Catherine Filloux is an award-winning playwright who has been writing about genocide, human rights, and social justice for the past twenty years. She received her M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and her French Baccalaureate with Honors in Toulon, France. She is a co-founder of Theatre Without Borders, a volunteer organization engaged in international theater exchange. Her awards include the PeaceWriting Award, Roger L. Stevens Award, Eric Kocher Playwrights Award (O'Neill) and the Callaway Award. Her articles have appeared in American Theatre, Manoa, The Drama Review, Contemporary Theatre Review (UK), and the Drama Guild Quarterly.
Kati Marton is the author of several books, most recently, Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and her memoir, Paris: A Love Story. Her other books include The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World and the New York Times bestseller Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History, as well as Wallenberg, The Polk Conspiracy, and A Death in Jerusalem. She is an award-winning former NPR and ABC News correspondent. She lives in New York City.Carol K. Mack is a teacher, writer, and mother. She has won numerous awards for playwriting and received her masters degree in religious studies. She… currently lives in New York City.
Ruth Margraff is an award-winning playwright/librettist and performer whose writings have been presented throughout the world and published extensively. Margraff is currently an associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She represented the US State Department as a cultural envoy in Calcutta, India, where she offered playwriting training and reflective interviews on issues of domestic violence and teenage victims of human trafficking. Margraff has received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships including four Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts commissions, a Fulbright, and a McKnight National Commission/Residency. She is a new member of Chicago Dramatists, an alumna… of New Dramatists, and an active member of LPTW and Theatre Without Borders.