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Gregory Fletcher

Playwright, Screenwriter, Director

A native of Dallas, Texas, a resident of New York City, and a graduate with three theatre degrees from Cal. State University at Northridge, Columbia University, and Boston University. Gregory Fletcher is a playwright, author, screenwriter, and director; his plays have been awarded the Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting, the Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award, and publishing credits include essays, short stories, novellas, novels, and plays.

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Gregory Fletcher’s plays have had 12 productions Off-Off-Broadway, many of which are featured in his collection, A Playwright’s Dozen: 13 short plays. A native of Dallas, Texas and a resident of New York City, Fletcher has earned three theatre degrees from Cal. State Northridge, Columbia University, and Boston University.

Published materials include five essays (The Sealed Letter, manhood / ˈmanˌho͝od / noun, Dallas, Guilt, Thanks Dad—I Think, Leave it to Grandma), two short stories (Friends of Vera, and Ismene in Venice), two novellas (Tom and Huck Sitting in a Tree, and The Never Land Hoax), two young adult novels (Other People’s Crazy, and Other People’s Drama), and a craft book on playwriting (Shorts and Briefs, a collection of short plays and brief principles of playwriting).

Awards include the Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting and the Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award, a playwriting grantee at the Sundance Theatre Lab, and a finalist for the New York IT Awards, the Heideman Award, and the Reva Shiner Comedy Award.

Directing credits include over a dozen Off-Off-Broadway credits, and over a dozen regional and university credits, with a dozen years of teaching various theater courses at universities.

Visit gregoryfletcher.com or follow @gregory_fletcher_writer on Instagram.

Rori Nogee

Playwright, Composer, Lyricist

Rori is a playwright, composer/lyricist, and performer. She has appeared on and Off-Broadway, at Carnegie Hall and in regional theaters. She wrote book, music and lyrics for Siren’s Den: A Rock Musical and The Impatiens, and penned the play, Aftershocks. Her songs have been heard at 54 Below and The Cutting Room.

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Rori Nogee is an actor, singer, playwright and composer/lyricist. Broadway: Joseph…Dreamcoat. Off-Bway: Love Quirks (AMT), James and the Giant Peach (Atlantic Theater Company), and Showgirls, the Musical!, Carnegie Hall: Journey to America. She has starred in numerous regional musical productions around the country. Rori wrote book, music and lyrics for Siren’s Den: A Rock Musical, (available on Spotify and iTunes) and The Impatiens. Her full length play, Aftershocks, was produced at Theater for the New City and the NY Winterfest (nominated for Best Play.) Her songs have been heard throughout NYC including 54 Below and The Cutting Room. She is a recipient of the City Artist Corps Grant.

Learn more at rorinogee.com or follow @roareen on Instagram.

Will Nunziata

Screenwriter, Filmmaker, Theatre Director

Will Nunziata is a New York City–based award-winning filmmaker, theatre director, and writer. His debut short The Old Guitarist, starring Dominic Chianese (The Sopranos, The Godfather: Part II), won over a dozen international awards. His motion picture screenplays, including Débora, The Kept, and Lillith, have earned major festival honors. His theatre work has been seen on the West End at the London Palladium and across New York stages, collaborating with Tony Award, Emmy Award, and Grammy award artists.

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Will Nunziata is a New York City-based award-winning filmmaker, theatre director, and writer.

Film & Screenwriting

Will's directorial debut, The Old Guitarist, starring Dominic Chianese (Uncle Junior in The Sopranos), has garnered over a dozen national and international awards, including Best Short Film and Best Director at the London Movie Awards, Best First Time Director of a Short at the New York Movie Awards, and Best First Time Director of a Short at the Paris Film Awards.

As a screenwriter, Will wrote Débora, currently in pre-production, based on the life of Colombian painter Débora Arango. The film stars award-winning Colombian actress Marcela Mar and is directed by Daniel Posada. His other screenplays have earned recognition including Best Horror Screenplay at the 2025 Melbourne International Screenplay Festival (The Kept), Best Screenplay at the 2025 Los Angeles Crime & Horror Film Festival (We All Fall Down), and Best Original Screenplay at the 2023 Hollywood Blood Horror Festival (Lillith).

Will is also currently developing Forty-licious, an original situational comedy.

Theatre

On the stage, Will has directed productions on both sides of the Atlantic, including Figaro: An Original Musical at London's prestigious Palladium in the West End, and the world premiere of White Rose: The Musical off-Broadway and its UK premiere. His off-Broadway production of Miss Peggy Lee: In Her Own Words & Music earned him a BroadwayWorld Award for Best Director. He conceived, wrote, and directed Our Guy, Cy: A Musical Revue off-Broadway, starring Tony Award winners Lillias White, Randy Graff, Cady Huffman, and Judy Kaye.

Currently in development are several new works: As I Lay Dying: A New Musical (bookwriter, lyricist, director), The Waves: A New Opera (librettist), For Vincent: The New Van Gogh Musical (co-creator, director), Dubbo Championship Wrestling: A New Aussie Rock Musical (director), and By The End Of Tonight: A Dark Comedy (director).

Concert

Will has written and directed dozens of concert productions for acclaimed artists including Tony Award winner Lillias White, Soul Train Award winner Nicole Henry, platinum recording artist Jackie Evancho, and Grammy Award nominee Clint Holmes. For twenty years, he performed professionally alongside his twin brother, singer-songwriter Anthony Nunziata, touring nationally and internationally, with their partnership culminating in co-headlining Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops Symphony Orchestra.

A proud graduate of Boston College, Will is a member of the Recording Academy/GRAMMYs and the Stage Directors & Choreographers Union (SDC).

For more information, visit willnunziata.com or follow @willnunziofficial on Instagram.

Blake Allen

Composer, Lyricist, Playwright

Blake Allen, PhD is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning composer, playwright, and violist whose genre-defying work fuses classical rigor with theatrical innovation and queer storytelling. His work includes INSOMNIA (Carnegie Hall), The Shards of an Honor Code Junkie (CCM; Trevor Project), Folk Wandering (Ars Nova; Soho Rep), Witch Perfect, and more. His music has been performed by luminaries including the New York Philharmonic and Renée Fleming.

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Blake Allen is a New York City-based composer, playwright, and violist. His shows and scores include Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, INSOMNIA (Carnegie Hall), Conversion (Apple TV+), The Shards of an Honor Code Junkie (CCM; The Trevor Project), Folk Wandering (Pipeline Theatre Co.; Ars Nova; Soho Rep), Witch Perfect (international tour), Farmyard Follies (Provincetown Theatre), Kelly [1955] (New York Theatre Festival), Boston|Nebraska (Kimmel Harding Nelson Center), Doris Dear’s Gurl Talk (Broadway on Demand), Shade: Queens of NYC (Fusion TV), and HOCKET. His albums INSOMNIA, The Shards of an Honor Code Junkie, and Sonatas all charted in the Billboard Top 10. Broadway: Notre Dame de Paris, Tootsie, An American in Paris, Living on Love, Stephen King’s Misery. Off-Broadway: Over Here!, Folk Wandering, Beardo, Tamar of the River. Education: NYU, CCM, BYU.

More at blakeallen.org or follow @blakeallenpresents on Instagram.