DANCE OF THE HOLY GHOSTS: A PLAY ON MEMORY by Marcus Gardley

Marcus Gardley (Playwright, dance the holy ghost: a play on memory) is a poet-playwright who teaches Creative Writing at Columbia University. His play dance of the holy ghosts just premiered at the Yale Repertory Theater in March. He has had five plays produced some of which are: Limitations of Life, March 2004 at the Empty Space Theater in Seattle; like sun fallin in the mouth, August 2003 at the National Black Theatre Festival Winston-Salem, North Carolina and livin tired, July 2003 at the Yale Summer Cabaret. He was a finalist for the Alliance Theatre Graduate Playwriting Competition 2004, the sole runner up for the Princess Grace Award 2004, a Sundance writer in residence at Ucross in 2003 and the summer lab in 2006. He is the recipient of the Eugene O’ Neil Memorial Scholarship, the Bay Area Playwright’s Foundation Fellowship and the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize. His play Love is a Dream House in Lorin will premiere at the Shotgun Player’s in Berkeley in the fall. He holds an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama and he is a member of New Dramatists.

LOVE PERSON by Aditi Brennan Kapil

Aditi Kapil (Playwright, LOVE PERSON) is a Twin Cities writer, actress, and director, of Bulgarian and Indian descent and of Swedish nationality. She is a graduate of Macalester College with a BA in English and Dramatic Arts. In 2004-05 she was a Many Voices Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center. Aditi’s playwriting credits include Gotama for Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater, March 2006, The Deaf Duckling, a bilingual (ASL & English) educational touring show about growing up Deaf, created in collaboration with Deaf performer Nic Zapko for Mixed Blood Theater, and The Adventures of Hanuman, King of the Monkeys, a Bollywood style musical inspired by tales from the Ramayana for SteppingStone Theater for Youth Development (March 2006). Aditi’s directing credits include Queen of the Remote Control, Bill of (W)Rights, and The Primary English Class at Mixed Blood Theater. She has performed at a variety of Twin Cities theaters including Mixed Blood, Jungle Theater, Eye of the Storm, Park Square, and The Playwrights’ Center.

WILD MEN OF THE WOODS by Elisabeth Karlin

Elisabeth Karlin's (Playwright, WILD MEN OF THE WOODS) play The Mooncalf was produced by The Abingdon Theatre Company in a production of which The New York Times wrote: “…Define[s] the generational and sexual conflicts in two fatherless New York families so sharply that the audience keeps laughing through two hours…” The Mooncalf is also represented in the book THE BEST STAGE SCENES OF 2001 (Smith and Kraus). Her play Lucy’s Last Date ran at The Third Street Theatre in Los Angeles and was named a Critic’s Choice by Dramalogue. Blue Collar Bay, a collaboration with Steve Axelrod was produced at The 29 th Street Theatre and returned for a run at The Soho Playhouse. A Mother’s Prayer, her comedy about the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry, was featured in The Mile Square Theatre’s 7 th INNING STRETCH in Hoboken in 2004. Her plays The Office, Dress Down Day, The Man with the Killer Pen, and Young Men Roam the Streets have popped up on some of New York’s most prominent stages in staged readings. Elisabeth is former artistic director of The American Renaissance Theater Company, a workshop for theatre artists and currently sits on its Board of Directors. Her articles have been published in various film journals and magazines.

NEIGHBOURHOOD UPSIDE DOWN by Nina Mitrovic

Nina Mitrovic (Playwright, NEIGHBOURHOOD UPSIDE DOWN) was born in Slavonski Brod (Croatia) in 1978. She graduated Dramaturgy at Academy of Dramatic Arts, Zagreb. She studies at London Film School (MA Screenwriting). She writes plays and scripts and is a member of Croatian Association of Freelance Artists. Author of several plays including: Neighbourhood Upside Down (2002) and When We Dead Slay Each Other (2003) for which she won Golden Laughter Award in 2003 and 2005 at the festival Days of Satire. Her play This bed is too short or just fragments (2004) was chosen as one of the best new European plays at Theatertreffen festival in Berlin. It was stage-read in Berlin and London and produced in Vienna and Rijeka (Croatia). Other plays include monologues: An Instant Powder Family and Both of me. Her plays are published in several theatre magazines and one book and most of her work is translated in English, German and Slovenian. Her plays were produced in Croatia, Austria and Bosnia and Herzegovina. She wrote several radio-plays and directed two radio-documentaries that were presented at international festivals in Berlin and Milan. She wrote scripts for a television documentary series.

VAIDEHI by Gautam Raja

Gautam Raja (Playwright, VAIDEHI) is a freelance journalist and writer based in Bangalore, India. He has worked for publications in Oman and the UAE. He is currently the resident playwright and lighting designer of The Artistes' Repertory Theatre, Bangalore. His plays have been performed in various cities in India, as well as in London, Amsterdam and Berkeley. A collection of plays, Damini the Damager and Other Plays, was published in March 2006 by Unisun Publications.