Meet the Playwrights of THE 2nd SEVEN 2023
FUSION Theatre Company is proud to announce the playwrights of our ninth annual performance of The 2nd Seven: The Elephant in the Room!
ADA CHENG is an educator-turned artist, storyteller, and creator. Dr. Ada Cheng has utilized storytelling to illustrate structural inequities, raise critical awareness, and build intimate communities. Committed to amplifying marginalized voices, she has created numerous storytelling platforms for BIPOC and LGBTQIA communities. She has been a speaker for Illinois Humanities Road Scholars Speakers Bureau since 2019. She has been named 2023–24 Lund-Gill Chair at Dominican University.
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DAVID CLARK is a co-founder and part of the leadership team at Derby City Playwrights, a company devoted to developing local writers in Louisville, KY. The Forest and the Flames was produced by Louisville Fringe (2022), and his plays gods Play and Shrodinger’s Girl were part of the Derby City Playwights New Play Festval in 2019 and 2016. Work includes: Edgar at 2014 Ten-Tucky Festival in Louisville; And in the Silence Penguins Come (2015) and Chocolate Girl (2012) at the Finnigan Festival, Louisville; In Retrospect as part of “The Seven” at FUSION, Albuquerque (2007); gods Play, Laundry, and Chocolate Girl were showcased at the Good Acting Studio, Atlanta (2014); and he produced (with Callie Meiners) Everything and Nothing for the 2012 Minnesota Fringe Festival. His work has been published in two volumes of collected monologues, presented Bananapocalypse at the Last Frontier Conference Play Lab, and was selected as a semi-finalist for the Roots of the Bluegrass New Play Award, the Source Theatre Festival and as a finalist for the Heidemann Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville. He attributes all of his success to his long-time collaborator, editor and wife, Beth Clark, with whom he is currently attempting to script the life of three adorable children.
STUART A. DAY was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a Professor of Spanish at the University of Kansas and Managing Editor of the Latin American Theatre Review.
EMILY GOLDEN is thrilled to be included in this year's THE 2nd SEVEN. A Seattle native, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University where she currently teaches. The Best We Can Do will also be featured later this summer at Edmunds Driftwood Players in Washington State as well as The Orange Players in Connecticut. In the fall, her full-length play Bethany Sees the Stars will have its world premiere with Copious Love Productions in Seattle.
GUY NEWSHAM spent a career working on making buildings more energy efficient and sustainable. He has been an enthusiastic actor on community theatre stages for decades, and started writing for the stage in earnest six years ago. His short plays have been successful in multiple competitions and festivals, leading to more than sixty productions in five countries. He is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada and the New Play Exchange. In 2021, he won Canada’s National One Act Playwriting Competition. For more information see: http://www.guynewsham.com.
ROY SEKIGAHAMA’s first full-length play, Desert Rock Garden (New Village Arts, 2022), was nominated for Outstanding New Production (Craig Noel Awards) and won grants from the California Civil Liberties Program and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Ghosts from the Pali was read at New Village Arts’ 2020 Final Draft New Play Festival. Several of Roy’s short plays (Not Crazy Rich or Asian; Kabuki Theater in Texas; The Purple Swastika; Bullets and Bagels, and more) were winners in various contests. He is a member of the Dramatist Guild and sits on the Board of Directors of Playwrights Project. Roy worked in investment banking as a quantitative financial analyst in Tokyo but is now retired and writing plays in San Diego. Roy is a graduate of UC Berkeley (BA) and Yale University (MBA). Roy is honored to have a reading of My Son’s Red Dress at FUSION’s The 2nd Seven.