MEET THE TEAM

Emily Breeze, a white playwright with long blonde hair and a deep blue shirt, reads with a quizzical look from her red book, titled "Comedy." She squints through her glasses at the book while resting her hand on her chin. She is sitting in a grassy area with trees in the background.

Emily Breeze

Co-Artistic Director

Emily Breeze (she/her) is a playwright and screenwriter based on the East Coast. Her plays include MOTHER SAYS SHE’S SHOCKED HER CHILDREN ARE UPSET (Part 5), HEDY, FALLOUT, TITLE NINE, YOU OWE ME YOUR BONES, commissioned by CalArts, a one-act ALL MY DEAD UNCLES, and a collection of short plays produced for Fast & Furious and 7×7 at The Tank. She has assisted on shows at Hampstead Theatre, The National Theatre, The Public and more. She has developed work with The Bechdel Group, Baggage Productions, The 24 Hour Plays, The Tank, UTSC. Awards include the 2020/21 Guilford Performing Arts Festival Artist Award for her play THE HOMEWRECKER (co-written with Marialena DiFabbio), and the 2021 Rising Artist Award for her play HALLMARK. She was the 2022/23 Playwright-in-Residence for The Bechdel Group, a Dairy Hollow writer-in-residence, a former Long Wharf Theatre Artistic Resident and former Hot Bread Writer-in-Residence. BA Vassar College.

Matthew Chong

Co-Artistic Director

Matthew Chong (he/him) is a first generation Korean-American playwright. His work explores how oppressive systems can make its victims complicit in their own oppression. His plays include The Aughts (Yale Cabaret), Lessons (The Kennedy Center’s Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award) and Jung (Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival). He assisted Scott Rudin during the Broadway productions of Three Tall Women and To Kill A Mockingbird; he has also worked in television production at MTV and Netflix. He is a Writer in Residence at The New Harmony Project 2025.

Matthew Chong, a Korean-American man, looks into the camera with a slight smile. His black hair is swept to his right. He is wearing a grayish-blue jacket over a white shirt.
Andrew Rincón, a Colombian-American playwright, smiles at the camera with a relaxed look. His hair is cut short, and he sports a well-kept, short beard. He is wearing a patterned brown button-up shirt.

Andrew Rincón

Co-Artistic Director

Andrew Rincón (he/him) is a Queer Colombian-American playwright and screenwriter. His work blends fantasy, modern Latine mythology and Queer fabulation.

His plays have been developed with Latinx Playwrights Circle, INTAR, The Austin Latino New Play Festival, The Amoralists Theatre Company, Pork Filled Productions (Seattle), Out Front Productions (Atlanta). He was a member of INKtank Lab for Playwrights of Color (2017) , 2017 Fornés Playwriting Workshop (Chicago). He is winner of the 2018 Chesley/Bumbalo Grant for writers of Gay and Lesbian Theatre and New Light Theatre Project’s New Light New Voices Award (2019). He is a member of the Latinx Playwrights Circle, a Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellow (19-20), MacDowell Fellow (Winter 2020). He was Skidmore College’s Visiting Playwright in Residence (21-22). His play I Wanna Fuck like Romeo and Juliet was published in Yale Theatre Magazine (Vol 52.1) and had its world premiere in Fall of ‘22 (produced by New Light Theatre Company in NYC).

Plays include That Rhythm in the Blood, The Lonely (A Fictionally Non-Accurate Historical Kiki), and El Mito or The Myth of my Pain.