Joseph M. Paprzycki

Founder/Curator & Award-winning Playwright, Screenwriter, Director, and Educator

Joseph M. Paprzycki is the author of over sixty plays and screenplays, including Last Rites, Fortune Cookies, Summer Rentals, Tennessee's Final Curtain, Visions of Beatitude, Indoor Picnic, Express Tracks, Waiting Tables, Sage Advice, Youth in America, Players on the Harbor, Long Distances, and many other full-length and one-act works. His plays have received more than thirty productions in New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Delaware, and New Orleans, along with numerous staged readings, including at the Provincetown Theater.

Born and raised in Camden, New Jersey, Joseph is the founder and former producing artistic director of the South Camden Theatre Company, where he led the construction of the Waterfront South Theatre — built on the site of his grandfather's bar, the setting of his first published play, Last Rites. The theater's story is told in the award-winning documentary Dovere. He has taught playwriting at Rosemont College, La Salle University, and Temple University, served on the board of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival from 2017 to 2023, and is the former Dramatists Guild Ambassador for Cape Cod. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and is represented by Susan Schulman, A Literary Agent.

In 2022, Joe founded the Truro Playwright Collective, which he curates. A full-time Cape resident, he lives with his husband, Gus Orr, in North Truro, Massachusetts.

http://www.joseph-m-paprzycki.com

Gary Garrison

Executive Director, Provincetown Theater

Gary was the Executive Director of the Dramatist Guild of America from 2007-2016. Prior to his work at the Guild, Garrison filled the posts of Artistic Director, Producer and fulltime faculty member in the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he produced over forty-five festivals of new work. He is on the Tony Administration Committee for the Tony Awards, the program director for the Summer Playwriting Intensive for the Kennedy Center and the Director of the Dramatists Guild Institute. In April of 2014, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts instituted the National Gary Garrison Ten-Minute Play Award given to the best ten-minute play written by a dramatist. Author, playwright, educator. www.garygarrison.com

Joshua Quiñones

Theatre Artist & Writer

Joshua Quiñones is a Provincetown-based theater artist. He is an emerging talent in Outer Cape reading series having recently appeared as Franz in Appropriate (Provincetown Theater) and having directed readings of Lonely Planet (Provincetown Theater), Agonies and Ecstasies (Truro Playwright Collective, co-director), and Lara: A Love Story (O’Neill Festival of New Works). Acting credits include Say Gay Plays (Provincetown Theater), A Tale of Two Cities (Trinity Rep at Bread Loaf), Night Out (Brown University), and Spring Awakening (Company Carolina). His writing has been featured in Emerge Magazine, and his piece “Behind the Mask: Living Life Out, Honest, and Open” was featured as a TEDx Talk in 2018. Prior to taking up residency in Provincetown in 2024, he taught English at Milton Academy outside of Boston. He is the Associate Director of Production and Programming at the Provincetown Theater. Instagram: @joshuabradley

Mary Conroy

Screenwriter, Playwright and Educator

Mary Conroy is a screenwriter, playwright, and educator who has been teaching screenwriting at Boston College for over a decade. In her fourteen years there, she has mentored emerging writers through the full creative process, from first idea to finished script, while fostering a classroom environment grounded in curiosity, discipline, and a genuine love of storytelling. She has also taught at Boston University, Emerson College, and Lesley University, and holds an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University, where she was awarded a graduate fellowship. Her play Every Piece of Me was produced at the Boston Playwrights Theatre, and her short plays have been staged across New England, New York, and California. Mary’s work extends into film and television, where her scripts have been recognized by festivals and competitions including Nantucket, Final Draft, CineStory, Santa Barbara, and Woods Hole. She is a graduate of the UCLA Professional Program in Writing for Television and was selected for the Stowe Story Labs Television Writers Room. In addition to her own writing, she has served the broader storytelling community as the Boston Metro Regional Representative for the Dramatists Guild of America and as a reader and judge for numerous screenwriting competitions and festivals, including her work with the Catalyst Independent Television Festival. At her core, Mary is a storyteller and a keen observer of human behavior, drawn to characters who are messy, searching, and real. She brings humor, honesty, and compassion to both her writing and her teaching, believing that the best stories come from paying close attention to people, to place, and to the small moments that often say the most. When she’s not writing or in the classroom, she’s likely listening to country music, exploring her spiritual side, or finding inspiration in the everyday chaos that inevitably makes its way into her work.

Fermin Rojas

Documentary Filmmaker & Playwright

Fermin is a producer/filmmaker, actor, writer and co-founder of DKR Films. DKR’s award-winning documentaries include Alumbrones, The Black Mambas and King Philip’s Belt : A Story of Wampum, which screened at The Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of the American Indian. Narrative film credits include executive producer for The Ali’i King, written and directed by Christine Kunewa Walker. He has authored numerous ten-minute plays, books for musicals and monologues for the stage. Along with husband Jay Kubesch, Fermin produced Cuba’s first and only gay men’s singing ensemble Mano a Mano.

Will Hildreth

THE BOATHOUSE

Will studied film and television at Emerson College in Boston, where he won the school’s Cyprienne Gable Award for his script “Thorns Also, and Thistles.” He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Emerson with a BS in Film in 1989. He moved to Los Angeles to attend the Graduate Screenwriting Program at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television, Graduating Summa Cum Laude in 1993. While at USC, he received a prestigious Disney Fellowship for his (unproduced) screenplay “Regression.” Will worked in story development and production in Los Angeles and later moved to Truro year-round with his husband Ryan and their dog Gunther von Wiggles.

Julia Salinger

FATTY PASTRAMI

Julia Salinger is a painter, poet, printmaker, and installation artist. She divides her time between Wellfleet, MA and Sicily. Her book, "When I Awoke," was published in 2015. She has currently completed a poetry manuscript and is looking for a publisher, if anyone out there is listening! Julia began her career as an art historian. Her mentor, Irving Sandler, wrote “The Triumph of American Painting." She continued her Master’s studies at Columbia University, and worked for Ronald Feldman Fine Arts as a researcher for five Andy Warhol print portfolios. She was accepted into the prestigious curatorial program at the Hirschhorn Museum in Washington, DC and the Whitney Curatorial program. She has worked at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, The Guggenheim and The Neuberger Museum. She is represented in collections in the U.S., Europe and Asia. She has shown at Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown, MA, The Cherrystone Gallery in Wellfleet and by Farm Project Space in Wellfleet. Her gallery and studio space "Mermaids Grange,"' in Wellfleet is open by appointment. For more info: juliasalinger.com.