Kathy Ng (she/they) writes plays and makes crafts. I was born in Hong Kong. My work aims to create sharply soft playing spaces for human-adjacent beings. I like the idea of theater as a construction site fo new, alien languages. Recent works include Sky Rats (Writing is Live 2024, Brown University),  bacon sausage veggie noodles (Clubbed Thumb Reading Series) and happy life (NPC Finalist '21, The Hearth). I made my NYC debut in the summer of 2022, where happy life received a world premiere production at Walker Space. The production was called "porous but sticky" and "seizing with an almost maniacal delight" - New York Times. I am a New Georges Affiliated Artist and an alum of Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers’ Group. BA from Brown in Writing for Performance. I currently live in Providence, a home-like place, where I’m back at Brown and pursuing my MFA in playwriting.Website (warning, work in progress):  https://kingyam.hotglue.me/

Aileen Wen McGroddy is a director and the Creative Producer for the Writing is Live Festival. An alum of the Brown-Trinity Directing MFA program, she has also been a member of the Roundabout Directors Group, a 2050 Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, and the BOLD Resident Director at Northern Stage. She is also a co-Artistic Director of TUTA Theatre Chicago. Past work in Writing Is Live: Cold War Choir Practice by Ronica Reddick, Throwback Island by Ronica Reddick, On The Y-Axis by Lucas Baisch, and Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt by Julia Izumi (upcoming production this year at Woolly Mammoth Theatre). Other work includes: A Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep); The Chinese Lady (Kitchen Theatre and Geva Theatre Center); Sisters and Sense and Sensibility (Northern Stage); Attempts on Her Life (TUTA); Airness (Breckenridge Backstage Theatre); The Late Wedding, The Dumb Waiter, Summer and Smoke, and The Tempest (Brown-Trinity); Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Adelphi); The Glass Menagerie, Or,, Dani Girl (Winnipesaukee Playhouse). She has directed readings for New York Theatre Workshop, The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, NY Classical Theatre, The Yale Drama Prize, Northern Stage, and Babes with Blades. AileenWenMcGroddy.com