PHYLLIS NAGY ’s plays include: Weldon Rising, Royal Court Theatre, 1992; Butterfly Kiss, Almeida Theatre Company,
1994; The Strip, Royal Court Theatre, 1995; Disappeared, premiered at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester in 1995 in a production directed by
the author which subsequently toured the UK before a London run at the Royal Court Theatre (joint winner the 1992 Mobil International Playwriting Prize and
the 1995 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize) and Never Land, Royal Court, 1998. Phyllis’ adaptations include: Patricia Highsmith’s The
Talented Mr Ripley, Palace Theatre, Watford, 1998; Chekhov’s The Seagull, Chichester Festival Theatre, 2003 and Nathaniel Hawthorn’s
The Scarlet Letter, Classic Stage Company, New York, 1994 and Chichester Festival Theatre, 2005. Phyllis has also directed extensively in the theatre.
Phyllis’ work for radio includes Delores, a contemporary version of Euripides’ Andromache (The Sunday Play, BBC Radio 3) and her
films (as writer/director) include the award winning Mrs Harris (HBO Films, 2005). Phyllis is currently developing a new anthology series of stand-alone
dramas with Neil La Bute and Tony Kushner, to be produced by Tom Fontana for HBO.
NAOMI IIZUKA is a prolific young playwright and head of the graduate MFA playwriting program at UC-San Diego. Her plays include 36 VIEWS,
STRIKE-SLIP, ANON(YMOUS), AT THE VANISHING POINT, POLAROID STORIES, LANGUAGE OF ANGELS, WAR OF THE WORLDS (in collaboration with Anne Bogart and SITI
Company), TATTOO GIRL and SKIN. These plays have been produced by Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, the Huntington Theater, Berkeley Repertory
Theater, the Joseph Papp Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival, the Children’s Theater Company, the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, the
Dallas Theatre Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s “Next Wave Festival”, and Soho Rep. lizuka is a member of New Dramatists
and the recipient of a PEN/Laura Pels Award, an Alpert Award, a Joyce Foundation Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Stavis Award from the National
Theatre Conference, a Rockefeller Foundation MAP grant, an NEA/TCG Artist-in-Residence grant, a McKnight Fellowship, a PEN Center USA West Award for Drama,
Princeton University’s Hodder Fellowship, and a Jerome Fellowship.
Gregory L. Farber is a Boston-area playwright and instructor at
Bentley College. He received his M.F.A. from Arizona State University
where he taught playwriting and screenwriting classes. He produced
several staged reading series and festivals of new plays in addition
to mentoring undergraduate playwrights. His work has been produced at
various theatres in Arizona, North Carolina, and Massachusetts. He
currently works as Director of Development for Theatre on Fire, a
Boston-based theatre company.
PHYLLIS NAGY ’s plays include: Weldon Rising, Royal Court Theatre, 1992; Butterfly Kiss, Almeida Theatre Company,
1994; The Strip, Royal Court Theatre, 1995; Disappeared, premiered at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester in 1995 in a production directed by
the author which subsequently toured the UK before a London run at the Royal Court Theatre (joint winner the 1992 Mobil International Playwriting Prize and
the 1995 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize) and Never Land, Royal Court, 1998. Phyllis’ adaptations include: Patricia Highsmith’s The
Talented Mr Ripley, Palace Theatre, Watford, 1998; Chekhov’s The Seagull, Chichester Festival Theatre, 2003 and Nathaniel Hawthorn’s
The Scarlet Letter, Classic Stage Company, New York, 1994 and Chichester Festival Theatre, 2005. Phyllis has also directed extensively in the theatre.
Phyllis’ work for radio includes Delores, a contemporary version of Euripides’ Andromache (The Sunday Play, BBC Radio 3) and her
films (as writer/director) include the award winning Mrs Harris (HBO Films, 2005). Phyllis is currently developing a new anthology series of stand-alone
dramas with Neil La Bute and Tony Kushner, to be produced by Tom Fontana for HBO. 
NAOMI IIZUKA is a prolific young playwright and head of the graduate MFA playwriting program at UC-San Diego. Her plays include 36 VIEWS,
STRIKE-SLIP, ANON(YMOUS), AT THE VANISHING POINT, POLAROID STORIES, LANGUAGE OF ANGELS, WAR OF THE WORLDS (in collaboration with Anne Bogart and SITI
Company), TATTOO GIRL and SKIN. These plays have been produced by Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, the Huntington Theater, Berkeley Repertory
Theater, the Joseph Papp Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival, the Children’s Theater Company, the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, the
Dallas Theatre Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s “Next Wave Festival”, and Soho Rep. lizuka is a member of New Dramatists
and the recipient of a PEN/Laura Pels Award, an Alpert Award, a Joyce Foundation Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Stavis Award from the National
Theatre Conference, a Rockefeller Foundation MAP grant, an NEA/TCG Artist-in-Residence grant, a McKnight Fellowship, a PEN Center USA West Award for Drama,
Princeton University’s Hodder Fellowship, and a Jerome Fellowship. 
Gregory L. Farber is a Boston-area playwright and instructor at
Bentley College. He received his M.F.A. from Arizona State University
where he taught playwriting and screenwriting classes. He produced
several staged reading series and festivals of new plays in addition
to mentoring undergraduate playwrights. His work has been produced at
various theatres in Arizona, North Carolina, and Massachusetts. He
currently works as Director of Development for Theatre on Fire, a
Boston-based theatre company.