Playwriting
Ida Cuttler
Ida Cuttler a playwright and actor from San Francisco, California and a third-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School Drama, where she wrote Moe is a D*ck and Running Play.
She was a company member of Neo-Futurists from 2015–22, where she wrote over 200 plays for Chicago’s longest-running late-night show The Infinite Wrench. Ida was also a company member of PlayMakers Laboratory, where she adapted and performed in stories written by Chicago public school students. Ida's other writing and performing credits include Comfortable Shoes, The Infinite Wrench, and Jeff Award-nominated Wildcats. She is a 2025-2026 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Award Finalist.
As an actor, Ida was most recently seen in The Day the Butcher Shop Closed and the sketch revue *Is This Mom* both at Yale Cabaret. One time she entered a giant donut eating competition.
comfort ifeoma katchy
comfort ifeoma katchy is a playwright and actor hailing proudly from Houston, Texas. She is a third-year M.F.A. candidate in playwriting at David Geffen School of Drama, where she wrote Stray Dogs and The Alley. Other writing credits include How I Learned to Play Tennis, Games have rules, and The Moon is Upside Down. comfort was most recently seen on stage in Is God Is at the Rec Room Arts in Houston and Pride of Doves at Yale Cabaret.
comfort has had work presented through the Alley Theatre’s Alley All New Festival, Theater Masters Take Ten Festival, and the University of Houston’s 2021 mainstage season. She was a semi-finalist for The Hansberry-Lilly Award (2023), UCross + The Blank Theatre Future of Playwriting Prize (2022), and the Third Culture Theatre Nexus Festival (2022). comfort has been an inaugural member of the Rec Room Writers Group in Houston, Texas since 2019. She is also a Teaching Artist for the Dwight/Edgewood Project and Survivors of Society Rising, mentoring middle school students and adult writers from New Haven.
She received her B.F.A. in playwriting/dramaturgy from the University of Houston’s School of Theatre and Dance and a Certificate in acting from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, NYC.
ML Roberts
ML Roberts (he/him) is a third-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where he wrote Solstice and HellYouTalmBout Part 1. His other credits include Riverside (Indy Shakes) and Abolitionists (Broadway Advocacy Coalition).
As a playwright, his work has been developed with New Harmony Project, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and GTG's Speaker’s Corner. As a screenwriter, he co-wrote a Lifetime movie and has developed work with Hulu.
ML is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, a Broadway Advocacy Coalition Fellow, and Co-Artistic Director of Yale Cabaret Season 57: Phoenix. He is also a company member of Indianapolis Shakespeare, and an inaugural Core Company Member at ACT Theatre (Seattle).
As a member of Actors’ Equity Association he has performed with Folger Shakespeare, Unicorn Theatre (UK), The Williams Project, and Santa Cruz Shakespeare, among others.
He received a B.F.A. in acting from UNC School of the Arts (Home of the Fighting Pickles). He is the son of a Navy veteran, and descendant of the Gullah Geechee of the Carolinas.