Harry Kondoleon was a playwright, poet, and novelist. After graduating from the Yale School of Drama, he moved to New York to pursue theatre.

Kondoleon’s best-known plays include Christmas On Mars, The  Vampires, Zero Positive, Slacks and Tops, The  Fairy Garden, The Cote  D’Azur Triangle, The Brides, Rococo, The Poets’ Corner,  Anteroom, Play  Yourself, Love Diatribe, The Houseguests, and Saved or Destroyed.  His plays have been performed at theaters across the country and  around the world, and they have  earned him two Obie Awards, the  Oppenheimer/Newsday Award, and a Drama-Logue  Award. In addition, he has  received Fulbright, Rockefeller, NEA, and Guggenheim  fellowships.

Several of his plays were published by Theater Communications  Group in an anthology entitled Self  Torture and Strenuous Exercise. He is also the author of a volume of  poetry, The Death of Understanding,  and two novels, The Whore of Tjampuan and Diary of a Lost Boy. The latter was  published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1994, two months before Harry Kondoleon died of  complications from AIDS.

Garland Wright was a stage director, and is known for being a leader in the regional theatre movement. He was the artistic director of the Tyrone Guthrie in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After graduating from Southern Methodist University, Wright joined the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford Connecticut, where he acted in several productions. After leaving the Shakespeare Festival, he founded the Lion Theatre Company, an off-Broadway company known for its nontraditional productions. The Lion's production Kafka's The Trial  won an Obie Award. In 1976, he directed "Vanities", one of the longest-running nonmusical off-Broadway plays.

Wright went on to direct productions at the Arena Stage in Washington, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, the Seattle Repertory Theater and the Guthrie. From 1980 to 1983 he was associate artistic director at the Guthrie.

After leaving the Guthrie, he became a director of the Julliard School's New Directors Program at the Juilliard School. In his later years, he staged productions at the Lincoln Center Theatre and the New York Theatre Workship.

Wright passed away in 1998 from cancer at the age of fifty-two.