Martyna Majok was born in Bytom, Poland and raised in Jersey and Chicago. She was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Cost of Living (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club). Other plays include Sanctuary City (upcoming: New York Theatre Workshop, Berkeley Rep), Queens (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, La Jolla Playhouse), and Ironbound (Steppenwolf, Round House Theatre, WP/Rattlestick, Geffen Playhouse, National Theatre of Warsaw, among many theatres, internationally). Awards include The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding New Play, The Greenfield Prize (first female recipient in drama), Champions of Change Award from the NYC Mayor’s Office, Francesca Primus Prize, two Jane Chambers Playwriting Awards, The Lanford Wilson Prize, The Lilly Award's Stacey Mindich Prize, Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play from The Helen Hayes Awards, Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, ANPF Women's Invitational Prize, David Calicchio Prize, Global Age Project Prize, NYTW 2050 Fellowship, NNPN Smith Prize for Political Playwriting, and Merage Foundation Fellowship for The American Dream. MFA: Yale School of Drama, Juilliard; BA: University of Chicago. Martyna was a 2012-2013 NNPN playwright-in-residence, the 2015-2016 PoNY Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center, and a 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. She is currently writing three musical librettos, two feature films, and developing an original series for HBO based on her play, Queens.

Having grown-up as a first generation child of Polish filmmakers, Veronica's bilingual and cross cultural Polish-American experience lends a unique insight and perspective on Polish cinema as it relates to a New York audience. Veronica's hands-on experience in tv and film production started when she was just a kid. She has worked closely with film, photo, art and music festivals, as well as exhibition curation and grassroots initiatives. Her background and passion for art history, philosophy, cinema and fine arts forged a path to creativity and social change. Veronica is an artist, photographer, and highschool IB Visual Arts teacher in Brooklyn, NY.