WHO WE ARE
Hi! I’m Miriam.
I started SCRiB LAB to offer community to fellow writers.
MiRiAM BC TOBiN
Founder & Executive Artistic Director
Miriam (she|her) is a Seattle-based playwright, theatre artist, and arts educator. She has performed on stages and taught drama across the US and Europe. Honors & awards include a Hedgebrook residency, PEN Writing Scholarship, and London Dramatic Academy Fellowship. She is a resident writer with the Seattle Public Library and an associate artist with Parley Productions and The Shattered Glass Project.
MFA Creative Writing/Playwriting, Goddard College; MA Directing, Gallatin @ NYU; BA Spanish Lit, Brandeis University; Acting Conservatory: Atlantic Theater Company & London Dramatic Academy
playwriting site: www.mirbct.com
Listen to Miriam’s interview on the Goddard in the World podcast where she talks about writing, theatre, story telling, and why she started SCRiB LAB.
Hi! We’re the Advisory Board.
We support SCRiB LAB’s mission to provide accessible and exciting programming for playwrights.
ADRiENNE MACKEY
Adrienne is a multidisciplinary artist who explores performance and play. With Swim Pony, she’s created and directed works like SURVIVE! - a 22,000 sq-ft science installation; THE BALLAD OF JOE HILL at Eastern State Penitentiary; WAR OF THE WORLDS, with Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio; and THE END – a month-long ARG exploring mortality. Most recently she developed TRAILOFF – a mobile app embedding immersive audio onto nature trails and AQUA MAROONED!, a wildlife card game. Mackey is also a former chemist and teaches acting, directing and devising at UW. Catch her new interactive comedy about escaping workaholism, THE STUPIDEST, SCARIEST TIME at 12th Avenue Arts November 2024.
BROOKLYN BAGGETT
brooklyn (she/her) is a trans poet and artist living in New York City. She holds an MFA from Goddard College and her work has appeared in Yellow Arrow Journal, Samfiftyfour, Impossible Archetype, The Pitkin Review, Big Muddy, and River Styx, among others. Her chapbook, we cast shadows & other true stories, from Bottlecap Press, was recently released. She is also the founder and managing editor of new words {press} - a trans and gender-expansive poetry journal and press. brooklyn is dedicated to the radical act of being herself and lifting the voices of trans poets.
Find her: www.ebrooklynbaggett.com, Instagram, Facebook, www.newwordspress.com
KATHRYN JEAN KELLER
Kathryn is a playwright, director, actor and itinerant theater artist based in Seattle. She co-founded Café Delirium, a collective of anti-racist queers responding to public affairs with original site-specific theater. Keller serves the The 14/48 Projects, “producers of the World’s Quickest Theater Festival & other feats of impossible theater, spanning the globe.” She holds a BFA in theater and a PhD in American Studies. Keller has studied theater with Eduardo Machado, Jill Dolan, Sue-Ellen Case, Andrea Stolowitz, Elizabeth Heffron, and Miriam Tobin.
RACHAEL K SHARP
Rachael is passionate about community-based creativity, healing and transformation. With more than 20 years of experience, she brings a dynamic style to her work as a consultant, facilitator, mediator and applied theatre practitioner. She is a co-founder of Creative Strategies for Change, presented at TEDx, and holds an MA from the Gallatin School at NYU, where she received the Nia award for outstanding creative work, and taught courses through the commission on Gender, Race and Social Justice. Rachael finds magic in the mess and endless joy romping in the wild with Ruthie the pup.
SOFiA MOLiMBi
Sofia is a playwright, actor, and theatre director. She is the recipient of the 2023 Oregon Literary Fellowship for Drama. She has been published by Smith & Kraus, Applause Acting Series, Meriwether Publishing, Pioneer Drama Service, and The Pitkin Review. Plays include: Remote, Group; or Marlene is Dead, The Eclipse, The Heart of Gravesend, Bugs, Tiny Home, Mary Quirke, and The Purse. She’s worked as a theatre artist in NYC, Dublin, Helsinki, and Portland, OR. MFA: Goddard College, Playwriting / Creative Writing. Memberships: Dramatist Guild, SAG-AFTRA, & AEA. She’s a proud member of LineStorm Playwrights in Portland. Read her plays on New Play Exchange.
Hi! We’re the STORYlab Coaches.
We work closely with writers to provide customized editing and feedback.
CLAiRE E. JONES
Claire (she/her) is a queer fantasy romance author as well as an experienced guide that supports other writers in getting their works into the world. She has been writing in some shape or form since she was seven years old, earning an award for her poetry at age 16 and getting published in academic journals at age 21. She is now publishing her third novel in 2024 and also services creatives of all types in achieving their goals in less time with less stress. She works from Seattle WA, where she lives with her precious pup, Karma.
JAZ
Jaz is an Award-winning Published Poet, Author, Performance Poet, Playwright, Actress, Songwriter (ASCAP), Singer, Composer, and Educator from Philadelphia, PA. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from Goddard College and a BA in Theater from Temple University.
Since 2000, Jaz’s poetry publications span over two decades in multiple literary mags, journals, and anthologies. She is blessed to be a public-school educator and independent poetry instructor.
Her artistry encourages and celebrates healing of the spirit through her creative words of ministry, protest, and witness. Jaz is honored to be used as a vessel of Christ whether on or off the page/stage.
CATHERiNE BLAKE SMiTH
Catherine (she/her) is a neurodivergent theatre producer, dramaturg, and director based in Seattle. She was Artistic Director of Annex Theatre (2016-2019), curator of the variety show Spin the Bottle (2015-2020), and an alumna of Directors Lab North. She has developed new work as a dramaturg, director, and playwright with Annex, Latitude Theatre, Infinity Box Theatre, Macha Monkey Theatre, and others. She has a B.A. in Theatre Arts & History (Illinois Wesleyan University), Certificate in Web Design (Seattle Central), Certificate in Project Management (UW-PCE), and is currently working on a Certificate in Editing (UW-PCE). In addition to producing theatre, Catherine is also an editorial and research assistant for a history book on The Black Scholar.
Hi! We’re the SCRiBBERS.
We’re the amazing writers and artists who have led workshops, classes, and events.
AMY S CUTLER
Amy is a writer who earned her master’s degree in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Her work can be found in Tales to Terrify, wow-women on writing, the Pitkin Review, Wellness Universe, Elephant Journal and more. Her novel, A Shadow of Love, will be released in May of 2022. Her writing focus is suspense, horror, science fiction and ghost stories. She can be contacted through AmysHippieHut.com.
Purchase her novel through her website which leads her publishers’ site or on Amazon (also an audiobook!).
AMY LANDiSMAN
Amy is a writer, teacher, and MFA candidate in fiction at Goddard College. A former journalist and lifestyle columnist, Amy has forsaken nonfiction to conjure written hope from the flora and fauna around her. Her work has appeared in The Pitkin Review, Boston.com, HuffPost, Blogher, and more. She is a pensive Pisces based in Connecticut, where she lives with her husband, daughters, and her shadow, a black cat named Boo.
ANTHEA BROWN
Anthea is a hybrid writer and MFAW candidate at Goddard College. Her current project is a poetic memoir that focuses on the complexities of family, childhood trauma, and the mental health system growing up in the 80s and 90s. She believes there is a story in all of us that burns to be told and deserves to be heard.
Find her on Facebook.
ASTRA PiERSON
Astra is an MFA candidate at Goddard College. She is currently writing a novel about Virginia Poe. She lives in Maine with her fiancé and two dogs.
AURORA HURD
Aurora is a Vermont writer and recent graduate of Goddard College's Creative Writing MFA program. Hurd teaches creative writing classes for all levels and is currently working on editing their first novel.
More information can be found at:
www.aurorahurd.com
BARBARA MARiE MiNNEY
Barbara a seventh generation Appalachian, is a transgender woman, award winning poet, writer, speaker, teaching artist, guest reader/editor, and quiet activist. Barbara’s poetry and essays have been published in numerous anthologies and publications. Her poetry has also been translated into Spanish. Barbara is the author of four poetry collections: If There’s No Heaven (winner of the 2020 Poetry Is Life Book Award), the Poetic Memoir Chapbook Challenge, Dance Naked With God, and A Woman in Progress. Barbara lives in Tallmadge, Ohio with her wife of over 42 years and a menagerie of stuffed animals.
Follow Barbara online at www.barbaramarieminneypoetry.com.
CARLETON WHALEY
Carleton is an MFA candidate at Goddard College whose work has appeared in Maudlin House, New South Journal, Trampset, and more. His stories have been nominated for a Best of the Net, longlisted for Wigleaf’s Top 50, and been featured on the Micro podcast. You can follow him online @carletonwhaley or on his website carletonwhaley.com.
CLAUDiNE CHEATEM
Claudine is a self-published novelist, playwright, and poet. She believes the arts have been and always will be a conduit to change. Nurturing a child through the arts will introduce them to their own power and ability to assist in the change. Re-introducing an adult to the arts will awaken dreams and talents that have been dormant. The arts soothe, heal and teach us how to cope with the prickly edges of life. Claudine appreciates that she has been called to be part of the community of healers through the arts.
EMMA BERDANiER
Emma is a poet and MFAW candidate at Goddard College. Her current project aims to answer questions surrounding grief, trauma, obsession, and ownership. She believes there is a trust between writer and reader that must be honored throughout the writing process.
GAEL LEWiS
Gael is a graduate of the B.S. in Professional Writing program at Champlain College and is currently completing their MFA in Creative Writing with Goddard College. Lewis’s work centers around contemporary social issues, nature, the body, and where each of these topics coalesce. Their work has been previously featured under pen names in multiple publications, most recently new words press, The Pitkin Review, Coffin Bell Journal, and Black Spot Book’s Under Her Skin poetry anthology. Lewis currently resides in Brookline, New Hampshire with their cat Junebug.
G.D. BROWN
G.D. has worked as a literary editor and as an award-winning newswriter. His debut novel, Sinners Plunged Beneath That Flood, is due out in August 2022 through Leftover Books. His other literary work has appeared in or is set to appear in The Woven Tale Press, COUNTERCLOCK, Abandon, Full Stop, Oyster River Pages, The Champagne Room, Jokes Review, Westview, PopMatters, Oracle Fine Arts Review, The Tulsa Voice, and elsewhere. He is a Goddard College MFA graduate and lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
HANNAH KLiNKHAMMER
Hannah is an MFA candidate at Goddard College. She works at Goddard’s Pitkin Review and has had her own work featured. Her writing is fantasy with a dash of horror and gore, in both her prose and poetry. Magic works its way into all her writing and even into her day-to-day life. She lives in Dell Rapids, South Dakota and enjoys watching the stars on summer night, listening to the quiet of the Plains.
KAE WiNTER
Kae (they/kae) is a poet/hybrid writer, Co-Founder and Senior Editor of the Queer Literary Journal inBetween , Co-founder of the LGBTQIA++ Healing Arts Organization MAKEspace, and MFAW candidate at Goddard College. Kae believes in the empowered space that exists when we're given permission to rewrite our self-limiting narratives, part-by-part, especially where the marginalized identities of the LGBTQIA++ community are concerned.
KATE RAPHAEL
Kate is a Lambda-nominated novelist, journalist, anarchafeminist and queer activist based in Seattle. Her published work includes the Palestine mystery series, Murder Under the Bridge and Murder Under the Fig Tree, and The Midwife’s In Town. She received a 2011 Hedgebrook residency and is a producer on KPFA radio Women’s Magazine, where one of her joys is interviewing authors. She has an MFA in Writing at Goddard College and has taught at Hugo House and other community writing venues. Connect with her at www.kateraphael.com and check out the Radical Fiction Facebook Group.
KATE SCHWARTZ
Kate (she/her) is a Seattle-based Playwright. She has her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Nebraska Omaha. Her works include LEAR/LOMAN (Acting Out INK Fest and Hollywood Fringe 2019), Venus and Mars (Chicago Dramatists), Retreat in the Berkshires (Mid-America Theatre Conference), Thou Roguish, Boil-Brained, Coxcomb (published by Drama Notebook), and her One-Act, The Holding Space, was a Finalist for the Tennessee Williams One-Act Playwriting Contest.
LiNDA HATTON
Linda transplanted to the LA area from Seattle to pursue acting. She has judged close to 2,000 literary works for NYC Midnight, Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book & E-book Awards, Saugus Union School District (PTA Reflections), and the Writer’s Digest Poem-a-Day Challenge. In 2006, she founded Mouse Tales Press. Her writing has appeared in Red Earth Review and the San Diego Poetry Annual, among others. She has co-produced theatrical works in NY, Seattle, and LA and has had staged readings at The Chincoteague Island Theatre Company. Find Linda on: Facebook, Amazon
MAGGiE HiGGiNBOTHAM
Maggie (she/her) is a playwright, director, and novelist. A graduate of Emory University with degrees in English and Creative Writing and Theater Studies, Maggie has most recently seen her work onstage through a staged reading of The Game Show at the Firehouse Theatre in Richmond, VA. Maggie has often found herself in administrative, marketing, and communication positions, and enjoys both bringing art to life and facilitating art in others.
MARiA BURNS
Maria (she/her) is a writer, actress, and creative writing instructor currently based in VA. She holds a MFA in Creative from Goddard College and a BA in Theatre from The College of William and Mary. Her work has been published in Rejection Letters, Five Minutes, The Daily Drunk, and The Pitkin Review (among others). Her short plays have been performed on both coasts. She is currently querying her first novel while working on her second and third.
Find her on Twitter: @MariaElizaBEE
Instagram: @mariaelizburnss
MEGAN LOOMiS
Megan is a professional actor, musician and writer who is currently a playwriting major in Goddard College’s MFAW program. She has performed all over the world in the Broadway touring companies of Wicked, War Horse, Cabaret and Sweeney Todd, as well as at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Vienna’s English Theatre. A theatre maker by nature, Megan wrote and performed her one-woman show, The Girl in the Band, at Emerging Artists Theatre’s One-Woman Standing Festival, Sounds of the City Summer Festival and at the Rochester International Fringe Festival. This year, a poem and a play of hers were chosen to be published in the Pitkin Review.
SAM REBELEiN
Sam holds an MFA from Goddard College, a certificate of graduation from the Lubbock Area Square & Round Dance Federation, and that one trophy in The Last of Us Part II for when you beat the game on the hardest difficulty. Hard to say which of these is Sam's greatest accomplishment. Sam's work has recently appeared in Bourbon Penn, Coffin Bell Journal, Press Pause Press, Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year, and elsewhere. HarperCollins' crime and horror imprint William Morrow published Sam's debut horror novel Edenville in 2023. For more about Sam's writing (and pictures of his dogs), follow Sam on Twitter @HillaryScruff.
SARAH MAE AFRiAM
Mae is a hybrid writer who earned her MFAW at Goddard College and works as the Director of Hinsdale Public Library in Western Massachusetts. Her personal experiences with loss have been an intrinsic part of her life experience that continue to inform the way she sees the world. Writing into that grief has been the most affirming, magical choice she can imagine. Mae is dedicated to creating an anti-racist, queer-affirming, trauma-informed workshop space in all of her teaching. She is currently working on a hybrid ghost story that explores what it means when someone you once loved continues to haunt you after their death.
SOCORRO DE LUCA
Socorro is a hybrid writer and a MFAW alum from Goddard College. Her current project works with themes of motherhood, daugherthood, community, and the climate crisis. She believes in prioritizing trust between the writer and their work.