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Bill Cain is an award-winning playwright who has developed four previous plays at the Ojai Playwrights Conference, most recently, How To Write a New Book for the Bible, scheduled for productions at Berkeley Rep and Seattle Rep. His other Ojai plays include Equivocation (Geffen Playhouse, Manhattan Theater Club, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival) and 9 Circles (Marin Theatre Company); both plays won the American Theater Critics Association’s Steinberg New Play Award, making Bill the only author to ever receive the award in consecutive years.
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Rick Cleveland is an Emmy winning writer/producer whose credits include The West Wing, Six Feet Under, Mad Men, and most recently Nurse Jackie. He adapted his play Jerry and Tom into a film, and it was an official selection at the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals. Rick performed his show My Buddy Bill at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, and won the Best Solo Performance Award at the HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen in 2006. He is a proud Founding Member of the Ojai Playwrights Conference. |
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Ken Lin's plays include Fallow, Intelligence-Slave, Po Boy Tango (TCG Edgerton New Play Prize), said Saïd (Kendeda Winner, L. Arnold Weissberger Award, Princess Grace Award), Warrior Class, Life On Paper, Agency and Genius in Love. They have been seen at theaters throughout the country, including the Alliance Theatre, Northlight Theatre Company, Alley Theatre, People's Light and Theatre Company, South Coast Rep, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Marin Theater Company and East West Players.
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Don Nguyen was born in Saigon, grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, and currently resides in New York City. Don served as the Artistic Director of the Shelterbelt Theatre in Omaha from 1999-2003. Don's full-length plays include Red Flamboyant, Sound: A Sign Language Play, The Man From Saigon, and Three to Beam Up (The Shelterbelt Theatre, Nebraska Arts Grant recipient). His play The Harlequin Maneuvre was published in The Best of the Strawberry One-Act Festival and subsequently produced in New York and Canada. Don writes for The Living Newspaper and is a member of the New York Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group, The Civilians R&D Group, and Ma-Yi Writer's Lab.
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Sarah Treem is the only writer to have written and produced all three seasons of the HBO series In Treatment. She won a WGA Award and was nominated for a Humanitas Award. She is a writer/producer for the Mark Wahlberg/Stephen Levinson produced HBO series How to Make It in America. Her plays include Empty Sky, Against the Wall, Mirror, A Feminine Ending, Human Voices and The How and the Why. A Feminine Ending received its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in 2007 and went on to south Coast Rep and Portland Center Stage. Sarah developed her play The How and the Why at the Ojai Playwrights Conference and it premiered at McCarter theatre in 2011. |
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Stephen Belber has produced on Broadway and in over 25 countries. His plays include Match (Tony nomination for Frank Langella); Dusk Rings a Bell, (Atlantic Theater Company); Tape (Naked Angels NY/LA/London); McReele (Roundabout Theater); A Small, Melodramatic Story (Labyrinth Theater Company); Geometry of Fire (Rattlestick); Fault Lines (Cherry Lane); One Million Butterflies (Primary Stages); and Carol Mulroney (Huntington Theater Company). He was an Associate Writer on The Laramie Project (Drama Desk/Lortel nominations), and co-writer on the recent Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. Movies include Tape, directed by Richard Linklater; The Laramie Project (Associate Writer/Emmy Nomination for screenwriting); Drifting Elegant, and Management, which he also directed, starring Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn.
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Father Greg Boyle was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1982. He has been the pastor of Dolores Mission in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. The church sits between two large public housing projects, Pico Gardens and Aliso Village, known for decades as the gang capital of the world. There are 1,100 gangs encompassing 86,000 members in Los Angeles, and Boyle Heights has the highest concentration of violent gang activity in the city. Affectionately known as G-dog, Father Greg started Homeboy Industries nearly twenty years ago. It has served members of more than half the gangs in Los Angeles. In Homeboy Industries’ various businesses - baking, silk-screening, landscaping - gang affiliations are left outside as young people work together, side by side, learning mutual respect.
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Adam Duritz turns his inimitable and searing songwriting skills to theater for the first time. Collaborating with Stephen Belber, they will create music and words that cut to the heart of what it means to live life anew. Duritz is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and film producer. Best known for his role as principal composer, front-man and vocalist for the rock band Counting Crows, Duritz has recorded solo material of his own, and collaborated with other musical acts, leading him to branch out as the owner of at least two record labels.
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