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 a classically trained actress devoted to trans-audacious visibility on stage and screen. She has written many original works for the stage. Her written work began receiving production in New York City in the form of campy farces, satirical performance art, and a full-length verse drama centered on the theme of apathy in America. Upon moving to an off-grid queer mutualist collective in Tennessee, Femm began writing and producing queer pageants for their community; subsequently mentoring students in fully devised and performed plays at a local university. She has earned advanced degrees in the humanities with concentrations in queer theory, performance studies, emancipatory movements, and structural oppression in the American empire. Femm moved to Atlanta in 2022 and returned to acting, appearing in productions by PushPush Arts, Merry Cat Productions/ATL Fringe Festival, Abstract Films, FAD_Lab Fest/Windmill Arts, Performance Jam ATL/Pullman Yards, and Out Front Theatre. She is a member of the acting company at Working Title Playwrights and has trained with Vernal & Sere and the Robert Mello Studio. Femmaeve is currently crafting an original performance piece that explores the dehumanizing strategies of transgender oppression and the catharsis experienced when a person recovers their humanity after its degradation and loss.
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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.
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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.
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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.