reed , which examines the war in Iraq from several unique angles. 

RICHARD DRESSER -- The first two plays in Richard's happiness trilogy are getting done in various places.  THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS is about to open at Merrimack Rep in Massachusetts and then will be done at Actors Theatre of Phoenix.  AUGUSTA will open in Chicago in February.  And A VIEW OF THE HARBOR (which was read at the 2007 conference) will open at CATF in West Virginia next summer.  Other than that, I'm writing a few television pilots and starting a new play.

BRUCE FAULK -- Bruce is still working in commercials and episodics, still the happy dad of Diego Raul Faulk, still the happy husband of Marta Espitia and generally an all around happy guy. He has also started writing for commercials and short internet films.

RON FITZGERALD -- Ron is in LA writing for the TV show WEEDS. He continues to write for theater against the better judgment of his ego and his accountant.

ELISE FORIER -- Elise Forier and Tina Lear received a commission from the Salt Lake City School of the Arts to write a new musical.  Bread and Roses --set during the historic 1911 textile workers strike in Lawrence , Massachusetts --will receive its first workshop in Utah in May, 2008.  They also participated in the id theatre NY Sit in! series in October with a reading of a much reworded and rewritten Valerie and the Bear .

JENNIFER HALEY -- After 7 Devils, Jennifer went on to develop Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom , at the Brown/Trinity Repertory Theatre Festival. The play is currently under production consideration for the 2008 Humana Festival!  Jennifer has returned to Los Angeles, where she is working on a new play, Breadcrumbs , and a spec script for Big Love.

PETER HANRAHAN -- Peter is living in LA and is working as a story analysts. He married to his longtime girlfriend, Becky, this summer and his short play PRIZE INSIDE will be published as part of S&K's "Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2007."

BROOKE HERZOG -- Brooke is living and teaching drama in the great land of Boise, ID.  In addition, she wrote her first play!  The play is titled The Mysterious Halloween Party.  She was sick of reading narrative plays for kids and decided to write her own.  She is currently living with her fiance and is being very deliquent by not making any plans for her July wedding.  She is waiting for a very important audition with Idaho Shakespeare for Youth this November (they're doing Hamlet ).  Until then, Brooke will continue being an out of work actress. 

SAM HUNTER -- After workshopping I AM MONTANA at the 2007 Seven Devils Conference, Sam went to San Francisco to workshop the play at the 2007 Bay Area Playwrights Festival.  He then moved back to New York City , where he is currently a playwriting fellow at the Juilliard School of Drama and an adjunct lecturer at Fordham University .

SHERRY KRAMER -- Sherry Kramer's one woman, one barbie play WHEN SOMETHING WONDERFUL ENDS was produced in 2007 at the Humana Festival as a co-production with Philadelphia 's InterAct Theatre, as well as at the Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey.  It will be produced in 2008 in Japanese as the first American play presented by the Tokyo International Arts Festival (the only parts of it that Sherry understands in Japanese are these three words:  Springfield , Missouri , and Barbie.)  Other upcoming productions of the play (in English) include the Actors Express in Atlanta , and The Rude Mechanicals in Austin , TX .  Sherry is teaching at Bennington College in Vermont this fall, and returns to the Michener Center for Writers in Austin to teach in the spring.  Her new play is called:  The Bay of Fundy--An Adaptation of One Line from the Mayor of Casterbridge: She discovered that take, have, and keep were pleasant words. A story about America , set in a city by the sea.  Writing it made her very happy. 

MARA LATHROP -- Mara spent April - July in Sorano , Italy , where she wrote the first draft of her new play THE GARDEN OF MONSTERS . There was a reading at Swanky Studios in Seattle the beginning of Oct. Also, while in Italy, her piece FANTASYLAND was produced by the English Theatre of Rome. "That was pretty cool."

EUGENE LEE -- Eugene Lee has relocated to Texas .  San Marcos Texas to be exact so the great state just got a little greater.  He got an offer from his alma mater where he is a distinguished alum, to serve as Artistic Director of the Texas State Black and Latino Playwright's Conference.  He started the conference like six years ago (around the time he attended Seven Devils) and has been donating his time and efforts to make it happen and now it's his job as Artist in Residence along with serving as celebrity host for the annual Celebrity Classic Golf tournament which he's been doing for fourteen years since it's inception.  He will act in or direct a play on campus occaisionally but not teaching any regular classes keeping his schedule open to continue to pursue acting and writing gigs.  Over it's short life the conference has hosted playwrights Velina Hassu-Houston, Gus Edwards, Robert Alexander, Jose Luis Cedillo (now associate Artistic Director and dramaturg and this year's conference in September hosted Elaine Romero ("Before Death Comes for the ArchBishop") and Antoinette Winstead from San Antonio Texas with her new play "Common Ground" and actors like Broadway regular Anthony Chisholm, Iris Little-Thomas, Tezra Bryant and Ruben Gonzales and this year acclaimed directors Kenny Leon and Dean Irby brought their talents and energies to bear directing this year's selections.  Information about the conference is available at the university theatre department web site (www.txstate.edu) for now as the conference site is in development or just contact him at el18@txstate.edu or mreugenelee@yahoo.com.  The paradigm for the conference, in the tradition of Seven Devils, is Yale's O'Neill playwright's conference process of finding a play and each year it's keeps getting better as does the caliber of guest artists. And the plan for next year is to include a High School playwright as well. In February of this Spring semester Eugene will act in the University production of August Wilson 's Piano Lesson and in March and April he goes to the Kennedy Center to act in the historic presentation of all ten of August Wilson 's cycle of plays. He has a new play of his own coming off the typewriter soon titled The Rest of Me.  A contemporary piece about a Black female Texas Ranger who is about to retire only to find out that the single case she was unable to crack during her career, involving twelve missing children (one a year) was actually committed by her long estranged twin brother.  Through the events in the play this Black woman who has been living and thriving successfully in that White man's world (that's filled with and almost founded on myths and legends of law enforcement), finds that criminal (she gets her man) and she also finds a part of herself she's long since denied.  A look at two sides of the same egg so to speak.  More on that later. Eugene has wonderful memories of McCall and more than a handful of new friends and he regularly recommends it as a place to submit to playwrights.  He feels blessed and grateful to have had the chance to attend the Seven Devils Conference as a playwright who got to act as well while there and thanks to Jeni, Sheila and everyone for the first hand look at what he hopes his conference can become in time. 

LARRY LOEBELL -- Larry Loebell's latest play, HOUSE, DIVIDED will be produced at InterAct Theatre Company in Philadelphia in May.  He has also completed a commission to write 41 dramatic monologues for the National Constitution Center in the voices of the 38 signers (and 3 dissenters from signing) of the United States Constitution.  These monologues have been recorded by actors and are featured as part of the iPod tour of the Signers Hall, an exhibition room of life size statues of each state's delegates depicting the moment the Constitution was signed.

DANO MADDEN -- Dano's one-act play Beautiful American Soldier took second place in the University of Tulsa 's New Works for Young Women contest. As a result, UT produced the play in September. His play, The Soft Sand was published by the Northwest Playwrights Alliance and will be part of a Northwest tour of ten-minute plays.

JENI MAHONEY -- Jeni's play THE FEAST OF THE FLYING COW… AND OTHER STORIES OF WAR premiered at InterAct Theater in Philadelphia in fall 2005 and just finished a run at Denver 's Old Vic Theater with And Toto Too Theatre Company. Her daughter Noa turns three in February. When she's not being “mamama” or artistic director… or trying to steal a few minutes to write, she teaches playwriting at Playwrights Horizons Theater School , a studio school of NYU 's Tisch School for the Arts.

PAULA MARCHIEL -- On June 4, 2007 Paula Marchiel's experimental theatre company Synaesthetic Theatre had it's international debut performing The Trial of K at the Castilla y Leon International Arts Festival in Salamanca, Spain - the next morning Paula got on a plane back to the US to head out to Idaho for the conference by the end of the same week.

ANJEE NERO -- Since the 2005 Seven Devil's Playwrights Conference, Anjee's credits include: The Adding Machine, directed by Daniel Aukin, Mother Courage, directed by Lisa Peterson, and Current Nobody, directed by Daniel Aukin and written by Melissa James Gibson (La Jolla Playhouse);  Mother Courage directed by Lisa Peterson (Berkeley Repertory Theatre);  Hamlet, directed by Darko Tresnjak, Measure for Measure, directed by Paul Mullins, and Two Gentlemen of Verona, directed by Matt August as part of the 2007 Summer Shakespeare Festival (The Old Globe). Her most recent dance credits include Garden Trilogy with IMAGOmoves, a San Diego based dance company which she will be taking on tour to Romania in December 2007 for the Hungarian Theatre Festival of Cluj. Ms. Nero also graduated from UCSD with an MFA in Stage Management. Anjee hopes to return to the conference whenever possible.

FRANCESCA SANDERS -- has a world premiere of her play 8 Views Towards Center, running until November 3, 2007 (Integrity Productions, Arena Stage, Theater!Theatre! Portland, Oregon.) Her show, The Chuck Mee Challenge had productions in New York, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. Her newest work, Celeste and Starla Save Todd and Win Back The Day had a reading for off-Broadway producers (The Splinter Group) in March; and a rehearsed reading for Artist's Repertory Theatre in July. She had many shorter plays produced this year, 27 productions in all, most notably at The Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, New York. She's hard at work in Act two of The Ghost Festival.

KATI SHELDON -- Kati, a McCall native, now lives in Seattle where she recently finished an internship at The Showbox, a concert venue in downtown. She is currently working at an all-natural bakery call Grand Central Bakery. When not covered in flower, she is writing music. Kati's wrote a song called “Hourglass” for the indie film JOURNEY GREEN FOREST produced by McCall's Rick Hooban. It will be available to listen to on a music myspace page once the song is a finished product.

BEN VERSCHOOR -- Ben's The Tragedy of the Brothers Lafferty was read by Ensemble Studio Theatre in L.A. in January. He is currently attending The College of Idaho formerly known as Albertson, where he contributes to the Scarlet Masque theatre group's improv and sketch comedy cabaret shows.

L. TREY WILSON -- L. Trey Wilson is currently completing editing his short film, THREE TAKES , based on his one-act play, THREE PART DISHARMONY . He's also working on the second draft of a play he's been commissioned to write for Temescal Gateway Park . The play is called CAUSE . It's about the people participating in an annual walk-a-thon in which the actors walk the space during the entire performance. It's set to go up in May, 2008. more info. regarding Trey can be found at the website www.stagedirectionsonline.com