KEITH BUNIN is currently writing screenplays for Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, CBS Films, Fox Animation, and Likely Story/Mandalay Films, among others. He wrote the screenplay for the film Horns, directed by Alexandre Aja, starring Daniel Radcliffe, and based on the novel by Joe Hill, which will be released later this year. He is the author of the plays The Busy World is Hushed, The World Overand The Credeaux Canvas, which were all originally produced Off-Broadway by Playwrights Horizons. His other plays include Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir, produced by La Jolla Playhouse and City Theatre, Vera Laughed, produced by New York Stage and Film, The Principality of Sorrows, produced by Pure Orange Productions, The King of Clocks, produced by Lincoln Center Lab at HERE, and A Joke, produced by Malaparte. He wrote the book for the musical 10 Million Miles, which was produced Off-Broadway by the Atlantic Theatre Company. He was also a writer for the HBO TV-series “In Treatment.” His essays have been published in American Film Magazine and on the web at McSweeney's. He received his B.A. from Goddard College and his M.A. from Columbia University. (As of 2009)

TIM VASEN has directed and taught in the Program in Theater since 1993. In 2006 he directed the world premiere of the unfinished Prokofiev/Meyerhold production of Pushkin’s Boris Godunov, featuring nearly 100 undergraduate performers. Other Princeton projects include Playboy of the Western World,Waiting for Godot, Danton’s Death and The Misanthrope. He is also the coordinator of the Program’s production thesis series, which provides high-level production opportunities for student-generated work. He works frequently with students in professional training programs, directing at the Yale School of Drama, NYU’s Tisch Graduate Acting Program, The Academy for Classical Acting, and the Chautauqua Conservatory, and he has served as a master teacher for the Drama League of New York’s Directors Project. His professional directing credits include a five-year stint as Resident Director of Center Stage in Baltimore, where he directed a variety of new plays and classics, as well as productions and workshops in theaters across the country, including The Children’s Theater Company, South Coast Repertory, Philadelphia Theatre Company, and Playwrights Horizons. With Melissa James Gibson, he co-directed the short film Given Fish, which premiered at the Maryland Film Festival in 2004. He holds a B.A. in American Studies, from Yale University and an M.F.A. in Directing, Yale School of Drama.