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Jeni Mahoney, Producing Artistic Director

Jeni is a playwright, director, dramaturg, teacher and all around development geek. Her play Fata Morgana was the recipient of an NEA ArtWorks Grant, premiered at Boise Contemporary Theater and was selected as an Honorable Mention on the 2015 Kilroy List. Her plays have been presented at the National Playwrights Conference, InterAct Theater, Source Theater, L.A. Theater Center, MidWest New Play Festival, The Lark, Rattlestick, And Toto Too, Circus Theatricals and London's Greenwich Playhouse among others. Jeni likes to write and talk about play development whenever she can find a platform to do so. She is a member of Dramatists Guild and Secretary of the National Theater Conference. More at jenimahoney.com

Paula Marchiel, Managing Director / Company Manager

Paula (she/her) has been with Seven Devils since the first Conference in 2001. She has over 20 years experience working as a professional theater manager. She was Company Manager for HBMG Foundation’s National Winter Playwrights Retreat 2018. She is a long-time company member of Synaesthetic Theater, where she produced The Empires New Clothes on NYC's Theater Row and was Company Manager of The Trial of K at the Culture Project (NYC) and the International Arts Festival in Salamanca, Spain. For 12 years she worked at TheatreworksUSA as Marketing Associate and Technology Officer. Other past work includes the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, New York University, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, the Really Useful Management Company, short films for the comedy troupe BOOBY HATCH, and Stage Management jobs too numerous to mention. She is a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.

A.P. Andrews, Literary Manager

A.P. has been working with Seven Devils since 2012. As a playwright, he has written over fifteen full length plays, including The Nebraska Cycle and The Seaside Cycle. He is a graduate of NYU/Tisch (BFA) and Hunter College (MFA), and loves reading new plays more than anything in the whole wide world. www.apandrewsplays.com

Ed Baker, Production Manager / Head of Internship Program

Ed serves the School of Performing Arts at Wichita State University by heading up the Stage Management Certificate in the Theatre Program and as the Technical Director for School Productions. He has spent the majority of his career as a professional entertainment technician in theatre, film/television, concerts, and convention/exposition venues. He earned the Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication with an emphasis in Theatre Arts from Wichita State University. After leaving Wichita he completed graduate studies, internship and residency to earn the M.F.A. in Theatre from the Professional Actor Training Program at Ohio University. He joined the Faculty of Wichita State University in Fall of 2006 as a Professor of Theatre and Performing Arts. His research agenda is rooted in entrepreneurship as a guiding principle for the creative worker and artist. The Academy should provide the tools to build a career while building the Theatre Culture of the Twenty-first Century. Ed is an active member of the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD) and the United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT) as well as the Self Employment in the Arts Conference (SEA).

Bob Kerr, Head of id-iots at Play Writers Group

Bob's plays include The Squizzinator, Project Y Theatre, The Potato Creek Chair of Death, Ensemble Studio Theatre and published by Playscripts Inc.; The Sticky-Fingered Fiancée (with composer Mat Eisenstein), a ten-minute musical, Raw Impressions Musical Theatre and Bedlam Theatre; To Whom, Brick Theater in Brooklyn. The End of the Road, The Living Section, Meet Uncle Casper and Kingdom Gone developed at the Lark Theatre, the Actors Studio, Playwrights Horizons, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and the O’Neill Playwrights Conference. The End of the Road finalist for the Abingdon Theater’s Christopher Brian Wolk Award, received a workshop production at the Juilliard School in 2009. Playwriting fellowship at Juilliard, Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, founding member of Bedlam Theatre in Minneapolis, which produced his plays This the Word, The Secret Word for Today Is Carrot and Six Characters in Search of Water.

Danette Baker, Fight Co-ordinator

Danette has performed in NY and regionally at Lark Play Development Center, American Globe Theatre, The Cleveland Playhouse, Monomoy Theatre, and Wichita Center for the Arts among others. She is an adjunct Theatre faculty member for Wichita State University’s School of Performing Arts in KS and is the owner of her own Fight Choreography business: Fightinfierce LLC.

Sheila McDevitt, Founder and former co-Artistic Director

Sheila was instrumental in the creation of the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. Producing: Qwirk in NYC for 10 years – commissioning new works based on ancient myth cycles; Directing: 2 season's of Manhattan Class Company's "Summer Play Party", featuring plays written by New York City high school students; Yorkshire Faerie Tale by Tom Diggs and Jay D'Amico at Mind-the-Art Entertainment, NYC, Knuckle-heads by James McLindon at the Samuel French OOB Short Play Fest - numerous Seven Devils and NYC Sit In! readings including John Olive's A Slaying Song Tonight and Eric Coble's The Velocity of Autumn. Acting: NE tour of Dancing at Lughnasa/Weston Playhouse, Jupiter Theater, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Repertory Theater, Lewis and Clark Repertory Theater, Qwirk Productions, American Shakespeare Festival, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, id Theater and numerous showcases. Sheila also had the pleasure of Understudying Ms. Carol Kane in In Betweens by Bryan Goluboff off Broadway. Proud Member of AEA!

Mallory Metoxen, Artistic Associate

Mallory (she/her) has been a part of the conference since 2017. She is a director dedicated to working with playwrights, developing new works, and obliterating the gender parity gap in theatre. She was formerly Artistic Associate and Director of New Play Development for Renaissance Theaterworks (RTW) where she founded and ran Br!NK; RTW’s play development series for Midwestern women playwrights. At Seven Devils she had the pleasure of workshopping Madame Euphoria Reveals Your Future by Jenny Sternling. Other select directing credits: All of the Everything, Lucky Numbers (Samuel French OOB Festival), Sex with Strangers, The Drowning Girls, (Renaissance Theaterworks), Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, The How and the Why, Underbelly (The Theatre School). Mallory is currently pursuing her MFA in Directing from The Theatre School at DePaul University.

Brenna Barborka, Literary Assistant

Brenna Barborka (they/them) is a Chicago based dramaturg. This is their first year working with Seven Devils (yay!) and they are passionate about developing new work. Brenna has also worked with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Victory Gardens Theater, and the Interrobang Theatre Project to develop new plays. Brenna is a graduate of DePaul University (BFA).

Playwrights

McCall-Donnelly High School Playwrights

Alex Allen
Ashley Allen
Hannah Baker
Meghan Barsness
Scott Benton
Kali Borkoski
Josh Bowker
Faith Brown
Seth Burts
Paige Chapman
Dylan Crawford
Monir DeSokey
Adam Ede
Ethan Ede
Erin Falvey
Austin Foudy
Stephen Frandin

Erin Freeburg
David Garrison
Abigail Griffith
Lindsey Hall
Chloe Hansen
Cassia Hershenow
Samantha Houston
Savannah Jackson
Brandon Joiner
Whitney Kimbell
Miles Klind
Brynne Kundrick
Mason Kwiatkowski
Sierra Lewis
Kailey Linden
Logan Linton
Annie Martin

Alisha Mary-Howes
Kyanne McLaughlin
Michael McMahon
Casey McManus
Sara Mello
William Minshall
Lauren Moore
Nic Morin
Holly Moss
Mary Parker
Bennet Roper
Joshua Rux
Sean Sands
Molly Shaver
Anne Slyvia-Clarno
Brianna Slyvia-Clarno

Willy Smart
Rylie Speirs
Ray Spencer
David Straw
Tyler Sybus
Niles Thomasson
Nate Thrash
Jamie Valle
Ben Verschoor
Brian Welch
Alison Wilson
Kristen Wiking
Kobi Windmiller
Nat Woods

McCall Community Playwrights

Barbara Dixon
Mike Dixon
Tracy Kindall

Kay MacDonald
Karla Miller
Amy Rush

Directors and Dramaturgs

James Abar
Benny Sato Ambush
A.P. Andrews
Danette Baker
John Baker
Dan Bonnell
James Bosley
Frank Boudreaux

Sandra Cavanaugh
Eric Coble
Kevin Crowley
Christopher Curry
Roger Danforth
Haley Fluke
Elise Forier Edie
Louise Geddes

Martine Kei Green-Rogers
Heather Helinsky
Jere Hodgin
Rachel Katz-Carey
Tessa La Neve
Larry Loebell
Sheila McDevitt
Mallory Metoxen
Christy Montour-Larson

Michael Nassar
Tira Palmquist
Amy Saltz
Robert Schenkkan
Gay Smith
Daniel Talbott
Roger Truesdell
Donya Washington

Actors

Anita Abdinezhad
Joy Lynn Alegarbes
Mando Alvarado
Judy Anderson
Vanessa Aspillaga
Danette Baker
Ed Baker
Jonathan Bangs
Dwayne Blackaller
Orion Bradshaw
Kathleen Brady
Fallon Brooking
Simon Brooking
Candy Brown
Dakotah Brown
Steven Burge
Amy Burton
Denis Butkus
Jack Cirillo
Matthew Cameron Clark
Michael Criscoulo
Kevin Crowley
Christopher Curry
Patch Darragh
Chantal DeGroat
Matt Dickson
Melody Dodge

Franchelle Stewart Dorn
Lisa Dove
Drew Ebersol
Jamie Ebersol
Adam Ede
Caleb Ede
Keith Edie
Bruce Faulk
Jacob Foerg
Frances Ford
Sharon Freedman
Megan Emery Gaffney
Dawn-Lyen Gardner
Kevin Geer
Ruben C. Gonzales
Zuleyma Guevara
Eric Hailey
Jared Hallock
Frank Harts
Lindsey Harris
Sarah Nina Hayon
Brooke Herzog
Lynn Allison Hofflund

EB Hinnant
Michael Hisamoto
Cody Hyslop
Ari Jarvis
M.J. Kang
Kathryn Kates
Starr Kirkland
Heidi Kraay
Dale Li
Israel Lopez
Maggie Low
Jamil AC Mangan
Billie McBride
Caitlin McDevitt
Sheila McDevitt
Sam McMurray
Mirta Santana Morales
Bobby Moreno
Irwin Mulnick
Ian Desmond O'Connell
Peter O'Connor
Anna O'Donoghue
Kittson O'Neill
Bhavesh Patel
Greg Paul
Doug Paulson
Joey Pietri

Mary Portser
Keith Powell
Brian Quijada
Tamara Rodriques
Jamie Ann Romero
Amy Rush
Ben Sahl
Gayle Samuels
Evan Sesek
Irene Shaver
Kati Sheldon
Allison Siko
Rachel Simpson
Mirirai Sithole
Phumzile Sitole
Lindsey Margo Smith
Cherene Snow
Molly Stuart
Tracy Sunderland
Charlie Taber
Brian Taylor
Shane Taylor
Haynes Thigpen
Courtney Tucker
James Martin Tweedale
Ricardo Vazquez
Marco Adiak Voli
L. Trey Wilson
Christopher Yarrow
Ann Catherine Zárate
Manuel Zárate

Stage Management / Production

Tom Aberger
Mikenzie Ames
Genevieve Barlow
Rick Borutta
Will Chaloner
Berni Cockey
Terry Curran
Allison Deutsch
Heidi Echtenkamp
Veronica Falborn
Corin Ferris
David Garrison
Kamra Jacobs
Zach Kennedy
Megan Lee-Brockhoff
Calvin Legassie
Jes Levine
Paula Marchiel
Kristy J. Martin
Caitlin McDevitt
Mallory Metoxen
Anjee Nero
Carly Price

Katy Reeves
Dana Reiland
Chris Sadler
Jenny Slattery
Tracy Shar
Megan Sprowls
Charlie Taber
Ben Verschoor
Eric Walker
Elizabeth Wethington
Mark Wethington
Sam Williamson
Kolby Wood

Interns

A.P. Andrews
Madison Bishop
Robin Brooks
Melanie Cadwell
Melanie Calvery
Christopher Ryan Chan
Ashlee Conner
Amanda Coon
Christine Cottam
Terry Curran
Maaike Davidson
Jesse Debolt
Kyle Dilley
Shay Dite*
Katherine Donaghue
Scott Doughty
Alexander Greenfield
Andrew Fayette
Cambria Herrera
Brooke Herzog
Melissa Hudson
Hannah Huling
Lisa Marie Hyslop
Taylor Ranae Johnson
Will Johnson
John Keckeisen
Madeline Keckler
AJ Kellison
Ben Kemper

Lily Kennedy
Kelly Kern
Chloe King
Rose Kinne
Megan Licht
Ely Mattson*
Mallory Metoxen
Katherine McCann*
Caitlin McDevitt
Erin Mittman
Hawken Paul
Jef Peterson
Ginger Rankin
Sabrina Reed*
Rachel Rosenfeld
Millie Rose Schacher
Eli Schlatter
Evan Sesek
Alex Simpson
Dayna Smith
Emily Smith
Megan Thornton
Lauren Trujillo
Taylor Trujillo
James Martin Tweedale
Jean Yvonne (Jay) Tyson*
Christopher G. Ulloth
Ben Verschoor
Grace Elaine Ward
Kerry Welliver
Madi White
Kolby Wood
Desiree York

* recipients of the Frances K. Starr Design Fellowship