Carter W. Lewis is currently serving as Playwright-in-Residence at Washington University where he teaches Advanced Playwriting and Dramaturgy. Prior to that he was Literary Manager & Playwright-in-Residence for The Geva Theatre Center in New York.  Carter was also co-founder and Resident Playwright for Upstart Stage in Berkeley, California. He is the winner of several national playwriting awards including: The Julie Harris Playwriting Award, The State Theatre - Best New American Play, The Cincinnati Playhouse Rosenthal New Play Prize (1996 & 2001), New Dramatist Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Award, Playwright’s Center Jerome Residency, The 2003 Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Award, and he is a two time nominee for the American Theatre Critics’ Award. A sample of theatres that have produced his work include; The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Syracuse Stage, The Source Theatre, Florida Stage, Studio Arena Theatre, The Fulton Opera House, Arizona Theatre Company, B Street Theatre, The Round House Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, The Dorset Theatre Festival, The Sacramento Theatre Company, The Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, The Phoenix Theatre, The Barksdale Theatre, American Stage, Cidermill Playhouse, The Boarshead Theatre, Sonoma Repertory Theatre, Oakland Ensemble Theatre, Pegasus Theatre Company, Northwest Actors Studio Theatre, Wellfleet Theatre, The New Repertory Theatre, Theatre on the Square, The State Theatre Company, The Barter Theatre, Florida Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage, The Geva Theatre Center, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Falcon Theatre, The Berkshire Theatre Festival, San Diego Repertory Theatre and The Royal Court Theatre in London. His published works include Art Control, A Geometric Digression of the Species, Soft Click Of A Switch, An Asian Jockey In Our Midst and The One-Eyed Man Is King. Other plays by Carter W. Lewis include Golf With Alan Shepard, Picasso Does My Maps, Longevity Abbreviated For Those Who Don’t Have Time, Women Who Steal, Men on the Take, American Storm by Integrity Out of Molly Brown, Kid Peculiar, Ordinary Nation and Civil Disobedience. For his play, While We Were Bowling, Carter was the recipient of a 2004 NEA/TCG Residency Grant for Playwriting, and The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Award for best new play of 2004. Carter currently lives in St. Louis with his dog, Bucket.

Loretta Greco comes to the Magic with an acclaimed directing career regionally and in New York, as well as celebrated producing experience as the Producing Artistic Director of Women's Project in NYC and as Associate Director of McCarter Theatre.  Ms. Greco has strong connections to the Bay Area with a wide range of directing credits including the world premiere of Morbidity & Mortality at the Magic and Speed-the-Plow, Blackbird, and Lackawanna Blues at American Conservatory Theater.  Her New York premieres include: The Story, Lackawanna Blues, Two Sisters and a Piano (Public Theater); Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen, Touch, Gum (Women's Project); Meshugah (Naked Angels); Mercy (Vineyard Theatre); A Park in Our House (New York Theater Workshop); and Under a Western Sky (INTAR/ Women's Project).  Regional credits include: Romeo and Juliet and Stop Kiss (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); and productions at Long Wharf, South Coast Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theater, Intiman, Williamstown Theater Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theatre of St Louis, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Playmakers Repertory Company, and the Cleveland Play House. Greco also directed the national tour of Having Our Say as well as the play's international premiere at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Greco has collaborated with a variety of distinguished contemporary writers including Pulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily Mann, Ruben Santiago Hudson, Deb Margolin, Luis Alfaro, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jessica Hagedorn. Greco's own play, Passage: Stories of the Cuban Balseros premiered at Miami's AREA Stage where it ran for six months before transferring to the Coconut Grove Playhouse.  From 2004-2006, Greco served as Producing Artistic Director of NYC’s Women’s Project where she produced the premieres of Antigone Project written by Karen Hartman, Lynn Nottage, Tanya Barfield, Chiori Miyagawa and Caridad Svich; the rhythm and blues musical, Best of Both Worlds created by Diane Paulus, Randy Weiner and composed by Diedre Murray; Rinne Groff’s Inky; Neena Beeber’s Jump/Cut directed by Leigh Silverman; and Lisa D’Amour’s The Cataract directed by Katie Pearl. Greco received her MFA from Catholic University and is the recipient of two Drama League Fellowships and a Princess Grace Award.