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QUINCY LONG Productions include: People Be Heard, Playwrights Horizons; The Only Child, South Coast Rep, Costa Mesa, CA; Wedding Pictures, Ensemble Studio Theatre; The Lively Lad, New York Stage and Film and The Actors Theatre of Louisville; The Virgin Molly, The Atlantic Theatre Company and Berkeley Rep; The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite, the Atlantic Theatre Company (directed by William H. Macy and starring Felicity Huffman) and the Mark Taper Forum. Joy was optioned by Icon Films, and Joy, People Be Heard, and The Lively Lad were published by Dramatists Play Service. The Virgin Molly was published by Playscripts, Inc. Current projects: Quincy Long's new play, The Huntsmen, recently won a Sundance Time Warner Storyteller's Award, and was workshopped at Playwrights Horizons and read at New York Theatre Workshop. A musical, Loulou, is in development with Ginger Cat Productions in Toronto, and an opera, The Embalmer's Daughter, is in development with American Lyric Theatre. The Gospel According to Trains, a new play, was recently awarded a grant from the New York State Council of the Arts. Quincy is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and a member of New Dramatists and Ensemble Studio Theater. He is from Warren, Ohio and lives in New York City.

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JASON GROTE's plays include 1001, Maria/Stuart, Hamilton Township, This Storm is What We Call Progress, Box Americana, Darwin's Challenge, and Civilization (All You Can Eat). He has been commissioned by ACT, The Denver Center, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Working Theater, and The Keen Company, and his writing has been published by Samuel French and Playscripts, Inc., and in American Theater and The Back Stage Book of New American Short Plays 2005, edited by Craig Lucas. His work has been produced or developed at The Museum of Modern Art, Playwrights' Horizons, The O'Neill, The Denver Center, New York Theater Workshop, Portland Center Stage, The Atlantic, Woolly Mammoth, Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, P73, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Bielefeld Festival (Germany), Soho Rep, The Lark, The Flea, The Glej Theatr (Slovenia), Salvage Vanguard, HERE, The Contemporary American Theater Festival, Baltimore Centerstage, Rorschach Theater, Collaboraction, Theater @ Boston Court, Mixed Blood, REDEYE, and elsewhere. He was co-host for The Acousmatic Theater hour on WFMU in Jersey City, and was the screenwriter for What We Got: DJ Spooky's Quest for the Commons. He is a resident playwright at New Dramatists. Visit him at WWW.JASONGROTE.COM.

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JESSE JOU recently graduated from Yale School of Drama, where his credits include La Ronde, 99 Ways to Fuck a Swan, and the things are against us [les choses sont contre nous]. His other credits include Take on Me: Adoption, Addiction, and a-ha (New York International Fringe Festival); My Mom Across America (The Kitchen Theatre Co., Ithaca, NY); Estrella Cruz [The Junkyard Queen], Mask Ritual: Electra,Flowers and Other Stories, Language of Angels, and Passing (Yale Cabaret). At Yale, he was the recipient of the Edgar and Louise Cullman Scholarship. Currently, he serves as staff repertory director for the Acting Company, going on tour with their productions of Romeo and Juliet and The Comedy of Errors.

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DON NGUYEN was born in Saigon, Vietnam, grew up in Lincoln Nebraska, and currently resides in New York City. Don studied theatre at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and he served as the Artistic Director of the Shelterbelt Theatre in Omaha from 1999-2003. As a writer, Don's full-length plays include Red Flamboyant (finalist O'Neill National Playwrights Conference), The Man From Saigon, and Three to Beam Up (The Shelterbelt Theatre, Nebraska Arts Grant recipient). His one-act play The Harlequin Maneuvre was published in The Best of the Strawberry One-Act Festival, Volume 1. It has subsequently been produced in New York and Canada. Other one act plays include Fat Ugly Vampire (Nuyorican Poets Cafe, NY), The Imaginary Association of Flight Attendants (Nuyorican Poets Cafe, NY), Love 160 (The Pack Lounge Series 3, Robert Moss Theater, NY), Sexual Chocolate (The Secret Theatre, Long Island City), Girl Reflected, Look A Lion, The Dragon Lord and the Fairy Queen (commissioned by The Lincoln Community Playhouse), A Decision of Extraordinary Magnitude, and a collection of eight Halloween plays produced by The Shelterbelt Theatre. Don writes for The Living Newspaper and is a member of the New York Public Theater's 2008 Inaugural Emerging Writers Group.

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DONYA K. WASHINGTON: Come Back to Me by Jesse Cameron Alick and Manikato adapted by Jesse Cameron Alick (Shakespeare in Paradise, Bahamas), Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws(Target Margin Theatre), Spunk (Penobscot Theatre, Bangor, ME), Jump Jim Crow by Jesse Cameron Alick, music and lyrics by Justin Levine (Subjective Theater Company), Penang by Jim Larocca (Boo Arts and NY Midtown Int'l Theatre Festival), Dear Diary by Alicia Ramsay (MCC Youth Company FreshPlay), Bear Market by Kara Manning (Women's Project Lab), Cold Keener (Target Margin), The Minstrel Show of Minstrel Shows! (Brown/Trinity Consortium), Poof by Apples Vargas (MCC Youth Company FreshPlay), 30 Patriot Actors by Erin Browne (Columbia), a reading of Menders by Erin Browne (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Forever Never Comes by Enrique Urueta, Cipher by Cory Hinkle (Brown New Plays Festival). Williamstown. Training: MFA, Directing - Brown University/Trinity Rep; BFA, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Member of the 2008/2010 Women's Project Lab. Van Lier Directing Fellow 2009, Second Stage Theatre.

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MIA CHUNG's plays include You for Me for You, Exquisite Corpse, and Can I Help You? Her work has been developed by the Magic Theatre, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Mu Performing Arts, the Brandeis Theatre Company, Rites and Reason Theatre, and PlayGround in San Francisco. She received a Creative Arts Council grant for a video project on Aristotle's Poetics, a Sloan commission for a play about science fraud, and had a residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her play about Cape Verde will be produced in Spring 2011 at Rites and Reason Theatre. She recently graduated from Brown's MFA playwriting program, where she studied with Paula Vogel, Bonnie Metzgar, Erik Ehn and Lisa D'Amour.

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MIA ROVEGNO is a Brooklyn-based director, playwright, and puppeteer who devises, adapts and collaborates with living playwrights. Her plays Kill The Keepers (co-written with Dan LeFranc) and Apartment have been developed by P73, Empire Street Lab at Perishable Theater, and foolsFURY. Mia has directed and developed new work for Soho Rep, A.R.T. New Voices Series, New Dramatists, The Flea, Dixon Place, Brown/A.R.T. Institute Bakeoff, Harvard Playwrights Festival, Hangar Theatre, Brown New Plays Festivals and Summer Playwrights Rep. Founding artistic director of HummingbirdWORKS and company member with foolsFURY, she has performed with Redmoon Theater, Shadowlight, Bread and Puppet, and Intersection for the Arts, among others. Recent directing: You Better Sit Down: A Conversation with The Civilians (WNYC Greene Space), Science Is Close by Kate E. Ryan (reading, Soho Rep), Origin Story by Dan LeFranc (Hangar Theatre), Love in the Time of Channukah by Joshua Elias Harmon (Ars Nova ANT FEST and Hangar Theatre), The Blind (Lincoln Center Directors Lab), and Tartuffe (Brown Dept. of TAPS). Selected assistant directing: AD/Choreographer with Anne Kauffman (Dot, Clubbed Thumb), Daniel Sullivan (Time Stands Still, MTC/Broadway), Ken Rus Schmoll (What Once We Felt, LCT3), Chris Bayes (The Servant of Two Masters, Yale Rep). A co-founder of Street Level TV (nationally syndicated on Dish Network/Free Speech TV), she has edited and produced documentary work with Democracy Now!, The Working Group, Solday Productions, and others. Mia received her BS in Performance Studies from Northwestern and MFA in Directing from the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium. Former teaching fellow and guest lecturer at Brown, and adjunct faculty at New College of California, she is currently an assistant professor in the Hunter College department of theatre. Mia is a recipient of MTC's Jonathan Alper Directing Fellowship and SDC Directing Observership, and a 2010 Ockrent Directing Fellowship nominee. She is a member of the Women's Project Directors Lab and an alum of the Drama League, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Upcoming: Romeo and Juliet (Hunter College); Burnt Umber by Erik Ehn (Soulographie).

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ALIX LAMBERT's feature length documentary The Mark of Cain was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and aired on Nightline. She went on to produce additional segments of Nightline as well as produce 7 segments for the PBS series LIFE 360. Lambert has written for a number of magazines including Stop Smiling, ArtForum, and The LA Weekly, among others, and is an editor at large for the literary journal OPEN CITY. She wrote Episode 6, season 3 of Deadwood: "A Rich Find" and was a staff writer and associate producer on John From Cincinnati. As an artists, Lambert has exhibited her work to international critical acclaim, showing in The Venice Biennale, The Museum of Modern Art, The Georges Pompidou Center, and the Kwangju Biennale, to name a few. Her monograph: MASTERING THE MELON is available through D.A.P. Her book The Silencing is available through Perceval Press. Her book Russian Prison Tattoos is available through Schiffer Publishing. and her book Crime is available through Fuel Publishing. She was recently Executive Producer for an hour-long segment on criminal tattoos for a series called Marked that aired on The History Channel.

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BIRGITTA VICTORSON: Directing credits include In Quietness, by Anna Moench for Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theater, Complete, by Andrea Kuchlewska at the SoHo Playhouse as part of the Fringe NYC Encore Series, A Christmas Carol and Paris by Night (Trinity Rep), The Book of Liz (Roadworks, Chicago), Iggy Woo (Brown/Trinity Summer Playwrights Rep, Providence) and co-directing Fatty Arbuckle's Spectacular Musical Review (Second City Theatricals, Chicago), which she also choreographed. She has also directed new works by Molly Rice, Cory Hinkle, Andy Bragen, Enrique Urueta and Elyzabeth Wilder. Birgitta recently assisted Steve Cosson on The Civilians' In the Footprint: The Battle Over Atlantic Yards. Choreography credits include The Encyclopedia of the Dead (Miloco Theatre, Prague, CZ) The Ghost's Bargain (Two River Theater, NJ), Among the Thugs (Goodman Theatre, Chicago), and Stupid Kids (Roadworks, Chicago) for which she received a Joseph Jefferson Nomination for Best Choreography. Birgitta is a graduate of Northwestern University, and she received her MFA in Directing from the Brown/Trinity Consortium. She is a member of SDC.

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SAMUEL D. HUNTER is a graduate of NYU, the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and Julliard. Recent productions include Jack's Precious Moment (Page 73 Productions at 59E59), Five Genocides (Clubbed Thumb), I Am Montana (Arcola Theatre in London). His new play A Bright New Boise will be produced by Partial Comfort Productions at the Wild Project in September 2010, and his new play Norway will be produced regionally at the Phoenix Theater of Indianapolis and Boise Contemporary Theater in Winter 2011. His plays have been developed at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, PlayPenn, Ojai Playwrights Conference, the Lark's Playwrights Workshop, Julliard, LAByrinth Theater Company, Rattlestick, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, and elsewhere. Awards: 2008-2009 PONY Fellowship from the Lark Theater, two Lincoln Center Lecompte du Nouy Awards, others. Internationally, his work has been translated into Spanish and presented in Mexico City, and he has worked in the West Bank with Ashtar Theatre Ramallah and Ayyam al-Masrah of Hebron. At Ashtar, he co-wrote The Era of Whales, which was performed in Ramallah and Istanbul. A native of northern Idaho, Sam lives in New York with his partner, dramaturg John Baker.

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DAVID F. CHAPMAN: A proud Chicago native, David worked in theatre in many places. Highlights include performing his solo shows in Edinburgh, Montreal, Budapest, and London, directing Tennessee Williams in Ho Chi Minh City, leading a devised theatre workshop in Cambodia, and interning for the International Theatre Institute in Paris and NYC. David has directed for Ars Nova's ANT Fest, FringeNYC, Studio 42, Metropolis Opera Project, NYU Grad Acting, NYMF, New Leaf (Chicago), The Old Vic / New Voices TS Eliot Exchange (London), Millbrook Playhouse (PA), and Northwestern's Cherubs program. He has also directed readings/workshops for Reverie Productions, EST/Youngbloods, and the Lark, and has worked many talented playwrights including Matthew-Lee Erlbach, Anna Moench, A. Zell Williams, Bekah Brunstetter, Jason Grote, Andrew Muir, Joe Tracz and Philip Dawkins. Assisting includes The Pitmen Painters (MTC/Broadway), That Hopey Changey Thing (The Public), The Addams Family (Chicago & Broadway), plus Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, Encores!, and four productions at Chicago Shakespeare.. Awards: Fulbright to Hungary, Luce Scholarship to Vietnam, Chicago Artists Grant, Drama League Fall Fellowship. Training: BA with Highest Honors (UNC-Chapel Hill), DirectorsLabChicago.

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JACKIE SIBBLIES DRURY recently graduated from the M.F.A. playwriting program at Brown, where she studied with Erik Ehn, Lisa D'Amour, Tracy Scott Wilson, and Chay Yew. While at Brown, she received a 2010 Weston Award for her play Jenny and Tommy are Very Much in Love, the David Wickham Prize in Playwriting, and was a 2009 Weissberger Award nominee. Her play We Are Proud to Present a Presentation... is being presented at Victory Gardens' 2010 Ignition Festival. Currently, Jackie is working on a play for Trinity Repertory Theater's resident acting company, and she is happy to be a 2010 New York Theater Workshop playwriting fellow.

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LILA NEUGEBAUER is a freelance director based in New York City. Her recent directing work has been seen at Ars Nova, Cherry Lane Studio, The Brick, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, NYU Tisch/Atlantic Acting School, and Theater of the American South. Workshops/Readings: Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Dramatists Guild, EST/Youngblood, NYU Tisch Graduate Playwriting, and the Yale Playwrights Festival. New Georges Affiliated Artist, Drama League Fall Directing Fellow, EST Resident Director (2009-2010), member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab (2010-2011) and the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.

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