Maya "Marty" Martin-Udry (Class of ) is an avowed amateur, seriously dabbling in puppetry, drag, and crafting of all sorts. She's particularly proud of her puppetry performances at Dixon Place and Teatro Sea.

The WRT Grant will fund the development of a sci-fi puppet show: Bird-like aliens expand our capacity to imagine liberatory futures in Seasons, a radical puppetry adaptation of a story by speculative fiction titan Ursula K. Le Guin.

Mara Palma (she/her) is a theater maker, director, and creative youth educator most drawn to stories about Asian American women, sapphic characters, and physically dynamic theater. Originally from Quezon City, Philippines, she now calls Los Angeles home. Playwright: Babble - a TYA BIPOC Superhero Project (Bocon), The F Word: Filipinx a Solo Performance Piece (18th & Union), Octavia and Kleopatra (CompanyONE PlayLab). www.marapalma.com

The WRT Grant will fund the completion of a new script: When young Filipina superhero, Evangelina, learns her grandfather has gone missing, she decides to search for him and realizes that the power of language might be the key to bringing her family back together.

Fani Suan-Baum ’17 (née Ntavelou-Baum) is a producer, writer, director and educator from Athens, Greece, currently living in Berlin, Germany. After a stint as a strategy consultant, Fani spent the past several years at Anton, a film production and financing company, acquiring and executive producing feature films, such as The End We Start From with Jodie Comer and Benedict Cumberbatch and Left Seat with Michelle Rodriguez and Richard Gere. She graduated magna cum laude with a BA in philosophy from Wellesley College and holds an MSt in philosophy from the University of Oxford and an MA in Creative Business from the National Film and Television School in the UK. 

The WRT Grant will fund the translation of an original work into English; Burning Berlin is a musical about Lotte Hahm and Käthe Fleischmann, two women at the heart of lesbian life and activism in Weimar Berlin. It follows their love story from the bars and clubs of the late 1920s through Nazi persecution, exile and the years after the war.