Lisa Schlesinger is Associate Professor and head of the Playwriting Program at Columbia College Chicago. Her plays and essays are produced and published in the U.S. and internationally, and she is an affiliated artist with Sleeping Weazel in Boston and In Parenthesis in New York City.

Ezzat Goushegir, an award-winning author has published four books and several plays. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Iran, Europe, China, and Canada. She is a Fellow Writer in the Iowa City IWP and is co-director at New Federal Theatre in New York. She teaches at DePaul University.

Sands Hall, novelist, singer/songwriter, and playwright, is the author of <em>Catching Heaven</em>, a stage adaptation of Alcott's <em>Little Women</em>, and the play <em>Fair Use</em>. An Adjunct Assistant Professor at Franklin & Marshall College, she is also Founding Editor of the <em>F&M Alumni Arts Review</em>.

Christine Evans