Elaine Romero (Playwright) participated in the Sundance Institute’s Playwright’s Retreat, where she began Walk into the Sea. The Curious Theatre has commissioned Elaine, along with Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Paula Vogel, to write a play for the War Anthology for a 2006 production. Her plays Barrio Hollywood, ¡Curanderas! Serpents of the Clouds, Day of Our Dead, Secret Things, and If Susan Smith Could Talk have been produced across the country and are published with Samuel French, Vintage Books, and Smith and Kraus. As Playwright-in- Residence at the Arizona Theatre Company, Romero runs the National Latino Playwrights Award. Elaine is also a Core Member of the Playwrights’ Center. Read about Elaine at www.elaineromero.com.

Amy Glazer (Director) has directed world, American and West Coast premieres at Magic Theatre including Sam Shepard’s God of Hell, Rebecca Gilman’s The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Blue Surge and The American in Me, Steven Belber’s Drifting Elegant and Tape, and Barry Gifford’s Wyoming. For Marin Theatre Company she has directed Frozen, Displaced, Life x 3, My Old Lady, The Music Lesson, Misalliance, Candida, and Indiscretions. For Eureka Theatre, Stonewall Jackson’s House and Trust, and for TheatreWorks, Spinning Into Butter, Pride’s Crossing, An American Daughter, Conversations With My Father, Marvin's Room, and Mrs. Klein. The recipient of Dean Goodman, Drama-Logue, and Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards and finalist for TCG’s 2003 Alan Schneider Director Award, Amy is an associate artist at Magic Theatre and is a theatre and film professor at San Jose State University. Her short film, Ball Lightning, premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival, and her feature film, Drifting Elegant, premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival.

David E. Presti (Science Expert) is a neuroscientist who teaches in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California in Berkeley. His areas of interest and expertise include the molecular biology and chemistry of the human nervous system and, in particular, how physical processes in the brain are related to manifestations of behavior.

C. Michèle Kaplan (Playwright) Ms. Kaplan’s plays have been produced in the United States and South Africa and have garnered numerous nominations and awards, as has her film and television writing.  She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and attended film school at the American Film Institute.  She won a Chesterfield Film Writer’s Fellowship and later wrote the teleplay for Mother Teresa: In the Name of God’s Poor (starring Geraldine Chaplin) which was nominated for a Humanitas Award.  More recently, she directed her play, Jocasta Rising, at Artscape Theater in South Africa.  Her short monologue, True, was performed in New York City by Cynthia Nixon as part of A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer, an evening of monologues from around the world presented by V-Day which will be published by Random House in June 2007.