"Muriel's Birthday," "Do You Take This Man?"
is a graduate of Boston University's School of Film and Television and theNeighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.  The Nutshell Festival marks his New York debut as a playwright.  Before coming to New York Stephen was a semi-finalist for the Writer's Film Project Screenwriting Fellowship in Los Angeles.  A member of the Intern Company at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Stephen and four more of his short plays will appear January 8 - 11 in an upcoming and untitled play festival. He would like to everyone at Manhattan Theatre Source for this opportunity.

Guy is a native of upstate New York...like you give a hoot.  Guy just returned from a tour with the National Theatre for Children, from which the inspiration for You're a Good Man, Chris Columbus came.  A recent graduate of Kent State University with an MFA in Acting, Guy narrowly escaped injury and possible death from the roving bands of rogue National Guardsmen that still roam the campus at random.  Guy is tickled pink to participate in the Nutshell Festival.  He extends many thanks to his family and friends for their support.

Author of the plays THE MEN'S ROOM, RUNNING IN PLACE, OLD DOG, BODILY FUNCTIONS, LOVE-LUST-LIFE, BUILT FOR ABUSE, THE BIG QUESTION, LITTLE DETAILS, BROCCOLI, THREE TIMES, TALLBOY WALKINí, SPOOGE, 2 VERY DANGEROUS PEOPLE SHARING 1 SMALL SPACE TOGETHER and the original screenplays THE JONES PARTY, SPINNERS and PUPPYDOG TALES. His play THE ELF, THE BUNNY & THE BIG XMAS BLOW-UP was just premiered at Manhattan TheatreSource.

Born and raised in Berkeley, California, Itamar now lives in Manhattan, where he is a graduate students at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, pursuing an MFA in Dramatic Writing. "Dorothy and Alice" is his professional debut in New York. Itamar is also a founding member of, and writes and performs with, the Manhattan-based sketch and improv comedy troupe Key Grip and the Best Boys. His full-length play "Outrage" was the winner of the 2000 Reva Shiner New Play Award, and will have its world premiere this February in Bloomington, Indiana.

The author of fourteen produced plays and musical books, Kitt will graduate this May with an MFA in Directing from the Actors Studio Drama School. Kitt is also artistic director and co-founder of the CRY HAVOC Company

JenČt studied playwrighting with American Theater Fellow Davey Marlin-Jones at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD. She can be approached about any of her works via e-mail.