Judith Hallberg

Judith Hallberg studied costume design and construction with Kurt Wilhelm at Actors Theatre of Louisville (ATL) in Kentucky and designed for ATL, Theatre One, Walden Theatre and the University of Louisville. She was the business manager for Walden Theatre in Kentucky before moving to Vermont to become administrative director for the University of Vermont’s Department of Theatre and the Champlain Shakespeare Festival. She has written film treatments from novels and edited theatrical scripts. Judith also worked as an actor in New York, Georgia, Memphis, Louisville and Burlington, VT. She worked as a writer, producer and director of sponsored film and video in New York City and was producer of the Narrative (fiction) division of the New York Festival of Short Film and Video for six years. She estimates she reviewed over 5,000 festival entries in the selection process to determine the final films and videos. She served as a reader for ATL’s 2nd Festival of New Plays and for Vermont Repertory Theatre’s New Play Festival and for the last 6 years has been a reader and judge for the Firehouse Center for the Arts New Works Festival in Newburyport, MA.

Kimberly KalaJa, PhD

Kimberly Kalaja is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, author and Fulbright. Her plays include “Night Moths on the Wing,” “The Shooter,” and “Acts Without Words.” Her nonfiction works include Reading Games —a philosophical consideration of game theory in the production of Art—published by Dickey Archive Press (2007). Kimberly earned her bachelor’s degree from Scripps College,her master’s degree from The Queen’s University Belfast, and her PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University.

Wilbert Turner, PhD

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Turner is an Associate Professor of English at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. In addition to his teaching duties, he is the publication advisor for The Gleaner, the University’s literary journal. His specializations include African American Literature, Adaptation Studies, Film Studies and Narrative Theory. He is also a playwright, whose one-acts have won playwriting competitions in Colorado, Iowa, and Virginia.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Textual Studies from Syracuse University, and a doctoral degree in English from University at Albany, SUNY.