Joseph Scott Kierland

Craig Pettigrew

One of the founding contributors to the Village Voice, he has written for many other newspapers and magazines as well. His script for Jim Jacobs' 90-minute documentary Jack Johnson won a gold medal at the 1970 Atlanta Film Festival and was nominated in 1971 for an Academy Award. With his painter wife Betty, Bodian is a longtime summer resident of Provincetown, MA.

Louis Fantasia's theatre reviews for National Public Radio can be found at www.kcrw.com. He is also the director of Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance at, the Shakespeare Globe Centre's teacher training institute.

Robert Gardner
FILMMAKER: Clarence and Angel (2nd prize and Humanity Award)...
SCREENWRITER: Clarence and Angel, King James Version, Wedding Palace
(1st prize: Chinese Film Festival and Paramount CineGear Film Fest)
CREATED: LA Playwrights Lab

She works with composers, several of them Greek, and has recorded many of her song cycles. Her opera 'THE BIRD GARDEN' for which she wrote the book, the libretto and did the design for the sets and costumes, was produced by the Oper Am Rhein in Dusseldorf during the 2002- 2003 season. She has just completed a new libretto.

In 2006 she will be designing the sets and costumes for KISS ME KATE again for the Oper Am Rhein. A new cantata, which she has written the text for, will also be premiered in summer 2006.

A new exhibition of paintings is being planed for late 2006.

Polly Hope's website is: www.HopeArt.com

Joseph Scott Kierland is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and Yale Drama School, and has been playwright-in-residence at New York's Lincoln Center, Brandeis University, and Los Angeles Actor's Theatre. His plays have been produced around the country and in Europe, and he has been published in Short Story International, Sgrafitto, and Arizona Literary Review. Mr. Kierland was the founder of the successful Los Angeles Playwright's Group and editor of their books, BEST ONE ACT PLAYS and SEX IN THE AFTERNOON. He continues working in film and television and has received awards from Cornell University, Chicago University, University of Iowa and Yale University.

Ben Maddow
The late distinguished novelist, screenwriter, painter, photographer.

Ross Manus is a filmmaker/editor, actor and creator/host of the AhabTV reality series. He grew up on a Greek island and was educated at Humboldt State University, California, where he was an all-star soccer player.

Irving Kronenberg
After a 47-year career in Health Care Management, Planning & Education, it was time to write the stories I have accumulated: Stories even the uninsured could read and appreciate. If I knew writing was so much fun, I would have started earlier.

Dalia R. Miller
Dalia Miller is the former editor of Laografia: A Journal of the International Greek Folklore Society. She has made nearly 30 trips to Greece since her first visit in 1969.

Craig Pettigrew was born in Miami, Florida. He attended the Interlochen Arts Academy, the Eastman School of Music, and Northwestern University. His plays include "Brutal Mandate", "The Bed", and "The Lark Ascending." This selection from "About The Author" is the opening chapter of a novel-in-progress.. Craig lives in La Crescenta with his wife Judith and his boys Gordon and Aaron.

Guy Prevost's eclectic career spans both sides of the literary desk in TV and film. He recently co-wrote the screenplay for Dinoshark, a highly successful film for the SyFy Channel which aired last March. He has also written episodes for the acclaimed Showtime anthology series Dead Man's Gun and CBS' Walker Texas Ranger. His background includes work in feature film development, teaching for Ithaca College, and his fiction will be appearing in the next issue of The North Atlantic Review. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two dogs

Richmond Shepard, New York correspondent for Lively-Arts.com, is co-publisher of Performing Arts INSIDER, a professional newsletter that tells everything coming into New York up to a year in advance. For more info on PAI, contact totalpost@totaltheater.com.

Dorothy Sinclair was associate editor of "The West Coast Review of Books" for over ten years. Her column, "The Feminist Front", was one of the first to deal exclusively with books on women's issues. Formerly head of the publicity department at the William Morris Agency in Beverly Hills, she is now focusing on a career as a television producer.

George Dillon Slater: "I have spent nearly three quarters of the last forty years living in Europe. Old Europe. I find writing there more enjoyable because the people of Europe have very cherished languages, in high states of evolution, as opposed to the creationist view of my compatriots. Also, because I begat there once. Publisher David Hay Jones is bringing out my latest book of poetry, The Silver Labyrinth in Spring of 2005.
E-mail dhayjones@yahoo.com on how to obtain a copy of the book."