Ren Walker

Walker prefers to bike since she is a walking disaster, but she has been known to skip. More of her work can be seen at www.renwalker.com

Caitlin Reilly

Reilly is a recent graduate of Emerson College. She sends her best to writers everywhere. Should the Thesaurus ever go extinct (Roget forbid), we'll still have each other.

Charles Pieper

Pieper is currently living in North Hollywood where he makes stop motion animated music videos for bands. He is an Emerson College graduate but has also studied film at NCSA, CalArts, and FAMU in Prague. His main focus is stop motion animation and older fashioned handmade filmmaking techniques. To see more of Pieper, visit http://www.vimeo.com/cpieper

Sam Perzanowski

Perzanowski was born in the rugged wilderness of Vermont and has been writing ever since he was a kid. He has graduated Emerson College with experience in animation and motion media. He also really enjoys a nice bowl of beef stew.

Lila Louise Nawrocki

Nawrocki graduated from Emerson with B.A.'s in Film and Theater Studies. She won Wild Sound's One Page Screenplay Competition for "Speedy Checkout." She won the EVVY for Best Prose for her short story "Turning Tricks."She has also been fortunate enough to be a semi-finalist in the Eugene O'Neill Playwright's Confrence as well as being an ARTS Merit Award Winner. Her play, "Will", is currently published through Playscripts, Inc. Lila's works have been a part of Thread since the very beginning and she'll be forever grateful that it exists...and with that, it's on to her next big adventure!

Sean McDonough

McDonough has a B.A. in TV/Radio and Writing, Literature and Publishing. When at home in Merrick, Long Island, he starts every day by going out to the beach to keep an eye out for incoming frozen dictators. He is allso the writer for the 2006 "It Came From the Vault" festival winner "A Fatal Fiction."

Travis Maruska

Maruska (Faculty Spotlight Screenwriter) received his MFA in Screenwriting from Chapman UNiversity while working in Hollywood at Creative Artists Agency and writing scrips with his managers at Alter/Sun Management. His script, Apache Son, was a semifinalist in the 2004 Nicholl's and American Zoetrope competitions. Over the past four years he has written several features, two pilots, and had more treatments than he would care to remember. He currently teaches at Emerson College and Anna Maria College.

David Lawson

As a playwright, David Lawson’s production history includes Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Emerson Stage, Boston. April 2006), Snap (July 2007, Stratford Summer Theatre Festival, Stratford, CT), Intergalactic Circadian Rhythm (August 2007, Boston Playwrights’ Theater), Use Ravenously in a Sentence (March 2008, Rareworks Theater, Boston), Public Service (February-March 2009, Alive Theater, Long Beach, CA. L.A. Weekly 'Pick of the Week') and A Progressive Person (July 2009, Boca Raton Theatre Guild, FL), LoCo SloMo PoMo (January 2010, Providence Players of Fairfax, VA). Lawson also co-wrote and starred in the short film Peaches, which screened at the 2009 Chicago Underground Film Festival.

Lawson is the winner of the 2006 Rod Parker Playwriting Fellowship (Boston), won Honorable Mention in the 2007 E-Merging Writers Playwriting Competition (NYC) and the 2009 Long Beach Gazette Award for Playwriting. Lawson has placed as a Finalist in the 2008 Capital T Theatre Monologue Competition (Austin, TX), the 2009 Flour City New Play Festival (Rochester, NY), the 2009 Great Plains Theatre Conference (Omaha, NE) and was a 2009 WordBRIDGE Semi-Finalist (Clemson, SC).

Lawson’s work has been developed with the Pulse Ensemble Theatre (NYC), The Meat and Bone Theatre Company (NYC), at The Painted Bride Arts Center (Philadelphia), The Creative Forum (NYC), The Playwrights’ Center (MN) and has been featured at the 2007 Middle America Theatre Festival's Playwriting Symposium (Minneapolis, MN), and Bug Theatre's 2007 New Playwrights Festival (Denver).

As an actor, Lawson has performed professionally with Reality Aside Theatre (NYC), TheatreVision (NYC), the Looking Glass Theatre Company (NYC), Zeitgeist Stage Company (Boston), The Peterborough Players (Peterborough, NH), Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre (Ferrum, VA), CLIMB Theatre (St. Paul, MN) and the Bread and Puppet Theater (Glover, VT).

Lawson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Acting and Directing from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts and studied at the O'Neill National Theater Institute in Waterford, Connecticut.

Lawson's upcoming solo show "FLOUNDERING ABOUT (in an age of terror)" plays Thurs Feb 25th (9PM), Sat Feb 27th (2:30PM),
Sun Feb 28th (4PM), Wed March 3rd (6PM) and Sat March 6th (7PM) at UNDER St Marks (94 St Marks Place between 1st Avenue and Avenue A) in New York City. Tickets are available through SmartTix (212-868-4444, www.smarttix.com) for $7.

Jessica Kucinskas

Kusinskas graduated with a B.A. in New Media and a minor in Marketing Communications. For more information on Kusinskas, go to tiwwi.com

Kristen Humbert

(Design Editor) Humbert is a graduate of Emerson College with a B.A. in WLP. She has a passion for all things scripted and chocolate milk, as well as a deep affection for CVS and house plants.

Sarah Henderson

Henderson is studying graphic design. She loves spending hours at coffee shops drawing and people watching. Perhaps she will one day live in NYC to see what all the fuss is about. For more information, go to sarahcaitlindesign.com

MJ Halberstadt

Halberstadt is BA Theatre Education 2010. Winner of 2009 Young Playwrights Inc National Playwriting Conference for 'Video is an Endangered Species', historian for RareWorks Theatre Company. He has independently produced his plays 'Lethologica', directed by Elizabeth Hagerty and 'Asymmetry', directed by Brenna Fitzgerald. He is currently working on a 365 Plays in 365 Days blog a la Suzan-Lori Parks. For information on Halberstadt, go to http://mj365plays.blogspot.com.

Eva "E.W" Gross

(Executive Editor) Gross is currently a book buyer for a children's book store and a writer for a local paper in Virginia. She enjoys bread, brightly colored items, and the occasional bad film. She is consistently taller than she thinks and sometimes harasses strangers with an unplanned game of water bottle soccer on the sidewalks of Boston. She is a nice kid, though, and will always tell you she is lying if you look like you believe her. Oh, and she writes, too.

Andrew Eisenberg

Eisenberg spends the vast majority of his life in the digital realm. His own writing ranges from memoir to travel to screenwriting and knows first hand how difficult the writing process is.

Thom Dunn

Dunn has business cards that read, "Rock Star. Super Hero. Poet." Thom Dunn likes whiskey. Thom Dunn is not a number. Thom Dunn is a free man! He is currently the web content and new media manager at the Huntington Theatre Company. To see more of Thom Dunn check out http://fivebyfivehundred.wordpress.com/

Traci Leigh Doromal

(Marketing Director) Doromal graduated with a degree in Marketing Communications in 2008.

Wendy Jane Cohen

(Treasurer) Cohen has written for two Emerson Channel shows, and has been published in Gauge and EM Magazine.

Eric Chang

Chang (Layout Editor) Chang is a writer and college senior film major (Korean-American, 21, 5'11", Virgo) seeks personable mate who shares his distate for emotional instability and monotheism. Enjoys power, constitutional law, all foods Thai/Indian/of terrestrial origin, Scandinavia, and cuddling. Often writes stories concerning a) the loss of innonence and/or b) escapism in the face of death. Feels he has shared too much about himself. Worried.

Josie C. Campbell

Campbell is an Emerson alumni and current freelance writer. While at Emerson she was a writer for, and president of, the comedy troupe Chocolate Cake City; she was also the recipient of the Joe Murphy Comedy Award and the Penelope Hirsch Student Director Award. Josie moved to L.A. in 2008 to work as a writer for the Warner Brothers Creative Lab, and has stayed in California ever since. You can see her work, writings, and upcoming shows on her website: www.CozyJamble.com

Dina Sartore-Bodo

(Asst. Editor) Bodo graduated with a degree in T.V. Production. During her time at Emerson. she worked on countless projects including the original season of Daily Grind, EIV Music Videos, and Browne at Midnight.