Anthony Giardina was born in Waltham, Massachusetts and educated at Fordham University. He is the author of the novels Men with Debts (1984), A Boy's Pretensions (1988), Recent History(2001) and White Guys (2006), as well as the story collection The Country of Marriage (1998). His fifth novel, Norumbega Park, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in February 2012. His short fiction and essays have appeared in Harper's, Esquire, GQ and The New York Times Magazine.

His plays, including Living at Home, An American Tragedy, The Child, Scenes from La Vie de Boheme, The Beach, Black Forest and Custody of the Eyes, have been produced in New York at Playwrights Horizons and the Manhattan Theater Club, and regionally at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., Seattle Rep, Yale Rep, the Long Wharf in New Haven and the Cleveland Playhouse.

He has taught at Smith and Mount Holyoke College, Colorado College, the University of Rochester, and in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts. He is a regular Visiting Professor at the Michener Center of the University of Texas at Austin, where he will be returning in Fall 2012.

Thomas Gruenewald is an American director and stage manager. He is known for directing the Broadway productions of Leave It to Jane and Take Me Along.  He directed the Off-Broadway production of Living At Home for Playwrights Horizons. Off-Off-Broadway, Gruenewald directed Snapshot. He also directed a regional production of Lady Be Good. Gruenwald's stage management credits include the Broadway productions of The Octoroon, The Plough and the Stars, Hamlet, and She Stoops to Conquer.