Knives and Spoons Go on the Left by Carey Crim

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS

Claudia Barnett is an Ingram New Works Playwright-in-Residence at the Tennessee Repertory Theatre. She teaches Playwriting, Modern Drama, and Women Who Kill at Middle Tennessee State University, and she’ll teach Playwriting in Western Michigan University’s Prague Summer Program this July. Her short plays and excerpts are published in anthologies from Applause, Meriwether, and New Issues, and in the journals Dramatics, The Pacific Review, Poems & Plays, and River Styx. She attends the Mid America Theater Conference Playwriting Symposium annually to workshop 10-minute plays, which is how Eden began. Listen for her short play I Love You Terribly on Shoestring Radio Theatre in May.

Carlynn Trout is a freelance writer living in Columbia, Missouri. She graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and holds a graduate degree in English from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. She’s written for major textbook publishers, newspapers, and regional magazines. Her historical publications include Notable Women of Missouri and Famous Missourians, a Web site for The State Historical Society of Missouri. She’s been a participant in the Missouri Playwrights Workshop at the University of Missouri–Columbia since 2004. Carlynn’s plays have been produced in New York City, Iowa City, Kansas City, Columbia, and Boonville.

Barbara Bryan is a Baltimore playwright whose work has been performed at theaters across the U.S. Her plays have been finalists for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, PlayLabs and the Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville. She received Playwright Grants from Baltimore City Arts and Maryland State Arts Council and participated in the Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive. She has developed plays in Paul Berman’s Theater Workshop in Baltimore and is a graduate of Trinity College, Washington, D.C.

D. Lee Miller is the author of THE SHRINE, THE DOVER TEST, SUKKAH, THE MOON FROM MARS, THE QUICKENING, THE TRANSLATION, WHEN THE DODGERS LEFT BROOKLYN, ENDANGERED SPECIES, ANIMATION IN DUST, THE BEULAH BALLANTINE CONTEST, A FEAST OF RIDDLES and RED QUARTERS, among other plays.  Honors include Critics’ Choice at the Double Image/Samuel French Short Play Festival and finalist at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the 2007 Kansas City Women’s Playwrights Festival, the Robert J. Pickering (Coldwater) Award for Playwriting Excellence and the George Kernodle, Dogwood, Playwright’s Forum, Women at the Door, Market House Theatre and Playwright’s Studio of Milwaukee competitions.  Among other theatres, her plays have been presented at New Vision Theatre, EST, CAP 21, Alice’s Fourth Floor, La MaMa ETC, the Vital Theatre, Playground/Hub (San Francisco), Kansas City Women’s Playwrights Festival, Stagecrafter’s at the Baldwin Theatre and the Shenandoah Valley International Playwrights Retreat & the West Bank Cafe.  Her play, ORIGAMI TEARS, is included in the anthology FACING FORWARD, published by Broadway Play Publishing.