Ann Timmons started in theatre as an actor (M.F.A., University of Illinois) before pivoting to playwriting. She honed her skills at Playwrights’ Horizons Theatre School on NYC’s Theatre Row, where her one-woman show, Off the Wall: The Life and Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman premiered at the Samuel Becket Theatre, prior to a 16-year national tour. Ann has received commissions for several plays, most recently Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper. from Echo Theatre, Dallas. Other productions include Becoming Calvin, Beyond Shadowlands, and The Jamestown Adventure Express; Her latest play It’s My Party! premiered at Dallas’ Echo Theatre in 2021 before its D.C.-area premier with Pipeline in 2025. Ann is a member of Actors' Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA, Dramatists Guild, Honor Roll!, and is a founding producing playwright with Pipeline Playwrights. 
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Jean Koppen Jean Koppen is a playwright and producer with productions across the United States, Canada and Australia. Productions include Keegan Theatre, The Capital Fringe Festival, Pipeline Playwrights, SkyPilot Theatre, The Alumnae Theatre, Space Jump Theatre, the Oregon One-Act Festival, COM Theatre, Broom Street Theatre and more. Publications include Next Stage Press, Smith & Krauss’ Best 10-Minute Plays, and Smith and Krauss’ Best Women’s Monologues. Awards include Active Culture’s Playwriting Competition Winner, City Theatre Finalist for National Award for Short Playwriting, Trustus Playwrights’ Festival Finalist, and Unicorn Theatre Plays in Progress semi-finalist. Developmental activities include The Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival, the Kennedy Center Playwrights’ Intensive and LaMaMa Umbria playwriting retreat. Jean is a founding member of Pipeline Playwrights, a member of Honor Roll! And a Dramatist Guild member.

Patricia Connelly is an award-winning playwright and director. Her most recent play, Heartland, was produced by Pipeline Playwrights in 2022 at Joe’s Movement Emporium. Her play, Around the Snake Turn, was selected and presented as part of the Baltimore Playwrights’ Festival in 2023. Her play, Princess Margaret, was produced as part of the Women's Voices Theater Festival in Washington DC in 2015. Other produced plays include: The Penny or the Stone, (Robert Bone Memorial Playwriting Award); What Happens in This Town; All the Sins of My Past Life; Harriet; and, Night Sky. She has had short plays presented and produced in Capital Fringe Festivals, at the Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage festivals, at MetroStage in Alexandria, VA, by PlayZoomers (online), at Keegan Theatre, and, internationally, as part of Short + Sweet (Australia). Patricia has a MA degree in Theater from the University of New Mexico and an MFA in Creative Writing (Playwriting) from Goddard College. She has participated in the Playwriting Intensive at the Kennedy Center; she is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America; she is a co-founder of Pipeline Playwrights; and she is a member of Honor Roll.

Nicole Burton's plays include Wednesdays in Mississippi, Swimming Up the Sun, Fred & Frieda, Dirty Questions, and Starman, Wish Me Luck.They've been produced at Joe's Movement Emporium, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, MetroStage, the Greenbelt Arts Center, the University of District of Columbia, House of Ruth Homeless Shelter, and the U.S. Capitol. In the 1980s, as resident playwright of Everyday Theater, she co-authored six plays about gentrification and violent crime in Washington, D.C. She's also the author of Swimming Up the Sun: A Memoir of Adoption and the novel, Adamson's 1969. A member of Pipeline Playwrights and the Dramatists Guild, Nicole lives in Riverdale Park, Maryland.

Crystal Adaway is a playwright, screenwriter, and former teacher. Her first screenplay, Bangers & Mash, was a finalist in the Virginia Film Office’s Screenwriting Competition. Her plays include The Christmas Card, produced for the DC Capital Fringe Festival, and her dark & twisty, award-winning The Wish, presented at the Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival. Her monologue, “Barbara,” is published in She Persisted: One Hundred Monologues by Women over Forty. Crystal is an alumna of the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive and a member of Honor Roll! and The Dramatists Guild. A freelance editor and graphic designer for more than 25 years, she operates WorthyNotes Writing & Editing: worthy-notes.com.