Edward Albee, "Three Tall Women"
Lee Blessing, "Independence"
Laura Cunningham, "Beautiful Bodies"
Mary Gallagher, "Bedtime"
Madeleine George, "The Most Massive Woman Wins"
Velina Hasu Houston, "Tea"
Tina Howe, "Appearances"
Sherry Kramer, "David's Redhaired Death"
Casey Kurtti, "Catholic School Girls"
Adam Lefevre, "Waterbabies"
Craig Lucas, "Credo"
Lynn Nottage, "Poof!"
Jose Rivera, "The Winged Man"
Nina Shengold, "Lives of the Great Waitresses"
Paula Vogel, "Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief"
Wendy Wasserstein, "Workout"
John Wooten, "The Role of Della"
Eric Lane and Nina Shengold have been editing contemporary theater
anthologies for more than twenty years. Eric Lane's award-winning
plays have been published and performed in the United States,
Canada, Europe, and China. Plays include Ride, Times of War, Heart
of the City, Dancing on Checkers' Grave, and Filming
O'Keeffe. Floating, a PlayPenn finalist, was workshopped at
Raven Theatre. Eric's short plays are published in Best American
Short Plays, Poems and Plays, and the Foreign Language Press
(Beijing). He wrote and produced the short films First Breath and
Cater-Waiter, which he also directed; both films screened in
more than forty cities worldwide. For TV's Ryan's Hope he received
a Writers Guild Award. Honors include the Berrilla Kerr Playwriting
Award, the La MaMa Playwright Award, and fellowships at Yaddo,
VCCA, and St. James Cavalier in Malta. Eric is an honors graduate
of Brown University, and artistic director of Orange Thoughts, a
not-for-profit theater and film company in New York City.
Nina Shengold's plays include Finger Foods, War at Home,
Homesteaders, and Romeo/Juliet, and have been produced around the
world. Her one-act No Shoulder was filmed by director Suzi
Yoonessi, with Melissa Leo and Samantha Sloyan. Nina won a Writers
Guild Award for her teleplay Labor of Love, starring Marcia Gay
Harden; other teleplays include Blind Spot, with Joanne Woodward
and Laura Linney, and Unwed Father. Her books include the novel
Clearcut; River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers (with
photographer Jennifer May), and a growing posse of pseudonymous
books for young readers. A graduate of Wesleyan, she is currently
teaching creative writing at Manhattanville College. Nina lives in
New York's Hudson Valley, where she has been books editor of
Chronogram magazine since 2004.
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