Moisés Kaufman received a 2004 Obie Award for his direction of Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife (Playwrights Horizons), for which he also subsequently received a Tony Award nomination. His plays Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and The Laramie Project have been among the most performed plays in America over the last decade. Mr. Kaufman also received an Emmy nomination for the television production of The Laramie Project. He is the Artistic Director of Tectonic Theater Project and a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting.
Andy Propst (Secretary) is the founder and editor of AmericanTheaterWeb.com. In addition to writing regularly for this nationally recognized online resource, he frequently contributes reviews to The Village Voice. His byline can also often be found on reviews in Back Stage and in TimeOut NY. He has served on the Executive Committee of the American Theatre Critics Association and as a Drama Desk Awards nominator
Alexis Soloski is a theater critic for The Village Voice. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Theater magazine, Modern Painters, Salon, and in American Theater, where she served as a Jerome Fellow. She teaches writing and literature at Barnard College and Columbia University.
Chay Yew won a 2007 Obie Award for his direction of Julia Cho's 'Durango' (Public Theater). His own plays have been produced by the Public, Manhattan Theater Club, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, New Haven's Long Wharf Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, and the Royal Court in London. His directing credits include work at the Public, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and Actors Theater of Louisville.
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