Susan Dworkin is an American novelist and playwright. She has written half a dozen plays and published 14 books, among them the international bestseller The Nazi Officer's Wife, which has ranked in the top ten on multiple New York Times and Amazon best sellers lists. Several of her plays have been produced Off-Broadway and regionally, including The Public Good, which was produced at Playwrights Horizons.

Early stints at the US Department of Agriculture and as a journalist covering international aid projects left Susan with a fascination for all things farming. Her book, The Viking in the Wheat Field, a consumer-friendly guide to agricultural politics, is about the crusading seed banker, Dr. Bent Skovmand, and the future of world food security. Her play, The Farm Bill, chronicles the political awakening of a low level clerk at the mammoth USDA. 

For ten years, Susan was a contributing editor at Ms. Magazine, interviewing celebrities like Meryl Streep, Whoopi Goldberg, Carol Burnett, Danny Glover, and Roseanne Barr. Her classic film study, "Making Tootsie", investigates how Dustin Hoffman, Sydney Pollack and Jessica Lange made the great comedy of a man who must live for a while as a woman. Her biography of Bess Myerson at the Miss American Pageant, Miss America 1945, won honors from the New York State Historical Society.

Susan is a frequent guest speaker at academic and literary conferences. She also has appeared on news/talk programs including The Leonard Lopate Show, Living on Earth, and On Point with Tom Ashbrook.

Leonard Peters is an American director, author, and educator. Peters has directed more than 50 productions across the United States. In New York City his work has appeared at Playwrights Horizons, The WPA Theatre, La Mama etc., Circle Repertory Comapny, St. Clement’s Playhouse, The Joyce Theater, St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery, Lincoln Center, and at the renowned Metropolitan Room.

In Washington, D.C. he directed at the Kennedy Center and The Folger Theatre and at many of the major League of Regional Theaters, nationwide.

Peters continues to bring his curiosity, passion, and keen director’s intelligence to diverse genres including musicals, narrative modern dance, symphony orchestra productions, film, television and cabaret.

Peters is the author of two books, Demystifying The Monologue: Your Road Map to a Compelling Performance and the forthcoming Demystifying Public Speaking: Your Road Map to Successful Presentation, and is the co-author and director of Babalu-cy! – The Art of Desi Arnaz (Winner of the 2008 Backstage Bistro Award, Best Theme Show). Currently he is working on  Dog Follies, a new musical.

Peters has taught at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and The New York Film Academy in New York.