Phoenix Festival Playbill 2025 (1) - Flipbook - Page 25
WHO’S WHO: THE ARTISTS
RICHARD FULCO (Playwright)
Richard Fulco is the author of two novels, We Are All Together and There Is No End to This
Slope, both published by Wampus Multimedia. Richard received an MFA in playwriting from
Brooklyn College where he was then recipient of a MacArthur Scholarship. His plays have
either been presented or developed at The New York International Fringe Festival, The
Playwrights’ Center, The Flea, Here Arts Center, Chicago Dramatists and The Dramatists
Guild. Richard’s one-act play Swedish Fish was published by Heuer Publishing and his
stories, poetry, interviews, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Failbetter,
Grey Sparrow Journal, Gargoyle, Fiction Writers Review, The Daily Vault, and American
Songwriter (among others). Richard was an artist-in-residence at Truro Center for the Arts
at Castle Hill in Truro, Massachusetts. Richard is the owner of Big Red Books, an
independent bookstore in Nyack, New York.
JULIE M. GOLDBERG (Playwright)
Julie M. Goldberg is a writer, librarian, teacher, and Phoenix Festival fangirl whose broad
and shifting range of obsessions currently includes, but is not limited to, etymology, the
Middle Ages, democracy, pathways to the unconscious, information literacy, neurodiversity,
and hopepunk. Ask again next week. Her short plays have been performed at the Phoenix
Festival, Elmwood Playhouse, and Big Red Books, and her 昀椀ction and essays have appeared
in literary journals including Women Arts Quarterly, Dual Coast Magazine, The Establishment,
and (forthcoming) Calyx.
CHRISTOPHER KYLE (Playwright)
Christopher Kyle is a playwright and screenwriter whose credits include Alexander, K-19:
The Widowmaker, Serena, The Weight of Water and the television series Homicide: Life on
the Street. A former Guggenheim fellow in drama, his plays include The Monogamist and
Plunge, both of which premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, and The Safety
Net, which premiered at the Broken Watch Theatre Company in New York.
SHAWN RAWLS (Playwright)
Shawn Rawls is a choreographer, performer, and educator whose work lives at the intersection of contemporary dance, physical theatre, and Afro-surrealist narrative. He is the founder and Artistic Director of Emotions Physical Theatre, a company dedicated to creating
emotionally charged, socially engaged works that explore identity, masculinity, and healing
through bold physicality and storytelling. Rawls holds an MFA in Choreography from Wilson
College and a BFA in Dance from Belhaven University, where he studied on full scholarship.
His training spans a wide range of forms including hip hop, breaking, popping, capoeira,
Graham, Horton, Limón, Hawkins release, and classical ballet. This breadth of movement
informs a choreographic style that is visceral, poly-rhythmic, and deeply rooted in lived
