Playwright Mi Jeong Kim was born in Seoul, Korea and studied Playwriting (M.A.) and Drama (M.F.A.) at the Korean National University of Arts. She is also interested in Drama Education as well as playwriting for children.

Mi Jeong has been writing for children and teaching drama for children in many welfare institutions and schools. She is co-writer of Looking for Yoghurt, the international collaboration project for young audiences (2008-2009) and a winner of ASSITEJ Korea playwriting awards in 2010.

Karen Zacarías plays include the award winning Legacy of Light, Mariela In The Desert, The Book Club Play, The Sins of Sor Juana, the adaptation of the best-selling book How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and award-winning children’s musicals (with music by Debbie Wicks La Puma) Looking For Roberto Clemente, Einstein Is A Dummy, Jane of the Jungle , Cinderella Eats Rice And Beans, Chasing George Washington, Ferdinand the Bull, and Frida Libre. Her plays have been produced at The Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, The Goodman Theater, Denver Center, Alliance Theater, Round House Theater, Imagination Stage, Berkshire Theater Festival, The Arden, Cleveland Playhouse and many more. Her awards include: 2010 Steinberg Citation for Best New Play (Legacy of Light), National Francesca Primus Prize (Mariela in the Desert), New Voices Award, National Latino Play Award, ATT/TCG First Stages Award, Finalist Susan S. Blackburn Award and a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play (Sins of Sor Juana). Karen is the playwright-in-residence at Arena Stage and teaches playwriting at Georgetown University. She lives in DC with her husband and three young children.

Hosein Fadaihosein is a playwright and theater researcher living in Qom, Iran. He has written 17 plays for children and young adults, directed eight productions and had 13 plays published.

Larissa FastHorse is a playwright and choreographer from the Sicangu Lakota Nation USA. In 2010 she was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Distinguished New Play Development Grant. Her past equity theatre productions are AVERAGE FAMILY forChildren's Theatre Company and TEACHING DISCO SQUAREDANCING TO OUR ELDERS: A CLASS PRESENTATION for Native Voices at the Autry. Commissioned plays include FANCY DANCER for Children's Theatre Company, A DANCING PEOPLE for Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences, SERRA SPRINGS for Native Voices at the Autry and LA History Project, and DIFFERENT DOES NOT MEAN THE SAME for Native Voices at the Autry.

Ashish Kumar Ghosh was born in a village in West Bengal in 1944. Memories of the place continued to inspire his artistic self even after he shifted to Delhi in 1957 to complete formal education and make a career in academics in the University of Delhi. Theater was in the family. He was fortunate to find mentors in academics, theater, music, and choreography to combine these inputs to start working in children’s theater from 1986. Henceforth, most of his research themes centered on children, the grassroots, and performance traditions. His original plays are written in Bengali and rooted to culture-friendly traditions of India. His Hindi plays have been devised in workshops first and subsequently written with contributions from the participants. He writes, directs, and performs in plays with the conviction that simple is the most profound. He also leads projects on drama and education. The rest of his time is spent in organizing ASSITEJ India.

Craig Higginson is a novelist, playwright, theatre director, dramaturge, editor and university lecturer. Craig’s writing and directing have been nominated for and won several awards in South Africa and the United Kingdom, including the Sony Gold Award, an Edinburgh Fringe First and a Naledi Award for Best New South African play. He is the Literary Manager and dramaturge at the Market Theatre and teaches playwriting at Wits. His plays and fiction are represented by PFD literary agency in London. He is currently doing his PhD at Wits University.