Dr. Jonathan Levy is an American playwright, author, and educator. He has written over 40 theatrical pieces including monologues, plays, and theatre for young audiences. His plays have been produced both Off-Broadway and regionally at theatres including The Impossible Ragtime Theatre, the Manhattan Theatre Club, the HB Studio, New York Stageworks, Theatre East, Playwrights Horizons, and the Theatre Artists Workshop. His playwriting honors include playwright-in-residences with the Albee-Barr Playwrights Unit, the Manhattan Theatre Club and the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference.

Levy has worked with the International Baccalaureate Organization to develop a theatre curriculum for secondary students that is used in schools around the world. He also coordinated programs in dance and film for other organizations. Currently, he is a Distinguished Teaching Professor at SUNY Stony Brook, a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and a Distinguished Bibliographper for the Arizona State University Libraries. 

Levy earned his doctorate from Columbia University in New York City.

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.