KELLY STUART is the author of Mayhem, produced at The Evidence Room in Los Angeles; Demonology, produced at the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival and at Playwrights Horizons; and The Life of Spiders, which earned her a Whiting Fellowship in 2000, and will be produced by Holderness Theatre Company in New York City in the spring of 2004. Her other plays include Furious Blood, produced at Sledgehammer, and The Square Root of Terrible, produced at The Mark Taper Forum. Ms. Stuart currently lives in New York, and teaches Playwriting at Columbia University. (As of 2013)

JIM SIMPSON is the Founder and Artistic Director of The Flea Theater (2004 Drama Desk cited for Downtown Adventurous Theater). Two-time OBIE-award winner, 2002 National Board of Review Excellence in Filmmaking, and cited for artistic leadership in Downtown New York by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2002. Jim has directed over 70 works for the theater and has also directed for film and television. Venues include nine seasons at the Williamstown Theater Festival, Alley Theater, Hartford Stage, Yale Rep, Actor's Theater of Louisville, Eisenhower Theater at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, EST, CSC, MCC, the London International Theater Festival and the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Jim was a child actor in his hometown of Honolulu, as a teenager worked with Jerzy Grotowski in Poland, and holds degrees from Boston University School for the Arts, and the Yale Drama School. Most recently, Jim directed A. R. Gurney's Crazy Mary at Playwrights Horizons, Will Eno's Oh, The Humanity..., the revival of Peter Handke's Offending The Audience, Addison's CATO, Thomas Bradshaw's Dawn, Gurney's A Light Lunch, Will Eno's UNUM as part of The Flea's The Great Recession, Jonathan Reynolds' Girls in Trouble, and Bathsheba Doran's Parents' Evening.  (Oct 2010)