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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 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 principal 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
A native Idahoan, 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!

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

Actors

Anita Abdinezhad
​Joy Lynn Alegarbes
Mando Alvarado
Judy Anderson
Vanessa Aspillaga
Danette Baker
Ed Baker
Jonathan Bangs
Dwayne Blackaller
Orion Bradshaw
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
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
Caitlin McDevitt
Sheila McDevitt
Sam McMurray
Bobby Moreno
Irwin Mulnick
Ian Desmond O'Connell
Peter O'ConnorAnna O'Donoghue
Kittson O'Neill
Greg Paul
Doug Paulson
Joey Pietri
Mary Portser
​Keith Powell
Brian Quijada
Tamara Rodriques
Amy Rush
Ben Sahl
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
James Martin Tweedale
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 Metoxin
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
Mallory Metoxin
Ely Mattson*
​Katherine McCann*
Caitlin McDevitt
Hawken Paul
Jef Peterson
Ginger Rankin
​​Sabrina Reed*
Rachel Rosenfeld
Millie Rose Schacher
Eli Schlatter
Evan Sesek
Dayna Smith
Emily Smith
Megan Thornton
​Lauren Trujillo
Taylor Trujillo
James Martin Tweedale
Christopher G. Ulloth
Ben Verschoor
​Grace Elaine Ward
Kerry Welliver
Madi White
Kolby Wood
Desiree York
* recipients of the Frances K. Starr Design Fellowship
Christy Montour-Larson, President
Originally from Minnesota and now based out of Denver, Christy Montour-Larson has directed over 75 productions from Shakespeare to Pinter to musicals to the newest works in America. She was recently named Top Director in Colorado by both 5280 Magazine and CBS4 Denver. Christy first joined Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and id Theater in 2009 and has since directed the readings of: No More Sad Things by Hansol Jung, The Skinwalkers by Jennifer Rumberger, For the Loyal by Lee Blessing, Fata Morgana by Jeni Mahoney, The Humming by Rita Kneiss Barkey, General Store by Brian Watkins, Kingdoms of Rot by Thomas Newby, Whales by Bob Bartlett, Peaceful Men by Megan Thorton, Authentic by Jacob Coakley, The Custodian by Gloria Kohl and Suicide, Incorporated by Andrew Hinderacker.
Tira Palmquist, Vice-President
Tira Palmquist's plays include Overburden,  Two Degrees (Denver Center), Ten Mile Lake (Serenbe Playhouse), Age of Bees (MadLab Theater, Tesseract), And Then They Fell (Brimmer Street, New York Film Academy), and others. Two Degrees has been featured in numerous festivals (including the 11th Annual Denver Center New Play Summit, the New American Voices festival in the UK, the Caltech 2014 Mach 33 Festival and the 2014 Great Plains Theater Conference) and will have its World Premiere in the Denver Center’s 2016/17 Season. Two Degrees was also listed in the Honorable Mention list for the 2016 Kilroys. And Then They Fell was workshopped by Brimmer Street (Los Angeles, 2015) and the UMass New Play Lab  (2014), and premiered at Brimmer Street in Los Angeles in September 2016. Ten Mile Lake, which premiered in 2014 at Serenbe Playhouse just outside of Atlanta, GA, was developed and workshopped in 2012 at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, and was a finalist for the 2015 Primus Prize. Age of Bees premiered at MadLab Theater in 2012 (and was named Best Original Work by the Other Papers "Best of 2012” list), and was subsequently produced in 2015 at the Tesseract Theater in St. Louis. Age of Bees is now available through Original Works Publishing. Her work has been developed by Seven Devils, Inkwell, 9Thirty Theater, The Road Theater, EST-LA and the Theatricum Botanicum Seedlings program. Tira teaches creative writing at the Orange County School of the Arts. She is a member of the Playwrights Union, the Anteaus Theater’s Playrights Lab and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Her work as a director and dramaturg includes several seasons at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and the New Territories Playwriting Residency, a program she developed with Brian Clowdus at Serenbe Playhouse in Georgia. More info at www.tirapalmquist.com.
Charlie and Bev Nightengale, Treasurers
Charlie and Bev Nightengale live in McCall, Idaho and have enjoyed attending the readings put on by Seven Devils Playwrights Conference from its inception. They have housed participants of the conference for several years and enjoy supporting the arts. Both Charlie and Bev are mathematicians by education.
Amy Rush, Secretary
Amy Rush Baker is a graduate of the University of Montana and holds an MFA in theater from UCLA. She is a proud member of the board of directors for both the Alpine Playhouse and id Theater. As an actor some of her favorite roles include Isabella in Il Gelosi, Roberta in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, and Elizabeth Barry in The Libertine. Her very favorite role is Lila & Sebastian's mom.
John Baker
John M. Baker is a NYC-based new play dramaturg and the Director of Artistic Programs at SPACE on Ryder Farm, a non-profit residency program for artists and activists housed on a 222-year-old working organic farm in Brewster, NY. John is the former Artistic Associate at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Literary Manager at Woolly Mammoth, and interim Literary Manager at Long Wharf. For Seven Devils, he has dramaturged new works by James Still, Jen Silverman, Duane Kelly, and Jim Price. He has spent nine summers as a dramaturg for The O'Neill National Playwright's Conference, where he has worked with playwrights Christina Anderson, Stephen Belber, Julia Cho, Jason Grote, Samuel D. Hunter, Martyna Majok, and Steven Sater, among others. He has also developed new plays at Clubbed Thumb, Dallas Theatre Center, The Lark, Ma-Yi, New Harmony Project, The Ojai Playwrights Conference, Page 73, PlayPenn, Rattlestick, Seattle Rep, and South Coast Rep, among others. He was a recipient of a Leadership U: One-on-One Fellowship, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by TCG. John holds a B.A. in English from Boston University and an M.F.A. in Dramaturgy from The University of Iowa.
Bernadine Cockey
Bernadine Cockey is a theater artisan and playwright living in Boise, Idaho.  She is extremely proud of her involvement through the years with id Theater. She has been part of the Seven Devils Playwright Conference almost since its inception, serving most often as a stage manager or theater technician. She has twice been selected as a featured playwright. Her play, A Little Time in the Fall was presented at the Playwrights Showcase of the Western Region, in Denver. Night Among the Hunters placed in the Writer’s Digest Playwriting Competition.  
She was a founding member of the Payette Lakes Writers Conference, where she taught playwriting workshops. Her play, A Question of Grace,  was produced at Boise State University, where she received a degree in theatre, with options in directing, design and performance. She has worked in many aspects of professional theatre, including theatre carpenter, electrician, props master and stage manager.  She has worked as a technician or artisan for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Boise Contemporary Theater, Zoo Boise, New Heritage Theatre, Bishop Kelly High School, Alpine Playhouse, Daisy’s Madhouse and Opera Idaho. She is a member of Dramatists Guild of America, the International Centre for Women Playwrights, the Idaho Writers Guild, and the Idaho Songwriters.
Megan Fevurly
​Megan Fevurly is a Denver-based playwright and dramaturg. Her plays have received readings and productions at Athena Project, Curious New Voices, University of Denver, The Edge Theatre, University of Idaho, Towne Street Theatre, and 2Cents Theatre Group. She was a playwright in the 2016 id Theater Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. She is a several-time semi-finalist for the 10-minute play festival through the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and was a playwright for the inaugural Local Playwrights Slam at the Colorado New Play Summit. She was the dramaturg for the world premier of Harm's Way by Marilyn Harris Kriegel with Athena Project. She has worked on projects with the National New Play Network and the Dramatist Guild of America. She earned her MFA in Dramatic Writing from the University of Idaho, and is the Associate Director of Individual Philanthropy at the Denver Center for Performing Arts.
Patrick Gabridge
Patrick Gabridge is a Boston-based playwright whose full-length plays include Blood on the Snow, Drift, Lab Rats, Distant Neighbors, and Blinders, and have been staged by theatres across the country. His plays Flight and Drift were both developed by Seven Devils. He’s been a Playwriting Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company and has received fellowships from the Boston Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His short plays have received more than 1,000 productions from theatres and schools around the world. He spent two years as the artist-in-residence at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, where he wrote and produced two sets of site-specific plays. He’s also the author of four novels, most recently The Secret of Spirit Lake. He is the Dramatists Guild’s Regional Rep for Eastern New England and is the producing artistic director of the Plays in Place, a theatre company that creates site-specific work in partnership with museums and historic sites. In his spare time, he likes to farm and fix up old houses. www.gabridge.com
Jere Hodgin
Jere Hodgin is an MFA graduate in Acting and Directing from the University of Georgia with over 30 years’ experience in professional theatre and fifteen years’ experience in academic theatre. He has produced numerous productions, many of which were new and premiere works, and his directing career includes more than 250 plays, operas, and musicals. Scripts he has written and adapted include Castlewalk (selected as a featured part of NY Musical Theatre Festival), A Christmas Carol (three versions—musical and non-musical), The Shiniest Rock of All, and The Christmas Cup. For 20 years, Jere was the Producing Artistic Director of Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, Virginia, where he founded the nationally recognized Norfolk Southern New Play Festival. Jere also served as Artistic Director for Idaho Repertory Theatre and Co-Producer/Artistic Director of Highlands Playhouse in North Carolina and has directed at numerous theatres including The Fulton Theatre, Pennsylvania Center Stage, Walnut Street Theatre, The Barter Theatre, Salt Lake Acting Company, Theatre Artists Studio, Phoenix Theatre, Montana Repertory Theatre (where he directed the national tours of All My Sons and Bus Stop) and Wayside Theatre. He has been a dramaturg and directed at Shenandoah Playwright’s Retreat, Montana Rep’s Missoula Writer’s Colony, NW Playwright’s Alliance/Seattle Repertory Theatre, Native Voices- La Jolla Playhouse and Los Angeles, Theatre Work’s New Works WESTIVAL, Perseverance Theatre and The Phoenix Theatre New Play Festival. He served as a National Endowment for the Arts site visitor and was a member of the NEA Creativity Panel for multiple years. He has also been a regional panelist for the Virginia Commission for the Arts, as well as theatre panelist for the Nevada, Idaho, South Carolina and North Carolina Arts Councils. Jere is a past president of the Southeastern Theatre Conference, where he also chaired the Playwriting Committee. He served as Vice President of the board of The National Alliance for Musical Theatre, serving as co-chair of New Works and member of the Festival of New Works committees. He has been a reader and judge for numerous national new-play contests and competitions. Jere consults with national and regional theatre boards and management teams. He is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Actor’s Equity Association, Theatre Communications Group, and the National Theatre Conference. Jere has been a consultant to non-profit theatres across the country and works regularly with Theatrical Rights Worldwide. He received the Perry F. Kendig Award in recognition of his efforts to champion the arts in Southwestern Virginia and was named the 1999 Citizen of the Year in Roanoke, Virginia.
Jenny Sternling
 Jenny Sternling is a native Idahoan who has worked in the Northwest for over 35 years as a professional actor, director, writer, and producer in stage, film, voice-over, and television. Her past theatrical adventures include founding a comedy improv troupe; starring in a Marine World TV special alongside a baby tiger; appearing as Lyubov Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard, directed by Michael Hoffman at Boise Contemporary Theatre; and writing and producing dozens of custom-tailored corporate theatre productions with her company, Event Entertainment. As a theatre arts teacher for organizations including Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Boise State University’s MBA program, and Bishop Kelly High School (where teaches and directs theatre,) Jenny has collaborated with students and colleagues to write, produce and present numerous plays and films. After she toured numerous archives conducting research on a forgotten 19th-century form of melodrama called dog dramas, Jenny wrote a unique play: Taking the Seize: A Dog Drama. Selected as a Playwright in Residence, Jenny honed her play and skills at the 2015 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and her play Breathe Me was selected for the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference in 2016. She has been an actor for “Seven Devils” and a playwright in their “My Own Private Idaho” program. Jenny’s newest play, Madam Euphoria Reveals Your Future, was selected for Boise Contemporary Theater’s 5x5 Reading series in 2019. ​
Carol Tiffany
Carol was a food editor by profession, but a fiction writer by nature.  She has written a novel, three novellas, and numerous short stories.  As creative writing instructor in the GED program at Columbia University, she put out an annual booklet of her students' writing: Straight From the Heart. She has been an editor at Doubleday, Sterling, Western, Butterick, Goldfinch, as well as a columnist and non-fiction writer (Cosmopolitan, Travel & Leisure, House Beautiful, Town & Country, Vista, Antique Monthly, Early American Life). Carol was on Board of Music-Theatre Group, a company with a long and hallowed history in off-Broadway/West Village/World Theater for many years and served as its President. Now retired, she is on the board of Raritan Headwaters Association (conservation organization), the Jacobus Vanderveer House (historic house in NJ), and volunteer for the Visiting Nurse Association of Somerset Hills, NJ. Carol lives in New Jersey.
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