Master of Ceremonies:

John Morogiello, American Playwright, actor, Director Best Medicine Rep Theatre, USA

is Artistic Director of Best Medicine Rep Theater Company. His Engaging Shaw (Old Globe, Vienna’s English Theatre in Austria, New Jersey Rep, Oldcastle, and Abingdon Theatre Company off-Broadway) and Blame It On Beckett (Colony Theatre, Abingdon) have both been published by Samuel French.  Other plays include The Consul, The Tramp, and America’s Sweetheart (Oldcastle, Theatre 40), Play Date (Oldcastle), Stories I May Not Tell (Best Med), Roaring (Best Med), Stonewall’s Bust (Mountain Playhouse), Irish Authors Held Hostage (Greenwich  Street  Theatre,  Warehouse  Theater in DC, and Edinburgh’s Bedlam Theatre), Men and Parts (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Shadowbox Cabaret), Gianni Schicchi (Rep Stage), Variant Strains (Best Med), and The Matchmaker’s Guide to Controlling the  Elements  (2Co’s Cabaret,  Alleyway   Theatre,   Harlequin   Productions). Happy Hour, a film adaptation of Men and Parts, was named Best Short Comedy at the 2003 New York Independent Film and Video Festival and was distributed in Europe by Britshorts.  Awards include:  Winner 2015 Dayton Playhouse Futurefest, 2015 Julie Harris Playwright Award, 2015 Boomerang Fund for Artists Grant, The Kennedy Center Fellowship of the Americas, Holland New Voices Playwright Award (Great Plains Theatre Conference), Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Playwriting Award, and Baltimore Magazine’s “Best Up and Coming Playwright.” 

Welcoming Artist:

Sangeeta Isvaran - is a founder of the Katradi NGO,[5] and is noted for developing the Katradi Method which utilises fine arts for the purpose of conflict resolution, imparting education and empowering marginalised and underprivileged communities.[2][6] Isvaran has worked with abused children, victims of natural disasters, street children, drug addicts and commercial sex workers, among others, using dance and theatre in an effort to bring about social reform.