John Guare (b. 1938) is the author of more than twenty full-length and one-act plays, which have earned him Tony, Obie, and New York Drama Critics Circle awards. Among his best-known works are the plays The House of Blue Leaves (1971) and Six Degrees of Separation (1990), as well as the screenplay for the film Atlantic City (1980), directed by Louis Malle. He is the recipient of the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Tony Kushner, editor, is a playwright best known for his two-part epic drama, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. His other plays include A Bright Room Called Day, Slavs!, Hydrotaphia, and Homebody/Kabul. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols’s television adaptation of Angels in America and the screenplays for Steven Spielberg’s Munich, Lincoln, West Side Story, and The Fabelmans. Anne Cattaneo, editor, is the dramaturg of Lincoln Center Theater and the creator and head of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. She is the author of The Art of Dramaturgy. Michael Paller, editor, is a dramaturg and the author of A Five-Act Play: 50 Years of A.C.T. and Gentlemen Callers: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama. He currently teaches at the Columbia University School of the Arts.
