CBI 26/27 – Nathaniel Hanula-James & Alyssa Haddad-Chin
CBI 26/27 – Nathaniel Hanula-James & Alyssa Haddad-Chin
PGC members have been paired up with an international playwright to share their work and discuss the craft of playwriting with one another. You can tune into these live events and get a glimpse of what these theatre creators have been up to!
Craft Bites International is open and free to the public.
Please note registration is required one hour prior to each session.
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About the Playwrights:
Nathaniel Hanula-James (he/they) is a theatre maker who collaborates on new work as a dramaturg, playwright, administrator, and performer. Recent projects include White Taffeta Silk (Talk is Free Theatre, 2024), in which two teenagers unearth a buried wedding dress and a vengeful spirit; and Flux in the City, a participatory theatre piece co-created with Wesley Reibeling and the Major Matt Mason Theatre Collective, about the wonderful world of municipal consultation (High Performance Rodeo, 2025). Nathaniel is a staff writer for Intermission Magazine and facilitates Tarragon Theatre’s local Young Playwrights Unit. He collaborated with Karen Fricker and Jose Solís to develop a new open-access course in Equitable Theatre Criticism.
Alyssa Haddad-Chin (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based, Lebanese American, playwright and arts facilitator from Upstate, NY. She is the recipient of the 2025 American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award for Playwriting, an official selection for the 2026 Colorado New Play Summit at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, a 2025/26 member of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers’ Group, and under commission at Noor Theatre and the Alcove at Lucille Lortel Theatre. Her work has been developed with NYTW, The Playwrights Realm, Mercury Store, Keen Company, Premiere Stages at Kean, The People’s Theatre, Target Margin Theater, B Street Theatre, among others. She is the Company and Community Manager at Target Margin Theater, a Resident Artist at Breaking & Entering Theater Collective, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Dramatists Guild. A collection of her short plays is published with 1319 Press. MFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Learn more at alyssahaddad.com
Our partner for this session is The Lucille Lortel Theatre. Learn more about them here.