CLUBBED THUMB’S 25/26 NEW PLAY DIRECTING FELLOWSHIP

Terrence I Mosley is a narrative-based director and educator who sometimes performs and writes. His directing credits include Everything You Love, Smart People, Sender, Everybody, Unentitled (2024 AUDELCO Best Revival), and Milo Imagines the World (Associate Director). He has performed at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Northlight Theatre, Court Theatre, and Nancy Manocherian’s the cell. He has supported the work of directors and writers at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the Goodman Theatre, Mabou Mines, Primary Stages, Irish Repertory Theatre, and the BBC. He has been a guest artist at Syracuse University, Rutgers University, SUNY Purchase, and Fordham College at Lincoln Center, where he also served as Interim Head of Directing. He was recently a Kenny Leon Fellow at the Alliance Theatre. He is the writer of the plays One and Gilbert, or Frank, and the co-writer of Deep Killer Brown with Helen Hayes Award winner Melody A. Betts. His work encourages people to take ownership of their thoughts and actions. MFA: John Wells Fellowship @ Carnegie Mellon University

Max Mooney is a Queer writer, director, producer, theater educator and dramaturg based in Brooklyn. Max develops new work in joyfully collaborative settings that find the intersections between poetry and visual/maximalist theater. Max’s directing and writing work has been seen and workshopped at The Wild Project, The Tank, Dixon Place, Concrete Temple Theatre, Rooted Theater Company, Fresh Fruit Festival, the Brick Aux, Paradise Factory & many Brooklyn rooftops and friends’ living rooms. She was a 2023 semifinalist for the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, a 2025 semifinalist for The O’Neill’s National Playwrights Conference and a 2025 semifinalist for Clubbed Thumb’s Biennial Commission. Max serves as the Assistant Producer at En Garde Arts, Associate Producer at Concrete Temple Theater and is an affiliate artist of Trove Theatre/Live Arts Collective. She was the curator of The Tank’s 2025 Pridefest. Remixed Classics, a theater education handbook co-authored by Max, won a 2023 Vattemare Award. Max has a BFA from NYU Tisch’s Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, specializing in directing and playwriting.

Liz Peterson is a multidisciplinary performance-maker whose work spans theatrical, site-specific and iterative projects that explore the chaotic intimacies between gesture and words. Liz was born in Manchester, UK to a Mancunian mother & Anglo-Indian/Burmese father, and grew up tethered to St. John’s, Newfoundland and Melipilla, Chile. She has worked internationally with leading artists including Oliver Husain, Peter Hinton, Jordan Tannahill, Anne Bogart, and Rugilé Bardziukaité. Her work has been presented at IAP (St. Mark’s Church), the Art Gallery of Ontario, SummerWorks Festival, OFFTA, Tiger Dublin Fringe, Dancemakers and the Harbourfront Center. She is a former Associate Artist with Public Recordings and a 2021 Roundabout Theatre Archive Fellow. Select directing credits: ਆਦਤ / the Ādat (United Solo Festival – Best Musical Award), Sheltered (the cell theatre), Urinetown, the Musical (Fisher Center Bard College), The Beautiful Lady (LaMama, Assistant Director), Sun and Sea (Santiago-A-Mil, Assistant Director). Directing MFA – Columbia University. lizpeterson.org

jose sebastian alberdi is a Brooklyn-based playwright originally from sunny San Diego. Writing developed with: the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (National Playwrights Conference), MacDowell (Fellowship), Page 73 (Fellowship, Writers’ Group), Clubbed Thumb (Early Career Writers’ Group), Ensemble Studio Theatre (Youngblood), Colt Coeur (Company Member, Residency), The Orchard Project (Greenhouse Lab, Episodic Lab, Homegrown x Sony TV Lab), Fresh Ground Pepper (BRB Eco-Week), South Coast Repertory (Pacific Playwrights Festival, Elizabeth George Commission, NewSCRipts), Denver Center for the Performing Arts (New Play Summit), the Huntington Theatre Company (Dream Boston), Exquisite Corpse Company (Writer’s Lab), Lambda Literary (Writer’s Retreat) and more. MFA: NYU. @milk_jello on (most) social media.

Hanna Yurfest is a director and producer of performances and events from Richmond, MA. She has worked with/at The Tank, The Exponential Festival, and New Georges, amongst others. She co-founded and leads The Tank’s artist group, TAG, and creates work with her company, Needy Lover. needylover.com, @yurfest0 on instagram.

Emma Horwitz is a writer of plays, fiction, and zines from New York City. Recent productions include Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods (written & performed w/ Bailey Williams, dir. Tara Elliott, with Rattlestick Theater and New Georges, Spring 2025; with The Exponential Festival in collaboration with New Georges, Winter 2024) and Mary Gets Hers (dir. Josiah Davis, with The Playwrights Realm, Fall 2023.) Emma was the 2024/2023 Page One Resident and a 2022/2021 Writing Fellow with The Playwrights Realm, and has further developed work in theater with the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (Bogdonoff, 2024), the William Inge Center for the Arts, Stillwright, Mercury Store, The Brick, The Hearth, and the Williamstown Theater Festival, among others. Audrey Resident and Affiliated Artist with New Georges. Alum of Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers’ Group (2023/2022). MFA: Brown University. For more: emmahorwitz.com.