The Scripteasers

Amy Dell has been performing in San Diego theatres since moving here in 2007.  She has enjoyed getting back into playwriting during the past several years, and she has appreciated the support and inspiration provided by The Scripteasers and The Old Globe’s Community Voices.  When not writing or acting, she works as an attorney and enjoys hiking with her husband and mutt.  As both a writer and an actor, Amy Dell appreciates San Diego’s vibrant theatre scene and support of new work.  She wishes The Scripteasers warm wishes for its 75th year, and hopes you enjoy “Negotiations.”

Richard Fouts dramatic play, The Birthday Lottery, premiered in San Francisco in 2018 to sold-out audiences. His play, First Day in December, won first prize in San Diego’s 2021 Scripteaser competition and was staged at the Scripps Ranch Theatre. Several of his 10-minute plays have appeared at short-play festivals around the US including Somebody’s Angel, Over the Rainbow, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, and Dead Serious. His current play, When the Moon is in the Second House, won third place in this year’s Scripteaser competition. He is also the author of My Afternoon With Lenny, a comedy about Leonard Bernstein.

James Hebert is an Encinitas-based writer and the former chief theater critic for the San Diego Union-Tribune. He has served as a Pulitzer Prize juror and won a number of awards for his journalism but so far none for his surfing. James currently serves as Chairman of the Encinitas Commission for the Arts, and Content Manager for the San Diego Tourism Authority. He is the proud dad of two young adults, Audrey and Zander, and lucky husband to fellow writer Sophy Chaffee. While James has written about hundreds of plays, “B-17” represents his first try at writing one of his own, and he is deeply grateful to Scripteasers for giving it a spin.

Katharine Rex’s first on-stage love was improvisational theater. She is currently an actor,

improviser, coach and most recently playwright and screenwriter. In improv, you’re the playwright, director and actor, so she’s constantly making things up. Although she’s been writing her whole life, writing plays and screenplays is a new and eye-opening joy.

Tori Rice is an award-winning playwright, teaching artist, and co-host of the Hey Playwright podcast. https://heyplaywright.com/ Her plays have been seen at ASU, Dragon Productions, Edmonton Fringe, Emporia State, FUSION, Magnetic Theatre Company, The Marsh, New Village Arts, Scripps Ranch Theatre, SMoCA, as well as site-specific and immersive events in cafés and courtrooms. She participated in the 2022 Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive. Upcoming: Selected for 2023 New Play Labs for both Ingefest and the Valdez Theatre Conference. Her play “Maybe For A Minute” is an Official Selection of the 2023 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival.

**Roy Sekigahama Roy’s play, Desert Rock Garden (New Village Arts, 2022) was nominated for four awards including Outstanding New Production (2023 Craig Noel Awards), and was the recipient of Best Director. This play won grants from the California Civil Liberties Program and the National Endowment for the Arts. Two plays won in Scripteasers short play contests – the first in 2016, which was Roy’s first win as a playwright, and in 2019. Two other one-acts have been seen at Roustabouts in 2022 and 2023. The Ghosts from the Pali was read at New Village Arts’ 2020 Final Draft New Play Festival. He is a member of the Dramatist Guild and sits on the Board of Directors of Playwrights Project.   https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/theater/story/2021-07-04/roy-sekigahama-brings-familys-experience-in-japanese-internment-camps-to-the-stage

Marielle Vizcarra is a bilingual Mexicana-Americana from a border town called Calexico, CA and she currently resides in San Diego, CA. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Theatre minor from UC San Diego in 2018. As a Senior in college, her first play, Not a Family Gathering, was produced by UCSD’s Fair Play Theatre Company. In April 2019, Marielle’s play Diosito Lindo was produced by TuYo Theatre Company during their first show titled “-UN”. She has been a member of a playwrighting group called Pa’ Letras since January 2021. As a member of Pa’ Letras, Marielle has written multiple ten-minute plays for all of the group’s online/in-person shows. Scripps Ranch Theatre selected Marielle’s play, Tamales de Piña (full length), to be part of their Local Flavor Reading series in October 2022. Tamales de Piña was also selected to take part in IATI Theater’s Play Development Program: Cimientos 2023. In January 2023, Teatro Chelsea had a stage reading of the first full length play that Marielle wrote: Ashes Down the Drain. Marielle identifies herself as a poet, playwright, podcaster, and creative. She is fascinated by the family dynamic in Latinx/e households and enjoys portraying these stories in her work.