Howard Pflanzer is an American playwright. His works include Black and Whitey, Boris, Beware, Closet Drama: New Voices, The Cop, Exotic Arms, The Final Act, The Guest of Honor, The House of Nancy Dunn, Inventory, It's Your Turn Now, Jersey Nights, Living with History: Camus, Sartre, De Beauvoir, Lucy Parsons: Anarchist, The Man Who Loved Music, Mass Media, Matt the Killer, The Model Ghetto, On The Bridge, and Poetry Class With Serial Killer. His plays have been produced at LaMama, Theatre Im Zentrum, Playwrights Horizons, Medicine Show Theatre, Symphony Space NY,  and WBAI-FM. In addition to playwriting, Pflanzer has written about theatre and public fiction for national publications. He is a graduate of City College and the Yale School of Drama.

Paul Cooper is an American theatrical director. He has directed plays Off-Broadway, most notably with Playwrights Horizons. He directed three plays for PH: Paradise, Matt the Killer and Brain Damage.