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Gail Thornton Borkowski
Gail Thornton Borkowski is a director, actress, and playwright. She has directed, produced and acted in Santa Cruz since 1984. Her play “Waking Up” was produced by Santa Cruz Actors Theatre in the 2020 Eight-10s Play Festival. She is excited to work and collaborate with the 36ºNorth writers.
Deborah Bryant
Deborah Bryant is both a playwright and actor and has appeared in productions with Cabrillo Theatre, Friends of Gus, Actors’ Theatre, Willing Suspension Armchair Theatre and Northern Castle Theater for Children. As a writer she seeks to engage a diverse audience with original work and is supported by colleagues in Santa Cruz’s Monday Night Playwrights. Her play The Mooring won the 2013 Bay Area Full-Length Play contest.
Steve Capasso
Steve is an actor and a playwright. He has performed for Jewel Theatre, Mountain Community Theatre, Cabrillo College, Scotts Valley Performing Arts, and Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre where he is a frequent performer in their annual 8Tens@8 play festival. Steven started writing 12 years ago in the Fun Institute’s Spotlife solo performance workshop where he has written over a dozen monologues. One of these monologues was developed into a full-length one man show, You Always Remember, which was produced in Santa Cruz in 2013, included in San Francisco Fringe 2016 and will premier in New York City at the United Solo Theatre Festival in October 2017.
Wilma Marcus Chandler
Wilma Marcus Chandler is Emeritus Chair of Theatre Arts at Cabrillo College, Aptos. She has plays, poetry and theatre textbooks in national publication and is Artistic Director of the annual Santa Cruz Actors’ theatre 8Tens@8 short play festival, as well as co-founder of The Celebration of the Muse writers’ series and The Willing Suspension Armchair Theatre.
Kathy Chetkovich
Kathryn Chetkovich is the author of a short-story collection, Friendly Fire, and her fiction and nonfiction have been published in literary magazines and selected for Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. Her plays include Acts of Love (published by Dramatists Play Service and produced Off-Broadway); She Said, She Said; and Love and Death.
Ruth Elliott
Ruth Elliott has been an active participant in Santa Cruz Theater for over 20 years. She is an actress and writer and has trained at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City as well as with Wilma Marcus Chandler at Cabrillo College and Ian McRae. Ruth is proud to be a part of the dynamic and creative force that is 36 North and looks forward to writing and producing original works.
Susan Forrest
Susan Forrest has been a member of the Santa Cruz and Monterey County theater scenes since 1994. Favorite roles include: Amanda in Private Lives; Elvira in Blithe Spirit; Vivian in Wit; Nurse Ratched in Cuckoo’s Nest; Sister Aloysius in Doubt and Duse in Eleonora Duse Dies in Pittsburg. Susan also wrote and directed many fairy-tales for Northern Castle Theater for Children. Her 10-min. plays, Slinging Hash at the Lowlife Bar and Grill and Be It Ever So Humble were winners of the Santa Cruz Ten Minute Play Festival. She co-wrote Dragon Jaws, produced by Cabrillo College in 2015.
Jory Post is a co-founder of Santa Cruz Writes and phren-Z online literary magazine. He was the Managing Editor for Apple Computer’s Apple Learning Interchange, Development Director for the New Teacher Center, and classroom teacher at Happy Valley Elementary School. He has published a series of educational books with ETR and Associates, and his fiction has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review and Epiphany Online. He is currently a member of Clifford Henderson’s Wednesday night writing Salon, and a member of 36 North playwrights’ collective.
Tim Woods
Tim is a playwright and novelist. He has had three plays performed in the Santa Cruz Eight Tens @ Eight Festival over the past six years and has written three novels in three genres: Historical Fiction, Grant Me Timely Grace; Contemporary Women’s Fiction, Beth’s Book; and political satire, Never Trust A Hero.
Spike Wong
Steve “Spike” Wong is the founder and editor-in-chief at PushPen Press, publishing anthologies of flash nonfiction. In between bouts of Chinese cooking and triathlon, he writes plays, poetry and nonfiction. His plays “Countess Befits Her” and “Habits” appeared originally at the Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre 8Tens@8 Festival; “Habits” proceeded to Off Broadway at the Lion Theatre. His passion for pursuing playwrighting reflects his penchant for difficult challenges, artistry and late nights.
