”WHEEL OF FORTUNE REVERSED” by Scott C. Sickles

Jonathan Cook is heavily involved in the fine arts as an actor, writer, and filmmaker based in South Carolina. Many of his short plays have been produced in theatres around the World and and he is a six-time recipient of the Porter Fleming Literary Award in the playwriting category. Aside from playwriting, he has also written and directed several short films that have been presented in regional film festivals as well as distributed internationally on ShortsTV. He is also the host and producer of the radio theater podcast GATHER BY THE GHOST LIGHT. Launched in 2020, GATHER BY THE GHOST LIGHT is a collection of stage plays adapted to an audio only format performed by voice actors and edited with appropriate sound effects and music.

Dana Hall (she/her) is a playwright, actor, and mental health therapist. She is a Lanford Wilson finalist, and The Theater Association of NYS (TANYS) awarded her Excellence in Playwriting. She was a finalist for the Morecambe Fringe John Clarke Memorial Prize for scriptwriting. A Finalist Winner in the Hear Me Out Monologue Competition and a finalist for the National Fellows Program for the Dramatists Guild Foundation. Her Edgar Allen Poe adaptation, Under the Floorboards, was named Outstanding Theatrical Adaptation, Gee-Rated Intertainment. Her plays have been published with Next Stage Press, Heuer, Stage Plays, & Smith Scripts. The New York Journal named her one of the 50 under 50 most influential creators. She is in the Dramatists Guild Institute's Certificate of Dramatic Writing program. She is also a member of the Dramatists Guild, League of Professional Theatre Women, Honor Roll!, and International Centre for Female Playwrights. DanaHallCreates.com

Composer based in Austin, TX.

SCOTT C. SICKLES (he/him) is an LGBTQ+/ neurodivergent/ Korean American writer whose plays have been performed in New York City, across the U.S., and internationally in Canada, Australia, the UK, Hungary, Singapore, Indonesia, Lebanon, and Dubai. WHEEL OF FORTUNE REVERSED recently made its stage debut with Traffic Jam Theatre Co in Savannah, Georgia. PLAYING ON THE PERIPHERY: MONOLOGUES AND SCENES FOR AND ABOUT QUEER KIDS will have its world premiere with Whim Productions in Kansas City, Missouri, in August 2023. His other evening of short plays, HELLISH DELIGHTS, is available at Next Stage Press along with his full-lengths COMPOSURE, FROM THE TOP, MOONLIGHT & LOVE SONGS, and HAIRDRESSER ON FIRE. The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis’s world premiere of NONSENSE AND BEAUTY received an Edgerton New Play Award and was an ATCA Steinberg Award Finalist. Other full-lengths include: MARIANAS TRENCH (O’Neill finalist; Portland Stage); PANGEA (Garry Marshall Theatre); THE KNOWN UNIVERSE (Mixed Asian Media Fest); PERFECTING THE KISS: A MOCKUMENTARY FOR THE STAGE (Mind the Gap Theatre); INTELLECTUALS (Smith & Kraus); and SEASIDE TRAGEDIES (Seven Devils finalist). Sickles has also received five consecutive Writers Guild of America Awards for GENERAL HOSPITAL and eleven Emmy nominations.

Robert J. LeBlanc is an award-winning playwright, actor, voice actor, and artist, as well as the producer, head writer, host, improviser, and designer of the comedy ensemble, Balderdash Academy, and owner and lead writer of the interactive mystery-comedy company Sleuths Mystery Entertainment. He writes in several genres with a focus on comedy and the use of comedy in drama. He is the guest writer and performer of Undertow: Simpson Falls episode “Firsts” and was a series developer and writer on Realm’s hit horror series Undertow: Blood Forest and Undertow: Pulse. His work can be found on stage, screen, and in various podcasts including Balderdash Academy’s On the Air.