MONA PIRNOT (Playwright). Mona’s play I Love You So Much I Could Die premiered at New York Theatre Workshop (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel Award nominations). Her play Private premiered at Mosaic Theater of DC and was later produced by San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company (Helen Hayes nomination for Best New Play, SF Chronicle Best Theatre of 2023). NYTW Usual Suspect, EST/ Youngblood alumni, 2019 Playwright in Residence at Williamstown Theatre Festival, winner of the 2022 Berwin Lee Brown Playwrights Award. 

KEN RUS SCHMOLL (Director) is a two-time Obie Award-winning director whose work has been seen at Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Vineyard Theatre, Foundry Theatre, Encores! Off-Center, BAM Next Wave, Page 73, 13P, Clubbed Thumb, The Guggenheim, Tanglewood, Spoleto Festival USA, Long Wharf Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Marin Theatre Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Bard SummerScape, and the Humana Festival of New American Plays, among others. He directed David Greenspan’s solo, spoken rendition of Gertrude Stein’s Four Saints in Three Acts  for the Lucille Lortel Theatre, the world premiere of Mr. Greenspan’s adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey at Two River Theater, as well as Mr. Greenspan’s radio plays (There’s) No Time for Comedy and Loops  for Playwrights Horizons Soundstage. 

DAVID GREENSPAN (Actor) has appeared in his plays, Dead Mother, She Stoops to Comedy, Go Back to Where You Are, I’m Looking for Helen Twelvetrees, The Memory Motel, and his solo plays The Argument and The Myopia. His adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey premiered at Two River Theater under the direction of Ken Rus Schmoll. Between 2011 and 2022, he developed and performed solo renditions of three American plays from the late 1920’s: Barry Conners’ romantic comedy The Patsy, Eugene O’Neill’s six-hour, nine-act modernist drama Strange Interlude, and Gertrude Stein’s radically experimental Four Saints in Three Acts – the last under the direction of Ken Rus Schmoll. He has worked with many contemporary playwrights – drawing notice recently for Joey Merlo’s solo play On Set With Theda Bara. Honors include six OBIES.