Suzan Zeder is Head of Playwriting and a nationally and internationally recognized playwright of theatre for youth. Her plays include: Step on a Crack, Wiley and the Hairy Man, In a Room Somewhere, Ozoma of Oz, Mother Hicks, and Do Not Go Gentle. Her work has had productions off-Broadway and in all fifty states, Canada, Great Britain, Japan, Australia, Germany, Israel, and New Zealand. An anthology of her work, Wish in One Hand and Spit in the Other, was published by Anchorage Press.

Steven Dietz is one of America's most widely-produced contemporary playwrights. Since 1983, his twenty-plus plays have been seen at over one hundred regional theatres in the United States, as well as Off-Broadway. International productions have been seen in England, Japan, Germany, France, Australia, Sweden, Austria, Russia, Slovenia, Argentina, Peru, Singapore and South Africa. His work has been translated into seven languages.