Keith Reddin is a graduate of Northwestern University and the Yale Drama School. His plays include: LIFE AND LIMB, LIFE DURING WARTIME, THE INNOCENTS' CRUSADE (published by DPS), RUM AND COKE, HIGHEST STANDARD OF LIVING, BIG TIME, NEBRASKA. Mr. Reddin's MAYBE, starring Vanessa Redgrave, which he adapted from a contemporary Russian play written by Alexander Shatrov, had its world premiere at the Royal Exchange Theatre, in Manchester England in April 1993. He has adapted other plays by Soviet playwrights: Alexander Buravsky's THE RUSSIAN TEACHER, and Mikhail Bulgakov's BLACK SNOW which had its world premiere at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in May 1993. It won the Joseph Jefferson Award - Best Play 1993. Film credits include: THE PLAYWRIGHT'S CINEMA (TNTMovie),THE HEART OF JUSTICE, and a film adaptation of his play BIG TIME forAmerican Playhouse. Mr. Reddin has been awarded the Charles MacArthur Fellowship (1983), an NEd Playwriting Fellowship (1984), the San Diego Critics Circle Award for Best New Play (1989 & 1990), the Joseph Kesserling Award (1990) and a Drama League Award ( 1990). His play ALMOST BLUE had a workshop production at Arena Stage and his BRUTALITY OF FACT had its NJ premiere at 12 Miles West in 1997. He just finished his latest play ALL THE RAGE for the Goodman Theatre.

Thomas Babe was an American playwright and director. Babe started writing from an early age, but did not decide to pursue theatre until recieving other degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Yale University Law School. Babe became a resident playwright at the Public Theatre, which produced seven of his plays: Kid Champion, Rebel Women, Fathers and Sons, Taken in Marriage, Salt Lake City Skyline and Buried inside Extra. Two of hisplays, Mojo Candy and Great Solo Town were produced at the Yale Cabaret. His other plays that have recieved regional theatre productions include Planet Fires, Demon Wine, and Great Day in the Morning. He has recieved Broadway and Off-Broadway productions at the Theatre for the New City and the Winter Garden Theatre. Babe's directing credits includeTwo Small Bodies, Operation Midnight Climax, Sleeping Dogs, Justice and Life and Limb.

Babe passed away in 2000 from lung cancer.