Susan Faust
Playwright, CONFABULOUS
3x33 Festival 2025
Susan Faust’s plays include Cloud Illusions (Applause Books, Go Play Outside 2022), Strangest Yellow (Silk Road Review, Issue 20 Fall 2018), and The Yellow Wallpaper (San Francisco Fringe Festival). Susan was a founding member of Paducah Mining Company, where she was both a writer and director. She has collaborated on devised projects with Anne Bogart’s internationally renowned SITI Company and with Portland’s Hand2Mouth Theatre. Susan served as a playwriting mentor with Haven Project and playwright-in-residence with Portland Public Schools. She is a proud co-founder of LineStorm Playwrights and member of the Dramatists Guild. Read her work on the New Play Exchange.
Paul Lewis
Playwright, The City and The Sea
3x33 Festival 2025
Paul Lewis (Playwright, Composer) is beyond excited to return to Salem and Theatre 33 for the realization of this musical, after previous productions here of The Names (directed by Rod Ceballos), and Lost in the Hills, A Musical (dir. Stephen Munshaw). Other work includes musical adaptations of two iconic children’s books,The Runaway Bunny and Caps for Sale, both of which premiered at Boston Children’s Theatre; The Crossing, winner of a Seattle Times Footlights Award (Theater Schmeater and Jewel Box Theatre); Jill Trent Science Sleuth (Cayuga Community College); The Bright Days of Our Youth (Bainbridge Performing Arts podcast); Oblivion (Driftwood); and The Hours of Life (Theatre22). His musical adaptation of the NY Times bestseller middle-grade novel Wish won the 2023 AATE Distinguished Play Award. Paul is a member of BMI and the Dramatists Guild of America.
AR Nicholas
Playwright, WAGMI
3x33 Festival 2025
AR Nicholas is a playwright based in Portland. Her work has been performed all over the U.S and has received prizes from the Dennis & Victoria Ross Foundation, Lila Acheson Wallace, Sundance Theatre Lab, Caltech’s Mach 33 Science Plays, Susan Glaspell, American Blues, Int'l Womens Playwright Conference and more. She also makes micro-budget films, including UNIVERS'L and FAMOUS AGORAPHOBIC WOMAN TELLS ALL!, which earned Best Feature at the 2024 Klamath Falls Film Fest. She's a member of the Dramatists Guild, SAG-AFTRA, AEA and several theatre companies. When she’s not writing, she rides a dark horse named Xochitl. More @ arnicholas.com
Kathleen Cahill
Playwright, I WANT YOU
Summer pop-up reading, 2025
Award-winning playwright Kathleen Cahill has garnered numerous prestigious honors including three Edgerton Foundation Awards, the Jane Chambers Playwrighting Award, two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Playwrighting Awards, a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award, a Rockefeller Grant, and a National Endowment for the Arts New American Works Grant. Her work has earned her a Steinberg Award nomination, a Drama League Award, and selection as a Dramatists Guild Fund Travelling Fellow. Her extensive body of work includes plays that have been produced across the country, from Salt Lake Acting Company to theaters in Dallas, Orlando, Washington DC, Portsmouth NH, and Chicago. Her notable works include Charm, Course 86B In The Catalogue, Harbur Gate, The Persian Quarter, Silent Dancer, and The Robertassey. Recent projects include Mrs. Einstein, featured in the 2024 Durango New Play Festival and at New Jersey Rep in 2025; the comedy H-O-R-S-E at the Road Theatre's New Works Festival in Los Angeles; and the one-act MATISSE at Chicago's Eclectic Theatre. Her new musical LATE, created with composer Michael Wartofsky, recently received a major development grant from Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 2023, Kathleen relocated to Portland, Oregon, with her husband, Robert Broadhead, and her dog, Pete.
Angela Gyurko
Playwright, Proper, A Steampunk Comedy of Manners
Summer pop-up reading, 2025
Angela Gyurko graduated from Columbia University in 1990 as a metallurgist, and like many women scientists of the day, she found herself more accepted in policy, consulting, and teaching college than in the laboratory or factory. In 2019, Angela completed her MFA in creative writing from Goddard College, and while she planned to write novels, plays kept waking her in the middle of the night demanding that she write them. Her plays have been staged in Seattle (2023), Boston (2021), Corpus Christi (2025), and Port Townsend (2018, 2020), and have won staged readings in contests in Seattle (2020) and Salem (2023). She is thrilled to be working with the creative team at Theater 33.
Kwik Jones
Playwright, Coal is King
Summer pop-up reading, 2025
Kwik Jones is a playwright with thirty years of experience in writing, directing, and producing theater. A Goddard College theater graduate, he has created numerous acclaimed plays including A Strange Seed, Black Like Me, Man's Favor, Devil's Plan, and Water Boyz. His recent achievements include winning the 2024 NAACP Theatre Award for Best Playwright for Man's Favor, Devil's Plan, which garnered six awards from fourteen nominations. His works have been recognized at prestigious venues and festivals, including the Downtown Urban Arts Festival in New York City, the National Playwrighting Conference, and the Jewish Plays Project. Jones continues to receive commissions, and in 2025, his plays were accepted into festivals nationwide. He is currently working on We Act, commissioned for a book about African American Theater for Young Audiences, and a BIPOC Superhero play for Collective Consciousness in New Haven, Connecticut.
