Danny Bryck is an actor, playwright and theatre artist originally from Amherst, MA and currently based in Boston. He is the author of No Room for Wishing, a one-man documentary play based on interviews with people involved in Occupy Boston. The world premiere was co-produced by Company One, Central Square Theater, and Boston Playwrights' Theatre, has also performed off-Broadway at Theatre at St. Clement’s and at various venues in New York and New England, and has been nominated for two IRNE awards, Best New Play and Best Solo. Other acting credits include RENT (New Repertory Theatre), Troilus & Cressida, Cymbeline (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), Breaking the Code (Underground Railway Theater; IRNE nomination), The Real Inspector Hound (Publick Theatre), The Corn is Green (Huntington Theatre Company, dir. Nicholas Martin), The Donkey Show (American Repertory Theater, dir. Diane Paulus), The Nutcracker (Stoneham Theatre), By Popular Demand (New Perspectives Theatre Company), and title roles in Cyrano de Bergerac (Apollinaire Theatre Company), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Blue Spruce Theatre; IRNE nomination) and Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare Now!). Danny is an Artistic Associate with Whistler in the Dark Theatre, where credits include A Number, Family Stories and the IRNE award-winning Tales from Ovid, which was remounted at ArtsEmerson. Danny has appeared on the daytime drama As the World Turns and in a handful of independent films, including the Rasmussen Brothers' Dark Feed. His play Love in the Time of Time Travel, co-written with A. Vincent Ularich, was given a staged reading at OBERON, A.R.T.’s second stage. He also works as a dialect coach and teaching artist with numerous theatre companies, schools and programs in Boston and beyond. He holds a BFA from Boston University’s School of Theatre and studied at the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art. 

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Lydia R. Diamond’s plays include:  Stick Fly (’10 Irne Award – Best Play, ’10 LA Critics Circle Awards, ’10 LA Garland Award – Playwriting, ’08 Susan S. Blackburn Finalist, ‘06 Black Theatre Alliance Award – Best Play), Voyeurs de Venus (’06 Joseph Jefferson Award – Best New Work, ‘06 BTAA – Best Writing), The Bluest Eye (’06 Black Arts Alliance Image Award – Best New Play, ‘08 American Alliance for Theatre and Education Distinguished Play Award), The Gift Horse (’05 Theadore Ward Prize, Kesselring Prize 2nd Place), Harriet Jacobs, Stage Black, and Lizzie Stranton (2008 Boston University Playwriting Initiative Commision). Theatres include:  Arena Stage, Chicago Dramatists, Company One, Congo Square, Everyman Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Co., Jubilee Theatre, Kansas City Rep, L.A. Theatre Works, Long Wharf, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, McCarter Theatre Co., Mo’Olelo Theatre Co., MPAACT, New Vic, Playmakers Rep, Plowshares Theatre Co., Providence Black Rep, Steppenwolf, TrueColors, The Matrix, Underground Railway Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and The Contemporary American Theatre Festival.

Lydia’s plays have been produced at Universities around the country including: Duke University, Howard University, Emerson College, Boston University, Northwestern University, University of Wisconsin, Columbia College Chicago, Spelman College, University of California – San Marcos, and University of Maryland.  

Lydia has been commissioned by: Steppenwolf, McCarter, Huntington, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville/Victory Gardens, Humana, Boston University, and The Roundabout. Stick Fly and Harriet Jacobs are published by NU Press, Bluest Eye, Gift Horse, Stage Black – Dramatic Publishing. Lydia was a 2007 TCG/NEA Playwright in Residence at Steppenwolf, an 06/07 Huntington Playwright Fellow, 2009 NEA/Arena Stage New Play Development Grant Finalist, is a TCG Executive Board Member, a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists, an Honorary Doctorate of Arts Recipient from Pine Manor College, and a recent recipient of the Huntington Theatre’s 2011 Wimbley Award.