CHRISTOPHER SHINN was born in Hartford, Connecticut and lives in New York. His plays have been produced around the world. His play Now or Later premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2008. In 2009, his adaptation of Hedda Gabler premiered on Broadway at the Roundabout (American Airlines Theatre). Shinn's plays have been premiered by the Royal Court Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, the Vineyard Theatre, South Coast Repertory, and Soho Theatre, and later seen regionally in the United States and around the world. He has also written short plays for Naked Angels, the 24 Hour Plays, and the New York International Fringe Festival. Shinn teaches playwriting at The New School for Drama. He also participated in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six where he wrote a piece based upon a chapter of the King James Bible.

MICHAEL WILSON has worked extensively in regional theatre, Broadway, and Off-Broadway. He is devoted to American artists and recently completed a ten-year retrospective of the known and neglected works of Tennessee Williams at Hartford Stage, where he was the company's Artistic Director from 1998 to 2011. Wilson has also furthered new play development by nurturing and commissioning works by both renowned and emerging artists as a director and through Hartford Stage's Brand:NEW Festival of New Works and American Voices, a reading series spotlighting American artists of color. He has been awarded the 2010 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his direction of Horton Foote's The Orphans' Home Cycle, the Daryl Roth 2002 Creative Spirit Award, the 2001 Statue Award and a 1992 Theatre fellowship at the Princess Grace Foundation, and a 1992 fellowship at the Edward Albee Foundation. (As of June 2013)