Mykal June

Writer. Producer. Musician.

Mykal June (she/her) is a writer, producer, and musician in Atlanta, Georgia. Most recently making podcasts for iHeartRadio, she spent over a decade in public radio at WABE, where her work earned awards from the Georgia Association of Broadcasters and the Associated Press. She is co-host of WRITE CLUB, a live literary series which kicks the ass of most any poetry reading you’d care to name. Her writing has appeared in The Bitter Southerner, Creative Loafing Atlanta, and Aaron Mahnke’s 13 Days of Halloween podcast. She records music as meaning of everything.

Laura King

Playwright. Dramaturg. Director.

Laura King is a playwright, dramaturg, and director. She holds an MFA in playwriting (with a concentration in dramaturgy) from the Hollins Playwrights Lab and an MA in English from Northwestern University. She previously served as the Atlanta regional representative of the Dramatists Guild and chair of the Playwriting Committee and the Publications Committee for the Southeastern Theatre Conference. Her work has been published by Dramatic Publishing, Stage Rights, Pioneer Drama Service, YouthPLAYS, Applause Books, and Smith & Kraus.

Femmaeve MacQueen

Transgender artist committed to
transvisibility on stage and screen.

Femmaeve MacQueen (she/they) is

LOREM IPSUM

Anna Newbury

Actor. Creator. Maker. Mermaid.

Anna Newbury (she/her) grew up in the rugged outdoors of Montana. Her creative career has taken her from the PNW to NYC. She received her Masters in Acting from the FSU/Asolo conservatory in 2021. The pandemic catapulted her into film and now she has landed in Atlanta.

Writing has always played a large role in her life, but reading was always a struggle. Eventually she learned that there are many ways to read and write that stretch far beyond the written word. Her journey into Mary Overlie’s Viewpoints helped her to discover a way of generating work and writing with the medium of phenomenon. Anna is interested in communicating in the languages of Space, Shape, Time, Emotion, Movement and Story. She is interested in writing that breaks free of the conventional Story, and writing that deconstructs the hierarchies that often dominate the written word; not to destroy, but to understand and transcend. With every story comes the version we know, and the ones we don’t. Anna explores the truth that happens in the spaces and cracks between, her inspiration often derives from the unnoticed and the unspoken.

Story has power. It has always been about surviving. It has served as the great teacher throughout history. Story is how meaning is derived out of experience. It is ultimately what leads to healing. Anna thinks of Story as medicine, and storytelling as a healing modality. Her aim is always to turn the intention of her stories toward healing. As an actor, she believes that “it is a high calling to represent the lives of real people.” At this point in her creative career, she writes the story. She writes in hopes of representing the lives of real people with integrity and dignity.