P. Seth Bauer (Writer)

For TDC - Wet, Bumbershoot, and Vermouth & Chicken.

Iphigenia, The Umbrella Play, The Burglar of Suburbia, The Tip. Other credits in NY include New Group, Center Stage, American Globe, Access, WorkShop Theater, PSNBC at HERE, Hypothetical, Chrysler, Abingdon, and Tangent. Regional: Sundance, Cleveland Public Theatre, Eureka Stage, frontera@hydepark, WordBRIDGE, Capitol City Playhouse, Roadworks.

Upcoming: The Cold Front (Access), Vermouth & Chicken (NYC 15 Min. Play Fest.), The Attractive Women on the Train (Tangent), The Taste of Rain (The Troubador, London).

Stephen Bittrich (Writer)

For TDC - Two Eggs (in Neighbors), Cup of Sugar (in Neighbors), Some Words of Advice (in Waiting), La Mouche (in The Service Project), Flash in the Pan (in Late Night Theft), The Audit (in Late Night Paper), Duty Honor Country (in Honor), Bee in (Revenge, Part 2), The Proposal (in Security), God's Signature (in Justice), and Big Apples. See also Directing at TDC.

Stephen has had about 19 one-acts and 3 full-lengths produced around NYC by such companies as The Drilling Company, Vital Theatre, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, and 1st Generation. His ten minute play Brain Sucking was produced at Actor's Theatre of Louisville, and last year Two Eggs was a finalist in the Louisville Ten Minute Play contest. Stephen's plays have been published by "Dramatics Magazine," Smith and Kraus, and The New York Theatre Experience.

His screenplay, Desert Rites, was a Top 30 Finalist in the first Project Greenlight.

Plays can be read on his website: www.StephenBittrich.com

He is currently developing a horror film. See details and cool/creepy artwork at: www.theboyscanswim.com

E-mail: SBittrich@aol.com

Joanna Cherensky (Writer)

For TDC - Till Death Do Us Part (from Honor), Mrs. Schimowitz, 3B (from Paper), The Regular (from Service).

Currently enrolled in USC's MFA Writing for Film and Television program. 2003 Semifinalist for The Chesterfield Writer's Film Project, based at Paramount Pictures, for her first screenplay, Man Trouble: The Search for Sperm.

From box office maven to writer, Joanna has been with TDC since it's first production, In the Car.

E-mail: jcherensky@hotmail.com

Vincent Delaney (Writer)

For TDC - Kuwait (from Service) and A Luncheon (from Revenge).

Vincent Delaney's plays include The Art of Bad Men, Perpetua, MLK and the FBI, and Kuwait, which won the Heideman Award and was produced in the Humana Festival. His work has been developed at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Magic, Woolly Mammoth, the Empty Space, the Jungle, PlayLabs, the Illusion, the New Harmony Project, Pittsburgh Public and the Orlando Shakespeare Festival. Commissions include the Guthrie, the Children's Theatre Company, ACT, the Cleveland Playhouse, the Great American History Theatre, and a Jerome Commission from Commonweal Theatre. His short play Acceleration Red won the Lamia Ink! playwriting contest and was featured at Harrogate Theatre (UK). He is the recipient of a Bush Fellowship, a McKnight Fellowship, the University of Alabama's Apsey Award, and an Artist Grant from the Seattle Arts Commission. His work is published by Smith and Kraus, Heineman, Samuel French, Dramatics Magazine and Playscripts.com. Vince is a Core Member of the Playwrights Center and a Principal Playwright with Seattle Dramatists.

Vince has taught and held residencies at St. Olaf College, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Gustavus Adolphus College, the Guthrie, and Augsburg College. He teaches Playwriting for ACT Theatre, Freehold, and Seattle Central.

Brian Dykstra (Writer)

For TDC - The Committee (from While You Wait...), Motor Oil (from Connections), Service Order (from Service), The Mean Queen & The Thief of Hearts (from Theft) and Spreading the Word (from Late Night Theft). See also acting at TDC.

Recent premieres include: That Damn Dykstra (the boxed set) at Access Theater, Hiding Behind Comets at Plays in Progress in Eureka, CA, Silence at Holy Cross College and STRANGERHORSE at Access Theater. Forsaking All Others played in London to rave reviews and set box office records at Pentameters Theatre and received a Dramalogue critics pick and LA Weekly Pick of the Week for its Los Angeles run.

Other plays:
SexReligionPolitics and I Am/Lot's Wife (The West Bank), A Sane Policy (commissioned by the Public Theatre) and Spill the Wine.

Screenplay credits: Baggage Claim (2 Drivers), Amazombies (Filbert Steps), Un-Coupled, Joints, V.I.R.T.U.E., Fight Game, A Sane Policy, Forsaking All Others and the short film, Another Bed. TV writing credits include the Emmy-nominated television show The Life on ESPN.

Contact Brian at Briandykstra@earthlink.net.

Rodes Fishburne (Writer)

For TDC - Note to Self (in Theft) and Gaggle (in Late Night Paper).

Rodes Fishburne has written for numerous magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Sports Afield, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine and Forbes ASAP, where he was the editor of the "Big Issue," an annual collection of widely anthologized essays from leading writers and thinkers. He also edited and wrote introduction essays for the book, The Best of the Big Issues.

He is currently writing a novel. He can be reached at rodes@sfgrotto.org

Reneé Flemings (Writer)

For TDC - Fever (in While You Wait...), 24 Carats (in Theft), and Scars (in Paper).

Reneé's plays include: Daddy's Home, Monsters, coyote calls and Brussel Sprouts. She has been a rider/writer on all four of the A Train Plays in various incarnations at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Her plays have been produced at nada, Dixon Place, HERE and Manhattan Theatre Source. She's been a writer/performer of three one woman shows: Passing Habits, ...secrets.., and The Bible Belt, including performances at the National Black Theatre Festival, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and The Women's International Theatre Festival.

As an actor, her most recent onstage roles have been in Edward II at the NYC Fringe and the role of "The Moaner" in The Vagina Monologues at the Loew's Theatre in New Jersey. Last month her collection of short plays, A Girl, A Guy & a Gun, was presented as a staged reading as part of Mortality at The Neighborhood Playhouse. Her short play Lyric was selected as a semi-finalist for the 2003 Turnip Festival at the American Globe Theatre. Reneé has several soap opera, commercial, and voice-over credits. She is currently featured as the "mean ping pong ball smasher" in the After School Programs commercial.

She is a teaching artist/curriculum advisor for Roundabout Theatre Company and staff writer for Zinc, an arts in education organization primarily working with professional athletes.

Sheri Graubert (Writer)

For TDC - Ms Santos' Dream after Reading Medea (Revenge), staged reading of Last Word (Revenge 2, The Refinery Series).

Sheri Graubert is a playwright and actress. She was born in New York and raised in England.

Plays include: Johnny's Girl (Festival of New Plays, Chicago), The Adelaide Chronicles (nominated for Cherry Lane mentor program, semi-finalist Mill Mountain Theatre), The Vestibule (Festival of One Acts, Neighborhood Playhouse), Last Word (picked out by Soho Theatre, London; staged reading by the Drilling Company; workshop upcoming summer '06 with The Drilling Co. and 78th St Theatre Lab), Coffee & Prozac (picked out by PFD, who represent Tom Stoppard and Michael Frayn), The Secret of Dogs (Radio), Ignudi (Reading at Isadora).

As an actress, Sheri has worked in all different media, all over the world with companies such as Cheek by Jowl, The National Theatre of Great Britain, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Moscow Arts Theatre and Target Margin Theatre, the BBC, Channel 4 and many independent film and television companies in both the US and the UK.

Contact info: sgraubert@yahoo.com

Nicholas Gray (Writer)

For TDC - Thor's Hammer (in Revenge, Part 2). See also Acting at TDC.

Nicholas is one of the co-founders and the current Creative Director for A Chip & A Chair Films, LLC. With AC&AC, he is working as writer-director and co-producer on the feature If You Could Say It in Words, starring Alvin Keith and Marin Ireland (currently in post-production).

As a writer, his plays have been produced by The Drilling Company, Hypothetical Theatre Company, Raw Impressions Music Theater, and Lincoln Center Directors Lab among others. He has also worked as an improvist (with the New Mexico-based company Surely You Jest), fight choreographer (LCDL, Princeton University among others), and as an actor at myriad theatres ranging from The Matchbox in Albuquerque to The Public in New York City.

Film work includes a starring role in the independent film Niche, and he can currently be seen on the syndicated TV series Hip Hop Hold'em opposite Ed Lover (in NYC, on the CW). He is a graduate of The Actors Center Conservatory, and at present lives with his wife Katie in Philadelphia.

www.chipchair.com www.IfYouCould-movie.com www.hiphopholdem.com

Trish Harnetiaux (Writer)

For TDC - The Dorsal Striatum (from Revenge).

Full-length plays include I Will Come Like A Thief, Straight On Til Morning (published by Broadway Play Publishing Spring 2006) and Inside a Bigger Box.  Additional works include: The Dorsal Striatum (The Drilling Company's Revenge Series, forthcoming in Post Road Magazine fall 2006), The Drill (or Which Way Out) and A Gopher in the Ninth Ward. Harnetiaux is a member of the Dramatist Guild of America and is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at Brooklyn College with Mac Wellman.

Kate McCamy (Writer)

For TDC - Safety Off (from Security) and The Deal (from Revenge, Part 2).

Kate grew up in what is now known as Tribeca. She attended Manhattan's fine public schools and had the good fortune to become a High School/College Graduate intern at the Circle Repertory Company. There she worked closely with Marshall Mason, Landford Wilson, Stuart White, and the Lab, writing, directing, producing and acting.

She has also had productions around the city at venues like Downstairs at The Westbank Café, HERE and the TriBeCa Theatre Lab (of which she was also a board member), and more recently performing in Sam Shepard's Fool For Love in NY and Ireland.

Her writing credits are: Sneaker Revolution, The Bridge (which was a runner up in the Strawberry Festival in NYC), The Deal (for Revenge 2) and Safety Off (for Security) both commissioned by the Drilling Co.

She has also written 8 feature length screenplays, some of which have been optioned and many shorts that have been produced and are currently making the rounds on the festival circuit. She co-wrote Superhero with Richard Mover, her choice director for her plays.

Kate has taught playwriting at Julia Richman High School in Queens for Theatre For New Audiences and run an improvisation workshop and was a Teacher-Director for the Circle Repertory Company Arts and Education outreach program. She studied film and screenwriting at New York University.

A short called Pink and Blue is published at nthposition.com, an online literary magazine, and her play The Deal will be published by Smith & Kraus in the spring.

 Neil Olson (Writer)

For TDC - The Virgin (in Theft) and What's Left (in Paper), Pec in (Honor, Part 2), The Black Paintings (in Revenge), Zahra (in Security), and his full-length, Dealers.

Neil's full length play, Dead Writer's Ink was given a staged reading at Manhattan Theatre Source, and Dealers recently received a stage reading at Rattlestick Theater. He works in the publishing industry in New York City.

His first novel, The Icon, was published in 2005 and can be bought here(!):

The Icon at Amazon

E-mail: neil@donadio.com

 Elizabeth Scales Rheinfrank (Writer)

For TDC: Sort & Staple (in Late Night Paper)

Elizabeth has had plays produced by the Women's Project & Productions, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Abraxxas Theatre Company, Chashama, Inc., the Culture Project, Interart Annex, New York International Fringe Festival, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Raw Impressions Music Theatre, Screaming Venus, The Civic Theatre of Central Florida (Orlando), and CollaborAction Theatre Company (Chicago). A graduate of the M.F.A. Playwriting Program at Columbia University, she is a member of Youngblood at EST, and was a member of the Women's Project Lab (1999-2002), with awards from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, American Academy of Poets, and the Mississippi Writers' Club, among others.

Email: erheinfrank@yahoo.com

Molly Rice (Writer)

For TDC - The Birth of Paper (in Paper), Before/After (from Both), Medea Unharnessed in (Revenge - Part 2).

Molly is a native Texan whose plays have been developed and produced in Austin (Salvage Vanguard, Austin Script Works, FronteraFest, The Vortex, Rude Mechanicals, Refraction Arts Project), Dallas (Kitchen Dog Theater), Providence, Rhode Island (Brown University/ Trinity Repertory Consortium), Ithaca (Hangar Theater), Delaware (The City Company), and New York City (Public Theater, Clubbed Thumb, The Drilling Company, New York International Fringe Festival). Her work has been published in Monologues For Women By Women (Heinemann Press), New Texas Writers (University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Press), Review (LMDA), and by Salvage Vanguard Press and Austin Script Works Press.

Residencies include The Hangar Theater Summer Lab (2005) and the Voice and Vision Retreat at Bard College (2006). She has been a finalist for New Dramatists (2006), the Actors' Theater of Louisville Heidemann Award (2002, 2006), the O'Neill Playwrights' Conference (2006), and the Princess Grace Award (2004), as well as a semifinalist for PlayLabs (2005, 2006).

Her work was voted Best of the Week and Best of the Fest in FronteraFest, Austin's fringe theater festival, and received the Weston Award for Playwriting (Graduate) at Brown University, as well as a nomination for Outstanding Original Short Play by the New York Innovative Theater Awards (Medea Unharnessed TDC). Most recently, her work was produced in the Women's International Playwriting Festival at Perishable Theater (Providence, RI 2006), and she was chosen as a member of the Playwrights' Lab at The Women's Project and Productions (NYC, 2006-2008).

She was a Lucille Lortel fellow at Brown University, where she graduated in 2006 with an MFA in Playwriting. A CORE member of Austin Script Works and a national member of the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, MN, Molly currently teaches playwriting at the University of Rhode Island, at the Brown/Trinity Consortium, and at Brown University.

E-mail: molly@commoner.com

Dana Slamp (Writer)

For TDC - Scott & Zelda Get a Pet (from Paper), Three Coins in a Car (from In the Car), Naughty (from Neighbors).

Slamp's short film, Happy Anniversary, premiered at Rip Fest Festival in 2003. Her feature length film Native New Yorker will receive a staged reading at the Manhattan Theatre Source in May. Scott & Zelda Get a Pet was an official selection of The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, and her full length play Mountain Home was a finalist.

Dana's short film, "Happy Anniversary," can be viewed at: www.rawimpressions.org as a part of RIPFest #3.

See her bio in TDC actors as well.

C. Denby Swanson (Writer)

For TDC - Bozo (from Theft) and 178 Head (from Connections).

C. Denby Swanson is a graduate of Smith College, the National Theatre Institute, and the Michener Center for Writers at UT-Austin, where she was a Michener Fellow in Playwriting and Screenwriting. She has been commissioned twice by the Guthrie Theater to write plays for young actors, the second time in collaboration with the Children's Theater Company. Governing Alice, the first commissioned piece, was published by Playscripts, Inc. The second, The Atomic Adventures of Nikolai Nikolaevich, was workshopped in the spring of 2003 by the Children's Theater Company, and will be published by Playscripts this summer. Both plays were also published by Dramatics magazine. Her ten-minute play Bozo is currently a finalist for the 2003 Heideman Award at Actors Theater of Louisville.

Swanson's newest full-length play, The Death of a Cat, will have its world premiere at Salvage Vanguard Theatre in Austin, Texas in June 2004, the company's tenth anniversary season. The play was also a semi-finalist for the National Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill Center and is under consideration for Cherry Lane's Mentorship Program. Another full-length play, Marguerite's Book, was included in the Women Playwrights Project 2000. Her bunraku puppet play, Mae, was workshopped at PlayLabs 2002. In New York, The Drilling Company produced her short plays Bozo and 178 Head, which was also seen in City Theatre's 2002 Summer Shorts Festival, in Florida, and which will be published by Smith & Krauss in the 2004 edition of Ten Minute Plays for Three Actors, edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon. In 2001, Manhattan Theatre Source produced Baby Cake as part of the Estrogenius Festival, and published it in their collection The Estro-Book. Her ten-minute play Freemartins was a finalist for the 2002 Heidemann Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Swanson was a William Inge Teaching Playwright in Residence in Independence, Kansas, and has been a popular guest artist and lecturer at Minneapolis and Austin, Texas. She has been a teaching artist for the Guthrie Theater and the Jungle Theater, both in Minneapolis, and has served as a dramaturg and playwriting faculty for the International Thespian Festival.

She was a 2001/2002 Jerome Fellow a 2002/2003 McKnight Advancement Grant recipient, and a finalist for the 2003/2004 Bush Artist Fellowship.

Currently, she is a guest playwright at Macalester College in St. Paul, working with director Harry Waters, Jr. on an original script culled from oral histories by Macalester students, called The Family (re)Union Project, which will be produced in October 2003. She is also Artistic Director of Troupe St. Stephen's, a high school theater ensemble at St. Stephen's Episcopal High School in Austin, Texas, with whom she is creating a new play adapted from the 9th grade biology textbook.