What is the roundtable?

Sometime in January of 2019, CF started thinking about how the best part about art is the togetherness of it all. She was acutely aware of how much writing can suck, especially when you're writing alone. After reaching out through various grapevines, a group of writers was assembled and met once a month at a bar or coffee shop to write together and talk about writing together. Since then, it's become an invitation-only, once-a-week affair that includes writing prompts, discussions about what narratives we're contributing to, sharing work for feedback, and some really great book recommendations. Writers listed on this website are our "regulars", but the group includes a rotation of about 10 or so other people who come when they can.​

Meet the writers!

Claire Bierman

Clare Bierman, she/hers, is a playwright and lyricist raised in a Japanese-Jewish home, with some rabbits, a snake, and a bunch of finches. As a performer, she’s been seen on stages across the US, and a lot in Copenhagen for some reason. She was a cast member on Un-Scripted Theater Company’s house team DASH in San Francisco. She also played baritone horn with San Francisco’s Burlesque Marching Band. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Musical Theater Writing at NYU. 

Molly Burdick

Molly Burdick​, she/hers, is a writer, actor, and podcaster. Her full-length play, Light Green Moss, was produced in 2019 by Ruthless Nightingale Theater Company in NYC. Her short play What if Oreos Were All That Was Left? was produced on the podcast At the Table: A Play Reading Series. She has had four short plays produced at the Kitchen Theatre in Ithaca, NY as part of their annual One-Minute Play Festival. Currently, she is writing her first novel. In addition to writing, she is an avid reader, and you can listen to her journey through the Jane Austen canon on her podcast, Pod and Prejudice. She has also spent the last year perfecting the Hugh Grant hairstyle. She’s almost there.

Laura McCullagh

Laura McCullagh​, she/hers, is a writer, artist, comedian, climate activist, and queer whose hair started going gray at age 19. Laura grew up in western Massachusetts, deeply identifies with the woods, and looks forward to moving to a cabin in a picturesque landscape and stealing lambs from slaughterhouses. Current works in progress include a novel, many drawings, and a collection of short poems. Instagram
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Claire-Frances Sullivan

Claire-Frances "CF" "Frankie" Sullivan, she/hers, the eponymous founder of this roundtable, is a performer, composer/lyricist, and playwright who lives in New York City by way of rural Michigan. She believes in the power of writing with other people and socialism, but not ghosts. She is currently working on an original musical titled Impossible Green (with music by  Sequoia Sellinger), a play titled Supermassive, and an untitled work-in-progress, queer, coming-of-age-in-the-face-of-trauma play.
​ www.clairefrancessullivan.com

Will Thames

Hello, my name is Will Thames ​(he/him). I’m an actor-writer person from Colorado by way of Texas. When I’m not pretending to be other people on stage, I’m pretending to be other people behind my keyboard. I look forward to debuting my four-act monstrosity; I Am The Womb: A Love Story on this blog in the near future. It lives somewhere at the intersection of Call Me By Your Name, Hereditary, and A Christmas Carol. I hope it creeps the ever-loving bejesus out of you.

Maxim Vinogradov

Maxim Vinogradov,  he/him, is the Michigan-born child of Soviet bears. He’s had residencies and employment with The Public Theater, The Kennedy Center, The O’Neill, and Baskin-Robbins. Hire him for LA entertainment jobs, remote writing work, and birthday parties at www.maximvinogradov.com

Amy-Catherine Welch

Amy-Catherine Welch, she/hers, is a writer, actor, and singer/songwriter based in Brooklyn. She loves women, trees, and dancing on the moon. Amy is passionate about creating works that center around LGBTQ+ characters, particularly in history and the fantasy genre. Her work includes composing and writing the libretto for “Fairest One”, a queer musical inspired by Snow White, which premiered at Mount Holyoke College. She is currently writing a play which explores the idea that Shakespeare was a lesbian crossdressing woman! In addition to playwriting she is a voracious poet and musician.  She is published by Z Publishing house, and recently released her first single “It’s so Easy to Love You”. Follow along at @amycatherine_w and www.amycwelch.com

Zoe Williams

Zoe Williams (she/her) lives in San Francisco but was born in Texas and can only remember the three years before she went to college in the Greater Northern Los Angeles Area. She writes about the people and things in her head. She likes to make uQuizzes and listen to CTRL by SZA. Her celebrity crush is Megan Thee Stallion. Twitter: @YeeetGang

Isaac Wood

Isaac Wood (he/him) is a writer, actor, and composer who specializes in heartfelt campy queer comedies, romcoms that careen into horror, and magical-realist parables about race, class, and gender. He graduated from Saginaw Valley State University with a degree in theatre, creative writing, and legal philosophy. While he studied there, his work in fiction was nominated for the Tyner Prize and he was a recipient of the Marc A. Gordon Scholarship in Theatre. Since then, Isaac has toured the east coast in a musical retelling of the lives of the Wright Brothers. He also wrote a farce, The Vultures, which will be read in workshop in Flint, Michigan next year. He was fully intending to spend the summer of 2020 acting at Festival 56 in Princeton, Illinois, instead of in the small Manhattan apartment in which he currently indefinitely resides.