Featured Artists

The Eighteenth Annual Last Frontier Theatre Conference
will be held May 16-23, 2010.

The following artists have committed to serving as respondents in the Play Lab and teachers at this year’s Conference. Additional artists will be added as they confirm their attendance.

Carrie Baker is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, a member of Actor’s Equity Association and Screen Actors Guild, and a founding company member of New York City’s Coyote REP. New York Theatre credits include New Age Classics, New Perspectives Theatre Company, NYU Festival of New Works, Manhattan Theatre Source, and Coyote REP. Regional Theatre credits include Utah Shakespearean Festival, Irvine Barclay Theatre, Summer Repertory Theatre, Washington Shakespeare Company, Potomac Theatre Project, Washington Stage Guild, and Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre. TV credits include Guiding Light, Ed, and commercial voiceovers. Film credits include Chronic Town (Sundance 2008), Eat Me, and various industrial films. Directing credits include How I Learned to Drive, The Laramie Project, Three Days of Rain, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Theatre UAF); The Taming of the Shrew (Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre); and DIVE (Middlebury College). Carrie has taught acting at Middlebury College, University of California Irvine, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts, Washington Shakespeare Company, and Northfield Mount Hermon School. She is on the Last Frontier Theatre Conference's National Advisory Board. Carrie holds a BA in Theatre and English from Middlebury College and an MFA in Acting from the University of California, Irvine.

Frank Collison comes from a theatre background. His father, John, was an actor and playwright and his mother, Peg, directed him in a number of plays while he was growing up in Virginia and Ohio. Frank trained at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, earned his BA in theatre at San Francisco State University where he performed street theatre, helped establish Pinecrest Theatre in the Sierra Nevadas, then went on to earn an MFA in acting at UC San Diego. Appearing in over 150 productions, Frank has worked Off-Broadway, with the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Chamber Repertory Theatre in Boston, Denver Center Theatre Company,and Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Solvang, California. His theatrical roles have ranged from Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Miss Havisham in Great Expectations to Scigolsch in Lulu. In Los Angeles, Frank has acted in productions at the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts and Los Angeles Theatre Company. Frank is a founding member of Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California, which has won over 25 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. His performance as Mr. Peachum in The Beggars' Opera was honored as best supporting actor by LA Weekly. Frank's film work includes The Happening, The Village, The Whole Ten Yards, Hope Spring, Hidalgo, Suspect Zero, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Majestic, Mobsters, The Last Boy Scout, Buddy, Alien Nation, Diggstown, The Blob, My Summer Story, and Wild at Heart, which won the Golden Palm Award at Cannes. Frank is best known to television audiences as Horace Bing, the bumbling telegraph operator on CBS's Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. His extensive television appearances include guest-starring roles on Monk, Stargate Atlantis, HBO's Carnivale, Seventh Heaven, NYPD Blue, Star Trek: the Next Generation, and Hill Street Blues. He recently shot Ghosts/Aliens, a pilot for Comedy Central. Frank and his wife, Laura Gardner, reside in Los Angeles with his three children. Laura and Frank played husband and wife in recurring roles on My Name Is Earl. www.frankcollison.com/

Kia Corthron's A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick was produced by Playwrights Horizons in association with The Play Company and the Culture Project in the spring. Trickle was part of Ensemble Studio Theatre's 2009 One-Act Marathon. Other plays include Light Raise the Roof (New York Theatre Workshop), Moot the Messenger (Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival), Snapshot Silhouette (Minneapolis’ Children’s Theatre), Slide Glide the Slippery Slope (Humana, Mark Taper Forum), The Venus de Milo Is Armed (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Breath, Boom (London's Royal Court Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Yale Rep, Huntington Theatre), Force Continuum (Atlantic Theater Company), Splash Hatch on the E Going Down (New York Stage and Film, Baltimore's Center Stage, Yale Rep, London's Donmar Warehouse), Seeking the Genesis (Goodman Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club), Digging Eleven (Hartford Stage), Life by Asphyxiation (Playwrights Horizons), Come Down Burning (American Place Theatre), Cage Rhythm (Sightlines/The Point in the Bronx). Awards include the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Residency (Italy), McKnight National Residency, VCCA Award for Excellence in the Arts, AT&T On Stage Award, Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, Mark Taper Forum's Fadiman Award, National Endowment for the Arts, Kennedy Center Fund, New Professional Theatre Playwriting Award, Callaway Award, Connections Contest winner, and in television a Writers Guild Outstanding Drama Series Award and Edgar Allan Poe Award for The Wire. Kia is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council and of the Writers Guild of America, and an alumnus of New Dramatists.

Timothy Daly is one of Australia’s most internationally-successful writers, with a string of national and international productions. His play Kafka Dances (which played in Anchorage in 2006) has won over a dozen national and intentional awards, and is the most internationally-performed Australian play of the last three decades, with productions all over the world. When premiered in Australia, the play brought the then-unknown Cate Blanchett to national attention when she performed in two highly successful seasons of the Sydney production. In 2009, the French production had a 20-city tour of France, culminating in a season at the prestigious Festival of Avignon. In November, 2010, the play will make its debut in Poland and Polynesia, and in 2011, it will play in the Czech Republic. In May, 2008, his play The Man in the Attic (which also played in Anchorage in 2009 in its American premiere, and was seen at the 2009 Last Frontier Theatre Conference) was awarded Australia’s most prestigious award for a new play, the Patrick White Playwrights’ Award. The French production will open in Paris in early December, 2010. Timothy Daly’s newest play, Richard III (ou presque), will premiere at the 2010 Festival of Avignon. In 2008, Timothy Daly was awarded Australia’s highest artistic recognition, with a Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts. His radio work has been broadcast in seven countries.

Laura Gardner just finished shooting an episode of The Forgotten with Christian Slater. She is a regular on the web series Simply Simon. You can catch her voice(s) in The Maltese Falcon along with Michael Madson, Ed Hermann, and Sandra Oh. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress by the LA Weekly for her performance in Fighting Words, which opened at the Celtic Arts Center in Los Angeles and then transferred to the Millennium Center in Wales. Laura appeared on Broadway in Smile. Her Off-Broadway credits include The Cocktail Hour with Nancy Marchand and Bruce Davison, Other People’s Money, and Welded, directed by Jose'Quintero. She toured nationally with Showboat, Doonesbury, Oliver, and My Fair Lady. Her extensive regional credits include the Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, and the NC Shakespeare Festival. LA credits include Pasadena Playhouse, Will Geer Botanicum, Westwood Playhouse, Tiffany Theatre, Fountain Theatre, Deaf West, and the Road. She last appeared in the premiere of Razorback at the Rogue Machine Theatre Company. You may have seen Laura and her actor husband, Frank Collison, recurring on the NBC hit My Name is Earl. Some of her other TV and film credits include Crash, ER, Close to Home, Criminal Minds, The West Wing, Judging Amy, Boston Public, The Gilmore Girls, Party of Five, Hobos, Profiles, L.A. Law, and Cheers. Watch for her in the feature Finding Red Cloud, Truth Never Lies, Callback the Movie, and the full-length Broadway musical Eclipse of the Heart, with music of Meatloaf and Bonnie Tyler. Laura trained at Boston University, Rutgers, and Herbert Berghof Studios, where she studied with Uta Hagen and Carol Rosenfeld. She is on the faculty of the Howard Fine Acting Studio, one of LA's finest professional acting schools. Laura teaches actors with disability for Media Access in Los Angeles and in San Francisco and was honored for her over 17 years of work with that community. She is a frequent guest teacher in New Mexico, teaching in Santa Fe, Albuequerque, and Alamogordo. She has taught in Wales at The Actors Workshop and the Academy of Musical Theatre, in NYC at HB Studios, Stella Adler Institute, and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Laura also taught at the NC School of the Arts, Circle Theatre, Palm Beach Community College, and the George Street Playhouse. In Los Angeles, she has taught at Santa Monica College, Actors' Center International, West Coast Ensemble, Women in Theatre, the Road Theatre and for the Screen Actors Guild Conservatory in LA and Santa Fe. Laura resides in Los Angeles with Frank Collison, her 3 step children, and their 2 dogs, Mollie and Dino. www.lauragardner.org/

Gary Garrison is the Executive Director of the Dramatist Guild of America – the national organization of playwrights, lyricists and composers headed by our nation’s most honored dramatists. Prior to his work at the Guild, Garrison filled the posts of Artistic Director, Producer, and full time faculty member in the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he produced over forty-five festivals of new work, collaborating with hundreds of playwrights, directors and actors. Garrison’s plays include Verticals and Horizontals, Storm on Storm, It Belongs on Stage (and Not in My Bed), Crater, Old Soles, Padding The Wagon, Rug Store Cowboy, Cherry Reds, Gawk, Oh Messiah Me, We Make A Wall, The Big Fat Naked Truth, Scream With Laughter, Smoothness With Cool, Empty Rooms, Does Anybody Want A Miss Cow Bayou?, and When A Diva Dreams. This work has been featured at the City Theatre of Miami, Boston Theatre Marathon, Primary Stages, The Directors Company, Manhattan Theatre Source, StageWorks, Fourth Unity, Open Door Theatre, African Globe Theatre Company, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Expanded Arts, and New York Rep. His recent work as guest artist or master teacher of playwriting involve such institutions as Sewanee Writer’s Conference, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Inkwell and Source Theatre in D.C., Goddard College, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas Tech University, Southeast Theatre Conference, Mississippi Theatre Association, Northwest Theatre Conference, and Boston Playwrights. He is the author of the critically acclaimed The Playwright’s Survival Guide: Keeping the Drama in Your Work and Out of Your Life, Perfect Ten: Writing and Producing the Ten Minute Play, A More Perfect Ten and two volumes of Monologues for Men by Men. He is the program director for the Summer Playwriting Intensive for the Kennedy Center, the former National Chair of Playwriting for the Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival, and the founder of The Loop, an on-line community of playwrights. www.garygarrison.com/

Stephan Golux, currently Assistant Professor of Directing in the Theatre Department at University of Alaska Fairbanks, has specialized since 1993 as director in collaboration with dynamic playwrights on new work. World premieres in New York City: Looking for the Pony by Andrea Lepcio, American Passenger by Theron Albis, 9th Street Water by Michael Griffo, and Crawling from the Wreckage by Paul Rogalus. Other New York and regional projects include: Endgame, On the Verge, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, True West, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well…, The Pope and the Witch, and Copenhagen. Ongoing laboratory basic research: an approach of bricolage in the generation of performance material in a theatrical context. Proud union member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC). MFA in Stage Direction from the Yale School of Drama. Portfolio information at http://director.goluxstudio.com/.

Since moving to Los Angeles, Darcy Halsey has appeared in numerous films and television shows, including CSI, Scare Tactics, Madison Heights, the growing cult phenomenon Stephen King’s Night Surf, Noah’s Arc, and a recurring role in Breaking Up With Shannen Doherty. She also starred in the popular Bud Light "Ted Ferguson" campaign. Most recently, Darcy shot a starring role in the psychological thriller Drifter, a feature film by award-winning Dutch director Roel Reine. Darcy appears in a co-starring role in the film Behind the Smile, written and directed by Damon Wayans. She had a starring role in the gritty drama Dark Heart, written and directed by Kevin Lewis. She also appears in MGM's film Material Girls, opposite Anjelica Huston. Always close to the theater, Darcy has most recently written, directed, and starred in the critically acclaimed stage production The Reunion at the Howard Fine Theater, which she is currently developing as an interactive web series for Lionsgate. She also starred in Art Brown's hit play Minding Goodman as the mentally challenged Cheryl Goodman and What I Heard About Iraq, the controversial play produced at the Fountain Theater which garnered international acclaim. Darcy is currently starring in a comedy web series that she co-wrote and co-produced called Polly G. This project has recently been optioned by Stun Creative and is being pitched to networks as a television show. www.darcyhalsey.com/

Arlene Hutton is best known for The Nibroc Trilogy, which includes Last Train to Nibroc (New York Drama League Best Play nomination), See Rock City (In the Spirit of America Award) and Gulf View Drive (LA Weekly and Ovation Award nominations). Her plays have been presented Off- and Off-Off-Broadway, at regional theatres and throughout the world, including four times at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Her first one-act, I Dream Before I Take the Stand, has been performed around the world and translated into Chinese, Dutch and Romanian. As It Is In Heaven, a play about Kentucky Shaker women, has become a university favorite with two different productions going to KC/ACTF regional conferences. An alumna of New Dramatists, Hutton is a member of Dramatists Guild, six-time Heineman Award finalist, three-time winner of the Samuel French Short Play Festival, finalist for the Francesca Primus Prize and recipient of the Lippman and Calloway Awards. Residencies include the Australian National Playwrights Conference, New Harmony Project, MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Recently the William Inge Fellow in Kansas, Hutton was resident playwright for the Greenville Centre Stage New Play Festival and was twice named the Tennessee Williams Fellow in Playwriting at the University of the South and was the Blaine Quarnstrom Fellow at USM. She has served on the faculty of the Glen Workshop and the Sewanee Writers Conference. New York credits include 78th Street Theatre Lab, Alice’s Fourth Floor, A-Train Plays, ArcLight, Barrow Group, Circle-in-the-Square Downtown, Duplex, EST, Guerilla Rep, HERE, New York Fringe, Rude Mechanicals, Vital and West Bank Downstairs.  Last Train to Nibroc, the first play to transfer from the New York Fringe to Off-Broadway (Urinetown was the second), was recently produced in London and at Cincinnati Playhouse and has seen over a hundred productions around the country, including a presentation by The Journey Company at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in 2007. Produced last season at Echo Theatre in Dallas and B Street Theatre in Sacramento, her entire Nibroc Trilogy will be seen this summer at Chester Theatre in the Berkshires. Other regional credits include the Kitchen Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Riverside, Orlando Rep, Aurora, ArtStation, Old Creamery, Actors' Co-op, Interact, Shipping Dock, Wellfleet, Stonington Opera House, the Broach, Greenville Centre Stage, Manbites Dog and many others. She is currently developing a contemporary two-character play for The Barrow Group. Hutton’s scripts are published by Samuel French, Applause Books, Smith & Kraus, Playscripts, and Dramatists Play Service.

Barclay Kopchak ferries over to Valdez from PWSCC's off-road Cordova campus where she teaches languages and public speaking. She is president of Cordova's Stage of the Tide and has appeared in numerous productions with them over the decades including Radio Gals, Once Upon a Mattress, Quilters, Steel Magnolias, and King Island Christmas. Behind the scenes she has worked as director, stage manager, producer, and gracious bed-and-breakfast host for visiting artists. (Come on by!) She is a passionate Francophile and eagerly anticipates the upcoming construction of a local civic center with a real theater.

Craig Pospisil is the author of Somewhere in Between, Months on End, Life is Short, and the collection Choosing Sides, all published by Dramatists Play Service. Somewhere in Between premiered at Detroit Repertory, and has over sixty productions, including ones in New York, Chicago and Paris. Months on End received its world premiere at the Purple Rose Theater Company and has had dozens of productions around the country and in Australia and Hong Kong. He is the author of The Dunes, which won Theatre Conspiracy's New Play Contest, and the book for the musicals Drift, which was produced at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, and Dot Comet, which had a recent reading by the New Musical Developmental Theatre at Wooly Mammoth in Washington, DC . Craig is head writer for theAtrainplays, the acclaimed 24-four hour theatre project, for which he has written sixteen short plays and musicals. His Atrainplays It’s Not You, Tourist Attraction, and The Best Way to Go are published by Playscripts Inc. It’s Not You was translated into Danish and Cantonese, published in An Anthology of Contemporary American Short Plays in Beijing, and is included in Take Ten II: New Ten Minute Plays. Other publications include On the Edge in Under Thirty: Plays for a New Generation and Best Ten-Minute Plays 2005; Perchance in the Best Ten Minute Plays 2006; Infant Mortality in Best Ten-Minute Plays 2005; and Guerilla Gorilla in Plays and Playwrights 2001. Craig's work has been seen at Ensemble Studio Theatre, New World Stages, Atlantic Theater, Bay Street Theater, Vital Theater, West Coast Ensemble, the Barrow Group and the Caldwell Theater, and has been performed on four continents. He is the editor of Outstanding Men’s Monologues and Outstanding Women’s Monologues, Volumes I & II, published by Dramatists Play Service, where he also works as the Director of Nonprofessional Licensing. A native New Yorker, Craig received his Masters from NYU’s Dramatic Writing Department, is a member of the Dramatists Guild, and Artistic Advisor to the Winter Harbor Theatre Company. www.CraigPospisil.com

Guillermo Reyes’s plays have been performed across the country, including New York Off-Broadway productions of Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown and Mother Lolita. Other plays include Chilean Holiday, Madison, Men on the Verge 2, Deporting the Divas, The Hispanick Zone, Sunrise at Monticello, and others. His plays have been seen in various theatres across the country, including Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, the Guthrie Theater, Premiere Stages, Urban Stages, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Celebration Theatre, Theatre Rhinoceros, Diversity Theater, and others. He’s a member of the Dramatists Guild. He’s published in the recent anthology Borders on Stage: Plays Produced by Teatro Bravo (L&S Books, Phoenix, 2008). His book Madre and I: A Memoir of our Immigrant Lives, is being published by University of Wisconsin Press in April 2010. In Phoenix, he’s the artistic director of Teatro Bravo, a bilingual theatre company that produces plays in either English or Spanish or both. Photo Courtesy of: SeanKaperaPhotography.com ©2009

Jeff Rogers comes to Juneau from Connecticut where he received his Master of Fine Arts in Dramaturgy and Dramatic from the Yale School of Drama in May 2007. While at Yale, he served as the Artistic Director of the Yale Cabaret and Executive Director of the Dwight/Edgewood Project, a youth playwriting program modeled after the 52nd Street Project. After his graduation, Jeff pursued post-graduate studies in theatre management, worked as the Associate Business Manager for the Yale Repertory Theatre, and served as a Teaching Fellow for the Yale School of Drama. Jeff spent the spring of 2008 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as a dramaturg for The Comedy of Errors and Othello. His previous credits include directing Max Frisch’s The Firebugs and Ben Jonson’s Epicene at the Yale Cabaret and designing lights for The Caine Mutiny Court Marshall and The Drawer Boy at the Hope Summer Repertory Theatre. Jeff grew up in central Michigan where he received a Bachelor’s degree in Theatrical Design and Technical Production from Western Michigan University, after which he served a year-long tour of duty as a literary intern at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Akiko Nishijima Rotch is a native of Japan, where she worked with the New National Theatre in Tokyo as a scene painter. She started her design career in New York, where she earned an MFA in Design from Tisch School of the Arts NYU in 2007 and an MA in interior and Architecture and Lighting Design from the Parsons School of Design in 2001. Recent designs include Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, directed by Roblin G. Davis, and Dave Hunsaker’s Battles of Fire and Water, directed by Laurie McCants at Perseverance Theatre; The Last Leaf, The Gift of the Magi (libretto by Nina S. Chordas music by Michel Chordas), and Il trittico (Puccini), directed by Roald Simonson for Opera To Go; The Threepenny Opera (Bertolt Brecht), directed by Henning Hegland, at Columbia University; Ibsen’s Ghosts; Inge’s Bus Stop; Danger of Tobacco; Chekhov’s The Bear, directed by Henning Hegland at Columbia University; and Measure for Measure, directed by Douglas C. Wager at NYU. She moved to Juneau in August, 2008. www.akikonishijima.com

Art Rotch, Artistic Director of Perseverance Theatre, has twenty-one years experience working as a theatre artist in Alaska and is one of a very few theatre designers in the United States to lead a prominent professional theatre company. He holds a degree in History from Harvard and an MFA in design from New York University’s Graduate department of Design for Stage and Film. He worked with Artistic Directors Molly Smith and Peter DuBois before relocating to New York City for his graduate work at NYU in 2002. During his first stint in Juneau, Art designed dozens of productions for Perseverance, notably the world premiere’s of Democracy and The Faraway Nearby by Canadian writer John Murrel, and the world premiere of Paula Vogel’s The Mineola Twins. He worked a variety of jobs at the theatre, served eight years on the Board of Directors, and was part of the search committee that hired Peter DuBois to succeed Molly as Artistic Director in 1998. During six years in New York City, Art completed his training, launched a studio in Manhattan, became a member of the United Scenic Artists Union, and began a design career. He became Artistic Director in 2008 and made the move back to Juneau with his wife, Akiko Nishijima, who is also a theatre artist, in the summer of 2008, and they now live in Douglas, a short walk from the theatre.

Before retiring in 2006 from a 25-year, award-winning career in journalism, Catherine Stadem was a theatre critic for The Anchorage Times and Anchorage Daily News. She has also written for Back Stage (New York), Variety, and Alaska Magazine, where she was a staff writer. She holds a BA in Theatre Arts and a MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Alaska Anchorage, where she was an adjunct English instructor. While working as a theatre critic, she was an active member of the American Theatre Critics Association for 20-plus years, where she chaired the Ethics Committee and served on the New Plays Committee. She has written more than a dozen plays, which have had staged readings in New York and at Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, and productions at UAA. With Lily Ann Nielsen, she co-authored The Cost of Living, a play about breast cancer, which was published through a grant from the Alaska Run for Women. She is also the recipient of a research grant from the Alaska Humanities Forum for her most recent book, The History of Theatre in Anchorage, Alaska 1915-2005: From a Wilderness Tent to a Multimillion Dollar Stage, published in 2009 by Edwin Mellen Press.

Jayne Wenger is a director and dramaturg whose exclusive focus is on original material. Throughout over 25 years of professional theater experience she has been dedicated to the development, direction and production of new plays and solo performances. She is the past Artistic Director of the Bay Area Playwrights Foundation and was the Artistic Director of Women’s Ensemble in New York. She has developed the emerging work of acclaimed playwrights throughout the country and her work has been recognized with many awards.
Current projects include the direction for A Most Notorious Woman by Maggie Cronin, performed by Christina Augello at EXIT Theatre of San Francisco; direction and dramaturgy for Men Think They Are Better Than Grass, a new multi-media dance/theater piece with The Deborah Slater Dance Theater; direction and dramaturgy for The Gorge (working title) by Schatzie Schaefers, to be workhopped in June in San Francisco; and dramaturgy for the October world premier of Winter Bear by Anne Hanley at Cyrano’s Off Center Playhouse of Anchorage.
Recent work includes the direction of Deke Weaver’s The Crimes of Confessions of Kip Knudson, A Hockey Way of Knowledge at the Station Theater in Urbana, Illinois; direction and dramaturgy for a world premier adaptation of Ann Lamott’s first novel Hard Laughter, with AlterTheater of San Rafael, California; direction and dramaturgy for the world premier of Anne Galjour’s solo work about the class divide in America, You Can’t Get There From Here, a commission from Dartmouth College and Z Space Studio; dramaturgy for Arlitia Jones world premier, Make Good The Fires at Cyrano’s in Anchorage; and dramaturgy for Brian Thorstensen’s The Horses at AlterTheater.
Jayne is a member of Literary and Dramaturgs of the Americas, The Dramatists Guild and the Advisory Board of Last Frontier Theatre Conference. She teaches annual playwriting workshops in Assisi, Italy. www.artworkshopintl.com.

Bryan Willis serves as playwright-in-residence for the Northwest Playwrights Alliance at Seattle Repertory Theater. He is currently working on a commission from Book-It Theater in Seattle and a full-length play scheduled for an extended workshop at Seattle Rep. His plays have appeared throughout the U.K., Israel, Japan, U.S. and Canada, including A Contemporary Theater (two commissions), New York Theater Workshop, Seattle Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Unseam’d Shakespeare Coompany, and Riverside Studios in London. His work has also been featured on NPR and BBC Radio (commission for Sophie). Bryan is the proud recipient of a Theater Fellowship from Artist Trust and has worked in the literary departments of many theaters, including Playwrights Horizons and Lincoln Center (NYU's Playwright-in-Residence) and Tacoma Actors Guild. He was recently elected to the KC/ACTF 2011 national selection team. Bryan, his wife Susan and their son, Zach, live in Olympia with their dog, Frieda, a.k.a., the Greased Pig from the Planet Krypton.