Kate Marks: As a playwright Kate has collaborated with director Heidi Handelsman on her plays, A Chicken Goes to Broadway (2008 Samuel French Off-off Broadway One Act Festival) and Flyers and Other Tales (Heels Hit First Productions: Midtown International Theatre Festival). Additionally Kate wrote and directed I-95 South, (The American Living Room Series: HERE) and Ark (The Looking Glass Theatre). She was commissioned to write and direct a bilingual adaptation of The Odyssey for The Baracken Theatre in Germany. Odyssey was produced again at The Looking Glass Theatre in the spring of 2007. She participated in the Untitled Theatre Company’s 24-7 festival where she wrote The Patriots which went on to be directed by Bird House producer Tzip Kaplan at The Looking Glass Forum. Kate’s screenplays include Mouse Hole, Jumped, and Wanted. Additionally, Kate works as a director and filmmaker.  She teaches theatre in the Bronx and is a graduate of Brown University where she received honors in playwriting. www.katemarks.net

Heidi Handelsman has directed new plays by Lisa Dillman, Kara Lee Corthron, Kate Marks, and many others, at such venues as Manhattan Theatre Source, Youngblood/EST, and The Midtown Festival.  Last summer, she directed Kate Marks’ A Chicken Goes to Broadway and Jennifer Brown’s Muffin in the Samuel French Festival.  She directed Mary Brigit Poppleton is Writing a Memoir in the 2007 New York International Fringe Festival, which went on to perform in the Fringe Encore Series.  Heidi is a New Georges affiliated artist, and a member of the First Look Theatre Company at NYU, the Reactionary Directors at Epiphany Theater Company, and the Lit Wing at the Lark Play  Development  Center . Heidi curates and hosts The Potluck (a play-reading series) from her living room.

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