Born in 1965 in Puerto Rico, CRAIG WRIGHT attended St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota and went on to earn a Masters of Divinity degree from the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. He is a playwright and Emmy-nominated television writer, known especially for writing for shows like Six Feet Under and Lost and creating the cult following short lived TV show Dirty Sexy Money. Recent Tragic Events premiered at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, D.C. in September 2002. The play was then produced Off-Broadway by Playwrights Horizons in September 2003. The play won an ATCA Best New Play Citation Award in 2002. Wright has received awards and award nominations for his work, including the Jerome Fellowship at age 21 and apprenticeships in playwriting from the McKnight Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Wright was the recipient of the 2009 Horton Foote Excellence in American Playwriting Award from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He is a member of the ensemble of the Chicago-based A Red Orchid Theatre. (As of October 2013)

MICHAEL JOHN GARCES has been at Cornerstone Theatre Company since 2006. Directing credits at the company include Café Vida by Lisa Loomer, Making Paradise by Tom Jacobson, Shishir Kurup and Deborah Wicks La Puma, 3 Truths by Naomi Iizuka, Someday by Julie Marie Myatt, attraction by Page Leong, and The Falls by Jeffrey Hatcher (at the Guthrie Theater). For Cornerstone he has also written Consequence, out of story circles with students, teachers, administrators and parents in South Kern County, and Los Illegals, created in residence with communities of day laborers and domestic workers. Los Illegals was subsequently produced by Teatro Bravo in Phoenix; it is published in Theatre Magazine (Yale School of Drama/Duke University Press). Directing credits at other theaters include, most recently The Convert by Danai Gurira (Woolly Mammoth Theatre), Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Motherfucker with the Hat (South Coast Repertory) and red, black and GREEN: a blues by Marc Bamuthi Joseph (REDCAT and The Brooklyn Academy of Music), and he has worked at many theaters across the country. His full-length plays include THE WEB (needtheatre), points of departure andcustoms (INTAR Hispanic American Arts Center) and Acts of Mercy(Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); a solo performance, agua ardiente(The American Place); short plays include Grief (Active Cultures),hymn in three parts (Chalk Rep), inhabited and in the Zone (Red Fern Theatre Co.), tostitos (EST Marathon of One-Act Plays), on edge andthe ride (Humana Fest.), audiovideo (The Directors Project) andsandlot ball (Mile Square). He collaborated with composer Alexandra Vrebalov on the oratorio Stations, which received its premiere at the Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra and was also performed at the NOMUS Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia.  Michael is on the executive board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.  He is a recipient of the Rockwood Arts and Culture Fellowship, the Princess Grace Statue, the Alan Schneider Director Award, a TCG/New Generations Grant, the Non-Profit Excellence Award from the Center of Non-Profit Management and is a Southern California Leadership Network Fellow. He is a company member at Woolly Mammoth and a proud alumnus of New Dramatists.