SARAH SHULMAN was born in New York City in 1958 and attended (High College) Hunter High School.  She is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, AIDS historian,  journalist, and active participant citizen. Her honors include a Guggenheim (Playwrighting), Fulbright (Judaic Studies), 2 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships - Fiction, 1 NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship - Playwrighting, Kessler Prize for Sustained Contribution to LGBT Studies, Stonewall Award for Improving the Lives of Gays and Lesbians in the United States, Revson Fellow for the Future of New York City at Columbia University, Fellow – NY Institute for the Humanities at New York University,  6 residencies at MacDowell, 3 residencies at Yaddo, 2 American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards – fiction/nonfiction, Brown Foundation/Houston Arts Museum Fellow at the Dora Maar House, and Fellow - University of Toronto Bonham Center for Sexual Diversity Studies.

MARION McCLINTON has directed August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom ,King Hedley II (Broadway, Tony nomination), Two Trains Running (Center Stage), Fences (Indiana Rep, Pittsburgh Public), The Piano Lesson (Penumbra Theatre), Seven Guitars (Pittsburgh Public, Center Stage), Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Missouri Rep) and Jitney (Pittsburgh Public, Center Stage, Studio Arena, Geva, Goodman Theatre, Mark Taper, Second Stage and The Royal National Theatre in London). Recent Center Stage: Les Blancs and Splash Hatch on the E Going Down. Other directing: Thunder Knocking on the Door (Guthrie, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Center Stage, Dallas Theater Center); The Coming of the Hurricane (Arena Stage); A Midsummer Night's Dream (La Jolla); Death and the King's Horseman (Syracuse Stage); East Texas Hot Links (Public Theater); TALK (Foundry Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Center Stage); Breath, Boom! (Playwrights Horizons); Carson McCullers (Historically Inaccurate) (Playwrights Horizons/Women's Project). Playwrighting: Police Boys (Center Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Pittsburgh Public),Walkers (Off-Broadway), Stones and Bones (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Who Causes the Darkness? (Penumbra). Awards: two Audelcos, Obie, Ira Aldredge, Joseph Calloway, Kesselring Prize, NEA/TCG Pew Charitable Trust Grant; Drama Desk and Evening Standard nominations. Alumnus, New Dramatists; company member, Penumbra Theatre; associate artist, Center Stage. (As of June 2007)