playwright,
Forgetting

Trista Baldwin is the recipient of two Jerome Fellowships and a McKnight Advancement Grant. Her work has been developed and produced Off-Broadway and throughout the U.S., and internationally in Japan and Australia. Plays include Sand (“stunning, hallucinatory”—New York Times), DOE (“unsettling, dreamlike”—Variety), and Patty Red Pants (“Best of 2005”—City Pages). Her work is published through Playscripts and Heinnemann. Trista is an Associated Artist of New Georges, a Core Writer at The Playwrights’ Center and a founding member of Workhaus Collective. She is a professor at St. Cloud State University. For more info: www.tristabaldwin.com.

playwright,
Mother Earth

Andy Bragen’s honors include a Tennessee Williams Fellowship from the University of the South, a Jerome Fellowship, a New Voices Fellowship from EST, a Dramatists Guild Fellowship, and residencies at Millay Colony and Blue Mountain Center. Andy’s plays and translations have been presented at numerous theatres in New York and elsewhere, including The Guthrie Theatre, PS122, The Playwrights’ Center, Queens Theatre in the Park, Rattlestick, LAByrinth, EST, The Aurora Theatre, Repertorio Español, and the Lark. He is working on commissions for Clubbed Thumb and the University of Rochester. He has an MFA from Brown University. For more info: www.andybragen.com.

playwright,
The Secret Lives
of Coats

Stephanie Fleischmann is a Core Writer at the Playwrights Center, HERE Resident Artist, and New Dramatists alumnus. Grants & awards: 2007 NYSCA Individual Artist, NEA Opera/Music-Theater, 2 NYFA Fellowships, Whitfield Cook Award, Loewe Award, New York State Music Fund. Residencies: MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Mabou Mines/Suite, DPI. Tennessee Williams Fellow, Sewanee, University of the South. Her work has been developed or produced at: Juilliard, New Georges, HERE, Roadworks, Synchronicity, Act II, Public Theater, Soho Rep, and Hollywood Bowl, among others. Published by Play, A Journal of Plays; Playscripts; Smith & Krauss; Heinemann; Meriwether Press. Upcoming works: Eloise & Ray, Integrity Productions, Portland, Oregon. My Name Is Vera Cupido, Crowded Fire, San Francisco. Red Fly/Blue Bottle, with composer Christina Campanella, HERE, NYC. Teaches at Skidmore College. M.F.A., Brooklyn College, studied with Mac Wellman.

playwright,
Notari, Notari

Shigefumi Fukatsu was born in Hyôgo Prefecture, Japan, and started acting in the university drama club at Dôshisha University. He founded the Tôenkai theater company in 1992, writing and directing almost all of their productions. Based in Osaka, he is one of the hottest new playwrights to have emerged from the Kansai area. In his plays he uses both Kansai vernacular and standard Japanese, and exploits isolated settings to expose the loneliness and Eros deep in the human psyche. In 1998 he won the 42nd Kishida Drama Award for Uchiya matsuri (Uchiya Festival), which is set in a vacant lot in a housing development where the secrets residents harbor about a suspected serial killer get out of hand. In 2005 he won the Yomiuri Theater Awards for Best Director and Best Play for his direction of Kishida Kunio’s Dôin sôwa (A Tale of Mobilization) at the New National Theatre, Tokyo. He also writes and directs for many other companies and teaches at workshops.

playwright,
Slasher

Allison Moore is a displaced Texan living in Minneapolis, where she is a 2007 Bush Artists Fellow and a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center. Plays include: American Klepto (2006 Fresh Ink/Illusion Theater), Hazard County (2005 Humana Festival), Split (2005 Guthrie Theater commission), Urgent Fury (2003 Cherry Lane Mentor Project, Mentor: Marsha Norman), and Eighteen (2001 O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference). Her new play, End Times, premiered at Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas in June 2007. She is a two-time Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow and was recently awarded a second McKnight Advancement Grant. BFA: Southern Methodist University. MFA: University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop.