During the 2012-2013 Season, Tesseract hosted two up-and-coming playwrights getting produced around the nation.  They were in town to talk to local community members, writers, and students.

Scroll down to read more about our visiting playwrights or click here and see the successful Kickstarter campaign that got them to St. Louis.

Kevin D. Ferguson & Samantha Macher

were our 2012-2013 Visiting Playwrights.

Kevin D. Ferguson

November 17th @ 2pm

Kevin D. Ferguson is a playwright and MFA Candidate in the Playwright's Lab at Hollins University. He is also Playwright-in-Residence at Atlantic Stage Company in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. His ten-minute play Folies a deux/Pas de deux is the season opener for The Tesseract Theatre Company's "Curtain Opener" series. His play A Thing With Feathers was a semi-finalist in the Trustus Playwright's Festival. A workshop production of A Thing With Feathers is scheduled to run from

November 7th to November 18th, 2012, at The Tesseract Theatre Company in St. Louis, Missouri. His play Child's Play was the featured play at Atlantic Stage Company's 2012 New Play Festival and will have a three-week engagement in 2013 in the Company's fifth season. His one-act play Losing Sight was a finalist for the Arts and Letters Prize in Drama. Kevin has been involved in theatre in one way or another since he was in high school and has always found opportunities to apply his art and passion in a socially conscious manner. He volunteered in a shelter for battered women and children where he did creative dramatics with abused children and teens. Building on that experience, he took graduate courses in drama therapy and creative therapeutic modalities and earned a Master's degree in counseling. Kevin worked as a psychotherapist in a residential treatment center for children with extreme emotional problems before shifting careers to teach English and Drama at a small private school, where he was soon tapped to be Chair of the English Department. Kevin remains committed to arts education and believes in the power of the arts to transform lives. He is a member of the Dramatist's Guild as well as the Literary Managers and Dramaturges of the Americas Association.

Samantha Macher

         MARCH 23 @ 2PM

Samantha Macher is a Playwright-in-Residence at SkyPilot Theater in Los Angeles, California.  Since 2007, she has had a variety of workshops and productions and readings across        the country. Full productions include TO THE NEW GIRL and

REWIND, at SkyPilot Theatre, ICEBERG TO NOWHERE at Theatre of NOTE, LA, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, and at the Hell-Tro Theatre Collective,  IMPROVED BUSH at Sacred Fools (LA) Fast and Loose Festival. She has also been a writer for Mill Mountain Theatre’s OVERNIGHT SENSATIONS festival in Roanoke, Virginia.  Readings include, FOLKS LIKE YOU, THE COLD EARTH, ICH LIEBE DICH, and THE ARCTIC CIRCLE at and THE VEIL with Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University, in affiliation with Mill Mountain Theatre and Studio Roanoke. Her play THE ARCTIC CIRCLE * (and a recipe for Swedish pancakes) was a Reva Shiner Comedy Award Finalist and a Dolce Revolution Playwriting Contest finalist, and will be produced in Roanoke in February of 2011 with the Hollins University New Works Initiative, and then again in Manhattan in affiliation with Playwright's Horizons. Her play FOLKS LIKE YOU is a Delauney Prize Winner for Best New Play at the University of Virginia in 2008.  TO THE NEW GIRL had a run of sold-out performances in Summer of 2011 and will be remounted with SkyPilot Theatre in Fall of 2012, it will also be running at Studio Roanoke in June of 2012. Her newest play WAR BRIDE will premiere in Los Angeles at SkyPilot Theatre in August of 2012.

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Samantha Macher talking to local writers and students at the

Regional Arts Commission in the Delmar Loop.

Kevin D. Ferguson with cast and crew of

A Thing With Feathers & Folie a Deux/Pas de Deux