WENDY WASSERSTEIN received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for the Heidi Chronicles, directed by Daniel Sullivan, produced by Playwrights Horizons. Originally produced by Lincoln Center Theatre in 1992, The Sisters Rosensweig was nominated for 5 Tony Awards including Best Play. Wasserstein's Off-Broadway plays include Uncommon Women and Others , Isn't it Romantic (produced by playwrights Horizons and directed by Gerry Guiterrez), and a musical Miami. Other notable productions are American Daughter, Old Money, Psyche in Love, and her most recent play Third which opened in 2005. Her screenplays include House of Husbands (with Christopher Durang), and The Object of My Affection (based on a novel by Stephen McCauley). She is the author of Bachelor Girls, a collection of essays. Ms. Wasserstein was hospitalized with Lymphoma in December of 2005, ultimately leading to her death in January of 2006. (As of November 2008)

CHARLES KARCHMER is an award-winning director and coach who has been active in New York and regional theatre for over thirty-five years. After graduating from Dartmouth College, he studied with Joseph Papp at Columbia University. Subsequent studies with Curt Dempster led to his becoming a founding member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre. In addition to numerous shows and readings at EST (including Marathon productions of The Undefeated Rhumba Champ with Christine Baranski, and Landscape with Waitress,) his work in New York includes productions at The Juilliard School, the Atlantic Theatre Acting School, Playwrights Horizons (where he directed Wendy Wasserstein's first NY production), Manhattan Punch Line, Ark Theatre, American Jewish Theatre and Young Playwrights Festival. Karchmer's production of Love! Valour! Compassion! for the Philadelphia Theatre Company garnered five Barrymore Awards, including Outstanding Direction of a Play. His many regional credits include Actors Theatre of Louisville, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Syracuse Stage, Portland Stage, Pioneer Memorial Theatre and others.