New Works / New Voices

Nick Flatto (Program Director) is a writer, director, producer, and educator who is passionate about new works to educate, inspire, and strengthen communities. He is the proud Executive Artistic Director of Velvet Stage Productions, leading creative workshops for fellow multi-hyphenates to thrive. With his original musical, Glass House, Nick is collaborating with composer/lyricist Mateo Chavez Lewis to carve out more representation of queer joy in the stories we experience. Glass House was lovingly developed with the support of Drama Club Camp, [Untitled] Musical Project, and Life Jacket Theatre Company. Directing credits include: Stranger Sings!: The Parody Musical, now streaming on BroadwayHD and licensing worldwide; The Opening (Players Theatre). He is a Tony-nominated Co-Producer on Operation Mincemeat and Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York). He is proud to be on the board of Out of the Box Theatrics, with a mission to elevate marginalized voices in theatre. @nickflatto

Justin Halle (they/he) is a queer, Jewy, and sometimes-funny playwright from NYC. Their work has been developed and performed at theaters including La Mama, Red Bull, Lucille Lortel, The Vineyard, Prototype Festival, and Joe’s Pub. Justin was a member of Page 73’s 2025 Writers Group and a finalist for Page 73’s Playwriting Fellowship. His/their recent plays include Vile Isle (The Tank, semifinalist for the Terrence McNally/Rattlestick Fellowship) and Cowgirl (semifinalist for the New Dramatists’ Princess Grace Award; Columbia @ Roundabout New Play Award). Justin’s work has been published: most recently, their solo piece, "Judy New Year!" in WE/US: Monologues For the Gender Minority. Justin has developed new operas with companies including The Cincinnati Opera and The Why Collective, and they also play the drums (Joe’s Pub, Rough Trade, TV Eye, more). BFA: NYU, Experimental Theater Wing. MFA: Columbia, where they/he studied under David Henry Hwang and Lynn Nottage. @justin.a.halle

Dhari Noel is a Queer Black Caribbean Harlemite artist whose work explores the incoherence of race, failures of gender, and inherited performances. Recent plays include Paris. (CWP Reading Series), Black Ram//White Ewe (Classics in Color @ Dramatic Question Theater), Is Cry You Cry’n? (Brown University & Clubbed Thumb Showcase), Money Shot (Brown University, 2025 O’Neill NPC Finalist), Penguin Sex With Mr. Morgan (ANTfest/Ars Nova), Man Made (2024 O’Neill NPC Semi-Finalist), and Spirit Junkie (Cherry Picking, The Wild Project). Recent performances include Black Exhibition (Bushwick Starr) and In the Penal Colony (Next Door at NYTW, The Tank). Dhari was a 2025 semi-finalist for the Page 73 Fellowship and is a member of the 2026 Page 73 writers group. Additional honors include a Tennessee Williams Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and an Emerging LGBTQ Voices Fellowship at Lambda Literary. Dhari has a BA in Sociology from Columbia University and an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University. @dhari.no_l

Audley Puglisi is a playwright and poet. Fellowships include NYSCA/NYFA, The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, VONA/Voices, and Lambda Literary. They have been a member of the Page 73 Writer’s Group, EST/Youngblood, a resident at Djerassi and Blue Mountain Center, and a Pedagogies of Art for Social Change Fellow at Penumbra Theatre. Plays have been developed with Playwrights Horizons, Skylight Theatre, The Playwrights Realm, Page 73, Breaking the Binary Festival, Checkmark Productions, Mile Square Theatre, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Audley has been a finalist for the Lorraine Hansberry Award, the Page 73 Fellowship, Fault Line Theatre’s Irons in the Fire, and the Blue Ink Playwriting Award. Their writing has been published in Garage Magazine, Lucky Jefferson, Color Bloq, and elsewhere. Audley received a BA in Africana Studies from Oberlin College and an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.

Danielle Stagger is a playwright and performer from Queens, NY. Her plays largely engage questions of authenticity, respectability, and shame as they intersect with identity and performance. She prioritizes the authentic presence of Blackness, queerness, and womanhood both on and off stage and, as an artist in practice, works to decentralize and destabilize the product-driven, linear theatrical process. Danielle is the inaugural recipient of the Lily’s Lorraine Hansberry Fellowship, is a two-time Eugene O’Neill NPC Finalist, and was a nominee for the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Danielle’s plays have been finalists for the SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Ollie New Play Award, and the Lark’s Venturous Playwrights Fellowship. She is a member of the 2024-2026 WP Theater Lab, the 2025 Page 73 Writer's group, and has been commissioned by Second Stage Theater and Manhattan Theatre Club. Danielle holds a B.A. in Theater and Performance Studies from Stanford University and an MFA in Playwriting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. @daniellestagger

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