Wayne L. Firestone is a playwright, veteran non-profit leader and webinar host. In March 2022, he was named the Jewish Plays Project inaugural 21st Century Playwright Fellow. An alumnus of four Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive cohorts, his plays have appeared in festivals in New York, Washington, DC, Israel and the United Kingdom. A member of the Dramatists Guild of America, in 2018 he founded Plays2Gather to perform diverse stories in homes and non-traditional venues.