Joseph M. Paprzycki

PLAYERS ON THE HARBOR

Joseph M. Paprzycki is the author of sixty-eight plays and screenplays including “Last Rites”, “Fortune Cookies”, “Summer Rentals”, “Tennessee’s Final Curtain”, “Visions of Beatitude”, “Indoor Picnic”, “Express Tracks”, “Sage Advice”, “Youth in America”, “Players on the Harbor”, “Long Distances” and many others full length and one act.  He has had over thirty productions in New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Delaware and New Orleans and many staged readings including the Provincetown Theater. He is the founder and curator of the Truro Playwright Collective and the South Camden Theatre Company in Camden, New Jersey. There he led the construction of the Waterfront South Theatre at the site of his grandfather’s bar and the setting of his first play “Last Rites”. He has taught playwriting at Rosemont College, LaSalle University and Temple University and is featured in the award-winning documentary “Dovere for Camden” which showed the construction and opening of his theatre. A full time Cape resident he lives with his husband Gus Orr in North Truro, Massachusetts. He is also the Dramatists Guild Ambassador for Cape Cod.  http://www.joseph-m-paprzycki.com

Fermin Rojas

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.

John Dennis Anderson

BESTON

John Dennis Anderson, a resident of Wellfleet, is a professor emeritus at Emerson College in Boston. A native of Waco, Texas, he has performed nationally in interactive solo performances as authors Henry James, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, and others. Fermin Rojas directed his performance as Marshall McLuhan for the film Marshall McLuhan, What Are You Doin’? He has appeared in The Laramie Project and Casa Valentina at the Provincetown Theater. For the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival, he will appear in September 2024 in The Glass Menagerie and Something Cloudy, Something Clear. He read his solo play Isherwood for the Truro Playwright Collective’s first season, and in January 2024 his play A Cultivated Friendship, about Edith Wharton and Louis Bromfield, was read. He is a Trustee of the Helltown Players and a Board Member of the Open University of Wellfleet.

Meryl Cohn

Meryl Cohn’s playwriting awards include The ATHE Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, Massachusetts Cultural Council finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semifinalist (twice), The Eventide Arts Theater Award, and Curve Magazine's Lesbian Theater Award. Reasons to Live was named a Favorite Play by The Cape Cod Times. Seven of Meryl’s full-length plays have been commissioned and produced by The Provincetown Theater. Her work has also been produced at W.H.A.T, the Skylight Theater, The Open Fist, TOSOS, The New York International Fringe Festival (extended in the Encore Series), The Soho Playhouse, The Cherry Pit, and Smith College, among others. Play publications include The Siegels of Montauk (in Lesbian and Queer Plays of the Jane Chambers Prize) and her monologue from And Sophie Comes Too was published in Best Women’s Stage Plays and Monologues, Smith & Kraus. She is also the author of the humor book Do What I Say: Ms. Behavior’s Guide to Gay and Lesbian Etiquette. She earned an MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Meryl founded the ongoing Northampton Playwrights Lab in 2006 and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.

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.